In the years since the development of the world wide web, an increasing number of people also in developing countries have been using information communication technology (ICT) to bring about change in their work methods and environment and to speed up the development process. The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES-N) in Nepal announces the conference for 2002 and calls for papers on the following topics. The main focus across all these areas would be on youth, gender, e-health, and how technology can help in building democratic societies. But the list is not exhaustive and ideas are welcome.

- Appropriate Information Technologies
- IT, Youth and Volunteerism
- Using ICT in Development
- Society, Web and Gender
- Policy and Legislation
- Internet and democratisation

Selected papers will be offered fast-track approval for publication in a special edition of the Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC). Selected papers from the 2001 conference are now available in Volume 8 at http://www.ejisdc.org/ [2]

Please send papers/proposals for presentations via email to [email protected] [3]

Further information about the conference is available on the web at
http://www.itcd.net [4]

Paper / proposal submission deadline: 30 August 2002
Confirmation for presentation deadline: 30 September 2002
Full paper / presentation submission deadline: 30 October 2002.