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Please give this Call the widest publicity.

CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS ETC.

Conference on Information Technology and Economic Development (CITED2008)
Venue: Calabar (the Canaan City), Nigeria, July 25-27, 2008
Web site: http://www.uws.ac.uk/cited2008
Contact: abel.usoro@uws.ac.uk

The aim of CITED2008 is to present research and best practice in the areas of information technology, management, and their impact on economic development. CITED2008 will consist of workshops, tutorials, trade transactions, keynote speeches, paper presentations, and panel discussions. The event should inspire a fruitful dialogue among practitioners, government officials, scholars, and investors; CITED2008 will address the needs of all participants. Accepted Papers will be published in the CD conference proceedings. Best papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of IT for Development, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, the International Journal of Knowledge Management, and a proposed book on Managing Information Technology for Economic Development.

Conference Topics

The main topics of this conference will include, but not limited to:

The digital divide - bridging the gap
Human computer interaction
Intellectual property rights in technology standardization
eContracts
Public policy and information technology
Systems thinking and practice
eLearning
Organisation and technology transformation
Crisis management
Enterprise systems
Marketing information systems
Spatial technologies
Culture-based information systems
Knowledge management
eProcurement
eBusiness
Strategic information systems
eGovernment
Health informatics
Global information systems
Community networking and information systems
Virtual communities
mCommerce
IT security issues
Decision support systems
Databases, data mining and data warehousing
IT outsourcing
Software engineering
Requirements elicitation and analysis
eSupply chain management
eCustomer relationship management
eFinance and eBanking

Important Dates

Submission (at least an abstract) deadline: 15 April 2008
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2008
Camera ready submissions: 31 May 2008
Registration deadline: 30 June 2008
Conference date: 25-27 July 2008

Organizers:
● The information Institute www.information-institute.org a non-profit, non-partisan, information policy, research and educational organisation
● University of the West of Scotland www.uws.co.uk/cited2008
● University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Conference Chairs:
Abel Usoro, University of the West of Scotland, UK
Mathew Kuofie, University of Michigan, USA

International Chairs:
Gurpreet Dhillon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Janice Burn, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Ray Hackney, Brunel University, UK

Local Chairs:
Eno Otong & Ernest Eteng, University of Calabar, Nigeria
+234 (0) 8037239773 & +234 (0) 8037797709

Submissions Instructions:
Submissions can be made in a number of categories: Completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, case studies, panels and posters/round table discussion papers. Please follow the following guidelines in preparing your submission.

Completed research papers
Typically 5,000 words long (excluding abstract and references)

Research in progress papers
Typically 2,500 words (excluding abstract and references)

Case studies
Typically between 3,000 and 5,000 words long

Posters and round table discussion
Typically a 1000 word synopsis of the topic area to be presented

Panel proposals
Typically a 1000 word description, identifying the panelists to be involved

In preparing your papers, please use the Harvard referencing style. In text citations should be in an Author (date) format with the bibliographical list inserted at the end of the paper.

Submission and review process will be handled electronically using http://conferences.globalinformationservices.net/eventLogin.php? If you have problems, email your submission directly to abel.usoro@uws.ac.uk. Please make your submission as one MSWord or RTF file. Include all figures and tables in relevant places in the text. The title page should indicate the title, author affiliations including telephone, fax and email, in case of multiple authors corresponding author details should be clearly identified. The title page should also identify the track for which you wish your paper to be considered. All submissions will be double blind peer reviewed.

Accepted Papers will be published in the CD conference proceedings. Best papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of IT for Development, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, and the International Journal of Knowledge Management.

Yours sincerely

Abel Usoro, BSc(Hons), MBA, MSc, PhD, MBCS
School of Computing
University of the West of Scotland, UK

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