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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,Bold',serif;color:black">AIS SIG GlobDev 2015 Pre-ECIS Workshop</span></b></p>
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26, 2015</span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Times New Roman,Bold',serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Title of the Workshop</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(24,55,106)">Conversations on Development: can
ICTs make a difference in Climate, Political and Health Disturbances?</span><span style="color:blue"></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Description </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">The issue of the role of ICTs in the various dimensions
of national Development has long been considered a significant area of IS
research that has attracted the interests of IS researchers at several
European universities as well as other universities in developed and
developing economies. In the past ten
years, the access, use and innovations in ICTs to bring people in the
remotest and poorest parts of the world as active participants in the global
economy, has made the study of ICTs for Development an important means of
understanding how improvements in people’s live may or may not take place
though IS implementations. Further in parallel with this increased access
& use of ICTs has been the increasing occurrence of natural disasters due
to climate disturbance, major healthcare crises, and civil wars that pose
significant threats to the stability and self-determination agendas of
developing countries & communities. An issue that is worthy of
consideration is the role of ICTs in facilitating the empowerment of such
countries to achieve self-determination and other development goals at the
national and individual levels.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Relevant topics for this Workshop include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">1.
Theoretical lenses and/or empirical studies that enable an understanding of:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">a.
ICTs & Sustainable Development</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">b.
ICTs & Peace building</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">c.
ICTs & Disaster Recovery</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">2.
The role of government policy in fostering ICT human capital, cooperation and
capacity building</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">3.
ICT Impact Analysis: Sophisticated analyses of the empowering potential &
dangers posed by ICTs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">4.
Social, political, and community development impacts of ICTs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">5.
Social networking for Development, ICT human capital and capacity
building</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">6.
Critical and theoretical perspectives on the digital divide and social
inclusion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">7.
Challenges of ICT human capital and capacity building in remote regions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">8.
Educational systems; content provision and delivery; developing ICT skills</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">9.
Mobile technologies as infrastructure for ICT human capital and capacity
building</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">10.
Frugal Innovation and innovative ways in which technologies are applied in
developing regions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Any combination of the above or aspects of human capital
and capacity building for sustainable development will be considered. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Important Dates </span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Submission Deadline :
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">April 15, 2015</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Deadline for Final Papers:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Final submissions should be uploaded electronically
to: </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=globdevecis2015"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(56,110,255)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=globdevecis2015</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"></span></p>
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