A conference will be organized on the topic “ICT for sustainability” in Zurich from February 14-16, 2013. This conference will comprise invited lectures, submitted papers, and workshops. The call for papers will be announced towards the end of January 2012. This ICT4S conference aims to assemble leading researchers from the technical, natural and social science disciplines. The conference is regarding utilization of the transformational power of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for making our world more sustainable.
Abstracts will be due by June 1, 2012, and full papers (due by September 1, 2012) will be subject to peer review before final acceptance. The main aim of this conference is to save energy and material resources by creating more value from less physical input and increasing quality of life for more and more people without compromising needs of future generations´.
ICT4S conference aims to bring together leading researchers from the technical, natural and social science disciplines:
- To take stock of the role of ICT in sustainability and to improve the methods of measuring the positive and negative effects of ICT;
- To create an interdisciplinary synopsis, to inspire new approaches to unleash the potential of ICT for sustainability in various fields of application, from production to consumption;
- To improve methodologies of evaluating, developing, and governing the effects of ICT systems on the sustainability of societal and environmental systems.
However, the prospective of ICT´s contribution to sustainability has been recognized at fast pace during the last decades, realizing this potential has proved to be a challenge. The full papers which will be accepted will further be published in an e-book provided to conference participants. A selection of speakers and authors will be motivated to submit an extended version of their contributions to an edited volume and/or a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal after the conference.
Last date of submission of Abstracts will be June 1, 2012, and full papers (due by September 1, 2012).
For further information visit the website: http://www.ict4s.org/
