The ninth International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies and Development (ICTD2017), to be hosted at the Information
Technology University from November 16-19, 2017, invites you to submit
Full Papers and Notes. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD2017
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 approximately every 18 months since 2006.
Important dates
May 15, 2017: Deadline for submission of Full Papers
July 1, 2017: Notification of acceptances for Full Papers
July 14, 2017 (tentative): Deadline for submission of Notes
September 1, 2017 (tentative): Notification of acceptances for Notes
September 15, 2017 (tentative): Camera-ready Full Papers and Notes due
All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) continually become
more pervasive in the lives of people around the world. With increasing
relevance, ICTs are used in daily life from markets to health care,
education to governance, family life to artistic expression. Diverse
groups across the world interact with, are affected by, and can shape
the design of these technologies. The ICTD conference provides a forum
for analyzing, critiquing and refining the ways in which individuals,
communities and societies interact with and make use of these tools and
platforms. There are multidisciplinary challenges associated with the
engineering, application and adoption of ICTs in developing regions
and/or for development, with implications for design, policy, and
practice.
For the purposes of this conference, the term “ICT” comprises
electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as
well as systems, interventions, and platforms that are built on such
technologies. “Development” includes, but is not restricted to, poverty
alleviation, education, agriculture, healthcare, general communication,
gender equality, governance, infrastructure, environment and sustainable
livelihoods. The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary
nature of ICTD research, with anticipated contributions from fields
including (but not limited to) anthropology, computer science,
communication, design, economics, electrical engineering, geography,
human-computer interaction, information science, information systems,
political science, public health, and sociology.
Full Papers
• An ICTD Full Paper, which is up to 10 pages in the ACM two-column
format (including figures and tables but excluding references), must
make a new research contribution and provide complete and substantial
support for its results and conclusions. Accepted papers typically
represent a major advance for the field of ICTD. Full Papers will be
evaluated via double-blind peer review by a multidisciplinary panel of
at least three readers, one of whom will come from outside the paper’s
disciplinary domain in order to ensure broad readability. Accepted Full
Papers will be presented as oral presentations at the conference.
• Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research
contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and
reference to related work, quality of analysis, and quality of writing
and presentation. Manuscripts considering novel designs, new
technologies, project assessments, policy analyses, impact studies,
theoretical contributions, social issues around ICT and development, and
so forth will be considered. Well-analyzed negative results from which
generalizable conclusions can be drawn are also sought. Authors are
encouraged (but not required) to address the diversity of approaches in
ICTD research by providing context, implications, and actionable
guidance to researchers and practitioners beyond the authors’ primary
domains. Full Papers typically present mature work whereas Notes (see
below) are used for presenting preliminary research that is still
work-in-progress.
• All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.
For more information, see http://ictd2017.itu.edu.pk/ or email
Richard Anderson at anderson@cs.washington.edu. For questions or
concerns regarding security in Pakistan, please contact Carleen Maitland
at cmaitland@ist.psu.edu .
General Conference Chair
Umar Saif, Information Technology University, Lahore
Program Committee Chairs
Richard Anderson, University of Washington
Carleen Maitland, Penn State University
Notes Chairs
Neha Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Agha Ali Raza, Information Technology University, Lahore
Open Session Chairs
Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town
Mustafa Naseem, Univesity of Colorado Boulder
