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[ecrea] CFP: MIGRATIONS and ICT

Mon Apr 20 09:16:04 GMT 2009



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.

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