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Conference and CFPs
2nd International Conference on ICT for Africa Development (ICT4AD) 2017
Douala, Cameroon
Submission Deadline: Sunday January 15, 2017
Conference Dates: Monday May 8 - Wednesday May 10, 2017
Conference Co-Chairs: Atsa Etoundi Roger, Irwin Brown, Robert Davison
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AIS Special Interest Group on ICTs and Global Development ICIS 2016 Paper Submission Deadline
Submissions Due: Sunday September 18, 2016
Date/Location: Sunday December 11, 2016; Dublin, Ireland
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Africa HCI Conference 2016 - Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers
Nairobi, Kenya
Submission Deadline: Monday October 5, 2015
Conference Dates: July 3 - 8, 2016
Conference Co-Chairs: Chris Chepken, Anicia Peters
International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Africa Development - ICT4AD
Yaounde, Cameroon
Submission Deadline: Friday August 28, 2015
Conference Dates: January 4 - 6, 2016
Conference Co-Chairs: Atsa Etoundi Roger, Robert Davison
Journal CFPs
Information Systems Journal Special Issue - Critical Perspectives on Information Systems and Openness: Emerging Discourses, Meanings, Models and Implications
Submission Deadline: Friday September 30, 2016
SI Guest Editors: Petter Nielsen, Sundeep Sahay
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Information Systems Journal Special Issue - Making the Developing World a Better Place with High Impact IS Research
Submission Deadline: Saturday December 31, 2016
SI Editors: Robert Davison, Antonio Díaz Andrade, Carol Ou, Angsana Techatassanassoontorn
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Call for Papers for ITD Special Issue
Information Technology for Development - Call for Papers: Conceptualizations of Development in ICT4D
Editorial information
- Guest Editor: Mathias Hatakka, Örebro University, Sweden
- Guest Editor: Yingqin Zheng, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
- Guest Editor: Sundeep Sahay, University of Oslo, Norway
- Guest Editor: Annika Andersson, Örebro University, Sweden
- Editor: Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
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EJISDC IFIP 9.4 2015 Conference PhD/Graduate Student Special Issue
Special Issue Editors
Julian M. Bass, Senior Editor
Robert Davison, Editor-in-Chief
Devinder Thapa
Chris Westrup
Submissions due by Oct 30th, 2015
Call for Papers for EJISDC Special Issue: Making Openness Work for ICT4D: Experiences and Approaches
Guest Editors:
Petter Nielsen and Sundeep Sahay
Submission deadline: November 1st 2015
First round of reviews: March 1st 2016
Submission of revised papers May 1st 2016
Second round of reviews August 1st 2016
Submission of revised papers October 1st 2016
Final decision January 1st 2017
Submission of final version February 1st 2017
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Call for Papers for EJISDC Special Issue: Making Openness Work for ICT4D: Experiences and Approaches
Guest Editors: Petter Nielsen and Sundeep Sahay
Background and Topic:
The promise of openness, reflected in for example open source software, open data and open information, is attractive for ICT4D initiatives. Openness is an outcome of sharing and collaborative efforts that reduce costs and produce public goods. Thus, openness should be of relevance in developing countries, and in particular where resources are constrained and where silo thinking and isolated initiatives prevail. Unfortunately, we note that this potential is often not realized.
This special issue on “Making Openness Work for ICT4D” will seek to shed light on how the promise of openness can be realized in our field. Our aim is to explore experiences from a broad range of ICT4D initiatives working towards openness in its different facets. This entails improving our understanding of these different facets of openness for ICT4D, the challenges associated with realizing its potential and successful approaches.
The contributions to this special issue will leverage on experiences from developing countries, and we encourage empirical papers that work towards conceptualizing openness for ICT4D, and building learning from them. We also expect the contributions to critically discuss the foundations, the potential of and the role of openness, and whether it represents hype or reality or both, and why.
We call for a range of topics related to openness for ICT4D, including, but not limited to:
- Open Source Software and Open Data
- Open Information
- Openness and public goods
- Human capacity and openness
- The role of intermediaries in making openness work
- Policy implications of openness from a government perspective
- Design approaches to openness
- The role of communities of practice in openness
- Infrastructure for openness
- Potential and impacts of openness
Submission Process and Important Dates
Submission deadline: November 1st 2015
First round of reviews: March 1st 2016
Submission of revised papers May 1st 2016
Second round of reviews August 1st 2016
Submission of revised papers October 1st 2016
Final decision January 1st 2017
Submission of final version February 1st 2017
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| EJISDC IFIP 9.4 2015 Conference PhD/Graduate Student Special Issue |
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EJISDC IFIP 9.4 2015 Conference PhD/Graduate Student Special Issue - Call for Submissions
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries.
We are pleased to announce this special Issue of papers for graduate students either from the PhD Track or from other conference tracks at the IFIP Working Group 9.4 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, Negombo, Sri Lanka. This special issue is only for PhD or other graduate students who presented a full paper at the conference. The special issue will accept
submissions from any of the subject areas in the scope of the conference.
Papers should be expanded to the normal EJISDC article length of around 8,000-10,000 words. This provides authors an opportunity to present findings and analysis in more detail than is possible in the conference paper format. Authors are to be cautious when combining separate studies into the paper to meet the expanded length requirements. The editors would prefer to see an expanded treatment of the accepted paper.
Submissions should follow the EJISDC submission guidelines. Submissions will be subject to full (though expedited) review by the EJISDC editorial team. In your cover letter, please specify that the paper is an 'Extended Version of a IFIP 9.4 Conference Paper'.
Submissions due by Oct 30th, 2015
Special Issue Editors
Julian M. Bass, Senior Editor
Robert Davison, Editor-in-Chief
Devinder Thapa
Chris Westrup
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Call for Hosting the 2017 IFIP W.G. 9.4 Conference
The IFIP Working Group 9.4 is seeking proposals for hosting the 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries to be held in May 2017. Discussion with previous conference chairs has led to the following criteria which will be considered by the committee in selecting the hosts.
Proposed Venue and Logistics
- Conference venue should be within (or related to) an academic institution (desirable). Typically, the venue is a hotel. Given the nature of the conference, the hotel room rates should be reasonable. A range of accommodation options should be available within walking distance of conference venue. It is also desirable to have available student accommodation at a lower cost than hotel accommodation (e.g. dormitories).
- Conference venue should be accessible by public transport (or hotel transfer from the arrival international airport should be arranged at a reasonable cost).
- Issue of general security of attendees is naturally a consideration.
General Conference Organization
Typically, the conference has the following officers:
- Conference Chair – the norm is to have co-chairs with one of the co-chairs being from the “global south” (typically the host country). The conference chair (or co-chairs) have overall responsibility for the conference including financial responsibility. One of the conference co-chairs can be the program or academic chair (more below).
- Program (or academic chair) – the norm once again is to have co-chairs with one of the co-chairs being from the “global south”. The program chair(s) have the responsibility for the academic part of the conference including issuing Call for Papers, soliciting submissions, forming the Program Committee, managing the review process, deciding on acceptance of submissions and developing and coordinating the program. Program chair(s) should have a track record of contribution within the Working Group and enough experience to draw on the resources of those in the area to review and assist in the academic side of the conference.
Conference Financial Issues
Conference organisers do not have an assigned conference budget to work with as IFIP 9.4 works on a very low budget (for developmental reasons). This means that conference organisers have to be prepared to take the financial risk of running the conference and also be prepared to pay advance booking costs. The ability to facilitate electronic registration and conference fee payments would be preferable. In practice, WG 9.4 has considerable experience in running these conferences which organisers can draw on, but there remain financial responsibilities to be considered.
Expression of Interest
If interested in hosting the IFIP WG 9.4 2017 Conference, please send a 1 page proposal, including a proposed venue and names of Conference Officers, to the IFIP WG 9.4 Officers: Chair, Maung Sein (
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) by Friday April 24, 2015. Shortlisted proposals will be invited to give a presentation at the IFIP WG 9.4 Conference in Negombo, Sri Lanka in May 2015.
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