Call for Proposals, Papers and Presentations: 5th Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa Conference
IDLELO 5, the fifth biennial meeting of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) will be held from 19-23 March 2012 in Abuja, Nigeria.
The 2012 Idlelo Programme Committee is calling for proposals, papers and presentations on the use of Free and open Source Software (FOSS) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in general, to help attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Members of FOSSFA may submit more than one paper or presentation proposal.
Sessions usually consist of three thirty-minute presentations, and proposals should be geared to that length. A different format for some sessions may be chosen by the Programme Committee after the proposals have been reviewed. Session organisers may wish to propose different formats for their sessions, subject to Programme Committee approval.
The Programme Committee seeks innovative proposals and sessions and hope to see cross-disciplinary participation wherever possible. For both the commissioned and the open sessions, we are looking for the broadest possible range of proposals of topics within and across all the disciplines.
Procedure
Papers and Presentations will be evaluated for promise of quality and significance of topic. Session organisers make an initial selection of papers and submit a plan to the Programme Committee, which makes final decisions by 24 February 2012. Notification of acceptance or rejection will take place shortly thereafter.
The proposal must have two parts: (1) a cover sheet containing the proposer’s name, professional status, postal address, home and office telephone numbers, fax number (if available), e-mail address, and paper title; (2) a second sheet containing the proposer’s name, session for which the paper should be considered, paper title, 250-word abstract, and audio-visual equipment requirements. Should the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in March, that address should be included.
Submissions should be sent to the Programme Committee at idlelo5@fossfa.net.
Topics
The Programme Committee solicits papers for the sessions listed below. For information about a specific session, contact the session organiser.
- Government Roundtable, organiser: Dorothy Gordon, co-organiser: Diego Okenyodo;
- Poverty Alleviation, organiser: CHALA, co-organiser: Cyril N. T;
- Education, organiser: Katim S. Touray, co-organiser: Seun Ojedeji;
- Health, organiser: Francis Ohanyido.
The Programme Committee welcomes submissions on other topics and will organise additional sessions to accommodate the best submissions.
Session proposals
The Programme Committee will consider proposals for entire sessions if their subject matter does not conflict with that of other sessions. Please consult with the Programme Committee chair before preparing a proposal. Session proposals require the same information as individual paper proposals and abstracts for the papers in the proposed session will be evaluated by the Programme Committee.
Audio-visual equipment
Requests for audio-visual equipment must be made with the proposal.
Student Prizes
Special awards will be given to some students for papers judged meritorious by the Programme Committee. To be eligible for an award, students must, be members of the FOSSFA and, once their proposed papers have been accepted for inclusion in the programme, must submit complete papers to the Programme Committee by 24 February 2012.
Do not send proposals to session organisers.
For more information, refer to www.idlelo.net/node/8.
For more about the IDLELO Conference, refer to www.idlelo.net.
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