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Conference Directory
IADIS International Conference E-Democracy, Equity And Social Justice 2011
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Venue Name: Aran Mantegna Hotel
Country: Italy
City: Rome
Number of Attendees: Unknown
Webinar or Virtual Event: No
Keywords: Citizenship, Digital divide, Participation, Access, Community cultivation, Sustainability, E-mentoring, Transference, Community Ownership & Strengthening
Start Date of Conference:: 07-20-2011
End Date of Conference: 07-22-2011
Description of Conference: * Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Christopher Walsh, Senior Lecturer of Educational ICT and Professional Development, The Open University, United Kingdom
* Conference background and goals
This conference aims to encourage and foster efforts of researchers and practitioners by sharing cutting-edge
research, innovations, models, theories and strategies that address issues and challenges related to cultivating
online communities for grassroots democracy, equity and social justice.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.
* Best Papers
The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641), in the Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy Journal (ISSN:1750-6166)
and also to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.
* Types of submissions
Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
* Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:
Citizenship
*Unleashing the power of citizens in developing countries to use the Internet to drive their own social & political development agenda
Digital divide:
* Achievement of equity by bridging the digital divide and promoting critical and digital literacies
Participation:
* Provision of effective online platforms for meaningful participation of citizens
Access
* Optimization of wider access to democratic dialogues through successful community cultivation
Community cultivation
* Enhance the benefits of social development interventions through the use of digital, wireless and mobile
technologies for cultivating communities to conduct inquiry and socio-political action
Sustainability
* Facilitating sustainable grassroots, bottom up co-created solutions and approaches to leadership, human rights,
and civil society development
E-mentoring
* Reports and reflections on the successes and failures of deploying e-mentoring strategies for raising political awareness, civic consciousness and community cultivation
Transference
* North-South, South-South, and public-private partnerships and collaboration for co-creation of online communities
Community Ownership & Strengthening
* Studies of efforts of involving citizens as stakeholders in initiatives to promote democracy, social justice and equity
by strengthening their capabilities and promoting their involvement in online communities.
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