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DEADLINE for submissions: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009.

Please remember to use the ACM format for submissions. More details at
http://www.ischools.org/iConference10/participation/

The Fifth Annual iConference brings together scholars, professionals and
students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working
at the nexus of people, information and technology. The 2010 iConference
theme addresses iMPACTS. As the Obama administration brings new potential
for our field to effect change, particularly through investments in
education, broadband and scientific research, it also is providing a moment
for critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research,
teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside our
community. In this theme, we thus consider such questions as: What are the
broad impacts (actual and potential) of the iSchool movement? How can
impact be defined, identified, measured and communicated to key audiences?


This Call for Participation solicits contributions that reflect on the core
activities of the iSchool community, including research, design, methods and
epistemologies, educational practices and engagement between the iSchools
and wider constituencies both in the United States and abroad.
Contributions are also solicited that reflect more broadly on complex
interrelationships among people, information and technology in the
iSociety, particularly those focusing on public and private sector
settings. With invited speakers, paper and poster sessions, roundtables,
wildcard sessions, workshops and ample opportunities for conversations and
connections, the iConference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary
and diverse research communities drawing on the interest and expertise of
people across disciplinary and organizational boundaries. Sessions will
feature completed and early cutting-edge work. The iConference will also
include a doctoral student workshop and a mentoring session for untenured
faculty and post-doctoral researchers.

In addition to the conference theme, areas of interest include (but are not
limited to):

 * IT infrastructure development and sustainability in the home,
organizations, communities, society;
 * Diversity in the iSociety: inclusion of underrepresented groups—women,
youth, the aging, people with disabilities, indigenous communities, racial
and ethnic minorities, etc.;
 * Information behavior: theoretical, empirical and methodological advances
in everyday life settings, eScience and eResearch, information literacy,
etc.;
 * Information management: life cycle, personal information management,
digital asset management, technologies of remembering and forgetting;
 * Digital libraries: preserving digital information, information quality,
security and privacy;
 * Information organization: metadata, ontologies, the Semantic Web, social
tagging; and/or
 * eGovernment: information policy, economics, ethics, law, technologies of
privacy and trust;
 * Critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research,
teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside of our
community.

See more at http://www.ischools.org/iConference10/participation/

-- iConference 2010 https://www.ischools.org/conftool/