---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aaditeshwar Seth <aaditeshwar@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:44 PM Subject: Call for Practitioners - ACM DEV 2013 CALL FOR PRACTITIONERS: ENABLING COLLABORATIONS Submissions due December 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 do