The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) will be held 17-
19 April 2009 in Doha, Qatar (http://www.ictd2009.org). This
conference will act as a focal point for new scholarship in the field
of ICT and international development. Confirmed speakers include a
keynote by William H. Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation.

We invite submission of conference papers relating to use of ICTs for
development according to the following schedule:

September 22, 2008 Submissions due
January 15, 2009 Final decisions sent out to authors
February 20, 2009 Camera-ready papers due
April 17-19, 2009 Conference

CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION
Only original, unpublished papers in English will be considered,
through double-blind review. Word-length limit: 8000 words.
Submission must be through the conference website
(http://www.ictd2009.org), and authors should follow IEEE formatting,
detailed online. All papers will be printed in the conference
proceedings, and some will be developed for a journal special issue.

If authors would like quick feedback on an outline or abstract
(especially to gauge topic appropriateness), they can submit this to
the Program Committee no later than August 22nd, using the designated
email address: ictd2009.abstracts@.... This is voluntary and is
not part of the formal peer review process.

Richard Heeks, Rahul Tongia
Programme Committee Co-Chairs, ICTD2009