Apologies for cross-postings – this is a final CFP for open sessions due on 28 June 2013 and a reminder about Notes (due 26 July) and Demos (due 23 August). Please repost and share the attached CFP with interested and relevant colleagues to help us make ICTD 2013 a success!
With warm regards,
Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland, College Park
Ulrike Rivett, University of Cape Town
Notes Chairs, ICTD2013
David Barnard, Southern African NGO Network
Jenna Burrell, University of California, Berkeley
Open Sessions Chairs, ICTD2013
Michael Champanis, University of Cape Town
Carlos Rey-Moreno, University of the Western Cape
Demos Chairs, ICTD2013
ICTD2013 – Information and Communications Technologies for Development Conference 2013
On 7-10 December 2013, the sixth international conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTD2013) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2013 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers exploring the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development.
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Call for Notes – ICTD2013
We would like to invite you to submit a Note, which is a new category for the conference. With a shorter 4-page format, Notes are intended to highlight work from a range of researchers and practitioners, and can be used to introduce work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to document shorter project write-ups.
Notes will be assessed according to their research contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, quality of writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will be considered, however Notes need not necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers.
All Notes submissions are strictly limited to four pages. To allow for late-breaking findings, Notes are due on July 26, 2013, closer to the date of the conference. Authors of accepted Notes will be required to prepare a poster. For more information, please see the conference website: http://cfp.ictd2013.info/.
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Call for Open Sessions – ICTD2013
Additionally, the Open Sessions proposal deadline is coming up very soon, June 28, 2013! We invite you to contribute to this lively, informal, and interactive component of the ICTD conference. Successful proposals will work towards the conferences goals of (1) accessibility and inclusion (2) participation and dialogue and (3) excellence.
For details about submitting an open session proposal see http://ictd.cs.uct.ac.za/contrib-open-sessions.html.
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Call for Demos – ICTD2013
An extra channel for participating in the conference is the Demos Session, with a deadline of August 23. This track will provide the opportunity to showcase demonstrations of novel hardware or software systems, video footage, or physical artifacts of interest to the ICTD community. To submit a demo, please use the demo application form here.
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Emerging Scholars – ICTD2013
Have 5 minutes to spare? Help shape a pre-conference event for ICTD2013 emerging scholars by filling out a quick 5-minute survey here.
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Key Dates
June 28, 2013: Deadline for submission of Open Sessions
July 26, 2013: Deadline for submission of Notes
July 26, 2013: Deadline for application for travel scholarships
August 23, 2103: Notification of acceptances for Notes
August 23, 2013: Deadline for Demos
September 6, 2013: Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due
September 6, 2013: Notification of acceptances of Demos
September 6, 2013: No
December 7-10, 2013: ICTD2013 in Cape Town
Conference Information
Conference website: http://ictd2013.info
Follow or visit at: Twitter @ICTD2013
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ICTD2013
Notes Co-Chairs:
Contact us at: notes@ictd2013.info
Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland, College Park
Ulrike Rivett, University of Cape Town
Open Sessions Co-Chairs:
Contact us at: open@ictd2013.info
Jenna Burrell, University of California-Berkeley
David Barnard, Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT)
Demos Co-Chairs:
Contact us at: demos@ictd2013.info
Carlos Rey-Moreno, University of the Western Cape
Michael Champanis, University of Cape Town