Normas de estilo de publicación en EJISDC: The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries

Normas de Estilo de la Publicación

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Author Guidelines
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscripts to the editors for publication in EJISDC. Research papers are peer-reviewed. Other forms of submission are also welcome, such as position papers, commentaries, opinion papers and book reviews.
The Journal will focus on information technologies and practices relevant in the context concerned rather than on any accepted norms that might be prevalent in developed countries. In acknowledging that the digital divide is not defined by national borders alone, EJISDC is also interested in issues surrounding information systems among less privileged indigenous communities within otherwise developed countries. Examples are Native Americans, the aboriginal populations of Australia and the Maoris of New Zealand.
Authors should ensure that their work is presented clearly, cogently and completely. Manuscripts that are poorly presented may be returned to the authors without review. Authors are encouraged to obtain comments from their colleagues before they submit an article to the journal, particularly with regard to readability of the subject matter. Furtherore, authors should be careful to position their work in such a way that it is interesting for the broad community of people interested in the application of information technologies in developing countries. Papers that present results from a very narrow domain of information and that provide few or no implications for the broader community are unlikely to be accepted.
Authors should explain in a covering letter why they believe their submission is appropriate for the journal, and how it will be valuable reading for the journal's readers.
Authors are cautioned that they should ensure that they conform to conventional standards of style and authorship, specifically with respect to the citing of material in other sources. All such citations must be indicated by the use of quotation marks and reference information - author, year, and page numbers where appropriate, with a corresponding item in a list of references. Manuscripts that fail to attribute material correctly, or are otherwise deemed guilty of plagiarism, will be returned to authors without review. Note: all submissions are pre-reviewed by a senior editor to determine if the manuscript is of interest to and relevant for the journal. Authors are also cautioned that they should not submit their manuscripts to multiple (more than one) publication outlets in parallel (including conferences, journals, etc.).
Topics of interest are as wide and diverse as the audience that we address. However, certain issues relating to ICTs in developing countries sit at the forefront of system planning and development activities and contributions relating to these are especially sought as it believed that they will have an immediate interest among a wide audience. Such topics are:

Internet Usage
* Diffusing access
* ISP Management Issues
* Maximising the use of limited resources
* Adapting technologies to local conditions
* Evolution of the Internet
* Internet policies and regulations
* National and regional level Internet policies

IT in Development Practice
* Technology transfer
* Sustainability
* Measuring the social value of IT
* Telecentre impacts
* IT spending-benefit relationships
* Societal impacts of IT implementation
* Coping with resistance to change

IT Policy Making
* Policy making processes for IT in the developing world
* IT to support policy decision making
* National policy analyses and comparisons
* Role of the government
* Government - private sector cooperation and competition
* IT implementation success/failure factors
Rural Applications of IT
* Telecommunications in rural & remote communities
* Supporting rural economies
* Developing and managing telecentres
* Health care delivery
* Distance education & remote learning
* IT support for rural commerce
* eGovernance for rural communities

Educational and Cultural Issues
* Teaching computing in developing countries
* Computer literacy for development
* IT curriculum development
* Organisational capacity building
* Cross-cultural analyses of IT applications
* Cultural adaptation to IT
* Cultural brriers to IT diffusion

Research Practice in IT in Development
* Theory building for IT in development
* Bibliographic analyses of IT issues in development
* Research relevance and impact
* Methodologies for IT and IS research in development:
* Action research
* Ethnography
* Phenomenology and critical hermeneutics

Manuscripts are invited covering research, case studies or commentaries on the above topics, or an any other topic considered relevant to the Journal's theme. Comparative analyses between the developed and developing world are encouraged. Send your submissions to the Editor-in-Chief or any of the senior editors.


Submission Preparation Checklist (All items required)
¿ The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration; or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor.

¿ The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF file format.

¿ All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://www.ejisdc.org) are activated and ready to click.

¿ The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); with figures and tables placed within the text, rather than at the end.

¿ The text meets this journal's formatting requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines found in About the Journal. If the journal section is peer reviewed, author identification has been removed, and "Author" and year have been used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of authors' names, titles, etc. The author's name has been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
Copyright Notice
An author submitting a paper agrees to license EJISDC to publish the paper if and when the manuscript is accepted. Papers published in EJISDC are protected by copyright, which is retained by the authors. Authors control translation and reproduction rights to their works published in EJISDC.
Permission of the author must be secured if a paper originally published in EJISDC is being considered for reprinting or translation. Authors are expected to ensure that any reprinting or translation contains a reference or pointer to the original paper published in EJISDC.
Authors submitting papers to EJISDC do so with the understanding that with Internet publishing authors and publishers do not always have the means to prevent unauthorized copying or editing of copyrighted works.
Downloads of papers in EJISDC are permitted for personal and educational use only. Commercial use requires explicit permission from the Editor in Chief.