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Dear colleagues,
Please see below for a call for papers to a panel at the Finnish
Anthropological Society biennial conference on "Landscapes, Sociality
and Materiality" (21-22 October 2015 in Helsinki, Finland, see
http://www.antropologinenseura.fi). Please circulate to others who
might be interested. Thank you.
Abstracts of 250-300 words for paper proposals are invited to be
submitted for the Panel: “ICTs, Wellbeing and Development in Africa:
Opportunities, Potentials, and Challenges” to be organized at the
Finnish Anthropological Society biennial conference: Landscapes,
Sociality and Materiality (21-22 October 2015 in Helsinki, Finland,
see http://www.antropologinenseura.fi)
Submission Deadline: 15 MARCH 2015.
Panel title:
“ICTs, Wellbeing and Development in Africa: Opportunities,
Potentials, and Challenges”
Panel Abstract:
The widespread use of the internet and mobile phones in Africa has
attracted studies of information, communication and technology (ICT)
and development in African countries. Great focus has been on the ICT
(including mobile technology) landscape as key to better healthcare
delivery services in resource-poor settings in Africa, in business,
gender, sociality, education and other areas of development. This
panel seeks to bring together papers on new media and development in
Africa concerning health, education/learning, commerce/banking, etc.
The panel aims to focus on empirical and theoretical evidence of
opportunities, potentials, limitations/challenges and complexities in
use of ICTs to improve health outcomes, education,
micro-entrepreneurship, etc. The panel intends to promote dialogue
between research and policy-making, so, papers by both academic
researchers and persons working or interested in policy and practice,
e.g., representatives of governments, institutions and NGOs are welcome.
Papers may focus on (but are not limited to):
• ICTs in the health sector (m-Health/e-Health) concerning
HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, and recently Ebola
• m-Commerce/m-Banking; e-Commerce/e-Banking
• m-Education/m-Learning/e-Learning
• The strengths and limitations of existing theories of mobile
technology and development research
• Gaps in evidence on the effectiveness of ICTs and
mobiles-for-development (M4D) strategies
• NGOs and civil society practice
• Policy issues and advocacy
• ICTs and social/political dynamics
• ICTs and gender
• The processes of change that have occurred or are occurring
through use of ICTs in health, education, business and other sectors
of development in Africa
* Individual paper proposals comprising an abstract of 250–300 words
should be submitted directly to the Convenor at
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Please include your university affiliation and contact information
when submitting the proposal.
Deadline for paper proposals: MARCH 15th, 2015. Acceptance
notifications will be sent by the conference organisers by March 31st,
2015.
Best regards,
Perpetual Crentsil, PhD
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Social Research
University of Helsinki
Finland
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