[ciência aberta] EJISDC Special Issue: Making Openness Work for ICT4D: Experiences and Approaches in the forum OCSDNet Sub-Projects 2015 - 2017 via email [OCSDNET]

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*From: *Petter Nielsen
*Subject: **Call for Papers for EJISDC Special Issue: Making Openness Work
for ICT4D: Experiences and Approaches*
*Date: *June 1, 2015 at 14:28:20 EAT

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC)
Call for Papers for Special Issue:
Making Openness Work for ICT4D: Experiences and Approaches

Guest Editors: Petter Nielsen and Sundeep Sahay

Background and Topic:
The promise of openness, reflected in for example open source software,
open data and open information, is attractive for ICT4D initiatives.
Openness is an outcome of sharing and collaborative efforts that reduce
costs and produce public goods. Thus, openness should be of relevance in
developing countries, and in particular where resources are constrained and
where silo thinking and isolated initiatives prevail. Unfortunately, we
note that this potential is often not realized.

This special issue on "Making Openness Work for ICT4D" will seek to shed
light on how the promise of openness can be realized in our field. Our aim
is to explore experiences from a broad range of ICT4D initiatives working
towards openness in its different facets. This entails improving our
understanding of these different facets of openness for ICT4D, the
challenges associated with realizing its potential and successful
approaches.

The contributions to this special issue will leverage on experiences from
developing countries, and we encourage empirical papers that work towards
conceptualizing openness for ICT4D, and building learning from them. We
also expect the contributions to critically discuss the foundations, the
potential of and the role of openness, and whether it represents hype or
reality or both, and why.

We call for a range of topics related to openness for ICT4D, including, but
not limited to:
·         Open Source Software and Open Data
·         Open Information
·         Openness and public goods
·         Human capacity and openness
·         The role of intermediaries in making openness work
·         Policy implications of openness from a government perspective
·         Design approaches to openness
·         The role of communities of practice in openness
·         Infrastructure for openness
·         Potential and impacts of openness

Submission Process and Important Dates
Papers must be submitted to the journal online as per the requirements of
the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (
http://www.ejisdc.org/  ). In the process, make
sure to indicate that your submission is for this special issue.

Submission deadline:                     November 1st 2015
First round of reviews:                    March 1st 2016
Submission of revised papers         May 1st 2016
Second round of reviews                August 1st 2016
Submission of revised papers         October 1st 2016
Final decision                                January 1st 2017
Submission of final version             February 1st 2017

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