[Air-L] Fwd: CfP: The Data Revolution in International Development – 3 Oct 2014 Deadline (Reminder)

Mark Graham mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 00:47:48 PDT 2014


Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting to the below call on 'The Data Revolution in
International Development.' Please also feel free to share it widely within
your own networks.

Thanks,
Mark
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Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford

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Green Templeton College
University of Oxford

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk>
Date: 4 September 2014 18:52
Subject: CfP: The Data Revolution in International Development – 3 Oct 2014
Deadline (Reminder)
To: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk>


 This is a call for papers for a track – “*The Data Revolution in
International Development*” – that will form part of the *May 2015 IFIP
WG9.4 international ICT4D conference*
<http://www.ifipwg94.org/ifip-wg94-conference-2015>, to be held in Sri
Lanka.

The data revolution track – chaired by Richard Heeks (*Centre for
Development Informatics* <http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk>, University of
Manchester) and Mark Graham (*Oxford Internet Institute*
<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/>) – is seeking papers that address technical,
socio-technical, socio-organisational and critical perspectives on:
- Open data for development
- Big data for development
- Real-time data for development
- Other data-for-development trends
For the full call, see:
*http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-12-the-data-revolution-in-international-development*
<http://www.ifipwg94.org/track-12-the-data-revolution-in-international-development>

Papers can be either full research papers (max. 5,000 words) or
research-in-progress/practitioner reports (max. 2,500 words).  They should
be submitted to the track chairs – *richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk*
<richard.heeks at manchester.ac.uk> and *mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk*
<mark.graham at oii.ox.ac.uk> – with a copy to the conference organisers:
*ifip9.4.2015 at gmail.com* <ifip9.4.2015 at gmail.com>.

The deadline for submission is *Friday 3**rd** October 2014*.

All papers will be blind peer-reviewed before acceptance decisions are made
(22nd Jan 2015 with resubmissions due 20th Feb 2015), and the conference
proceedings will be published.  At least one author per accepted paper will
need to attend the conference.  The track chairs will develop plans for a
journal special issue on the data revolution in international development
following the submission deadline.

If you have any questions in advance of submission, please email the track
chairs.  The submission template can be found as a link at:
*http://www.ifipwg94.org/call-for-papers-2015*
<http://www.ifipwg94.org/call-for-papers-2015>

Do please pass this call on to those who work on data-for-development
issues.

*IFIP WG9.4* <http://www.ifipwg94.org/> is the longest-standing and largest
grouping worldwide organising events in the field of ICTs and development;
with biannual international conferences and other regional events held
since 1988.  It is a formal working group of IFIP, the International
Federation for Information Processing; the global body to which national IT
and computer societies affiliate.



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