Special Issue On: Immigrant Inclusion by E-Participation
Submission Due Date2/1/2012
Guest Editors
Itir Akdogan, Mauri Kaipainen, Sonia Sousa, and Ilona Tikka
Introduction
“Immigrant Inclusion by e-Participation” (IIeP) is a multi-stakeholder regional project that addresses immigrant communities and public authorities in Estonia, Finland and Sweden. The aims of the project include bridging the tools, activities, and concepts of citizen communities, on one hand, and the governments’ top-down participation practices and technologies on the other, in terms of interoperability and integration of technologies. The Joint International Workshop on Immigrant Inclusion by e-Participation was organized within the project framework in 2-3 November 2011 at the University of Helsinki in Finland. The workshop gathered authorities on national and local levels involved in e-democracy and e-governance, immigrant and multicultural non-governmental organizations, and researchers in e-democracy and inclusion of immigrants in participatory decision-making processes in order to create a discussion forum and interaction between authorities, NGO actors and immigrant societies on immigrant inclusion by e-participation.
Objective
This special issue aims at sharing the discussions of the event with the international research community, but even at elaborating the subject in a wider spectrum with contributions from researchers in this field who were not present at the workshop. The special issue will thus bring together various perspectives on how authorities and immigrants may use new information and communication technologies for more inclusive and democratic societies.
Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Activism, initiative citizenship, and immigrants
- Challenges and limitations of e-participation
- Empowerment of immigrants in e-participation
- Governmental and municipal e-participation
- Hate speech online
- Immigrant’s public e-participation awareness
- Inclusion vs. exclusion of immigrants online
- Non-governmental organizations and e-participation
- Political e-participation of immigrants
- Promotion of social interaction and civic engagement
- Transnational identities, diaspora, and use of social media
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Immigrant inclusion by e-participation on or before February 1, 2012. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Itir Akdogan, Mauri Kaipainen, Sonia Sousa, and Ilona Tikka
E-mail: itir.akdogan@helsinki.fi
Special Issue On: The Politics of Green IT
Submission Due Date3/15/2012
Guest Editors
Abbe E. Forman, Ph.D.
Introduction
Green IT refers to environmentally sustainable IT/computing in an effort to lower the carbon footprint of IT/computing. San Murugesan defined green computing as “the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment” (San Murugesan, “Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices,” IEEE IT Professional, January–February 2008, pp. 24-33).
Objective
This special issue will explore the emerging topic of Green IT. “Greening” is a hot button issue that has recently been embedded in a multitude of platforms. As global environmental concerns have grown, many people and organizations have started to make changes to lower their carbon footprint in an effort to slow further decay. As society has become aware of the negative impact that computers and computing have on the environment, Green IT has taken a front seat as a way to lessen that impact. This issue will explore the ways that people, organizations, and governments are changing the way they use and dispose of computers.
Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Adding or increasing Green IT curriculum
- Algorithmic efficiency
- Computer recycling
- Green IT policies and regulation
- Greening data centers
- Power management
- Storage (i.e., cloud storage)
- Telecommuting
- Toxic computer dumping
- Virtualization
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on The Politics of Green IT on or before March 15, 2012. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
All submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:
Abbe E. Forman, Ph.D.
E-mail: abbe.forman@temple.edu
Original Article: http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-politics-ijep/1147
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