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WITFOR investigates successful ICT strategies in developing countries and examines different initiatives and projects on effective, context sensitive development and use of ICT applications. It is intended to:
- Help to put ICT-enabled development initiatives on the agenda of different organizations, governmental bodies, and groups currently involved in ICT.
- Work with different groups to ensure that senior policy makers and political leaders are aware of the developmental potential of ICT and promote its diffusion and sustainable effective use.
- Assist international organizations and donor agencies to include issues of the spread of ICT and access to information into their loan and funding programs and be more pro-active in using new technologies to reduce existing social tensions and conflicts.
- Encourage scholars, analysts and researchers to put the issue of digital equity higher on their research agendas.
- Encourage industrialized nations, as individuals and groups, to listen to and learn from colleagues around the world about their unique concerns over access to ICT.
- Develop guidelines on these issues and advise governments, to formulate and follow the best strategy for the use of ICT in order to achieve global ICT-equity.
WITFOR 2016 will be held in San José, Costa Rica, in collaboration with the Costa Rican Public Universities, under the overarching theme of ICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment.
Submission details for full and short papers can be found at http://www.witfor2016.org/submission.
Submission details for demonstrations can be found at http://www.witfor2016.org/submission.
Important dates:
Submission deadline for full and short papers and demonstrations : March 1, 2016
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2016
Camera ready deadline (not applicable to demonstrations): June 1, 2016
