IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2007)

December 15-16, 2007

Bangalore, India

http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

Following on a successful conference at Berkeley in May of 2006 (http://sims.berkeley.edu/ictd2006), we are pleased to announce the second ICTD conference to take place in Bangalore, India.

India is home to a robust IT and telecommunications industry as well as a huge agrarian economy which supports many of the world's poor. As such, it is an ideal setting for a conference focusing on information and communication technologies (ICT) and socio-economic development. Every sector is involved – governments, academia, small start-ups, large corporations, inter-governmental organizations, and non-profits and non-governmental organizations. In spite of the tremendous energy and resources behind these projects, scientifically sound research in this space is still just beginning to emerge: What is the actual impact of ICT projects? What novel technology is required to meet development needs? What methodologies lead to success or failure of a project?

The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide a forum for academic researchers working with ICT applied to development. The conference will be scientifically rigorous and multi-disciplinary – papers reporting high-quality original research are solicited. Submitted papers will be subjected to double-blind peer review, and a full proceedings will be published at the time of the conference. The conference will bring together researchers in both the social and technical sciences, with anticipated

representation from anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial design, and so on. This is the second of an ongoing series of conferences to occur every one or two years, and moving from country to country.

For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” will comprise computing devices (e.g., PCs, PDAs, sensor networks), technologies for voice and data connectivity, the Internet, and related technologies. Application domains include, but are not restricted to, education, agriculture, healthcare, poverty alleviation, general communication, and governance. Papers considering novel design, new technology, project assessment, policy, impact, content, social issues around ICT for development, and so forth will be considered. Well-presented negative results from which generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought.

All accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings. Papers from the previous conference are now available on IEEE Xplore: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=4085497.

Only original, unpublished papers in English will be considered. Word-length limit: 8000 words. Reviews will be double blind. Authors should follow IEEE formats and styles. Samples of this are also available in PDF and MS Word formats. Authors will be required to sign a copyright release for the conference proceedings. Please upload papers at the submissions website https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICTD2007/

For the latest information, please see the conference website at http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007.

Please address e-mail correspondence to ictd2007@microsoft.com.

Important Dates

(Please check this website for latest information.)

* Deadline for full paper submissions: August 30, 2007 (11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time)

* Notification to authors: October 17, 2007

* Deadline for camera-ready copy: November 7, 2007

* Conference dates: December 15-16, 2007

Organizers

Chair: Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research India)

Local Arrangements Chair: Balaji Parthasarathy (IIIT Bangalore)

Publications Chair: Rahul Tongia (CMU)

Poster Chair: Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley)

Advisory Committee: VS Arunachalam (CSTEP), Michael Best (Georgia Tech), Ken Keniston (MIT), Raj Reddy (CMU), S. Sadagopan (IIIT Bangalore), AnnaLee Saxenian (UC Berkeley), Ernest Wilson (U Maryland)

Organizing Committee: Shrikant Vishnu Bhalerao (IIT Bombay), Ricardo Lage (IIIT Bangalore), Indrani Medhi (MSR India), Udai Pawar (MSR India), Neil Patel (Stanford), Aishwarya Ratan (MSR India), Yael Schwartzman (University of Washington)

Program Committee

Program Committee Chairs: Balaji Parthasarathy (IIIT Bangalore), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay)

Jessica Aalami University of California, Berkeley

M.V.Ananthakrishnan Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Richard Anderson University of Washington

Akhtar Badshah Microsoft

V Balaji ICRISAT

Anupam Basu Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

John K. Bennett University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Best Georgia Tech

Subhash Bhatnagar Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

John Canny University of California, Berkeley

John Chuang University of California, Berkeley

Jonathan Donner Microsoft Research India

Royal Colle Cornell University

Chris Coward University of Washington

Rahul De Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

M. Bernardine Dias Carnegie Mellon University,Qatar

Jonathan Donner Microsoft Research

Kevin Fall Intel Research Berkeley

Pat Hall Open University

Claire Heffernan University of Reading

Bill Hefley Carnegie Mellon University

Arding Hsu Siemens Research China

Heather Hudson University of San Francisco

Mahad Ibrahim University of California, Berkeley

Ashok Jhunjhunwala Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Atreyi Kankanhalli National University of Singapore

G.R. Kiran London School of Economics

Jim Koch Santa Clara University

Beth Kolko University of Washington

Richa Kumar Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suresh K Lodha University of California, Santa Cruz

Colin Maclay Harvard University

Shirin Madon London School of Economics

Margaret Martonosi Princeton University

Shrikant Naidu Motorola Labs

Brian O'Connell University of Connecticut

Joyojeet Pal University of California, Berkeley

Govindan Parayil University of Oslo

Tapan Parikh University of Washington

S.S.Prabhu International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

Jack Qiu City University of Hong Kong

S. Ramani HP Labs, Bangalore

Nimmi Rangaswamy Microsoft Research

Tony Salvador Intel Research

Nirvikar Singh University of California, Santa Cruz

Christoph Stork University of the Witwatersland

Eswaran Subrahmanian Carnegie Mellon University

Rahul Tongia Carnegie Mellon University

Tim Unwin University of London

Zubin Verghese Siemens Corporate Technology, Bangalore

Sponsors

The International Development Research Centre (link)

Microsoft Research (link)

ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder (link)

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (link)

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In association with IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT, link) and ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society (SIGCAS, link)

For more information please contact ictd2007@microsoft.com.