The European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME) provides a forum for both researchers and practitioners to come together to develop their understanding of both theory and practice in all aspects of IT/IS management and evaluation. This, the second ECIME, is built on the firm foundations laid by 13 successful years of the European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE). The wider scope of ECIME reflects the increased use of technology to manage information in and between organizations of all types and sizes across the globe. ECIME 2008 will provide opportunities for people working and researching in the field to come together both formally and informally to share their knowledge and expertise.

The advisory group for the conference invites submissions of papers, and panel and workshop proposals on both the theory and practice of all aspects of IT/IS management and evaluation. The conference in September 2008 seeks quantitative, qualitative and experience-based papers from industry and academe. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Evaluation topics: The evaluation of e-commerce and e-business; Evaluating intranets and knowledge management; Evaluation of e-government initiatives; Research methods for IT/IS evaluation; The evaluation of IT project management; Architecture compliance evaluation; Validation; Information retrieval systems; Process orientated evaluation; Frameworks; General evaluation methodologies for both the appraisal and post implementation of projects

Management topics: Decision making processes for new investments; The management of IT benefits, costs and risks; Human and organisational aspects of IT/IS; The management of IS development and IT departments; Risk management strategies; IS security; Global aspects of IS/IT; Multi-site implementation; The impact of IS on work and organisations; IS/IT management practices

Ethics and Philosophy topics: What values should be applied when evaluating IT systems? Does the IT function need an ethics officer? Ergonomics and ethics: How far are human impacts an ethical issue?; What are IT managers responsible for – and where do their responsibilities end? What risks should IT management take?; Surveillance, monitoring, teleworking, privacy; If a system can be misused who is responsible? Rights and IT: Rights to privacy and access to information and enabling technologies; Stakeholders: Who should IT managers consult about what and when?; Can IT systems produce knowledge – or only information? Understanding the ’I’ in IT: What metaphors are most useful for making sense of information?; Intellectual property; How is IT changing the ways managers think? What is the proper place of AI in decision making? Who is responsible for the output of AI?

General topics: IT Diffusion; Cases studies; The Information Society; Digital divide; IT for development; Issues in IS design and development; Learning from failures; ICT and health; ICT in Banking and other financial sectors; IT in education; e-Government; IS and organisational culture; IS outsourcing; Legislation; Enterprise Resource Planning; Information sharing.

Selected papers from the conference will be considered for a special conference issue of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation – http://www.ejise.com