---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Melissa Densmore <mho@ischool.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:06 Subject: Call For Fails - FAILFaire@ICTD2012 To: TIER <tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, yrictd <yrictd@googlegroups.com> ================ Call for FAILs FAILFaire@ICTD2012 Monday, March 12, 2012, ICTD2012, Atlanta, Georgia, USA http://www.ictdchick.com/failfaireictd2012/ Calling for case studies by researchers/implementers/practitioners for FAILFaire@ICTD2012! Failure. What does it mean for ICTD research to fail? How can we learn from ‘failed’ research projects? At the FAILFaire@ICTD2012 we invite people to an open and interactive discussion about the nature of failure in ICTD research, using presentations about specific cases as a starting point for dialogue. The FAILFaire is open to all ICTD2012 and ACM DEV 2012 participants, however due to space considerations, you MUST RSVP in advance. http://failfaireict4d.eventbrite.com We are interested in hearing about a broad-range of ICTD and M4D initiatives – anything from health, education or emergency response projects, to community development initiatives, mapping projects, data collection endeavors, public awareness or education campaigns. If you have a project to propose, please submit a brief overview here (http://bit.ly/Am0oVP ) of your project by Feb 17, 2012. Failures might include (but are not limited to): * low participation * needs of the community unmet or miscommunicated * inappropriate technology, * ineffective communication/education * inability to scale/replicate * did not engage the intended audience. We especially invite your ‘unpublishable’ failures, projects previously presented at ICTD that have since FAILed, issues with the ICTD research community that may have led to a failure to learn from failure, and your real lessons learned in deployment. Presentations should address: What was the project? What were you trying to do? Where did it go wrong? What was the FAIL? What would you do differently next time? What can we as the ICTD community learn? Presenters must be affiliated with the project. No third party FAILs! Questions? Ask your friendly organizers: Melissa Densmore, Univ. of California, Berkeley Clint Rogers Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org Wayan Vota, Inveneo Links More Info: http://www.ictdchick.com/failfaireictd2012/ Submit a FAIL: http://bit.ly/Am0oVP RSVP: http://failfaireict4d.eventbrite.com/ Conference: http://www.ictd2012.org More info at: http://failfaire.org and on twitter at www.twitter.com/failfaire -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YRICTD" group. To post to this group, send email to yrictd@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to yrictd+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/yrictd?hl=en.