[Ict4d] FW: [SAICSIT-members] Digital Skills Colloquium & Postgraduate Symposium 2020

[Wallace Chigona]

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Professor of Information Systems
Department of Information Systems
University of Cape Town
Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701,  South Africa
Tel: (O)+27 21 6504345
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From: saicsit-members at googlegroups.com [mailto:saicsit-members at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Hossana Twinomurinzi
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 1:46 PM
To: SAICSIT Members <saicsit-members at googlegroups.com>
Subject: [SAICSIT-members] Digital Skills Colloquium & Postgraduate Symposium 2020

We invite you to submit your research, case studies, research in progress, posters and practitioner reports to the Digital Skills Colloquium and Postgraduate Symposium 2020, hosted by NEMISA at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Boksburg, Gauteng.

The colloquium aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, academics and other stakeholders who are working towards addressing the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and social inequality through digital skills.

The theme for 2020 is “Enhancing Human Capacity for Digital Transformation”. There is change happening in the world that has significantly altered the environment for every organisation including government. The scale and scope of the change is what makes all the difference. The way that organisations respond to these changes in the environment determines their survival. The nature of this digitally transformed organisation cannot be foretold as every organisation will respond according to their local and global environment. There are however some uncomfortable realities; manufacturing jobs are not coming back, and even if they did, the manufacturing industries are necessarily more capital not labour intensive. Globally, we are experiencing rising unemployment and income inequality and an increased demand for high skilled labour.

The Digital Skills Colloquium is structured as a two-day conference where speakers are invited to submit their papers for consideration for inclusion into the programme. There will also be plenary sessions and guest speakers to provide additional opportunities for practitioners and stakeholders to share insights.

There is also an important postgraduate symposium offering a platform for Honours, Masters and Doctoral students to share their research and receive mentoring support. The symposium gives emerging researchers and their supervisors the opportunity to engage in high-level intellectual discourse on digital skills in South Africa. The opportunities at the symposium include student oral presentations and abstracts, and presentations from leading academics. We also encourage postgraduate students to volunteer as session chairpersons and registration officials.

Important dates:
•            Call for Papers sent out:                             10 October 2019
•            Paper submissions deadline:                     15 December 2019
•            Reviewer comments distributed:             31 January  2020
•            Updated paper submissions due:             14 February  2020
•            Conference dates:                                       12 -13 March 2020
•            Post Graduate Symposium:                       12 March 2020
•            Main Conference:                                        12-13 March 2020

Submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digitalskills2020<https://protect-za.mimecast.com/s/EbPfCy8AEXU9ZGxEtZmzsQ>

Template:
An MS Word template is attached to this invitation.

Colloquium Proceedings:
978-0-6399275-5-8    Digital Skills Colloquium 2020    (print)
978-0-6399275-6-5    Digital Skills Colloquium 2020    (electronic)

Registration fee:
Registration is sponsored by NEMISA.

Regards,

Tembisa, Hossana, Sibukele, Antoinette and Nkosikhona
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