Hi Good People of DC-3 – See this from the GAIA list.  Great conference.  Lots on networking, CNs, and more. Esther cc’d here and contact her if you have questions. Best, Jane Internet Society | www.internetsociety.org Skype: janercoffin Mobile/WhatsApp: +1.202.247.8429 From: gaia <gaia-bounces(a)irtf.org> on behalf of Esther Jang <infrared(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 8:41 AM To: "gaia(a)irtf.org" <gaia(a)irtf.org> Subject: [gaia] [ICTD X] Call for Open Sessions, Doctoral Consortium, Demos, & Pre-Published Papers ICTD 2019 Jan 4-7, Ahmedabad, India ***Call for Participation*** Open Sessions, Doctoral Consortium, Demos, & Pre-Published Papers The international conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) is organized every 12-18 months, and brings together researchers and practitioners working across domains, sectors, and disciplines to study the role of ICT in social, political, and economic development. First organized at the University of California Berkeley, USA, in 2006, the tenth ICTD is scheduled to be held at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, from January 4th to 7th, 2019. At the tenth ICTD, or ICTD X at IIM Ahmedabad, the conference’s focus is on growing our community to welcome researchers from related disciplines and practitioners, and supporting young researchers of ICTD as they pursue their research trajectories. Join us via any of the following tracks below: OPEN SESSIONS Open Sessions will welcome a variety of submissions and formats. Submissions can include proposals for events such as panels, workshops, design jams, and more, ideally fostering dialog and participation from researchers and practitioners. The call for participation is here: http://ictdx.org/open-sessions/ DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM We invite Ph.D. students to present their research before fellow doctoral students and experts, with the hope that this will support exchange of ideas, solicit constructive feedback from experts, develop mentor-mentee relationships, and expand collaborative research networks. The DC is an excellent opportunity for young scholars to learn about the richly diverse ICTD community as they develop their dissertation research. The call is here: http://ictdx.org/doctoral-consortium/ DEMOS We invite participants to present ongoing projects, including researchers with significant field components, practitioners seeking community feedback, or developers with early stage prototypes. Demos should offer insights to real-world problems and/or solutions, and can include hardware, software, or physical artifacts. The call for participation is here: http://ictdx.org/demos/ PRE-PUBLISHED PAPERS We invite papers accepted for publication at other venues over the preceding year and a half (from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 15, 2018), so that ICTD attendees can benefit from conversations happening outside the conference. Inclusion of these papers into the conference program will depend on relevance to the program and availability of slots. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation. The call for participation is here: http://ictdx.org/participate/ DATES Sep. 1, 2018: Deadline for Open Sessions, Doctoral Consortium, Pre-Published Papers Sep 21, 2018: Deadline for Demos Oct. 8, 2018: All notifications sent Jan. 4-7, 2019: See you in Ahmedabad, India! All submissions are due at 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth time). Updates will be posted on Facebook (http://facebook.com/ictdx), Twitter (@ictdx), and our website (http://ictdx.org). Email us with any questions at info(a)ictdx.org. ORGANIZERS GENERAL Rajesh Chandwani (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India) Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India) PRACTICE Neil Patel (Awaaz.De, Ahmedabad India) Rikin Gandhi (Digital Green, San Francisco USA) PROGRAM Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University, Washington DC USA) POSTERS David Nemer (University of Kentucky, Lexington USA) Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto, Toronto Canada) OPEN SESSIONS Aditya Vashistha (University of Washington, Seattle USA) Michaelanne Dye (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) Nithya Sambasivan (Google, San Francisco USA) DEMOS Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington, Seattle USA) DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Nimmi Rangaswamy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad India) Vigneswara Ilavarasan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi India) Aditya Johri (George Mason University, Fairfax USA) TRAVEL Shriram Venkatraman (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India) Anupriya Tuli (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India) Deepika Yadav (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi India) COMMUNICATIONS Naveena Karusala (University of Washington, Seattle USA) Esther Jang (University of Washington, Seattle USA) DESIGN Shruti Dalvi (Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA) ACCESSIBILITY Vaishnav Kameswaran (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA) LOCAL OUTREACH Divy Thakkar (Google, Bangalore India)