Call for Papers

Yunnan University, Kunming , China

April 2-3, 2007

Call for Participation

The ETHICOMP name is synonymous with an international inclusive dialogue concerning the ethical and social issues associated with the development and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Since 1995 there have been conferences, workshops and reports under the ETHICOMP umbrella. All have been organised by the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility of De Montfort University in the UK in collaboration with other universities around the world.

The ETHICOMP Working Conference 2007 is a new venture designed to promote ICT ethics and social impact activity in academia within regions of the world where currently such activity is relatively limited. It is fitting that the first one will be held at Yunnan University in China. The ETHICOMP Working Conferences will include position papers, case studies, posters, tutorials, workshops and demonstrations.

Themes

There are two parallel themes for ETHICOMP Working Conference 2007

• Issues
• current topics in computer and information ethics, and social impacts of ICT
• position papers, case studies and posters can be submitted
• Teaching
• inclusion of computer and information ethics and information ethics and social impacts of ICT in the higher education curriculum for computing, computer science and software engineering; methods, content and location
• tutorials, workshops and demonstrations can be submitted

How to submit

All submissions must be in English and have neither been published nor submitted elsewhere.

• Position papers and case studies submissions will be accepted on the basis of a paper of 6-8 pages with a maximum of 4000 words.
• Posters submissions will be accepted on the basis of a 400 word description of the poster content and format.
• Tutorials, workshops and demonstrations submissions will be accepted on the basis of a 500 to 700 word description of the activity including the objectives, format of the session, duration of session, participants aimed at and outline description of session.

The additional title page of each submission must include the title of the submission, type of submission, theme of submission, all of the authors' names, affiliations, complete mailing addresses including email, telephone numbers, and a statement of commitment that one of the authors will attend present the paper at ETHICOMP Working Conference 2007 in China.

A submission lacking any of the above information or not conforming to the submission guidelines will not be considered by the Programme Committee for inclusion in the conference programme.

Please make submissions in the electronic form via email as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF format.

Submissions must be submitted no later than 26 January 2007 to ccsr@dmu.ac.uk. Authors will be informed of the decision of the Programme Committee by 23 February 2007.

Important Dates:

Programme Committee:

Programme Chair:

• Professor Lun Li, Hunan Normal University ,China

Proceedings Chair:

• Professor Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

Members:　

• Professor Keith C C Chan,Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Professor Göran Collste, Linköping University, Sweden
• Professor Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University, USA
• Professor Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Professor Chuck Huff, St Olaf College, USA
• Professor Deborah Johnson University of Virginia, USA
• Professor Wanbil Lee, University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic, University, China
• Professor James Moor Dartmouth College, USA
• Professor Kiyoshi Murata, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
• Dr Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
• Professor John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia
• Professor Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China
• Professor Hua Zhou, Yunnan University , China