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LinkNet paper presented at ICTD2007, Bangalore, India

A paper of LinkNet with Meraka Institute and TNO, titled "Bringing Internet connectivity to rural Zambia using a collaborative approach" was presented at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2007), December 15-16, 2007 in Bangalore, India. Presenter at the conference was Marijn Rijken of TNO.

The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide a forum for academic researchers working with ICT applied to development. The conference is scientifically rigorous and multi-disciplinary – papers reporting high-quality original research were solicited. The paper was subjected to double-blind peer review. The conference will bring together researchers in both the social and technical sciences, with representation from anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, computer science, electrical engineering, industrial design, and so on.

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Conference Statistics

A handful of photographs of the event are available on the conference homepage: http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007. Content of the conference at http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/ictd2007/ICTD2007_Proceedings_CD.pdf .

 
Some statistics from ICTD2007:

38 papers presented

  • 105 submitted
  • 18 papers presented orally (17% accept rate, which is very selective)
  • 20 papers presented as posters (sums to 36% acceptance rate for all papers)

220+ attendees

  • By gvanstam at 21/12/2007 - 13:59
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