ED 2012 - IADIS International Conference e-Democracy, Equity and Social Justice

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

* Best Papers
The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641), in the Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy Journal (ISSN:1750-6166)
and also to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

* Types of submissions
Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics for this conference include, but are not limited to:

Citizenship
*Unleashing the power of citizens in developing countries to use the Internet to drive their own social & political development agenda

Digital divide:

* Achievement of equity by bridging the digital divide and promoting critical and digital literacies

Participation:

* Provision of effective online platforms for meaningful participation of citizens

Access

* Optimization of wider access to democratic dialogues through successful community cultivation

Community cultivation

* Enhance the benefits of social development interventions through the use of digital, wireless and mobile

technologies for cultivating communities to conduct inquiry and socio-political action

Sustainability

* Facilitating sustainable grassroots, bottom up co-created solutions and approaches to leadership, human rights,

and civil society development

E-mentoring

* Reports and reflections on the successes and failures of deploying e-mentoring strategies for raising political awareness, civic consciousness and community cultivation

Transference

* North-South, South-South, and public-private partnerships and collaboration for co-creation of online communities

Community Ownership & Strengthening

* Studies of efforts of involving citizens as stakeholders in initiatives to promote democracy, social justice and equity

by strengthening their capabilities and promoting their involvement in online communities.

Web site: http://www.edemocracy-conf.org/