[AISWorld] Call for Conference Track Proposals – ICT for Africa 2012

[Adekunle Okunoye]

4th Annual International Conference on ICT for Africa 2012
Makerere Business School, Kampala, Uganda
March 21-24, 2012

http://ictforafrica.jmcub.com/index.php
                                                                        
Call for Conference Track Proposals – ICT for Africa 2012

Proposals for new conference tracks due by June 25, 2011. 

The International Conference on ICT for Africa 2012 Conference Committee seeks high quality conference track proposals related to all aspects of IC T in Africa.  The International Conference on ICT for Africa is an annual conference that brings together stakeholders of the educational and industrial sectors in Africa, with the aim of reflecting on how to transfer, diffuse and adopt the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within the African context; the innovation and development of ICT solutions for and within this context; impacts of ICT on society and of society on ICT; and other relevant normative, empirical, and theoretical concerns of ICT development, implementation, strategy, management and policy that are distinctive to Africa and associated developing economies.
ICT for Africa 2012 will consist of a number of conference tracks (building upon the tracks in our previous three conferences) on various topics related to ICT in African context. The ICT for Africa conference strongly encourages fruitful and pragmatic discussion of issues that could directly affects development in Africa.
Each conference track will include paper presentations and group discussions. In addition, there will be 
keynote sessions and a final joint session where conference communiqué on each group’s findings will be presented.
While building on the success of the past three conferences, the ICT for Africa 2012 Conference Committee is seeking for high quality conference track proposals on ICT in Africa. Examples of Conference Tracks that the conference has had in the past include, but are not limited to, the following:

ICT, Entrepreneurship and Business
ICT in Education and E-learning 
ICT in Healthcare
Innovation, Open-source and Software Development
ICT, Development and Poverty Reduction
Internet Governance and Society
Scalable Computer Architecture & Web 2.0
Ubiquitous Mobile Computing & Applications
ICT, Youth and Gender
Electronic Government and Public Sector Reform
ICT, Media and Journalism
ICT and Climate Change
ICT, Agriculture and Food Production
Accounting Information Systems at the Workplace
ICT and Creative Industries: Gaming, Fashion, Music and Movies
Bio-informatics/Computational Biology
Open Development: Open Access, Development and ICT Innovations
ICT in Urban and Rural Management/Planning
ICTs, Exceptionalities and Special Education
ICT for Development and Economic Prosperity
Information Security, Privacy, and Risk Management
E-Commerce, M-Commerce and Social Networking
ICTs on People, Organizations, and Society
Cloud Computing In Africa
ICT for Democracy
ICT and Civil Society
Since one of the conference’s objectives is to envision and advance the future of ICT in Africa, proposers are likewise encouraged to venture outside of the list above and submit track proposals for new and emergent topical areas that they consider to be of potent importance to the scholars and professionals of ICT in Africa.
Conference tracks proposal submission
To submit your proposal send an email with attachment (in Microsoft Word document) to okunoye at xavier.edu with a two-page (max.) description including: 

Name and contacts of the proposers 
Title and description of the track (Including list of topics and sub-topics)
Short biography of the proposers (150 words)
Relevance to the conference theme 
Strategy for recruiting papers 
The proposals will be reviewed by the ICT for Africa 2012 Conference Co-Chairs.
 
Tasks of Track Chairs
Chairs of accepted tracks will be responsible for the following tasks: 

Soliciting papers 
Coordinating reviews (at least three reviews per paper are required) 
Corresponding with the authors and the Publications co-chairs 
Writing of an introduction to the conference track to be posted online
Conducting the conference track on the days of ICT for Africa 2012

Important Dates
Conference track proposals        June 25, 2011
Proposal results                                June 30, 2011
September 30, 2011                       Paper & panel proposals submission deadline
October 31, 2011                              Review Result Returned
November 30, 2011                         Final paper submission
ICT for Africa 2012 conference March 21-24, 2012 
 


 
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Adekunle Okunoye
Associate Professor of MIS
Williams College of Business
Xavier University
Cincinnati OH 45207
USA
http://www.xavier.edu/williams/undergraduate/information-systems/index.cfm
+1 513 745 3052
 
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International Center for IT and Development(ICITD)
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Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813
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Telephone: +1-225-771-5640 or +1225-715-4621

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