ICTD 2024: Call for Papers

The 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2024) will be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from December 9-11, 2024.

ICTD 2024 provides an international forum for scholarly researchers to explore the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in social, political, and economic development. Recent proceedings have been published in the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission of Full Papers: July 29, 2024
• Notification of acceptance for Full Papers: September 8, 2024 (Reviews released: September 15)
• Camera-ready deadline for Full Papers: October 7, 2024

All submissions are due 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

If you have any questions, please contact the Program Committee at ictdpc2024@gmail.com

Background

“ICTs” or “Information & Communication Technologies” comprise electronic technologies for information processing and communication, as well as systems, interventions, and platforms built on such technologies and the data generated by them.

“Development” refers to a range of activities aimed at improving the lives of people, and includes, but is not restricted to poverty alleviation, education, healthcare, communication, gender equality, better governance, improved infrastructure, improved agricultural practices, environmental conservation, and sustainability.

The conference program will reflect the multidisciplinary nature of ICTD research and diverse publishing traditions within this field. Papers must address and appeal to a broad multidisciplinary audience.

Call for Full Papers

• Contributions should be more than six pages long (single column ACM template).
• There is no hard page limit, but papers with length incommensurate to contributions will be rejected.
• Accepted papers typically represent a major advance for the field of ICTD and will be presented as oral presentations.
• Full Papers will be evaluated via double-blind peer review.
• Full Papers will be evaluated according to their novel research contribution, methodological soundness, theoretical framing and reference to related work, quality of analysis, quality of writing and presentation, and relevance to a broad audience of researchers.
• All acceptance will be conditional, and the final version of the paper will be checked by reviewers before final acceptance.
• All accepted Full Papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. A subset of the Full Papers will also appear in a special issue of the Information Technologies & International Development journal.

Submission Instructions

Submission should be done via the link: https://ictd2024.hotcrp.com/

• Only original, unpublished, research papers in English will be considered.
• Full Papers must use the ACM templates and reference formatting (LaTex and Word available).
• Manuscripts for review should be submitted in a single column format. Manuscripts submitted for review should use the “Submission Template” (Microsoft Word) or “Primary Article Template” (Latex -documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} ) as described at the link.
• Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review. No author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers should avoid revealing their identity in the text.
• Submissions not in the template format, not related to the conference themes, not anonymized, and/or not meeting a minimum bar of academic research writing will be rejected without full review.
• For each accepted submission, at least one of the authors will be required to register and present it at ICTD2024. Otherwise, the submission will not be published in the final proceedings.
• For Full Papers, see the ACM’s copyright policies and options.

ACM Open Access Publishing Model

ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance.

Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq

Full details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info@acm.org.

Human Subjects and Ethical Considerations

Authors are strongly encouraged to read and follow the community-defined minimum ethical standards for ICTD research.

Submissions that describe experiments with human subjects, that analyze data derived from human subjects, or that otherwise may put humans at risk should:

• Disclose whether the research received an approval or waiver from each of the authors’ institutional ethics review boards (IRB) if applicable.
• Discuss steps taken to ensure that participants and others who might have been affected by an experiment were treated ethically and with respect.

If a paper raises significant ethical concerns, it might be rejected based on these concerns.