Apologies for cross-posting *CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on Development and Information Technologies. Mobile Phones and Internet in Latin America and Africa: What benefits for the most disadvantaged?* 23-23, October, 2009. Castelldefels, Barcelona.
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 Octobe*r 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: - Migrations, interconnection and interdependence - New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships - Technologies and entrepreneurship - Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies - Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspective - E-banking, access to financial services, etc.: local use and remittances If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send the abstract before *24 April 2009* 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: *[email protected]* <[email protected]> Information about all the practical aspects and the contents will be made available on the Conference website: * http://www.uoc.edu/activitats/jornadaitd/eng/index.html*<http://www.uoc.edu/activitats/jornadaitd/eng/index.html> PS: Please feel free to publicize this information. Apologies for cross-posting. *INSTRUCTIONS *All the documents must be sent to the following email address: * [email protected]* <[email protected]> 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) Indicate the subject area: Migrations, interconnection and interdependence New communicative habits: family and interpersonal relationships Technologies and entrepreneurship Communications at the bottom of the pyramid: access strategies Mobile communications and development: microeconomic perspective E-banking, access to financial services, etc.: local use and remittances Please, send the abstract* before 24 April 2009. * Acceptance The acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors by *15 May 2009*.* * *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*. *************** Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol Scientific Committee [email protected] 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
