[AISWorld] ICTO2017 – ICT for a better life and a better world March 16 and 17, 2017, Paris France http://icto2017.webs.com/ http://www.icto.info/icto2017

[HARFOUCHE Antoine]

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ICTO2017 – ICT for a better life and a better world
March 16 and 17, 2017, Paris France
http://icto2017.webs.com/
http://www.icto.info/icto2017

Submission is open  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icto2017
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Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society-ICTO 2017, organized in Paris, France on March 16 and 17, 2017.



ICTO 2017 is the third version of ICTO international conference that attracts multidisciplinary contributions on Information Systems from the areas of organization, management, marketing, human resources, accounting, and supply chain mainly submitted by international scholars.


ICTO2017 is characterized by its friendly atmosphere that offers scholars the opportunity for high quality discussion and feedback, valuable networking opportunities both within the academic community and the international IS community.

According to its tradition, ICTO2017 will cover these major areas of research:

-   ICT usage for managing or disrupting the tensions, contradictions and paradoxes in complex social problems.

-   Affordance and constraints of ICT that create or worsen complex social problems.

-   The role of Big data in socio and economic development.

-    e-Government and democracy.

-   Open disaster risk data and minimization of the effect of disaster.

-   ICT and urban service delivery.

-   Social networking and health care.

-    ICT and consumer well-being.

-   The vulnerable as producers and innovators with ICTs.

-   Telecenters as paths for affordable computing.

-    ICT and workplace inclusion of the vulnerable within society.

-    Acquisition and absorption of knowledge with ICT.

-    Public/private partnerships, job creation, and economic growth.

-    Bridging the digital divide.

-   Peer-to-peer technology for knowledge sharing.

-   Using ICT to enforce proper security against terrorism.

-   Gender discrimination and ICT.

-   ICT for different aspects of development.

-   ICT4D and mobile technologies.

-    ICT-enabled business models for social entrepreneurship and social problems.

-    National ICT policies and how they shape the societal environment for ICT acceptance and diffusion.

-   How ICT-enabled platforms help NGOs achieve social missions.

More general submissions are welcome within the conference theme of ICT and societal challenges or related to ICT and organizations.

Best papers of ICTO2017 will be published in:

International Journal of Services and Standards (IJSS)<http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijss>

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare<http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijeh>

Springer Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation  Springer indexed



IMPORTANT DATES
Full paper submission: November15, 2016
Notification of acceptance: December  15, 2016



SUBMISSION INFORMATION
All papers must be submitted in electronic format (pdf format) via EasyChair conference management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icto2017


The material submitted for presentation at the workshop must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. The working languages  are English and French. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words, recommended length is max. 14 pages.

REGISTRATION FEES
Full registration (one fee/paper): 280 EUR (early)
Ph.D. Students: 150 EUR (early)
Accompanying persons: 80 EUR (early)


E-mail:   president at icto.info  <mailto:president at icto.info>

Sincerely yours,
Program Chair Antoine Harfouche, PhD

University of Paris Naterre La Défense France