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The 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2019), being hosted at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India) January 4-7, 2019, invites submissions of posters and papers. To be held in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS, ICTD 2019 will provide an international forum for scholarly researchers ...
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For the second year, the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), organized by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, is making a call for papers for a special edition of its official academic journal #ISOJ that will be entirely dedicated to one topic. This time, the theme will ...
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Chapter contributions are being invited for a new edited volume provisionally titled: 'Media, Culture and Technology in the Global South: Re-imagining Communication and Identity in Africa and the Caribbean'. The volume editors are Professor Hopeton Dunn of The University of the  West Indies, Professor Dumisani Moyo of University of Johannesburg, Dr William ...
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Articles are requested for the special issue of the journal Human Technology on "New media, mobility and placemaking". New media currently play a crucial role in the way migrants negotiate their travel routes and establish and maintain relations while moving and settling down. However, new media also influence and relate to various other forms of mobility-and ...
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In Public Affairs, in collaboration with the Internet Society, is pleased to release a call for contributions to the Fall 2018 special issue of NPA Magazine focusing on emerging developments in community networks among Indigenous peoples in North America. Internet connectivity for Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the United States has long ...
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ALIGN is currently inviting applications for its first Convening Fund. The Fund will support convenings that help advance learning and promote debates on gender norms and norm change, and encourage relationship-building by enabling researchers and thought leaders to connect and collaborate. This funding is available for several international, regional and/or national convenings, up to ...
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This thematic issue focuses on research at the crossroads of forced migration. Global forced displacements are bringing challenges and opportunities for communication between host and refugee communities on all cultural, social, political, and economic levels. At the same time, the media is playing increasingly important roles in refugee situations around ...
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The Working Group 9.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) gathers scholars and practitioners that deal with the issue on how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) affects social development. The theme for the upcoming 2019 IFIP WG 9.4 conference is: “Strengthening Southern-driven cooperation as a catalyst for ICT4D”. With ...
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IOM, the UN Migration Agency, launches call for submissions to the 2018 Global Migration Film Festival as part of the UN Together campaign to promote diversity worldwide. The call is for is submissions of Full-Length Feature and Short Films, in all genres: fiction, documentary, animation, etc. Submissions will be accepted until 21 June. To merit consideration ...
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