ACORN-REDECOM, a cross-disciplinary academic network of research centers which seeks to advance knowledge on the social, economic and political impact of ICT in the Americas.

ACORN-REDECOM is now soliciting abstracts of papers for presentation at the 2009 conference to be held in in Mexico City, May 21-22, 2009, dedicated to the theme “ICTs and their Social and Economic Impact in the Americas".

Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to the communication and information sector, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. ACORN-REDECOM seeks submissions of disciplinary, comparative, multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary excellence. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts.

Travel funds will be available on a competitive basis.

Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following:

The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, is soliciting proposals for original research on the use of money of all kinds as a means of saving, storing, and transferring value among the world’s poorest people.

The EuroCPR 2009 Conference welcomes papers that address the policy challenges of competitiveness, energy efficiency and the interaction between competitiveness and energy efficiency in the mobile communications sector.

The conference will take place on the 30th and 31st of March 2009 in Seville, at the Italian Pavilion in the Isla de la Cartuja.

The conference is hosted by the Regional Ministry for Innovation, Science and Enterprise of Andalusia, in collaboration with the Institute for Prospective Studies (IPTS), one of the seven scientific institutes of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Abstracts should be no longer than 1000 words. The structure and content of the abstracts should include the research question, main results, policy relevance, theory and methodology.

UN-APCICT is compiling a series of case studies on different aspects of  information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) from across the Asia-Pacific region. Two issues of the UN-APCICT Case Study Series on ICT4D will be published (in print and online) each year. Each issue will focus on one or more ICT4D theme(s).

For the inaugural issue, the themes include: Technological Convergence and the New Media; e-Governance; and Gender.

The deadline for submission of case studies is 31 August 2008.

For more information please visit the website

The International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC) will be held from November 03 -06, 2009 at the HANGAR Convention and Exhibition Center of the Amazon - Belém, Pará, Brazil 

The conference is a traditional biannual event promoted by the Brazilian Microwave and Optoelectronics Society (SBMO) since 1985. Due to its importance as an international event, IMOC has counted, since the beginning of the nineties, with the co-sponsorship of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE MTT-S).

Deadline for Paper Submission: May 09, 2009.

More details about the conference can be found HERE or visit the website

The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-19 April 2009 at Carnegie Mellon's state-of-the-art campus in Doha, Qatar. This conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship in the field of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers include a Keynote by William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

• September 22, 2008 - Submissions due
• January 15, 2009 - Final decisions sent out to authors
• February 20, 2009 - Camera-ready papers due
• April 17-19, 2009 - Conference

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