---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kentaro Toyama <kentaro_toyama@hotmail.com> Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:39 PM Subject: [TIER] ICTD2016 - Call for Participation (register, book rooms early!) To: "tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu> [Please forward to relevant groups. Apologies for cross-posting.] REGISTER NOW BEFORE EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS, AND BOOK ACCOMMODATIONS SOON -- DISCOUNTED ROOMS WILL BE RELEASED END OF APRIL! = = = = = Registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> is now open for the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016): http://ictd2016.info/registration/. ICTD2016 features an exciting program with 26 Papers presented in plenary sessions, 36 Notes presented as posters, 32 interactive Open Sessions, and two incredible keynotes: Deepak Mishra is co-director of the World Bank's 2016 World Development Report: Digital Dividends; and Tererai Trent is the Drexel University global health professor featured in "Half the Sky" who began her adult life as a rural Zimbabwean mother of three with no formal education. The conference schedule is available at http://ictd2016.info/schedule/. Recommendations for accommodations, with discounted rates are available at http://ictd2016.info/accommodations/. (Book early, as the rooms being held will be released in late April / early May.) Early registration <http://ictd2016.info/registration/> will close on April 30, so register early! (Note also that standard registration will end on May 30, several days before the conference; on-site registration is extremely expensive, so we encourage you to register in advance.) If you have any problems or questions, please send an email to ictd2016info@umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor! Kentaro Toyama ICTD2016 Chair University of Michigan _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier