-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] IFIP 9.4 2022 -- Call for panel proposals Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 17:28:29 +0000 From: Pamela Y Abbott p.y.abbott@sheffield.ac.uk To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*Call for panels: IFIP 9.4 Conference Lima, Peru 2022 https://ifip.ue.edu.pe/*

We are inviting proposals for panel presentations on topics relevant to the IFIP 9.4 community and broadly in keeping with the conference theme: *Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World*.

A panel should aim to present a variety of views on a topical issue in the ICT4D field, to generate debate amongst the panellists and to engage the audience in that debate. Thus, there should be potential for different positions to be put forward for the chosen topic and the proposal should make it clear how the panel will present these different positions. Good candidates for panel topics would be those arising from controversies, academic debates, new research agendas, global/geopolitical challenges, innovations and transformational technological advances and so forth.

The panel proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Chairs taking into account: a panel topic that will attract an audience, a panel composition that offers a variety of voices, and a panel format that will encourage audience participation.

Panel proposals should conform to the following guidelines:

· Maximum of three A4 pages in length, consisting of:

o An introduction to the panel topic demonstrating its importance to the field

o An exposition of the varying positions held on the topic and how these engender debate

o A section with short biographies (max. 100 words) of each panellist

o A references section

· Each panel should comprise a moderator and a maximum of 4 panellists

· The panel format should aim to complete all panellists’ debate and audience engagement in 90 minutes, with at least 30 minutes for audience engagement

Should the panel proposal be accepted, it would be expected that all panellists should commit to attending the conference.

Panel proposals should be submitted no later than *14th March 2022* to the programme chairs, using our email addresses below. Acceptance decisions of panel proposals will take place on *15th April 2022*.

Programme Chairs

Pamela Abbott (p.y.abbott@sheffield.ac.uk), Jose-Antonio Robles ( jrobles@esan.edu.pe), Yingqin Zheng (Yingqin.Zheng@rhul.ac.uk)

Pamela Abbott Senior Lecturer in Information Systems Head of the Information Systems Research Group Deputy Programme Coordinator, MSc in Information Systems Postgraduate Research Director Information School | The University of Sheffield Regent Court | 211 Portobello | Sheffield | S1 4DP | UK

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