[Air-l] Fwd: Call for papers :: ICT4D and Universities

[Miraj Khaled]

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Subject: 	Call for papers-ICT4D and universities
Date: 	Mon, 9 May 2005 15:09:33 -0700
From: 	Raul Roman <rroman at u.washington.edu>

"Information Technologies and International
Development (ITID)" is a leading MIT Press journal
that focuses on the intersection of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) with international
development. ITID invites submissions for a special
issue titled Information Technology, Higher Education,
and Sustainable Development: The Role of Universities
in Building Knowledge Societies in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America.

This special issue will address how universities in
developing countries are implementing innovative
teaching, research and outreach activities that link
ICTs to the development-related needs and activities
of different local and national stakeholders,
including scientists, educators, entrepreneurs,
governments, civil society organizations, and rural
communities.  The issue will reflect how universities
in developing countries are seeking to contribute to
‘ICT for Development’ (ICT4D) efforts, the impact
of their efforts upon society and universities, and
the internal and external challenges they face in
realizing a productive and meaningful place in the
ICT4D movement.


The goal of this ITID issue is to lay a foundation for
research and policy making in this area. The issue
carries the same title as a conference recently held
in Manila (www.cis.washington.edu/manila2005
<http://www.cis.washington.edu/manila2005>). The
Manila conference itself built on previous
international meetings at Makerere University
(http://www.makerere.ac.ug/dicts/conference), Cornell
University
(http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/conf/2004/ict), and
the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society
(http://www.wsis-online.net/smsi/classes/ict4d/events/ict4d-events-282979/event-view)

that focused not only on building universities ICT
capacity, but their capacity to leverage ICT to foster
social and economic development.

**For example, some relevant topics could be (a) the
institutional capacity of universities to create
knowledge tailored to different outside stakeholders;
(b) the uses and effects of university involvement
in community projects such as telecenters; (c) the
creation of university programs that prepare students
to become professionals in ICT-enabled development, or
(d) efforts by universities to engage in local,
national, or international policy-relevant research on
emerging ICT issues.


The topic of this ITID issue is broad and inherently
multidisciplinary. The editors welcome a diverse pool
of submissions from different fields such as political
science, information science, communication research,
education, rural sociology, computer science,
telecommunications, economics, public health, and
public policy, among others.


The papers selected will present novel research that
is theoretically grounded and methodologically sound,
as well as those that relate to policy development and
practical on-the-ground approaches to realizing
the Millennium Development Goals and creating the
building blocks of knowledge societies. Potential
contributors should submit a 750-word abstract of the
proposed article by May 31^st , 2005 to:
itid-ed at mit.edu

Visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/itid for specific
instructions for authors.

The guest editors of this ITID issue (in alphabetical
order) are: Royal D. Colle (Cornell University),
Christopher T. Coward (University of Washington),
Colin M. Maclay (Harvard Law School), and Raul Roman
(University of Washington).
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Miraj Khaled
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