We invite you to join the Third International Conference for Intercultural Collaboration (formerly IWIC), to be held at Copenhagen Business School, August 19-20, 2010. The conference is hosted by Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM) and Centre for Applied Information and Communication Technology (CAICT).

This multidisciplinary conference explores the broad nature of intercultural collaboration and ways to improve intercultural collaboration processes and outcomes. Deadlines for submission: full papers and panels by March 1, 2010, late-breaking papers and demonstrations by April 19, 2010. Papers presented will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Please see more details below, and please contact one of the program chairs if you have further questions.

ICIC 2010 Organization

General Co-Chairs

• Anne-Marie Søderberg (ICM, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
• Pamela Hinds (Stanford University, USA)
• Ravi Vatrapu (CAICT, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

Program Co-Chairs

• Gary Olson (University of California-Irvine, USA)
• Martha Maznevski (International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland)
• Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)

This conference explores the nature of intercultural collaboration and ways to improve intercultural collaboration processes and outcomes. Topics will include collaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies from activists working to increase mutual understanding in our multicultural world. It is a continuation of the former International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC) series, with this being the third conference.

Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Conceptual frameworks, methods, and measures to study intercultural collaboration and/or learning
• Field studies of intercultural collaboration in global organizations and/or in local communities
• Intercultural issues in offshore / global businesses
• Laboratory studies of intercultural collaboration
• Cultural differences in collaboration styles and/or technology use
• Case studies of intercultural collaboration
• Computer supported intercultural collaboration
• Internet, web, ubiquitous, and/or ambient technologies for intercultural collaboration and learning
• E-learning in multicultural environments
• Frameworks for measurement of properties of intercultural communication
• The role of language, language proficiency, and language resources in intercultural collaboration
• Multilingual communication and communication technologies
• Interoperability of language resources
• Usability of technologies, including language resources, for intercultural collaboration

Invited speakers include:
Dr. Datuk Jemilah Mahmood, director of the UN Population Fund, former director of the NGO Mercy Malaysia. Jemilah Mahmood has first-hand experiences with intercultural collaboration in Aceh, Afghanistan, Darfur, Gaza, Iraq and Myanmar.
The Norwegian psychologist Bjørn Z. Ekelund, who has developed the ’diversity icebreaker’, a new concept of team roles that creates a safe psychological climate to share ideas of differences between people, cultures and organizational units.

Further information:
Please visit the conference website

Contact
Anne Marie Søderberg
Ravi Vatrapu

Hosted by
Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and Centre for Applied Information and Communication Technology , CBS