Call for Proposals: IADIS International Conference: e-Democracy, Equity, and Social Justice

The IADIS International Conference e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice will be held in Freiburg, Germany on July 26-28, 2010, as a sub-conference of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2010). It aims to foster an exchange of information between researchers and practitioners on the challenges and the successes of using electronic technologies to promote grassroots democracy, equity, and social justice. The organizers invite papers (full, short, or reflections) and proposals for panels discussions, tutorials and poster sessions. It is a blind peer-reviewed conference. The deadline for submissions is February 19, 2010.

Suggested Topics

The organizers encourage submissions on the following conference topics:

• 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 and 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.

Submission Guidelines and Deadlines

The organizers express flexibility in the topics, as well as the proposed types of conference sessions.

Papers and proposals must use a required MS Word template. Any document must be submitted anonymously, for the purpose of facilitating the blind peer-review of submissions.

All submissions must be use the conference’s Electronic Submission System.

The deadline for submissions is February 19, 2010.

• IADIS International Conference e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice, Freiburg, Germany, July 26-28, 2010
• IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2010), Freiburg, Germany, July 26-31, 2010
• International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS)