The Internet and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in general are having a profound and evolving effect on every facet of socio-economic life, on the behaviour of people and organizations and on the way that business is carried out. Many existing business structures and models are under threat, and many new opportunities and business models are emerging.
Innovation is taking place in parallel in technology and infrastructure, business models and the user experience, and the effects often put strains on the current legal and regulatory environment, and the existing digital infrastructure. The event will discuss the future of digital business in a holistic manner, across the intersection of these factors. It will consider the evolution of business models, the impact of open information, the user experience of new services, the regulatory environment and the impact of emerging technology and new infrastructure. In particular, we wish to influence the emerging vision of the Future Internet from the perspective of Digital Business.

At present, there are planned and emerging developments in the digital infrastructure that will accelerate the evolution to digital business and open up new opportunities. We can point to:

• National investments in higher speed internet access (Super Fast Broadband)
• The migration of computing resources into the Cloud
• The availability of business processes and components as Web Services

It is timely to consider the impact of these on the development of Digital Business. To this end, we solicit original ideas high-quality research and position papers that analyze and discuss innovative business models, new forms of enablement for digital businesses, community-centric technologies and their role in business as well as cutting edge future internet research with the focus on the socio-economic aspects of these developments.

Topics

DigiBiz covers all aspects related to digital businesses and their enablement today and in the future, including, but not limited to, the following:

• new (digital) business models
• new forms of business strategy evaluations
• models for evaluating value chain dynamics
• economic modeling of new technical architecture propositions
• business-driven system design
• case studies on new and/or successful digital businesses
• socio-economic impacts of new future internet approaches

Contributions presenting new results in research within these areas are sought. Submissions that propose challenging and novel positions that point out new directions are also solicited.

DigiBiz 2009 Proceedings