This conference might be of interest to the Mobile Active community! September 22, 2008 is the last date for submission of papers for the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009).
ICTD2009 will be be held in Doha, capital of the small, oil-rich country of Qatar along the Arabian Gulf. This conference is a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers include a keynote by Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation.
Conference Co-chair Richard Heeks notes: "As noted previously, we will particularly welcome papers about mobiles and development."
Instructions for submissions of paper are here.
Funding will be given to one author of each paper accepted for oral presentation at the conference. If additional sponsorship is available, other participants may be covered, with priority given to students and participants from developing countries.
ICTD2007 was held in Bangalore, India. Papers includes one on mobile phones replacing PCs in a rural sugarcane cooperative in western India. In a poster session, there was also a focus on work towards a bilingual SMS parser for HIV/AIDS information retrieval in Botswana.
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