Extended deadline: 8 of May, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on development and ICT
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open
University of Catalonia, UOC) is pleased to
invite you to participate in the Conference on
Development and Information Technologies. Mobile
Phones and Internet in Latin America and Africa:
What benefits for the most disadvantaged?
The Conference, organized by the UOC and
cofinanced by the Agència Catalana de Cooperació
al Desenvolupament, will take place on 23 and 24
October at the Internet Interdisciplinary
Institute (IN3) located in Castelldefels, Barcelona.
It will be an excellent opportunity to exchange
the results of empirical research and to debate
the influence that the spread of the Information
and Communication Technologies (ICTs),
specifically mobile phones and Internet, can
have on social and economic development in Latin
America and Africa, and among the most
vulnerable segments of the population in particular.
We are pleased to announce to researchers, PhD
students and practitioners the call for research
papers on the following topics:
1. Migrations, interconnection and interdependence
2. New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships
3. Technologies and entrepreneurship
4. Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies
5. Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspective
6. E-banking, access to financial services,
etc.: local use and remittances
If you are interested in presenting a paper,
please send the abstract before the 8 of May,
2009 (24 April), highlighting which category the
paper belongs to. Accepted papers will be
published in book form, (with ISBN). Please find the instructions below.
If you have any questions, please do not
hesitate to contact the organizing committee: (jornadesitd.in3 /at/ uoc.edu)
Information about all the practical aspects and
the contents are available on the Conference
website: http://www.uoc.edu/activitats/jornadaitd/eng/index.html
Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol
Scientific Committee
(mfernandezar /at/ uoc.edu)
Researcher
IN3 - Internet Interdisciplinary Institute
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
www.uoc.edu
Av. Tibidabo, 47
08035 Barcelona
Tel. +34 93 253 57 55
Fax. +34 93 211 01 26
PS: Please feel free to publicize this
information. Apologies for cross-posting.
INSTRUCTIONS
All the documents must be sent to the following
email address: (jornadesitd.in3 /at/ uoc.edu)
Preferred formats: *.doc (MS Word), *.odf (Open Office Writer), and PDF.
Abstract
Information to be sent:
1. Title
2. The name and affiliation of all the
authors/writers and the authors? contact details are required.
3. Keywords (up to 4)
4. Summary (300-500 words)
5. Subject area:
1. Migrations, interconnection and interdependence
2. New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships
3. Technologies and entrepreneurship
4. Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies
5. Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspective
6. E-banking, access to financial services, etc.: local use and remittances
Please, send the abstract before the 8 of May,
2009 , indicating JDTIC-BCN: submissions in the subject line.
Acceptance
The acceptance of papers will be communicated to
authors by 29 May, 2009 (15 May).
Full text
Papers may be in the form of empirical research
studies and should be between 5000 and 7000
words (in English). Priority will be given to
those papers which contribute with empirical
knowledge about the reality of the regions
selected for this conference (Latin America and Africa).
Please send the full text of the paper by 10 September, 2009.
