Conference+2015+Themes

=**Conference Theme Questions & Submissions**=


 * Submit an abstract via this link.**

Extensive conversation during the 2014 CIRN conference led to the creation of an expansive list of ethics and diversity principles and practice standards with the goal of inspiring explorations applying different items from the lists to inform our Critical Community Informatics (CI), Development Informatics (DI), and Community Archiving (CA) education, research, and practice. We look to continue and expand the dialog during the 2015 CIRN conference as we explore questions such as:
 * How do we do knowledge translation within a framework of critical epistemological pluralism?
 * How can our education, research and practice lead towards greater community knowledge power?
 * How can our education, research, and practice lead towards deeper reciprocity and a recognition of interdependence to bring about social liberation and transformation?
 * How do we recognize and deal with political conflict, including our own politics, inconsistencies, and dilemmas?
 * What have been our experiences applying different items from the 2014 CIRN conference expansive list of principles and practices within our scholarship?
 * What are the central principles and practices that should inform pluralized CI/DI/CA education, research, and practice?
 * How should they be pluralized throughout the many different forms of practice that are CI/DI/DA.

We strongly encourage graduate students to take part in the graduate student symposium. Many students have gained much from this activity.

//The above suggestions are not intended to be prescriptive, but rather, to highlight the range of issues that remain to be addressed within the theory and practice of Community Informatics, Development Informatics, and Community Archive. We believe that the interaction between the fields will result in exciting new insights and look forward to any contribution that helps to achieve that goal//

=**Dates, Processes, Submitting an Abstract**=

In order to enhance the quality of papers in all streams, the Chairs take an active role in guiding papers through the review process. The following kinds of papers & presentations are sought:
 * 1) Full papers for blind peer review (up to 6000 words).
 * 2) Works in progress and more speculative pieces (reviewed and selected, but not peer reviewed).
 * 3) Non refereed papers, including practitioner reports (up to 6000 words).
 * 4) Graduate student papers which provide an outline of current or proposed research (between 2-3000 words, including references)
 * 5) Proposals for workshops or panel discussions.
 * 6) Proposals for poster sessions.
 * Conference papers for all categories MUST use the conference format. Abstracts/ papers can only be submitted through the conference database


 * * Call for papers & proposals.Abstracts/ papers can only be submitted through the conference database || NOW OPEN. || . ||
 * * Acceptance/modification/ rejection notices || As soon as possible thereafter ||
 * * Full papers and abstracts for all streams due || 31 July 2015 ||
 * * Referee reports to participants by || 30 September 2015 ||
 * * Final version of papers, based on peer review and program committee decisions due || 20 October 2015 ||
 * * Conference proceedings || Online/downloadable post- conference with ISBN ||
 * * Registrations || Available from 1 July ||
 * * Conference || 9-11 November 2015 ||