The First International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change (IMT4SC'09) held as a part of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology on October 12-14, 2009 in Mragowo, Poland:

There are over 3.5 billion mobile phones have proliferated the world creating unprecedented opportunities to reach and impact the lives of billions of people in different social strata. The goal of the symposium is to create a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion on the use of mobile technology for creating social impact around the world. We are seeking not only research and technical papers, but also work-in-progress/future research papers which present new ideas and areas where mobile technology can be applied for social benefit. In addition, we hope to spur dialogues on how to incorporate socially-inclined mobile technology into the larger computing community and adopt established fields of computer science to the mobile-social framework.

CALL FOR PAPERS

• May 10: All Paper Submissions
• July 1: Authors Notification
• August 15: Camera-ready Submission and Registration

Topics include, but are not limited to:

•       Mobile technology for informal economies
•       Embedded AI and data mining applications
•       Mobile learning and education
•       Mobile applications for the disabled/elderly
•       Mobile technology impact on health care
•       Mobile technology for social and economic impact
•       Educational impact of mobile technology
•       Human rights and mobile technology
•       The use of mobile technology as an enabler for social impact
•       Social activism which can benefit from mobile technology
•       Open ideas on communities/groups/people and how they may benefit from computers/mobile technology

The papers are divided in three categories: work-in-progress and future research papers (3 pages), theoretical papers (8 pages), and practical applications with demonstrations to be shown at symposium (8 pages).

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If you are interested in attending a Mobile Tech 4 Social Change event, here are the ones coming up:

• April 29th: Washington DC
• May 23rd: London (registration forthcoming)
• May 23rd: Halifax, Canada

Watch MobileActive.org for additional announcements for M4Change camps in   Cape Town, Kampala, Nairobi, Toronto, Barcelona, and Geneva in the next few months.