Deadlines: See Important dates on the conference main page. 

The Norwegian Conference for IT Use in Organizations (NOKOBIT) 2021 will be organized in Trondheim 29 November - 1 December as a part of the Norwegian Conference on ICT Research and Education.

NOKOBIT has been organized annually for the last 28 years as a national conference within information science and information systems. It concerns topics related to development, implementation and use of ICT in organizations, as well as societal issues of ICT. The conference is a joint arena for researchers and practitioners for extending the knowledge in the area.

The conference calls for contributions within a broad spectrum of themes and topics. For submission deadlines, see Important dates.

Multidisciplinary research and a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome

 Possible topics include:

• Application  of AI
• Benefits realization and IS
• Big data
• Business modelling
• Business process management
• Business systems and architectures
• Cloud computing in IS
• Conceptual modelling
• Data science
• Data visualization
• Digital innovation and business development
• Digitalization and transformation of public services
• Enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling
• Human-computer interaction, universal design
• IT management and organization
• IT strategy
• Information and knowledge governance
• Information infrastructures and platform ecosystems
• Innovation and entrepreneurship with IS
• IS research methods
• IS service management
• Lean production
• Mobility, mobile applications
• New media
• Service design
• Social IS and collaborative technologies
• Socio-technical systems
• Software Startups
• Supply chain management
• System and Software development methods and practices including devops
• Use of digital technologies in different domains

Posters 

Newly established projects, PhD students in their start-up phase, research in progress and completed work of interest to the participants, but which does not fit as a research paper, can be presented as a poster. See the Posters page for further instructions.

Panels

In addition to written contributions, we also invite suggestions for panel discussion. Such suggestions should include a summary of the topic to be discussed and the participants of the panel - and those who suggests the panel needs to confirm participation from all of those in the panel.

Assessment and publishing

All research papers will normally be assessed by 3 anonymous and independent peers. The papers do not have to be anonymised, but we accept anonymous contributions. Accepted papers will normally be published in a digital conference reporting the NOKOBIT series (e-ISSN 1894-7719), currently published by Bibsys Open Journal Systems at credit level 1.

Extended Abstracts for posters (1-2 pages) will be published in a separate section, such that it clearly shows that these contributions are neither peer reviewed nor give publication credits.

We require the following for publication in the conference report (applies to both papers and Extended Abstracts):

• - final version is submitted within the deadline and in the correct format,
• - at least one of the authors register at the conference and presents it here.

If none of the authors participate in the conference and present the work, it  will not be included.

Under specific circumstances, a submitted manuscript can be refused by the programme committee without being sent for peer review. This applies if the manuscript has obvious deficiencies, making peer review meaningless (i.e., plagiarism, the work has been presented elsewhere, no scientific contents of a topic far out of the area of NOKOBIT). In cases of plagiarism or scientific dishonesty (I.e., plagiarism or autogenerated gibberish), the rejection and its reason will not only be covered to the submitter, but also, potentially, to the institution where (s)he is employed, and also to those being plagiarised.

Format and submission

Contributions can be written in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language or English. All contributions have to be original and not published or under review elsewhere. A paper should be max 14 pages.

• Format: Springer LNCS
• Submission via Easychair
• Final version also to be uploaded via EasyChair.

Conference presentation

Accepted papers must be presented through a lecture at the conference, and the posters presented through discussions with the conference participants. The lecture is given in English if there are people who do not understand Scandinavian languages amongst the audience.