he Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) is the premier conference in Australasia for Information Systems academics and professionals, covering technical, organisational, business, and social issues in the application of Information Technology. Its status has been recognized as an ERA-ranked A-conference. In 2011, the ACIS Conference will be hosted by the Discipline of Business Information Systems at The University of Sydney Business School. The event will take place at the University of Sydney Law School Building, in its state-of-the-art facilities. The campus is located adjacent to the Central Business District of Sydney, the cosmopolitan social and business gateway to Australia.
Conference Theme - "Identifying the Information Systems Discipline"

The conference theme for 2011 is "Identifying the Information Systems Discipline". Our disciplinary area within business and ICT is still relatively immature when compared to others. Over the years we have had many scholarly debates about what constitutes the IS discipline and what is acceptable methodologically to advance core knowledge and theory in the area. With the drive to bring focus, relevance and rigor we have also, however, accommodated a broad range of ideas and interests. In spite of all of the excellent scholarly work conducted globally and locally within Australasia in IS, practitioners and students still often argue exhaustively about the articulation and recognition of what the IS discipline is about. Our colleagues in other disciplines often fail to see where our scholarly contributions lie and our universities continually restructure our position within them. Could it be that the accommodating nature of the discipline and our inter-disciplinary appeal may also be contributing to our difficulty in identifying, defining, and positioning what it is that we do?

Conference Tracks
The conference will be organised into the following Tracks and we encourage submissions that focus on one of these areas:

Accounting IS and ERP
Business Process Management
Crowdsourcing, Value Co-Creation, & Innovation in the Digital Economy
Enterprise 2.0 and Corporate Social Media
General Track - Identifying the IS Discipline
Green IT and Green IS
Health Information Systems
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
IS and Service-based Systems
IS and Complexity
IS Education
Knowledge Management and IS
Social informatics: New approaches for IS in the 21st Century