Which are your likely future publication/ presentation outlets?

The journal that I very want to have my work published is the Information Policy and Information Society. Recently, I have strongly been developing my research interests toward information, communication, and technology (ICT). Ever since I was a co-author of the paper submitted to Decision Science in the summer 2007, “Toward Thailand’s Path to Knowledge Economy,” I have realized that knowledge is a fundamental commodity which greatly benefits a country. Moreover, knowledge becomes by far important as an economic and societal driver in lesser developing countries (LDCs). Information and technology of course have economic qualities themselves, and these qualities are forceful enough to country social welfare at large. With this regard, developing ICT policies means a lot to LDCs. Viable ICT policies could be regarded as a shortcut for those countries developing for technologically, economically, and societal heightening the country’s welfare at large. All in all, I consider Information Policy is a very practical research outlet suiting my interest toward conceiving ICT policies for developing countries. In addition, Information Society quite favors ICT policy in country level. What I plan to do this venue is to conduct a case study on Thailand’s ICT policies using Influence-Impact model developed by Dr. Eileen M. Trauth (2000).

Besides research venues about ICT policies, another publication venue that I have long been interested in is ACM SIGCPR/MIS. Every IT offshore outsourcing have gained popularity, there have been sprung of many labor concerns and issues. When IT offshore outsourcing seems to benefit the firms. However, it has also brought up many controversies in the Home Counties where the jobs are outsourced. Many IT professionals have already experienced psychological effects from a fear of losing their jobs. Even worse, some empirical studies show that IT professionals in home countries are reluctant to facilitate the jobs transferred to offshore sites. Some of them even creatively impede the process of job transfer and even knowledge transfers. And this could account for mysterious failure in job transferring phase.