Apologies for Cross-Posting Dear All (Feel free to circulate this among your networks) This is to remind you of the approaching deadline for early bird registration (December 1st) to the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development (M4D2012) organized by SERD (The Society for Education and Research Development, India) in co-operation with HumanIT (Karlstad University, Sweden). Go to the webpage http://www.m4d2012.com/Registration.aspx to register already today. The conference will take place the 28-29th of February at the Mapple Emerald Hotel in New Dehli, India (http://www.mapplehotels.com/city-newdelhi/overview.asp?links=jd1&htID=7111). Among the topics to be addressed in Dehli are: Mobile Health Mobile Communication and Political Participation / Political Change Agriculture, Rural Development and Mobile Communication Mobile Banking and Mobile Money Mobile Learning Mobile Communication and Corruption Fighting / Government Monitoring Innovative Applications for Mobile Communication The M4D conference has both a research track and a practioner track and hence is a unique opportunity for practitioners, researchers, development agencies and NGO workers to convene, discuss and socialize among each other. We are happy to already today confirm our cooperation with UNCTAD (the UN Conference on Trade and Development) that will present their latest report at the conference, with NOKIA, who together with HumanIT organizes an Ideas Challenge in connection to the conference (will be online December 1st at http://www.ideasproject.com/community/en), the WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION will organize a pre-conference workshop the 27th of february and SPIDER (the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions) will organize a workshop on Mobile Communication for Democracy. We are currently negotiating with several other exiting partners so keep an eye on the webpage, www.m4d2012.com for updates. M4D2012 will be one of the most exiting events of 2012, we whish you very welcome to New Delhi. For inquiries contact us at prof.vikaskumar@gmail.com Dr. Vikas Kumar (Conference Chair) Dr. Jakob Svensson (Vice Conference Chair) Jakob Svensson, Ph. D. Director HumanIT (www.kau.se/en/humanit) Ass. Prof. in Media and Communication Studies Karlstad University 65188 Karlstad - Sweden + 46 (0) 54 700 1893 jakob.svensson@kau.se