[AISWorld] CfP: Digital Development Leadership – June 2020 UK DSA Conference track

[Jaco Renken]

Call for Abstracts – “Digital Development Leadership” track
UK Development Studies Association conference, 17-19 Jun 2020, University of Birmingham, UK

This is a call for abstracts/presentations – exploratory, analytical, critical – on leadership of digital development with an initial deadline of 20 Jan 2020.

We are seeking papers that help us to conceptualise, to analyse, to evidence, to critique and, overall, to build a picture of leadership for digital development: its nature, characteristics, capacities, challenges, approaches and impacts .

The following timeline will be observed:

- 20 Jan 2020 - prospective presenters to submit a “paper proposal” (title, author names & emails, short abstract of <300 characters; long abstract of <250 words) via the conference online form<https://nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2020/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/8924>.  Track details and link to paper proposal online at: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dsa2020/p/8924

- Feb: decision communicated on paper proposals

- 4 Mar: conference registration opens (early-bird discounts close 7 Apr)

- 17-19 Jun: conference

If you have any queries prior to abstract submission, do please ask: jaco.renken at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:jaco.renken at manchester.ac.uk>

Track Organisers:
- Jaco Renken, Richard Heeks, Epiphania Kimaro, Centre for Development Informatics<http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk/>, GDI, University of Manchester, UK

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This track is an initiative of the DSA’s Information, Technology and Development study group<https://www.devstud.org.uk/study-groups/information-technology-and-development>

General call for papers details at: https://www.devstud.org.uk/conferences/2020/cfp.shtml