AISWorld Challenge Awards
This award is given to the most significant contributions to the development of AISWorld in the preceding year. AISWorld is appreciative of the resource contributions of the individuals, their academic units, and their universities, without whose support there would be no AISWorld. All AISWorld sites, except those that have received the award in the past, are eligible to participate. Awards are not necessarily given every year, but when it is, the announcement of the winner or winners is made at the annual International Conference on Information Systems.
The past winners of the Challenge Award are:
»1995 - ISWorld and ISWorldnet. Blake Ives, University of Houston
»1996 - Teaching Division. Division editor: Simha Magal, Grand Valley State University
»1997 - Faculty Directory. Editor: Dave Naumann, University of Minnesota
»1998 - Virtual Center. Editor: Munir Mandviwalla, Temple University.
»1999 - Country Pages. Division editor: Roger Clarke, Australian National University
»2000 - ISWorld Mailing List Categorized Archives. Division editor: Ron Weber, University of Queensland
»2003 - IS World Make-over. Andrew Schwarz, Louisiana State University
»2004 - EndNote Resources. Editor: Felix Tan, Auckland University of Technology and
Qualitative Research. Editor: Michael Myers, University of Auckland
»2005 - Theories Used in MIS Research. Editors: Scott
Schneberger, Appalachian State University and Mike Wade, York University.
»2006 - MIS Journal Rankings. Editor: Carol Saunders, U. of Central
Florida
A site considered for the award should make an extraordinary contribution in two or more of the following areas:
»Contribution to teaching and learning
»Contribution to research
»Contribution to service or other professional activities Innovation in design and presentation
»Contribution to creating an IS community of scholars
Nominations are welcome by October 31 of each year. Please send your nomination by clicking on the following link. Nominations received after October 31 will be considered in the following year. The committee will make a decision by ICIS, where the announcement will be made.
| Click here to nominate a site |
After making their decision, the committee will disband and nominate new members of the committee. The new committee members will be prior winners of the ISWorld Challenge Award and others involved in the development of the ISWorld site.