CALL FOR PRACTITIONERS: ENABLING COLLABORATIONS Submissions due November 15 ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2013) January 11-12, 2013 Bangalore, India http://dev2013.org/ The ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2013) invites organizations working in low-income communities in India to describe their work to an international audience of technology researchers. The DEV conference, now in its third year, aims to advance the state-of-the-art in developing appropriate technologies for low-income regions around the world. Researchers at the conference have broad technical expertise, spanning artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, networking, systems, speech and language processing, computer security, data mining, and computer vision. They seek to apply this expertise to diverse problems in development, spanning health, education, agriculture, financial services, and governance. In 2013, DEV is coming to Bangalore, India. A special focus of this meeting is to connect leading NGOs, social entrepreneurs, and government initiatives in India with an international group of technology researchers. We hope that this interaction will lead to several long-term collaborations. To this end, we are seeking: * Organizations working in any domain of socio-economic development, including health, education, finance, and other areas, and especially those seeking to utilize innovative technology * Non-profit organizations * Social entrepreneurs * Government offices and officials We invite representatives of these organizations to engage in an interactive session with researchers at the conference. Each organization will be invited to: * Present a poster during a dedicated session at the conference * Give a very brief (1-minute) talk, advertising their poster * Attend a full day of the conference for free To be considered for the session, please send the following to acmdev2013@gmail.com: * Name of your organization * Names and email addresses of presenters * Brief description (3-4 sentences) describing the work that you do and (optionally) any collaborations you are seeking to form. This information will be distributed to conference attendees. Submissions will be reviewed prior to inclusion in the conference program. The DEADLINE for all submissions is NOVEMBER 15, 2012. Please address any inquiries to the conference chairs, who are available at acmdev2013@gmail.com: - Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi - Richard Anderson, University of Washington - Amit Nanavati, IBM Research India - Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India