submission

2019 CIRN Call for Papers

• Submit an abstract via the conference database
• We have a few spots open for late submissions (contact us)

We welcome submissions that explore the intersection of policy and politics, research and scholarship, and advocacy and action in relation to societal informatics as well as related fields of academic scholarship.

The 2019 CIRN conference welcomes for proposals that explore:

• the role of research in shaping public policy
• the interplay between information, technology, and human rights
• the impact of national and international politics on local initiatives (whether stemming from academic or from communities) and vice versa
• the impact of disruptive technologies on the concepts of community and society
• the role politics plays in setting research agendas (and what is meant by politics? institutional, hegemonic forces? power inequalities? what about intersectionality?)
• the influence of research on action and advocacy
• issues of information sovereignty in a world of proprietary surveillance and datafication
• the potential of community-centered principles to shape policy in different contexts (e.g. different forms and levels of government, NGOs and International NGOs etc)
• the intersection of grassroots political organizing on Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives

submission guidelinEs

• Approved submissions include:
  • traditional papers
    • peer-reviewed / refereed
    • non peer-reviewed / non-refereed
  • short-papers, presentations, posters, or installations
  • completed works and works in progress
• note: only use the text box (you cannot upload attachments)
• Please do not email attachments to us
• We also have a strong track for graduate students (master and doctoral)
• The general paper limit is 7000 words (for practitioners and researchers) and 2000 to 3000 (for students)
• Submissions should be formatted according to the formatting instructions in the guide

Submit papers through: https://www.conftool.net/prato2019/

• You can only submit an abstract via the conference database (submissions sent via email will not be accepted)

dates

• Late call for submissions
• 15 June 2019 - accepted proposals notified
• 1 July 2019 - conference registration opens
• 15 August 2019 - full papers for refereed track due
• 15 September 2019 - referee reports due
• 1 October 2019 - resubmitted papers due
• 15 October 2019 - all other papers and submission forms due
• 20 October 2019 - final version of papers due
• 6 - 8 November 2019 - CIRN conference
• January 2020 - conference proceedings available

Proceedings

The Conference Proceedings contains referred, non-refereed and PhD colloquium papers and PowerPoints from the conference. All full papers in the refereed category are subject to blind peer review by at least two reviewers, and reviewers’ comments returned to the authors. Authors are then required to make changes and if necessary, a further review conducted before final approval. This is a publication (E1) for a conference publication for Australian participants. Conference papers must be prepared in the conference format.