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Fwd: ICTD 2019 CFP Reminder: 5 Days Left to Submit!!!
by Esther Jang 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

5 days left to submit to ICTD 2019! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICTD 2019 <ictd2019(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:31 PM Subject: ICTD 2019 CFP Reminder: 5 Days Left to Submit!!! To: Reminder: The deadline for papers and posters is *July 22nd at 11:59 PM Indian Standard Time (UTC +0530).* Please forward this along to your lists. ICTD 2019 ****Call for Participation***Deadline for Papers and Posters: July 22, 2018 Conference: Jan 4-7, 2019, Ahmedabad, IndiaThe 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), being hosted at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India) January 4-7, 2019, invites you to submit your work. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of social, political, and economic development. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive in the lives of people around the world. They are being used in various facets of daily life ranging from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are impacted by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum for analyzing, critiquing, refining, and inventing new ways in which individuals, communities, and societies interact with and make use of these tools and platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in “developing” regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice.For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, use of big data, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research and publishing traditions, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, data science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information studies, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology.To stay up to date, please follow us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ictdx <http://facebook.com/ictdx>) and Twitter (@ictdx). You can find more information on our website (http://ictdx.org <http://ictdx.org/>).CategoriesFULL PAPERSAn ICTD Full Paper, 7-10 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), must make a new and complete research contribution, articulate how it is advancing the field of ICTD, and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three reviewers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation at the conference. Papers are archived by default in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). A subset of these papers will be selected for publication in the Information Technology and International Development (ITID) journal as well. Submit at https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/ <https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/>.FULL PAPERS WITHOUT PUBLICATIONNew this year! We recognize that, in some disciplines, papers in conference proceedings have less publication value. Handing over the copyright to ACM may also be undesirable. To allow scholars in these fields to present their research at ICTD, we welcome an additional kind of submission under Papers--papers accepted for publication in the preceding year and a half (from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 22, 2018). Inclusion of these papers into the conference program will depend on relevance to the conference program and availability of slots. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation. Authors are requested to submit their paper as an email attachment with information about the (1) authors, (2) publication venue, (3) publication status, and (4) (expected) date of publication to submissions(a)ictdx.org <submissions(a)ictdx.org> by Sep. 1, 2018.POSTERSAn ICTD Poster, up to 4 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), can report on practitioner projects, research work in progress, dissertation progress, and other content that would enrich the conference. A complete research contribution is not mandatory. Posters will be reviewed in the same timeline as (but differently than) Papers. Accepted Posters will be presented as posters at the conference and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). Submit at https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/ <https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/>.OPEN SESSIONSOpen Sessions will welcome a variety of submissions and formats. These will be submitted in the form of extended abstracts and will include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, and more. While some open sessions have been pre-decided (doctoral colloquium, young researchers, etc.), others are up to the authors to define. They can choose to submit to the sessions that have been determined in advance, or propose one of their own. A Google form for participation will be posted on Jul. 16 at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/ <https://www.ictdx.org/participate/>. Due Sep. 1, 2018. Dates & DeadlinesJul. 22, 2018: Deadline for Papers and PostersSep. 1, 2018: Notifications sentOct. 15, 2018: Camera-readies dueJan. 4-7, 2019: Presentations at ICTD 2019 in AhmedabadAll submissions are due at 11:59pm Indian Standard Time.OrganizersGENERALRajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India)Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India)PRACTICENeil Patel (Awaaz.De, Ahmedabad India)PROGRAMNeha Kumar (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University, Washington DC USA)POSTERSDavid Nemer (University of Kentucky, Lexington USA)Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto, Toronto Canada)OPEN SESSIONSAditya Vashistha (University of Washington, Seattle USA)Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)DEMOSKurtis Heimerl (University of Washington, Seattle USA)DOCTORAL CONSORTIUMNimmi Rangaswamy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)Vigneswara Ilavarasan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)TRAVELShriram Venkatraman (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)Anupriya Tuli (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)WEB & SOCIAL MEDIANaveena Karusala (University of Washington, Seattle USA)Esther Jang (University of Washington, Seattle USA)DESIGNShruti Dalvi (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)ACCESSIBILITYVaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA)*

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Fwd: ICTD 2019 Call for Participation - Papers/Posters due July 22, 2018
by Esther Jang 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Reminder: ***Only three weeks*** to go for the papers/posters deadline for ICTD 2019. Check out www.ictdx.org for details. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICTD 2019 <ictd2019(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:25 AM Subject: ICTD 2019 Call for Participation - Papers/Posters due July 22, 2018 To: Please forward this along to your email lists! *ICTD 2019***Call for Participation***Deadline for Papers and Posters: July 22, 2018 Conference: Jan 4-7, 2019, Ahmedabad, IndiaThe 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), being hosted at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India) January 4-7, 2019, invites you to submit your work. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of social, political, and economic development. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive in the lives of people around the world. They are being used in various facets of daily life ranging from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are impacted by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum for analyzing, critiquing, refining, and inventing new ways in which individuals, communities, and societies interact with and make use of these tools and platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in “developing” regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice.For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, use of big data, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research and publishing traditions, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, data science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information studies, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology.To stay up to date, please follow us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ictdx <http://facebook.com/ictdx>) and Twitter (@ictdx). You can find more information on our website (http://ictdx.org <http://ictdx.org/>).CategoriesFULL PAPERSAn ICTD Full Paper, 7-10 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), must make a new and complete research contribution, articulate how it is advancing the field of ICTD, and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three reviewers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation at the conference. Papers are archived by default in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). A subset of these papers will be selected for publication in the Information Technology and International Development (ITID) journal as well. Submit at https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/ <https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/>.FULL PAPERS WITHOUT PUBLICATIONNew this year! We recognize that, in some disciplines, papers in conference proceedings have less publication value. Handing over the copyright to ACM may also be undesirable. To allow scholars in these fields to present their research at ICTD, we welcome an additional kind of submission under Papers--papers accepted for publication in the preceding year and a half (from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 22, 2018). Inclusion of these papers into the conference program will depend on relevance to the conference program and availability of slots. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation. Authors are requested to submit their paper as an email attachment with information about the (1) authors, (2) publication venue, (3) publication status, and (4) (expected) date of publication to submissions(a)ictdx.org <submissions(a)ictdx.org> by Sep. 1, 2018.POSTERSAn ICTD Poster, up to 4 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), can report on practitioner projects, research work in progress, dissertation progress, and other content that would enrich the conference. A complete research contribution is not mandatory. Posters will be reviewed in the same timeline as (but differently than) Papers. Accepted Posters will be presented as posters at the conference and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). Submit at https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/ <https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/>.OPEN SESSIONSOpen Sessions will welcome a variety of submissions and formats. These will be submitted in the form of extended abstracts and will include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, and more. While some open sessions have been pre-decided (doctoral colloquium, young researchers, etc.), others are up to the authors to define. They can choose to submit to the sessions that have been determined in advance, or propose one of their own. A Google form for participation will be posted on Jul. 16 at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/ <https://www.ictdx.org/participate/>. Due Sep. 1, 2018. Dates & DeadlinesJul. 22, 2018: Deadline for Papers and PostersSep. 1, 2018: Notifications sentOct. 15, 2018: Camera-readies dueJan. 4-7, 2019: Presentations at ICTD 2019 in AhmedabadAll submissions are due at 11:59pm Indian Standard Time.OrganizersGENERALRajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India)Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India)PRACTICENeil Patel (Awaaz.De, Ahmedabad India)PROGRAMNeha Kumar (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University, Washington DC USA)POSTERSDavid Nemer (University of Kentucky, Lexington USA)Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto, Toronto Canada)OPEN SESSIONSAditya Vashistha (University of Washington, Seattle USA)Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)DEMOSKurtis Heimerl (University of Washington, Seattle USA)DOCTORAL CONSORTIUMNimmi Rangaswamy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)Vigneswara Ilavarasan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)TRAVELShriram Venkatraman (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)Anupriya Tuli (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)WEB & SOCIAL MEDIANaveena Karusala (University of Washington, Seattle USA)Esther Jang (University of Washington, Seattle USA)DESIGNShruti Dalvi (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)ACCESSIBILITYVaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA)*

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Fwd: ICTD 2019 Call for Participation - Papers/Posters due July 22, 2018
by Esther Jang 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Please note that the submission deadline for ICTD 2019 in Ahmedabad, India is less than 1 month away! This is a great conference for our community and we are looking for broad participation. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICTD 2019 <ictd2019(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:03 PM Subject: ICTD 2019 Call for Participation - Papers/Posters due July 22, 2018 To: Please forward this along to your email lists! *ICTD 2019***Call for Participation***Deadline for Papers and Posters: July 22, 2018 Conference: Jan 4-7, 2019, Ahmedabad, IndiaThe 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), being hosted at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India) January 4-7, 2019, invites you to submit your work. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of social, political, and economic development. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive in the lives of people around the world. They are being used in various facets of daily life ranging from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are impacted by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum for analyzing, critiquing, refining, and inventing new ways in which individuals, communities, and societies interact with and make use of these tools and platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in “developing” regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice.For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, use of big data, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research and publishing traditions, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, data science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information studies, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology.To stay up to date, please follow us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ictdx <http://facebook.com/ictdx>) and Twitter (@ictdx). You can find more information on our website (http://ictdx.org <http://ictdx.org/>).CategoriesFULL PAPERSAn ICTD Full Paper, 7-10 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), must make a new and complete research contribution, articulate how it is advancing the field of ICTD, and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three reviewers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation at the conference. Papers are archived by default in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). A subset of these papers will be selected for publication in the Information Technology and International Development (ITID) journal as well. Submit at https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/ <https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/>.FULL PAPERS WITHOUT PUBLICATIONNew this year! We recognize that, in some disciplines, papers in conference proceedings have less publication value. Handing over the copyright to ACM may also be undesirable. To allow scholars in these fields to present their research at ICTD, we welcome an additional kind of submission under Papers--papers accepted for publication in the preceding year and a half (from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 22, 2018). Inclusion of these papers into the conference program will depend on relevance to the conference program and availability of slots. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation. Authors are requested to submit their paper as an email attachment with information about the (1) authors, (2) publication venue, (3) publication status, and (4) (expected) date of publication to submissions(a)ictdx.org <submissions(a)ictdx.org> by Sep. 1, 2018.POSTERSAn ICTD Poster, up to 4 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), can report on practitioner projects, research work in progress, dissertation progress, and other content that would enrich the conference. A complete research contribution is not mandatory. Posters will be reviewed in the same timeline as (but differently than) Papers. Accepted Posters will be presented as posters at the conference and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). Submit at https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/ <https://ictdx.cs.washington.edu/submit/>.OPEN SESSIONSOpen Sessions will welcome a variety of submissions and formats. These will be submitted in the form of extended abstracts and will include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, and more. While some open sessions have been pre-decided (doctoral colloquium, young researchers, etc.), others are up to the authors to define. They can choose to submit to the sessions that have been determined in advance, or propose one of their own. A Google form for participation will be posted on Jul. 16 at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/ <https://www.ictdx.org/participate/>. Due Sep. 1, 2018. Dates & DeadlinesJul. 22, 2018: Deadline for Papers and PostersSep. 1, 2018: Notifications sentOct. 15, 2018: Camera-readies dueJan. 4-7, 2019: Presentations at ICTD 2019 in AhmedabadAll submissions are due at 11:59pm Indian Standard Time.OrganizersGENERALRajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India)Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India)PRACTICENeil Patel (Awaaz.De, Ahmedabad India)PROGRAMNeha Kumar (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University, Washington DC USA)POSTERSDavid Nemer (University of Kentucky, Lexington USA)Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto, Toronto Canada)OPEN SESSIONSAditya Vashistha (University of Washington, Seattle USA)Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)DEMOSKurtis Heimerl (University of Washington, Seattle USA)DOCTORAL CONSORTIUMNimmi Rangaswamy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)Vigneswara Ilavarasan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)TRAVELShriram Venkatraman (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)Anupriya Tuli (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)WEB & SOCIAL MEDIANaveena Karusala (University of Washington, Seattle USA)Esther Jang (University of Washington, Seattle USA)DESIGNShruti Dalvi (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA)ACCESSIBILITYVaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA)*

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Rocale Global Pte
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25 Jun '18

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Let's reunite the kids forcibly torn from their migrant parents
by Yosem Companys 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Note that I'm doing this in a personal capacity and NOT representing or speaking for Stanford in any way. This is just to kickoff a conversation... Suzanne has obtained a domain name to host a database to keep track of all of the kids who have been forcibly removed from their parents. We need to track down 10K+ children at 100 shelters in 14 states: http://www.businessinsider.com/children-in-custody-trump-administration-imm… . As Suzanne suggests, we need to figure out how not to enable stalkers or deporting authorities while simultaneously helping the children find their parents, and vice versa. Suzanne suggests something along the lines of anonymous lost child posting: If tip gets added, connect to legal services to screen and verify. She also suggests connecting searching parents with legal services and with people who have tips but not involving law enforcement. Christina suggests finding some good coders to scrape names off news articles. There are a lot of names already there. Organizations that could help: - *Southwest key*. Christina says that Southwest key has a database of all of the kids but won't provide the info. Does anyone have a good contact there? - *IRAP*. Lina suggests contacting IRAP: https://refugeerights.org/. Anybody have a contact there? - *ACLU*. Catherine suggests talking to the ACLU. I know we had several ACLU people on Liberationtech but from the tech angle. I don't know whether they're still on the list? - *RAICES*. Candace suggests we talk to RAICES. Anybody have a contact there? I reckon that a massive crowdsourcing effort will be needed. Some crisis mapping might be useful. A question for everyone on Liberationtech and related lists: How does this effort get off the ground quickly? Thanks, Yosem

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Stanford Liberationtech Needs Your Help
by Yosem Companys 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hi All, The Program on Liberation Technologies at Stanford University (LT) <http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech> has been going strong since circa 2006. Since then, LT has helped thousands design, use, and research technologies that foster the public good. Recently, the decision was made to spin off LT as an independent entity. I'm one of the people tasked with doing so. Here are LT's major needs: - Recruit people to develop a new website, logo, and graphics. - Identify a legal jurisdiction with strong security and privacy laws and regulations and a server provider with a stellar reputation at protecting user security and privacy to host the site. - Determine whether to maintain LT's mailing lists on Mailman <https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> or to transition them to a content management system (e.g., Discourse.org) - Assess the best legal structure for LT (e.g., digital cooperative). Any ideas? Thanks for your help and advice. Best, Yosem P.S. I'm sending this email on behalf LT's co-founders and not Stanford University.

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UW ICTD Blog
by Kurtis Heimerl 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi All, Just wanted to announce we've started a blog for UW ICTD CSE projects located here: https://medium.com/uw-ictd It already has some musings from Spencer and me and a post on our recent experiments with FreeBasics. Hoping that it stimulates some discussion. Thanks! -- Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/kheimerl@cs.washington.edu <https://flowcrypt.com/pub/munncha@gmail.com>

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Reminder: ICTD 2019 Call for Participation (Papers/Posters due July 22, 2018)
by Naveena Karusala 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi all, Reminder that the ICTD 2019 submission deadline for papers and posters is July 22nd (less than 6 weeks!). Submission details for full papers without publication and open sessions are also described below in the CFP! ------ ICTD 2019 ***Call for Participation*** Deadline for Papers and Posters: July 22, 2018 Conference: Jan 4-7, 2019, Ahmedabad, India The 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), being hosted at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India) January 4-7, 2019, invites you to submit your work. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of social, political, and economic development. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive in the lives of people around the world. They are being used in various facets of daily life ranging from markets to health care, education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups across the world interact with, are impacted by, and can shape the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum for analyzing, critiquing, refining, and inventing new ways in which individuals, communities, and societies interact with and make use of these tools and platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in “developing” regions and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and practice. For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, use of big data, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainable livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research and publishing traditions, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, data science, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information studies, information systems, political science, public health, and sociology. To stay up to date, please follow us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ictdx) and Twitter (@ictdx). You can find more information on our website ( http://ictdx.org) Categories FULL PAPERS An ICTD Full Paper, 7-10 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), must make a new and complete research contribution, articulate how it is advancing the field of ICTD, and provide complete and substantial support for its results and conclusions. Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three reviewers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to give an oral presentation at the conference. Papers are archived by default in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). A subset of these papers will be selected for publication in the Information Technology and International Development (ITID) journal as well. The submission link will be posted on the website at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/. FULL PAPERS WITHOUT PUBLICATION New this year! We recognize that, in some disciplines, papers in conference proceedings have less publication value. Handing over the copyright to ACM may also be undesirable. To allow scholars in these fields to present their research at ICTD, we welcome an additional kind of submission under Papers--papers accepted for publication in the preceding year and a half (from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 22, 2018). Inclusion of these papers into the conference program will depend on relevance to the conference program and availability of slots. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation. Authors are requested to submit their paper as an email attachment with information about the (1) authors, (2) publication venue, (3) publication status, and (4) (expected) date of publication to submissions(a)ictdx.org by Sep 1, 2018. POSTERS An ICTD Poster, up to 4 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding references, but including figures and tables), can report on practitioner projects, research work in progress, dissertation progress, and other content that would enrich the conference. A complete research contribution is not mandatory. Posters will be reviewed in the same timeline as (but differently than) Papers. Accepted Posters will be presented as posters at the conference and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by authors). The submission link will be posted on the website at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/. OPEN SESSIONS Open Sessions will welcome a variety of submissions and formats. These will be submitted in the form of extended abstracts and will include proposals for panels, workshops, doctoral colloquium submissions, and more. While some open sessions have been pre-decided (doctoral colloquium, young researchers, etc.), others are up to the authors to define. They can choose to submit to the sessions that have been determined in advance, or propose one of their own. A Google form for participation will be posted on the website at https://www.ictdx.org/participate/. Dates & Deadlines Jul. 22, 2018: Deadline for Papers and Posters Sep. 1, 2018: Notifications sent Oct. 15, 2018: Camera-readies due Jan. 4-7, 2019: Presentations at ICTD 2019 in Ahmedabad All submissions are due at 11:59pm Indian Standard Time. Organizers GENERAL Rajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India) Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India) PRACTICE Neil Patel (Awaaz.De, Ahmedabad India) PROGRAM Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University, Washington DC USA) POSTERS David Nemer (University of Kentucky, Lexington USA) Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto, Toronto Canada) OPEN SESSIONS Aditya Vashistha (University of Washington, Seattle USA) Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) DEMOS Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington, Seattle USA) DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Nimmi Rangaswamy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad) Vigneswara Ilavarasan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) TRAVEL Shriram Venkatraman (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) Anupriya Tuli (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi) WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA Naveena Karusala (University of Washington, Seattle USA) Esther Jang (University of Washington, Seattle USA) DESIGN Shruti Dalvi (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) ACCESSIBILITY Vaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA)

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USAID's Development Informatics Team wants a Senior ICT Advisor
by Yosem Companys 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

*From:* Rebecca Saxton-Fox <rsaxtonfox(a)usaid.gov> USAID's Center for Digital Development is hiring! The Development Informatics team is looking for a Senior ICT4D Advisor. You can find the job posting here <https://careers-camris.icims.com/jobs/3650/senior-information-and-communica…> : https://careers-camris.icims.com/jobs/3650/senior-information-and-communica… We would be grateful if you could circulate to networks who would be interested in this position! Thanks! Rebecca -- *Rebecca Saxton-Fox* Policy Advisor, Development Informatics Team <http://devinfo.digitaldevelopment.org/> U.S. Global Development Lab U.S. Agency for International Development M.1-52A RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1300+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW,+Washington,+DC+200…> P. 202-712-0412 | M. 508-314-8757 | rsaxtonfox(a)usaid.gov | USAID.gov | @USAID

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New Order Supplier Inquiry
by Kanok Chaiya 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Good day, We are Rocale Global Pte Limited . Could you send us your current price list/catalogs? We are interested to order your product to be supplied in our market urgently and it would be a very large order; also what is the Expected time of Delivery? (1) Kindly send FOB prices and Ex-work, (2) Inform Expected time of Delivery? (3) Payment term? (T/T or L/C preferred) Please respond as soon as possible as this order is very urgent. Best Regards, Miss Kanok Chaiya (Purchasing Manager) Rocale Global Pte Ltd 30�2. Moo14 Bang Chan Industrial Estate, Seri Thai Road, Khwaeng Min Buri, Khet Min Buri, Bangkok, 10510, 10510

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