{"id":1606,"date":"2015-10-27T08:26:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acis.ch\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2015-10-27T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:27:12","slug":"call-for-abstracts-tech4dev-2016-from-innovation-to-social-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"CALL FOR ABSTRACTS &#8211; Tech4Dev 2016, From Innovation to Social Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The 4th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Tech4Dev 2016, is an opportunity to:\u00a0<\/em><em>Present your research at a conference focused on innovative technologies for social impact in the Global South; n<\/em><em>etwork across disciplines and i<\/em><em>dentify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders interested in technological innovation in the Global South.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts for paper or poster presentations focusing on research results, case studies, or challenges relevant to the Breakout Sessions. The abstracts should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development. \u00a0Documents\u00a0will be peer reviewed and conditional acceptance will be sent by 7 December 2015. <strong>The deadline for full paper submission is 15 January 2016<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Core Thematic Areas:<br \/>\n\u2022 Technologies for Humanitarian Action<br \/>\n\u2022 Medical Technologies<br \/>\n\u2022 Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction<br \/>\n\u2022 Technologies for Sustainable Access to Energy<br \/>\n\u2022 ICT for Development<br \/>\n\u2022 Technologies for Sustainable Habitat and Cities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference place &amp; date<\/strong> : 2-4 May 2016 | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline\u00a0for abstracts<\/strong>: November 6th 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cooperation.epfl.ch\/2016Tech4Dev\" target=\"_blank\">More information <\/a>(EN)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Tech4Dev 2016, is an opportunity to:\u00a0Present your research at a conference focused on innovative technologies for social impact in the Global South; network across disciplines and identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders interested in technological innovation in the Global South. &nbsp; Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts for paper or poster presentations focusing on research results,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[96,3],"tags":[80,105,270,269,178],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-convocatorias","category-noticias","tag-codev","tag-epfl","tag-lausanne","tag-tech4dev","tag-unesco"],"gutentor_comment":0,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev.jpg",772,457,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev-80x80.jpg",80,80,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev-300x178.jpg",300,178,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev.jpg",640,379,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev.jpg",640,379,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev.jpg",772,457,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev.jpg",772,457,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tech4dev.jpg",340,201,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ACIS","author_link":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/?author=12"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The 4th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Tech4Dev 2016, is an opportunity to:\u00a0Present your research at a conference focused on innovative technologies for social impact in the Global South; network across disciplines and identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders interested in technological innovation in the Global South. &nbsp; Authors&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acis.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}