Hi Mellissa, Where is ICT2020 being hosted? the call does nt seem to say. Sam
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 19:47, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Nicola Dell <[email protected]> > > *ICTD 2020* > > ****Call for Papers*** <https://ictd2020.org/participate/cfp/>* > > Deadline for submission of full papers: *December 20th, 2019* > > Conference will be held in June, 2020 > > > The 11th International Conference on *Information and Communication > Technologies and Development (ICTD 2020)* invites you to submit your > work. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2020 will provide an > international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of > information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of social, > political, and economic development. The conference will be in June 2020, > with the exact dates and location finalized and announced shortly. > > > Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become more > pervasive in the lives of people around the world. They are being used in > various facets of daily life ranging from economics to health care, > education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups > across the world interact with, are impacted by, and can shape the design > of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum for analyzing, > critiquing, refining, and inventing new ways in which individuals, > communities, and societies interact with and make use of these tools and > platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the > design, engineering, application, and adoption of ICTs in low- and > middle-income regions and/or other resource-constrained settings, with > implications for design, policy, and practice. > > > For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic > technologies for information processing and communication, as well as > systems, use of big data, interventions, and platforms built on such > technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty > alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, communication, gender > equality, governance, infrastructure, environment, and sustainability. The > conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD > research and publishing traditions, with anticipated contributions from > fields including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science, > communication, data science, design, economics, electrical engineering, > geography, HCI, information systems, political science, public health, and > sociology. > > > *FULL PAPERS* > > An ICTD Full Paper must make a new and complete research contribution, > articulate how it is advancing the field of ICTD, and provide complete and > substantial support for its results and conclusions. All submissions must > be original work; the submitter must clearly document any overlap with > previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the > authors. Failure to point out and explain overlap will be grounds for > rejection. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to another venue with > proceedings or a journal is not allowed and will be grounds for rejection. > Contact the papers chairs ([email protected]) if there are > questions about this policy. Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer > review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three reviewers, one of > whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain in order to > ensure broad readability. > > > *ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION* > > Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no > author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers > should avoid revealing their identity in the text. When referring to your > previous work, do so in the third person, as though it were written by > someone else. Only blind the reference itself in the (unusual) case that a > third-person reference is infeasible. Publication as a technical report or > in an online repository does not constitute a violation of this policy. > Contact the papers chairs ([email protected]) if you have any > questions. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without > review. > > > *HUMAN SUBJECTS AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS* > > Submissions that describe experiments with human subjects, that analyze > data derived from human subjects, or that otherwise may put humans at risk > should: > > - Disclose whether the research received an approval or waiver from > each of the authors' institutional ethics review boards (IRB) if > applicable. > - Discuss steps taken to ensure that participants and others who might > have been affected by an experiment were treated ethically and with > respect. > > If a paper raises significant ethical concerns, it might be rejected based > on these concerns. > > > *PAGE LIMITS AND FORMATTING* > > Submitted papers may include up to 10 pages of text (including figures and > tables) and up to 3 pages of appendices (if appropriate). References do not > count towards these page limits. Reviewers are not required to read > appendices. Papers should be submitted in the two-column CHI 2020 > proceedings format (templates available for > <https://www.ictdx.org/s/newCHIformat.zip>LaTeX > <https://chi2020.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/proceedings.zip>, > Overleaf > <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/chi2020-proceedings/qtdvrwbtqxww> > or Microsoft Word > <https://chi2020.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SIGCHI-CHI20-Sample-Paper.docx>). > Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay > special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create > problems for reviewers. Your document should render correctly in Adobe > Reader 9 and when printed in black and white. Submissions will be checked > for conformance to these requirements. Failure to adhere to the page limit > and formatting requirements are grounds for rejection without review. > > > *CONFLICTS OF INTEREST* > > During submission of a research paper, the submission site will request > information about conflicts of interest of the paper's authors with program > committee (PC) members. It will be the responsibility of all authors of a > paper to identify all and only their potential conflict-of-interest PC > members, according to the following definitions. A paper author has a > conflict of interest with a PC member when and only when one or more of the > following conditions holds: > > - The PC member is a co-author of the paper. > - The PC member has been a co-worker in the same company or university > within the past two years. > - For student interns, the student is conflicted with their > supervisors and with members of the same research group. If the student no > longer works for the organization, then they are not conflicted with a PC > member from the larger organization. > - The PC member has been a collaborator within the past two years. > - The PC member is or was the author's primary thesis advisor, no > matter how long ago. > - The author is or was the PC member's primary thesis advisor, no > matter how long ago. > - The PC member is a relative or close personal friend of the author. > > For any other situation where the authors feel they have a conflict with a > PC member, they must explain the nature of the conflict to the PC chairs, > who will mark the conflict if appropriate. Papers with incorrect or > incomplete conflict of interest information are subject to rejection. > > > *CONFERENCE SUBMISSION SERVER * > > Submission site coming soon. > > > *PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION* > > Papers will be archived by default in the ACM Digital Library (unless > otherwise requested by authors). Authors are responsible for obtaining > appropriate publication clearances. At least one of the authors of each > accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. > > > *DATES AND DEADLINES* > > *December 20th, 2019: Deadline for submitting full papers* > > February 15th, 2020: Notification of acceptance or rejection > > March 20, 2020: Camera-ready papers due > > June, 2020: Presentations at ICTD 2020 > > *All submissions are due at 8pm, Anywhere on Earth* > > > Contact the papers chairs [email protected] if you have any > questions. > > > *PAPERS CHAIRS* > > Nicola Dell (Cornell Tech) > > Indrani Medhi Thies (Microsoft Research) > > > *ICTD STEERING COMMITTEE* > > Michael Best (Georgia Tech) > > Dorothea Kleine (Univ. of Sheffield), > > Nithya Sambasivan (Google), > > Janaki Srinivasan (Int'l Inst. of Information Technology, Bangalore), > > Kentaro Toyama (Univ. of Michigan), > > Joseph Muliaro Wafula (Jomo Kenyatta Univ. of Agriculture and Technology) > > > > *(The language in this CFP uses material from prior calls and other > conference CFPs.) * > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. 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