---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kleine, Dorothea <Dorothea.Kleine@rhul.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 20:03 Subject: ICTD2010 - Register now for Early Bird Reduced Registration Fee - until Sept 22 To: "Kleine, Dorothea" <Dorothea.Kleine@rhul.ac.uk> please circulate - apologies for cross-posting REGISTER NOW for one of this year’s most exciting events in information and communication technologies for development: ICTD2010 London, Dec 13-16, hosted by the ICT4D Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London The conference is the latest in the series of highly successful international ICTD conferences held in Doha (2009), Bangalore (2007) and Berkeley (2006). It aims to provide a global forum for all those with interests in the use of ICTs in development practice to meet to discuss the latest research advances in the field. This is a 4-day conference for academics, practitioners, policy makers, activists and business leaders. On day 2 and 3 there are papers, posters and demos, all peer-reviewed and selected as excellent contributions from across the disciplines. On day 1 and 4, there are over 40 open, participatory workshop sessions discussing everything from open access, media literacy and mobile phones in health and education, to Climate Change and ICT, gender, and ICT4D’s place in development theory. For a list of papers, posters, demos and sessions, see www.ictd2010.org There will be sessions run by key donors (including UNESCO, World Bank, UNCTAD, FAO, SPIDER, Finnish Foreign Ministry, GTZ, IDRC), two sessions in Spanish organised by Latin American colleagues, as well as training sessions in participatory design and participatory video. Keynotes will be given by Lidia Brito (Director of Science Policy Division, UNESCO) and Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Director, W3C, credited with inventing the World Wide Web). So even if you are not giving a paper, there will be extensive opportunities to fully contribute to open discussion sessions, exchange ideas and network with the people who are shaping the present and future of ICT and Development. ICTD2010 is being hosted by the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D and the multidisciplinary ICT4D Research Centre at RHUL (www.ict4d.org.uk) It will take place on Royal Holloway, University of London’s magnificent campus situated west of London, only 20 minutes from London’s Heathrow airport. There are also affordable accommodation options and an attractive social programme complements the conference. REGISTER NOW at www.ictd2010.org and benefit from the early bird reduced registration rates available until Sept 22. Tim Unwin Conference Chair Kentaro Toyama Programme Committee Chair Dorothea Kleine General Programme Chair