[agents] CFP: IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD2010)

[Kostas Stathis]

IEEE/ACM Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD2010), 

Dec 13-16 2010, at the UNESCO Chair/Centre in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London

The conference is the latest in the series of highly successful international ICTD conferences held in Doha <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ictd2009.org/>  (2009), Bangalore <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/india/events/ictd2007/>  (2007) and Berkeley <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/ictd2006/>  (2006) and the first time ICTD is held in Europe. It aims to provide a global and multidisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of information and communication technologies in development practice to meet to discuss the latest research advances in the field. 

Building on the success of its predecessors, ICTD2010 will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=93> , with two days of workshops, panel sessions, discussion forums and <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=118>  demos. The conference language is English, with additional sessions in both Spanish and French. A particular feature will be the opportunity that it will provide for participatory involvement from people from a diversity of backgrounds, both offline and online. Conference Chair is Prof Tim Unwin and keynote speakers include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web. 

ICTD2010 is being hosted by the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ict4d.org.uk/>  and the multidisciplinary ICT4D Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. 

Key Dates:

*	Registration opens 15th April 2010; early registration deadline 15th September 2010; registration will close on 30th November 2010 
*	Calls for Papers <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=93>  and Workshop Sessions <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=118>  are now open (please find them attached); deadline 2nd April 2010; decisions on acceptance should be available by 11th June 2010 

*	Calls for demos, papers in Spanish, papers in French have separate deadlines - please consult the website 

Conference website: www.ictd2010.org <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ictd2010.org/> 

Enquiries: programme at ict4d.org.uk

We also have a facebook event (do sign up): 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120498319761&index=1 <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120498319761%26index=1> 


And are on twitter: (http://twitter.com/ICTD2010 <https://owa.rhul.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://twitter.com/ICTD2010> )