Submission Due Date
3/31/2013

Guest Editors
Dr. Saqib Saeed

Introduction
Nonprofit organizations are an important part of every society. These organizations differ from traditional business and governmental organizations in their structure and operations. As state organizations are cutting benefits of citizens the role of these third sector organizations have become more important as they do advocacy on behalf of poor citizens. Keeping in view their societal importance and scientific challenges in system design, we focus on technology involvement in this challenging domain.

Objective
Information technologies can facilitate the working processes of nonprofit organizations but this sector traditionally lack funding and technical resources to setup and maintain technology infrastructures in their settings. Due to these challenges there is a recent interest by researchers in investigating the role of information technology in nonprofit organizations. In this special issue focus is on to understand the issues behind failure and success of technology usage in nonprofit organizations.

Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
•Technology Appropriation in Nonprofit Organizations
•Empirical Studies of Technology Usage in Nonprofit Settings
•Open Sources Systems and Nonprofit Organizations
•Web 2.0 and Nonprofit Organizations
•Evaluation of IT Systems in Practice
•Technology based Collaboration among Nonprofit Organizations
•Technology for Advocacy and Mobilization Campaigns
•Technology based Communication among Nonprofit Stakeholders
•IT and Knowledge Management in Nonprofit Settings
•System Usability Issues of Nonprofit Settings

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Nonprofit Organizations and Information Technology on or before March 31st 2013. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Dr. Saqib Saeed
Guest Editor
saqib.saeed@gmail.com