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The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie-Mellon's
state-of-the-art campus in Doha, Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org ). This conference will act
as a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development.
Confirmed speakers include a keynote by
William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation.

We invite submission of papers for ICTD2009, the third of an ongoing series of conferences,
which follows successful events at Berkeley in May 2006 (http://sims.berkeley.edu/ictd2006),
and Bangalore in December
2007 (http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007)

IMPORTANT DATES
June 15, 2008 Last date for informal feedback
September 22, 2008 Submissions due
January 15, 2009 Final decisions sent out to authors
February 20, 2009 Camera-ready papers due
April 17-19, 2009 Conference

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/ictd2006/index.html

ICTD2006 is a multidisciplinary forum for academic researchers designing information and communication technologies for developing economies. The conference presents state-of-the-art research by technical and social scientists, with original, peer-reviewed papers and a poster session, as well as keynote addresses by leading scholars in the field.

Scholars presenting at this conference are part of a fast growing new field of research on the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to addressing the challenges of developing economies. There has been an explosion of public, private, and non-profit ICTD projects in the past decade; however, systematic and scientifically sound research is just beginning to emerge to address a range of questions, such as:

Are novel technologies needed to meet development needs — or can we adapt off-the-shelf technologies to the needs of populations in developing economy contexts, where user skills are diverse, users speak local languages, literacy is low, there is limited access to power and bandwidth, institutions are very different, and so forth?

What groups and institutions are involved in the design and development of these projects? Do different strategies for inclusion result in differing outcomes?

What are the appropriate methodologies and metrics for evaluating the impact of projects? What determines the success and sustainability (or failure) of projects?

Can we transfer lessons from one part of the world to the others, for example in provision of network infrastructure, health care, education, and so forth?

The conference organizers were committed to maintaining a scientifically rigorous and multi-disciplinary review process. We solicited papers reporting high-quality original research. Over 140 full papers were submitted, 16 papers were accepted through a double-blind review process for presentation at the conference, and 22 were accepted for presentation as posters. These papers and posters were written by researchers from fields including anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial, design, and schools of information.

The first conference will be held on May 25th and 26th 2006 at the School of Information at the Univrsity of California, Berkeley. We expect this to be the first of a series of conferences to occur every one or two years, and moving from country to country.

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