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From: ICTD 2015 Secretariat <secretariat at ictd2015.org>
Date: 17 April 2014 09:49
Subject: ICTD 2015: Call for Papers and Notes
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Cc: program at ictd2015.org, notes at ictd2015.org

The Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD2015), to be hosted at the Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore from May 15-18, 2015, cordially invites
you to submit Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI
and ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2015 will provide an international forum for scholarly
researchers to explore the role of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. The
ICTD conferences have been taking place approximately every 18 months since
2006.

General Topics

Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by
computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication
technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more
relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of
human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care,
education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups
across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design
of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these
interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent,
pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in
the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges
associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in
developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design,
policy, and practice.

For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic
technologies for information processing and communication, as well as
systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies.
“Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation,
education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality,
governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The
conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD
research, with anticipated contributions from fields including
anthropology, computer science, communication, design, economics,
electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction, information
science, information systems, political science, public health, and
sociology.

Full Papers

An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column format
(including references, figures and tables), must make a new research
contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results
and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for
the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer
review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three readers, one of whom
will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to ensure
broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be presented as oral
presentations at the conference.

Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research
contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference
to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and
presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies,
project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical
contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will
be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable
conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not
required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by
providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and
practitioners beyond the authors’ primary domains. This paper provides
further suggestions on what makes good ICTD research. Full Papers typically
present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting
preliminary research that is still work-in-progress.

Plans are being made to have all accepted Full Papers appear in the
electronic conference proceedings and archived in the ACM Digital Library.
A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the
Information Technologies & International Development journal. New in 2015,
authors of each accepted Full Paper will be invited to submit a one-page
policy brief, which aims to make their research accessible and relevant to
practitioners in a succinct form. We expect to have authors receive
feedback from experienced ICTD practitioners for improving their briefs,
and to include their briefs in a separate proceedings.

Notes

With a shorter 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce
work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to
document shorter project write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more
focused and succinct research contribution to the ICTD field than Full
Papers. For example, Notes on novel ICTD systems may not cover the entire
design of the system but may instead go into depth in specific areas (e.g.,
how the system was evaluated with real users or how the formative work to
create the system was conducted). Notes are also not expected to include a
discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of a
submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will be presented as
poster presentations at the conference.

Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers, but
not in a double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their
research contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, and
quality of writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel
designs, new technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact
studies, theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and
development, and so forth will be considered. However Notes need not
necessarily be as comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers.
Plans are being made to have all accepted Notes be made available in the
ACM Digital Library.

Important dates

Aug 1, 2014:    Submission site open for Full Papers and Notes
Oct 13, 2014:   Deadline for submission of Full Papers
Dec 7, 2014:    Notification of acceptances for Full Papers
Dec 21, 2014:   Deadline for submission of Notes
Jan 31, 2015:   Notification of acceptances for Notes
Mar 2, 2015:    Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due

All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC.

Submission guidelines

Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered.
Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates (LaTex and Word), and must
be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively. (The main text,
figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within these page
limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but the text
within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions longer
than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the
conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research
writing will be rejected without full review.

A website will be made available on August 1, 2014 for authors to submit
their Full Papers and Notes by the respective deadlines. For each accepted
Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors will be required to
register and present it at ICTD2015. If not, the submission will not be
published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers, see the ACMs copyright
policies and options http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/
copyright_policy/.  Copyright for Notes will be retained by the authors.

Submitted Full Papers and Notes must not include names or other information
that would identify the authors.

Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles will be
sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit elements
of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for reconsideration in
the separate Notes review round.

For more information see ictd2015.org, and for queries, contact
secretariat at ictd2015.org

General Conference Chair
Arul Chib, Nanyang Technological University

Program Committee Chairs
Matthew Kam, American Institutes for Research
Jenna Burrell, University of California, Berkeley

Notes Chairs
Sirajul Islam, Örebro University, Sweden
Mahfuz Ashraf, University of Dhaka
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