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Call for Abstracts – “Digital Inequalities and Development” panel UK Development Studies Association conference, 27-29 Jun 2018, University of Manchester, UK This is a call for abstracts/presentations on digital inequalities and development, with an initial deadline of 5 March 2018. The panel welcomes papers covering any aspect of the relation between digital technologies and global inequalities: ways in which ICTs may “level the playing field” and pro-equity digital innovations but also amplifications and entrenchments of existing inequalities via digital exclusion, harm, asymmetric benefits and adverse incorporation. The following timeline will be observed: - 5 March 2018 - prospective presenters to submit a “paper proposal” (title, author names & emails, short abstract of <300 characters; long abstract of <250 words) via the conference online form<https://nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2018/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/6312>. Panel details and link to paper proposal online at: https://nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6312 - 16 March: decision made on paper proposals - 6 April: conference registration opens (early-bird discounts close 4 May) - 27-29 June: conference If you have any queries prior to abstract submission, do please ask: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Panel Organisers: - Richard Heeks, Centre for Development Informatics<http://www.cdi.manchester.ac.uk/>, GDI, University of Manchester, UK - Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/>, University of Oxford, UK - Dorothea Kleine, Sheffield Institute for International Development<http://siid.group.shef.ac.uk/>, University of Sheffield, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This panel is an initiative of the DSA’s Information, Technology and Development study group<https://www.devstud.org.uk/study-groups/information-technology-and-development> General call for papers details at: https://www.devstud.org.uk/conferences/2018/cfp.shtml