IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ICT, SOCIETY AND HUMAN BEINGS 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS: Submission deadline (2nd call): 30 April 2012

Conference Programme Co-Chairs:

Gunilla Bradley, Professor Emerita, School of ICT, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Diane Whitehouse, Chair of IFIP WG 9.2 on Social Accountability and Computing, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK

The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges – especially planning to handle the future – are encouraged.

The conference pays attention to societal changes, global and more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a Good Information Society.

In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may all be presented.

The broader scope of this conference is presented in the conference web site http://www.ict-conf.org/ under “Call for Papers” including a theoretical framework which outlines the conference approach. The conference is based on the notion of a convergence model developed by Professor Gunilla Bradley. The convergence model includes several broad concepts. These are increasingly interacting with an accelerating speed: ICT; Globalization; Life Environment: Life Role; and Effects on Humans. These five concepts correspond to the four conference tracks (Tracks A, B, C and D). Under each broader concept or track, several key words are listed. They are intended to inspire submissions, and to remind contributors that each phenomenon or key word cannot be separated from its actual context at whatever level that lies – the group, organisation or societal level including the national, international or cultural levels. This underpinning notion is tightly related to potential action strategies for human beings to contribute to the Good Information (or ICT) society. Three conference tracks are hence concerned with actions (Track E, F and G).

For the ICT, Society and Human beings 2012 conference, we especially encourage contributions on the following four topics:

- Actions for reaching the Good Information Society

Details about how to submit a paper are located on the conference web site http://www.ict-conf.org/ under “Submissions”.

The conference proceedings will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with an ISBN, available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

The types of contributions include: Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

- Late Registration (2nd call): After 15 June 2012

- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 21 to 23 July 2012

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Secretariat  E-mail: secretariatict-conf [ punto ] org (secretariat[at]ict-conf[dot]org)