1 Information Technology Application in Emerging Economies: A Monograph of Symposium at HICSS 40 Sajda Qureshi 1 and Doug Vogel 2 1 Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182-0392 squreshi@ist.unomaha.edu 2 Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong isdoug@cityu.edu.hk