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From: IPID Mailer <[email protected]> Subject: IPID Weekly Digest 15:2011 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 12:14 AM IPID Weekly Digest 15:2011 Enjoy IPID Weekly Digest! If you have any ICT4D-related news, please send an e-mail to [email protected] Gudrun Wicander Department of Information Systems Karlstad University *************************************************************************** * IPID Symposium 2011 The 2011 Annual Conference of the International Network for Postgraduate Students in the Area of ICT4D (IPID) will be held 12 - 13 September at Università della svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland. This symposium will grant postgraduate researchers the opportunity to present their work to a diverse audience, and gain positive and valuable experience. It is also an opportunity for young scientists to network and engage with international scholars in ICT4D. Postgraduates are invited to submit a two-page PDF document that briefly describes your research work. You are not limited in the structure of this document. It is however important that your work reflects practical and theoretical dynamics in the field of ICT for development (ICT4D). If more than 30 papers are received, parallel sessions will be foreseen. It is envisaged that there will be 8-10 themed discussions on aspects of ICT4D research practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Being multidisciplinary • Combining theory and practice • Working in partnership • Developing a research question • Methodology in ICT4D • Developing a theoretical framework Please send your two-page research document to Mr. Izak van Zyl at [email protected]. Deadline For submission: 31 May 2011 You will be notified of acceptance by 31 July 2011. If your paper is accepted, you will be asked to present your research work at the symposium. For any queries, please contact Izak van Zyl: [email protected] or visit www.ipid2011.com * Knowledge Society Doctoral Programme 2012 (IN3-UOC) IN3-Open University of Catalonia For the 2012 edition of the Doctoral Programme in the Information and Knowledge Society, a total of 20 doctoral positions are being offered (http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/opencms/en/doctorat/convocatoria_acces/index.html). There are 10 position on-line and 10 positions in situ (Barcelona). Call for Applications deadline: May, 8th A special highlight: Mobile Communication, Economy and Society Research Line. Mobile Communication, Economy and Society The mobile communication networks are spreading throughout the world at a rate unrivalled by any other communication technology in the past. Communication is a basic aspect of human activity in every realm of life. This is why, where the infrastructure is sufficient, this multi-regional communication device is becoming, or has already become, a part of everyday life, whether as an accessory to a landline or as a replacement. The main objective of the research line is to develop scientific materials which contribute toward expanding knowledge of the phenomenon from a two-pronged perspective: sociological and economic. From a geographic point of view, research focuses on developed countries, mainly Europe, and in developing countries. Currently, this research lines seeks to incorporate one student interested in one of the next areas: • The study of the processes of acceptance, or rejection, of mobile telephony among senior population in developed countries, mainly but not exclusively Europe. • The study of the contribution of mobile communication to social and economic development mainly in poor areas, mainly but no exclusively Latin America. Other research lines: http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/opencms/en/doctorat/convocatoria_acces/oferta_places/societat_informacio/Network_society/index.html) * Journal of Administrative Science CFP: Special issue on E-Government: Design, Evaluation and Practice With the advancement of technology all levels of government in developed countries have implemented e-government initiatives. More recently many developing countries have experimented with and implemented e-government functions with varying degrees of success. Pressured for transparency, accountability, effectiveness and efficiency, governments must find new ways to respond to the challenge of improving communication with citizens and improving overall organizational performance. E-government offers one approach to improved information sharing, service delivery, and interactions with citizens and businesses. E-government research has already addressed issues of usability, accessibility, e-democracy, policies, public attitude, service delivery, data management, etc. While published research has shared lessons learned and successes in e-government implementation, it is now time to summarize and reflect on what we have learned and explore new e-government research opportunities. In this special issue we welcome papers that utilize a variety of research methodologies, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches. This special issue seeks scholarly papers related to but not limited to the following topics: Web site: http://access.nku.edu/zhangx/ * 2011 GBI Graduate Summer Internship Program http://gbiportal.net/2011/04/01/2011-graduate-summer-internship/ * Telecentre.org and ITU launch global digital literacy campaign for women The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched a digital literacy partnership with Philippine-based NGO telecentre.org Foundation that over the next 18 months will train one million unskilled women to use computers and modern information and communication technology (ICT) applications to improve their livelihoods. http://newsbytes.ph/2011/04/08/ph-based-ngo-tapped-for-global-digital-literacy-campaign-for-women/ The United Nations telecommunications agency today partnered with a Philippines-based non-governmental organization (NGO) to train a million women worldwide to use computers and other information and communications technology (ICT) applications to improve their livelihoods. The UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will work with telecentre.org Foundation over the next 18 months on the project, to offer training courses in at least 20,000 telecentres worldwide using the "training the trainer" model. "With technology now widely recognized as a critical enabler for socio-economic development, this campaign will further reinforce ITU's global efforts to promote the digital inclusion of women, and will be a key element in achieving Millennium Development Goal 3 on gender equality," <"http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2011/08.aspx";>said Hamadoun Touré, the ITU Secretary-General. According to Basheerhamad Shadrach, the Executive Director of telecentre.org Foundation, offering digital skills to over one million women at the grassroots will help change the current norm where technologies mostly benefit men. Under the terms of the agreement, ITU and telecentre.org Foundation are encouraging governments, the private sector and other international organizations to contribute digital literacy curricula in local languages and to provide trainers and other resources to national telecentres. ITU will contribute a number of curricula developed by its Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), notably from its "Connect a School, Connect a Community" initiative. ITU has also developed a range of digital literacy training materials designed to be used in school-based community centres and multi-purpose telecentres, by women, indigenous peoples, and people with disabilities. www.un.org * Postdoc - PhD positions Institute for Information and Process Management, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland. The positions require a good command of the German language. (www.fhsg.ch/ipm) * Vacant position at Indian Institute of Dalit Studies Vacant position of Communication and Outreach Coordinator and Secretary to Director at Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) * 1st International Information Systems Conference - iiSC 2011 Sultan Qaboos University Oman http://web.squ.edu.om/iisc * Global Water Problems Course 2011: Focus on the Nile Basin The biennial Global Water Problems course (5 credits) will be again organized next autumn term by the Water and Development Research Group at Aalto University Otaniemi campus. The purpose of the course is to provide postgraduate students from varied disciplines with an understanding of the complex and comprehensive nature of water resources management and governance illustrated via a topical case study, this year the Nile Basin in East-Africa. Interested students outside the Aalto University are encouraged to apply for a JOO-studentship position to ensure access to the course (deadline 15th April, see http://www.joopas.fi/). http://www.water.tkk.fi/English/wr/research/global/overview.html * Graduate Student Consortium - 24th Bled eConference: eFuture: Creating Solutions for the Individual, Organisations and Society June 12 - 15, 2011, Bled, Slovenia Paper and statement submissions: April 15, 2011 http://BledConference.org http://bledconference.org/2011/StudentConsortium * Two week Summer School 2011- 24th Bled eConference: eFuture: Creating Solutions for the Individual, Organisations and Society June 5, 2011 To apply please register on-line before April 18, 2011 http://www.fov.uni-mb.si/study/summer-school/2011. * ODI Events Update - Mainstreaming marginalised knowledge into development policy processes 18 April 2011Public event, Overseas Development Institute and screened live online London, UK Web: www.odi.org.uk/events * Consultancy to develop a new Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework for AFGH and similar programs Closing date: 18th April 2011 Action for Global Health (AfGH) is a network of European health and development organisations advocating for the European Union and its Member States to play a stronger role to improve health in developing countries. AfGH takes an integrated approach to health, based on gender equality and women?Ts empowerment, and advocates for the fulfilment of the right to health for all. The network was first established in 2006 by ActionAid and 14 partner NGOs with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?Ts Global Health Programme. More information can be found at: www.actionforglobalhealth.eu * The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2011) Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 24th – 26th 2011. Papers submission: April 22 2011 www.macs.hw.ac.uk/ISD2011 * Post-Doctoral Position Center for eHealth Innovation and Process Transformation (CeHIPT) http://cehipt.wpi.edu) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Applications will be considered on a continuing basis beginning April 25, 2011 until the position is filled. * International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management - KGCM 2011 Orlando, FL USA, on July 19th - July 22nd, 2011 The submission deadline: April 26, 2011 (www.2011conferences.org/kgcm) * 8th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning – ICICKM 2011 The Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia (IKI-SEA) of Bangkok University Bangkok, Thailand 27-28 October 2011 The submission deadline: 27th of April 2011 http://academic-conferences.org/icickm/icickm2011/icickm11-call-papers.htm * ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011 Rome, July 24-26 2011 New deadline of April 29, 2011. (http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/) (http://www.mccsis.org) * Visiting Assistant Professorship 2011-2012 The Department of Anthropology at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, visiting assistant professorship (Teaching/Instructional) for the 2011-2012 academic year. The application deadline is April 29, 2011. * Post-Doc Research Fellow in e-Government and Performance Management The candidate will join an international research consortium composed of College of Business and Economics (CBE) at Qatar University (QU); Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB) at American University of Beirut (Lebanon); and Brunel Business School (BU) at Brunel University (UK), funded by Qatar Foundation during the 3rd cycle awards of 2010. The candidate will be placed at the College of Business and Economics, at Qatar University. Both CBE and OSB are AACSB accredited business schools for their global business excellence whereas BU is well known for its research excellence in E-government: see http://www.qu.edu.qa/business/; http://sb.aub.edu.lb/; and http://www.brunel.ac.uk/bbs. Closing Deadline: 30 April 2011 or to position is filled * Global Media Worlds and China - 2011 MLeague International Symposium October 6th-7th 2011, Uppsala Sweden Call for Papers Deadline for abstract: 1 May 2011 http://www.mleague2009.org * A 5-year position as Assistant professor in Information Systems Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland Deadline for applications is 2 May 2011 http://www.hanken.fi/public/en/ledigabefattningar#document6 * 6th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems IS: Crossroads of Technology, People, Organizations and Markets Doctoral & Junior Faculty Professional Development Consortium CIS Limassol, Cyprus - September 3-5, 2011 Deadline for submissions: May 2 2011 www.mcis2011.org * LSE Fellow in Global Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Closing date for receipt of applications is: 3rd May 2011 www.lse.ac.uk/JobsatLSE * The Third International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2011) 6-8 October 2011, Singapore Full paper submission: May 7, 2011 http://www.socinfo2011.org or http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/SocInfo2011 * 7th International Summer School - Privacy and Identity Management for Life (IFIP Summer School 2011) University of Trento, Italy, on 5-9 September 2011 in cooperation with PrimeLife project consortium, the EU FP7 projects ABC4Trust , Endorse, NESSOS, and the Norwegian PETweb II and Swedish U-PrIM projects organised jointly by the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6 Submission deadline for extended abstracts (4-6 pages in length): May 20th, 2011 http://disi.unitn.it/security/ifip-summerschool2011/index.html * Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements Inter Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) Dhaka on 17th and 18th December, 2011 Proposals for papers and panels will be submitted by the 31st of May 2011. The conference is being hosted by BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organized by the Department of English and Humanities and BRAC Development Institute. More information will be available on http://www.bracu.ac.bd/event/culturaltransformations * KIN PhD workshop Amsterdam, June 19 – 23 The (KIN) research group of the VU University Amsterdam (kinresearch.nl) together with Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) organizes a 3,5 day workshop from June 19 till June 23, 2011. PhD’s and early career researchers (Post-doc) are invited to join the workshop to improve their insights and skills in theory development and methods (see website). During the workshop, new research topics are discussed that combine insights from fields as communication science, innovation and knowledge management and information technology. Such a multi-disciplinary approach helps to study the growing distributed forms of organizing, the importance of creativity and knowledge for management and the interest in online interactions and ‘social media’. http://www.abri.vu.nl/en/events/courses-and-workshops/kin/index.asp * Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) Volume 3, Number 1 (March 2011) Contents: • Editorial by Winston Mano • Global flows, media and developing democracies: The Ghanaian case by Seyram Avle • Representations of the Third World in NGO advertising: Practicalities, colonial discourse and western understandings of development by Lisa Rideout • The myth of press freedom in Botswana: From Sir Seretse Khama to Ian Khama' by Letshwiti B. B Tutwane • State-sanctioned discrimination and media discourses on homosexuality in Namibia by Cecilia Strand • Africa 50: Photographs by Tom Pointon • Communication and collective memory: The plight of oral traditions in Cote d'Ivoire by Raoul Germain Ble • Kenya's indigenous radio stations and their use of metaphors in the 2007 election violence by D. Ndirangu Wachanga • Film Reviews by Jane Thorburn and OluwaTosin Adegbola • Book Reviews by Martin Nkosi Ndlela and Sean Jacobs * Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Prato Community Informatics Conference: 2010 http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/current Contents: Editorial: Special Issue Prato Conference Ricardo Gomez, Larry Stillman • The Ethical Responsibility of Researchers in Community Informatics Michael Gurstein • Flying blind, or going with the flow?: Using constructivist evaluation to manage the unexpected in the GraniteNet project by Catherine Arden, Kathryn McLachlan, Trevor Cooper • Public Access to the Internet and Social Change: An experience in Colombia, between silence and hope by Ricardo Gomez, Luis Fernando Baron-Porras • Using Collaboration Patterns for Contextualizing Roles in Community Systems Design by Aldo de Moor • “Poetic” publics: Agency and rhetorics of “netroots” activism in post-earthquake L’Aquila by Pamela Pietrucci • Open educational resources or closed learning management systems? –The Challenge of Designing ICT Support for Learning Communities in Higher Education by Patricia Arnold • ICTs Meanings and Practices: Contributions from the Social Representation Approach by Mauro Sarrica • Lighting up the Dark: Telecenter Adoption in a Caribbean Agricultural Community by Paola Prado • e-Research Infrastructure and Community Research by Tom Denison, Graeme Johanson • Applying a Community Informatics Approach as Part of Rehabilitation in US Prisons by Lassana Magassa • Equity, pedagogy and inclusion. Harnessing digital technologies to support higher education access and success by Alison Elliott • Inside the "People of the Wheelbarrows": participation between online and offline dimension in the post-quake social movement by Manuela Farinosi, Emiliano Treré • Reviews: Participation in Broadband Society Vols. 1 & 2 Larry Stillman * NEW: Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases In response to the high demand by teachers for up-to-date, accessible, real-life case studies that they can use to support their educational and training programmes, the Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases is now available. The Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases (JITTC) has been launched in March 2011. Each case study provides a practical reflection of corporate reality and is uniquely peer-reviewed for accuracy, rigour and quality. The first issue, containing five new cases, has just been published: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jittc/journal/v1/n1/index.html A sister journal to the Journal of Information Technology, which is included in the AIS Basket of Eight, JITTC will share the same editorial board, the same editorial processes, and exhibit the same high quality as its older sibling. Edited by Leslie Willcocks and Chris Sauer, the JITTC cases will receive specialist guidance in the review process from Senior Editors Janis Gogan, Sid Huff and Julia Kotlarsky. Authors wishing to submit a teaching case are invited to contact one of these three Senior Editors in the first instance:[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] JITTC is an online only publication and will be published twice a year in March and September. More information: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jittc/ * Information Systems Research Vol. 22, No. 1 March 2011 Contents include: Kwok-Kee Wei, Hock-Hai Teo, Hock Chuan Chan, and Bernard C. Y. Tan, “Conceptualizing and Testing A Social Cognitive Model of Digital Divide” * Observatorio (OBS*) Vol 5, No 1 (2011), including contributions from scholars from India, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Sweden and Mexico, published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, is now available to any interested reader, free of charge – simply go to the website [ http://obs.obercom.pt ] and register. http://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/issue/view/26 Contents include: Third-generation (3G) Mobile Television: Technological, Economical and Political Dimensions by Andreu Casero * Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Volume 15, Number 2/3 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/diaspora_a_journal_of_transnational_studies/toc/dsp.15.2.html Special Issue: Creating the Ethiopian Diaspora: Perspectives from Across the Disciplines Contents include: • "Whatsupoch" on the Net: The Role of Information and Communication Technology in the Shaping of Transnational Ethiopian Identity By Nancy J. Hafkin The Ethiopian diaspora is using the Internet increasingly to reflect on its identity, to forge new communities, and to promote cultural innovation. This essay tracks the close association of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with the emergence of the Ethiopian diaspora since 1980, setting forth a series of brief case studies illustrating the role of ICTs among different Ethiopian ethnic communities. It documents the manner in which ICTs shape socialization and address questions of return to homeland; it also explores the way in which Ethiopians have exploited new media and their technical innovations. The essay concludes with an account of ways in which freedom of expression and access to technology enable diaspora Ethiopians to have public discussions and circulate critiques of Ethiopian politics and culture that could not have taken place in Ethiopia, which is not only at the bottom of the digital divide but has exercised censorship over a number of homeland Ethiopian Web sites and blogs. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/diaspora_a_journal_of_transnational_studies/summary/v015/15.2.hafkin.html * Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL) Vol.3, No.1, Special issue "Advances in Health Education Applying E-Learning, Simulations and Distance Technologies ". Please see below for a detailed description of the contents. A FREE copy of this Issue can be downloaded at Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL) http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication KM&EL Lab, HKU http://kmel-lab.org/website/index.html ************************************************************************** Enjoy IPID Weekly Digest! If you have any ICT4D-related news, please send an e-mail to [email protected] Gudrun Wicander Department of Information Systems Karlstad University
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