M4D 2010: The 2nd International Conference on Mobiles for Development

Posted on | June 21, 2010 | No Comments

Welcome to M4D2010!
10-11 November Kampala, Uganda

HumanIT (Karlstad University, Sweden) in cooperation with Makere University (Faculty of Computing and Informatics Technology) in Kampala, invites you to the 2nd  International Conference on M4D – Mobile Communication Technology for Development.

M4D2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and all those with interests in the use of Mobile Communication Technology for Development. The conference is the 2nd international conference in M4D  following the inaugural conference in Karlstad, Sweden in 2008  (http://m4d.humanit.org/2008) and M4D in East-Africa 2008 (http://m4d.kcl.co.ug).

M4D2010 will combine two days of plenary peer-reviewed paper sessions, with two days of workshops, panel sessions, discussion forums, and demos. The conference will take place at Protea Hotel in central Kampala. If you wish to stay at Protea during your conference stay, we encourage you to make a reservation as soon as possible.

Highlights from the program:

Confirmed Key-note speakers are Richard Duncombe (the University of Manchester), Ken Banks (Founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS) and Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University, Orecomm, MEDIeA).
In conjunction with M4D2010, MobileMonday Kampala (MoMoKla, www.momokla.ug) will organise a special evening Monday November 8th. MoMoKla is the Ugandan chapter of MobileMonday, which is a global network of mobile industry professionals and start-ups with chapters in over 100 cities around the world. M4D2010 participants will get a chance to network with and kearnd from professionals in Uganda’s telecommunication, academia, media and ICT sectors.

M4D2010 will include a workshop organised by SPIDER (www.spidercenter.org): “A mobile in every hand-exploring mobile technology’s potential in increasing transparency”. SPIDER’s workshop will through a panel of experts explore the potentials of mobile technology in increasing transparency, as well as curbing corruption. The workshop will present innovative cases and invite audience to participate in outlining concrete ways to use mobile technology in increasing transparency in general and development sector in particular.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 1 July 2010
Acceptance note: 31 August 2010
Final papers due: 30 September 2010

M4D2010 will be one of the most exciting m4d events of 2010!

Gudrun Wicander
Conference Coordinator
gudrun.wicander@kau.se
Centre for HumanIT
http://www.kau.se/en/humanit

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