[Students-l] Fwd. [Air-L] CFP Doctoral Workshop in connection to M4D conference, Dakar, Senegal 2014
Michel Menou
michel.menou at orange.fr
Wed Oct 23 10:25:32 EDT 2013
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:19:12 +0200
> From: "Jakob Svensson"<Jakob.Svensson at kau.se>
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> Subject: [Air-L] CFP Doctoral Workshop in connection to M4D conference
> Dakar Senegal 2014
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> M4D Doctoral Workshop, Dakar, April 7, 2014
> We invite applications to the M4D Doctoral Workshop in Dakar Senegal. The
> workshop will provide a forum for PhD students in the area of mobile
> communication technology in and for development to present their work and
> receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from
> peers. PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies are invited to
> submit papers. The workshop will host about 15 attendees besides the experts
> in the field. We expect submissions to be from current PhD students who have
> selected a clear research topic within M4D in the broadest sense.
> Participation for selected PhD students are free for M4D2014 conference
> delegates who have registered and payed the conference fee. The doctoral
> workshop is sponsored by the International Network of Post Graduate
> Students in the area of ICT4D (IPID).
> Goal of workshop
> The goal of the workshop is to provide professional development in M4D with
> critical, but constructive, feedback and advice to PhD students on their
> ongoing research from senior researchers. The workshop will also offer the
> opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and suggestions with peers in the M4D
> field.
> S ubmission
> Submissions should address the student's PhD research area, specifically:
> a well-defined formulation of the problem statement, objectives and aims of
> the research,
> explain the research context and why the research is important,
> give details of research design and data collection techniques,
> present preliminary results and research findings, do clarify the state of
> the research work,
> a brief sketch of the intended theoretical/disciplinary approach and
> audience(s) for the work, as well as the related theoretical and practical
> contributions to the multidisciplinary area of 'M4D'.
> Your name, affiliation, email address, PhD supervisor's name and affiliation
> and year when you started PhD should be included. The submission should be
> max. 5000 words in length. Please note that the workshop is not a venue
> for publication; there will be no published proceedings. However, we
> encourage workshop participants to also submit to the M4D2014 main
> conference (poster, full or short paper seewww.m4d2014.net).
> Doctoral workshop participants are asked to submit their papers to m4d
> @kau.se with the subject line [M4D2014 doctoral workshop].
>
>
> Workshop Format
> Participants will be divided into two groups depending on their research
> topic. Group A will be led by Anne Shongwe and Jonathan Donner and Group B
> by Laura Stark and Richard Ling. Participants will be asked to read the
> group member?s papers prior the workshop so that focus can be on
> discussing each paper in depth rather than listening to presentations. We
> will reserve around 15-20 minutes for comments and 10-15 minutes for general
> discussion.
> Important Dates
> Submission by: 23:59 (GMT), February 1, 2014
> Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2014 (by this date the M4D conference
> fee should be payed)
> Workshop date: April 7, 2014
>
>
> Jakob Svensson, Ph. D.
> Ass. Prof. Media and Communication Studies
> Director, BA Programme in Media & Communication Studies
> Director, MA Programme in Global Media
>
> Karlstad University
> SE-65188 Karlstad, Sweden
> Telephone +46 54 700 1893
> Mobile + 46 73 443 48 04
>
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