The theme of the 10^th International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Conference is “Assessing the Contribution of ICT to Development Goals”. The three-day conference will be hosted by the Dubai School of Government and held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is widely recognised that ICTs have the potential to contribute to meeting development goals such as basic health care, poverty reduction and education. It is often argued that countries harnessing the potential of ICTs can expect accelerating economic growth, improving human welfare and fostering of good governance practices. The role of development goals in policy making is an important area of academic study and practical application. For instance, the millennium development goals (MDGs) developed by the OECD have been adopted by governments of several countries with a focus on achievement of measures by 2015. ICT has also been a key element of various economic development and public sector reform agendas around the globe. The conference will explore the contribution of ICTs to the achievement of sustainable development.

1st Call for Papers

Papers that describe, critique, develop arguments, and draw conclusions from the multitude of development projects on the role of ICTs in achieving development goals and addressing challenges to sustainability and contributions from other disciplines such as development studies, political science, political economy, social anthropology, sociology, which illuminate themes and identify differences through a willingness to engage in dialogue within and between disciplines are welcome. Papers accepted and presented at the Dubai conference will be actively screened by the 9.4 programme co-chairs, and authors of suitable papers will be directly encouraged to submit their papers by this route after the conference.

Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2008

Reviews returned: October 15, 2008

Final acceptance and camera ready: January 20, 2009

Please visit IFIP for further information on submissions of papers.