[kictanet] International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

[David Otwoma]

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From: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk>
Date: Jul 18, 2008 1:06 AM
Subject: International ICT4D Conference 2009: Second Call for Papers
To: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk>

The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-19 April 2009 in
Doha, Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org).  This conference will act as a focal
point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international
development.  Confirmed speakers include a keynote by William H. Gates,
Chairman of Microsoft Corporation.

We invite submission of conference papers relating to use of ICTs for
development according to the following schedule:

September 22, 2008      Submissions due
January 15, 2009                Final decisions sent out to authors
February 20, 2009               Camera-ready papers due
April 17-19, 2009               Conference

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION
Only original, unpublished papers in English will be considered, through
double-blind review. Word-length limit: 8000 words. Submission must be
through the conference website (http://www.ictd2009.org), and authors should
follow IEEE formatting, detailed online.  All papers will be printed in the
conference proceedings, and some will be developed for a journal special
issue.

If authors would like quick feedback on an outline or abstract (especially
to gauge topic appropriateness), they can submit this to the Program
Committee no later than August 22nd, using the designated email address:
ictd2009.abstracts at gmail.com. This is voluntary and is not part of the
formal peer review process.

Richard Heeks, Rahul Tongia
Programme Committee Co-Chairs, ICTD2009



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