[Air-L] Volunteer to serve on the Program Committee for ICTD 2019

[Neha Kumar]

Dear friends,

We invite you to volunteer to serve on our Program Committee for ICTD 2019
(to be held January 4th-7th in Ahmedabad, India). If selected (based on the
spots we have open at present), we will rely on your expertise to ensure
that the submissions selected for publication are high quality and
guarantee an inclusive, impactful, and interdisciplinarily rich conference.
**Please fill out this very short form, if interested:
https://goo.gl/forms/bM8vkOjmANpnEfMk1.** Below, we offer (1) a quick
introduction to ICTD 2019, (2) important dates for reviewing, and (3) a
description of what makes an ICTD Paper/Poster.


What is ICTD 2019?
Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 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 every
12-18 months since 2006. The first ICTD conference was organized in 2006 at
UC Berkeley and the conference has since been hosted in Bangalore (2007),
Doha (2009), London (2010), Atlanta (2012), Cape Town (2013), Singapore
(2015), Ann Arbor (2016), and Lahore (2017). The ICTD community is
methodologically and conceptually diverse, including, for example,
anthropologists who study how underserved individuals and communities
engage with technology, computer scientists who design novel technological
interventions to target development outcomes, data scientists who examine
human-centered aspects of big data, political scientists looking at how
national and state governments implement ICTD projects, economists who
evaluate the developmental impact of such projects, and practitioners who
implement them on the ground.


What does the ICTD 2019 review process entail?
As a member of the ICTD 2019 Program Committee, you can expect to complete
reviews no more than five Papers and three Posters (we hope). Reviewing
will take place between July 22nd and August 22nd (approximately). You will
not be required to participate in a PC meeting or conduct any meta-reviews.


What is an ICTD Paper?
An ICTD Paper, 7-10 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding
references, but including figures and tables), must make a new research
contribution and provide complete and substantial support for its results
and conclusions. Accepted Papers will be presented orally at the conference
and archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless otherwise requested by
authors). Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of novelty of the
research contribution, significance of the contribution to ICTD, validity
of method, rigor of analysis, and clarity of presentation.


What is an ICTD Poster?
An ICTD Poster, up to 4 pages in the ACM two-column format (excluding
references, but including figures and tables), can report on practitioner
projects, research work in progress, dissertation progress, and other
content that would enrich the conference. A complete research contribution
is not mandatory. Posters will be reviewed in the same timeline as (but
differently than) Full Papers. Accepted Posters will be presented as
posters at the conference and archived in the ACM Digital Library (unless
otherwise requested by authors). Submissions will be lightly reviewed, but
required to meet most of the criteria mentioned above for Papers.


The deadline to fill out this form is **Friday, June 1, 2018**. Should you
require any clarifications, please contact us at program at ictdx.org. For
more information on the conference, people involved, and/or the Call for
Papers, please visit our website at www.ictdx.org
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are connected on social media, please follow our updates on Twitter @ictdx
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Warm regards,
Neha Kumar & Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Program Chairs, ICTD 2019