4th International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries
July 10-11, 2006
Iringa, Tanzania
http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/tedc2006/index.htm

Sponsored by:
* NEPAD - the New Partnership for Africa's Development
* IEEE Computer Society (approval pending)

* Important Dates:
February 25, 2006: Submissions due
March 25, 2006 - Notification of acceptance
April 12, 2006 - Copyright form submission
April 12, 2006 - final camera-ready manuscript
April 15, 2006 - author registration deadline

The goal of this fourth international workshop is to bring together researchers, and educators to discuss various issues involved in developing new techniques and on novel uses of technology for education in developing countries.

In developing countries, conditions, constraints, and resources differ sharply with industrialized nations, creating special challenges for the technical and educational research communities.

We seek high quality submissions of original unpublished research on all aspects of technology for education in developing countries. Researchers and educators with new perspectives on applications of technology in this context are strongly encouraged to submit their work.

The main topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
Applications and systems: multimedia applications, adaptive learning environments, open source tools for teaching and learning, databases, data warehousing and data mining for
(mass) education, portals, web tools, asynchronous applications, distributed education

Novel technologies: alternative (low-cost, low-energy) technologies, wireless and mobile learning platforms, information retrieval for slow/unreliable connections, hand-on and hands-in technologies

Learning settings: special education, non-formal education, vocational training and continuous education, literacy applications, ICT education, distance learning

Impact of technology: project deployments, cultural issues in educational development, minority language requirements, cross-language interfaces, human-computer interfaces, cultural usability

Resource sharing: collaborative learning in local environments, human-computer interfaces for resource sharing, teaching resource management, grid computing infrastructures

Evaluation and policy issues: gender issues, universal access, technology as a tool for fighting poverty, cost-benefit analyses, sustainable educational technology, license issues of open source courseware

* Workshop Chairs:
Erkki Sutinen (University of Joensuu,Finland) (sutinen@cs.joensuu.fi)
Henrik Hautop Lund (University of Southern Denmark) (hhl@mip.sdu.dk)
Alejandro Jaimes (Fuji Xerox, Nakai Research Center, Japan) (ajaimes@ee.columbia.edu)
Daby Sow (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA) (sowdaby@us.ibm.com)
Kinshuk (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) (kinshuk@ieee.org)

* Paper format:
Full papers: 5 pages, Posters: 2 pages
Please see IEEE Computer Society guidelines. Authors can also use Word Template and Format guidelines. Please submit properly formatted PDF files. Papers that do not
adhere to the IEEE guidelines will not be accepted for review.

Review process:
All submissions will be refereed by international experts in double-blind review process on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity.

For more info, please visit: http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/tedc2006/index.htm