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Subject: ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | Call for Papers and Notes
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*ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016* <http://ictd2016.info>

*Call for Papers and Notes* <http://ictd2016.info/cfp/>

The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the *University of
Michigan *from *June 3-6, 2016*, cordially invites you to submit Full
Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS,
ICTD2016 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers to
explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in
social, political, and economic development. The ICTD conferences have been
taking place approximately every 18 months since 2006; 2016 marks the first
time that the conference will go to an annual cycle.

*Important dates*

November 20, 2015: Deadline for submission of Full Papers

January 15, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers

January 29, 2016: Deadline for submission of Notes

February 26, 2016: Notification of acceptances for Notes

March 25, 2016:  Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due

*All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC. *

Over the past several decades, as radio and television have been joined by
computers, the Internet, and mobile devices, information and communication
technologies (ICTs) have become more pervasive, more accessible, and more
relevant in the lives of people around the world. Virtually no sphere of
human activity remains apart from ICTs, from markets to health care,
education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse groups
across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape the design
of these technologies. The ICTD conference is a place to understand these
interactions, and to examine, critique, and refine the persistent,
pervasive hope that ICTs can be enlisted by individuals and communities in
the service of human development. There are multidisciplinary challenges
associated with the engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in
developing regions and/or for development, with implications for design,
policy, and practice.

For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises electronic
technologies for information processing and communication, as well as
systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such technologies.
“Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty alleviation,
education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication, gender equality,
governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable livelihoods. The
conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD
research, with anticipated contributions from fields including (but not
limited to) anthropology, computer science, communication, design,
economics, electrical engineering, geography, human-computer interaction,
information science, information systems, political science, public health,
and sociology.

*Full Papers*

   - An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to *10 pages* in the ACM two-column
   format (*including* references, figures and tables), must make a new
   research contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its
   results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically represent a major
   advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be evaluated via
   double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of at least three
   readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s disciplinary domain
   in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full Papers will be
   presented as oral presentations at the conference.

·       Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research
contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference
to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing and
presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new technologies,
project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies, theoretical
contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so forth will
be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which generalizable
conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are encouraged (but not
required) to address the diversity of approaches in ICTD research by
providing context, implications, and actionable guidance to researchers and
practitioners beyond the authors’ primary domains. Full Papers typically
present mature work whereas Notes (see below) are used for presenting
preliminary research that is still work-in-progress.

·       All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital
Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue
of the Information Technologies & International Development
<http://itidjournal.org/itid> journal.

·       See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below.

*Notes*

·       With a shorter *4-page limit*, Notes are intended to introduce
work-in-progress that may be published later in a journal, as well as to
document shorter project write-ups. An ICTD Note is likely to have a more
focused and succinct research contribution to the ICTD field than Full
Papers. For example, Notes on novel ICTD systems may not cover the entire
design of the system but may instead go into depth in specific areas (e.g.,
how the system was evaluated with real users or how the formative work to
create the system was conducted). Notes are also not expected to include a
discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of a
submission to the Full Papers venue. Accepted Notes will be presented as
poster presentations at the conference.

·       Notes will be evaluated by at least two multidisciplinary reviewers
in a double-blind fashion and will be assessed according to their research
contribution, methodological soundness, quality of analysis, and quality of
writing, and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new
technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies,
theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and so
forth will be considered. However Notes need not necessarily be as
comprehensive, novel, or generalizable as Full Papers. All accepted Notes
will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Notes authors will be
invited to present a poster.

·       See additional specifications under “All Submissions” below.

*All Submissions*

·       Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be
considered. Full Papers and Notes must use the ACM templates
<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates> (LaTex and
Word), and *must be no longer than 10 pages and 4 pages respectively*. (The
main text, figures, tables, footnotes, references, etc. must fit within
these page limits.) Additional material may be included in an Appendix, but
the text within the page limits must read as a standalone work. Submissions
longer than the page limits, not in the template format, not related to the
conference themes, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research
writing will be rejected without full review.

·       For each accepted Full Paper and Note, at least one of the authors
will be required to register and present it at ICTD2016. If not, the
submission will not be published in the final proceedings. For Full Papers,
see the ACMs copyright policies and options
<http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy/>.  Copyright
for Notes will be retained by the authors.

·       Submitted Full Papers and Notes must *not* include names or other
information that would identify the authors.

·       Note that since the Full Paper and Notes submission review cycles
will be sequential; it will be possible to revise, shorten, and resubmit
elements of promising but non-selected Full Papers in time for
reconsideration in the separate Notes review round.

For more information, see http://ictd2016.info or email Susan Wyche at
spwyche at msu.edu.


*General Conference Chair*

Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan

*Program Committee Chairs*

Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University
Susan Wyche, Michigan State University

*Notes Chairs*

Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University
Janaki Srinivasan, International Institute of Information Technology
Bangalore

*ICTD Steering Committee*

Francois Bar, University of Southern California

Michael Best, United Nations University / Georgia Institute of Technology

Ken Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Balaji Parthasarathy, International Institute of Information Technology,
Bangalore

Krithi Ramamritham, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley

Kentaro Toyama, University of Michigan

Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California


Susan P. Wyche, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media
Michigan State University
spwyche at msu.edu
http://www.susanwyche.com/

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