[Air-L] CfP Community Informatics for Health special issue of Journal of Community Informatics

Michael Gurstein gurstein at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 01:07:53 PST 2011


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Call for Papers: Special issue - Community Informatics for Health Journal of
Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) Abstract submissions due 14
March 2011

A special issue of the international Journal of Community Informatics
(http://ci-journal.net) is going to be devoted to Health. Community
Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with
Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).  This special issue will
focus on how the social application of ICTs can empower and enable
communities towards improving health. The issue is expected to be published
in late 2011. The Journal of Community Informatics is a focal point for the
communication of research of interest to a global network of academics,
community informatics practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy
makers. 

Call for papers
The field of community informatics seeks to explore the potential of
information and communication technologies and their applications for social
and economic development efforts at the community level. It particularly
seeks to ensure that marginalized individuals and communities can benefit
from the opportunities that ICTs can provide. In the area of health, this is
all the more important since those with poorer health status and poorer
health outcomes are usually those with less (or no) access to ICTs, or are
those who have fewer skills to make use of and benefit from ICTs.

For this special issue of the Journal on Health, we are inviting submission
of original, unpublished articles. We welcome research articles, along with
case studies and notes from the field. All research articles will be double
blind peer-reviewed. Insights and analytical perspectives from practitioners
and policy makers in the form of notes from the field or case studies are
also encouraged - these will not be peer-reviewed.

Please read the full Call for Papers and more specific information on the
intended 'flavour' of the issue at:
http://www.flinders.edu.au/medicine/sites/southgate/research/projects/digita
l-tech-health/ 

Guest editors:
.	Lareen Newman PhD, Southgate Institute for Health Society & Equity,
Flinders University - Australia
.	Ali Al Sanousi MD, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research
Centre, Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Contact for queries and abstract submissions:  lareen.newman at flinders.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstracts: 14 March 2011
Notification of successful abstracts:  9 May 2011
Deadline for submission of full papers/articles: 31 August 2011 
Estimated publication date: November 2011






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