Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students CALL FOR PAPERS ICT 2016 - Deadline for submissions (last call): 13 May 2016 -- 9th International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2016 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 3 July 2016 (http://www.ict-conf.org/) Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2016) Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1 - 4 July 2016 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor emerita Gunilla Bradley, Informatics, School of ICT, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden * Conference Scope The effects of ICT on human beings as well as the interaction between ICT, individuals, and society are all within the focus of this conference. Both analyses of interactions and effects are important. Changes in behaviour, perspectives, values, competencies, human and psychological aspects and feelings are all of interest. Reflections on past, present, and future challenges - especially planning to handle the future - are encouraged. The conference pays attention to societal changes, global and more local organisational and institutional changes, changes in values and in lifestyles, as well as individual cognitive effects and changes, motivational and emotional changes. It also appeals to solution-building in terms of desirable goals and actions for reaching a Good Information Society. In general all types of research strategies are encouraged, and especially cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary studies. Case studies, broader empirical field studies, theoretical analyses, cross-cultural studies, scenarios, ethnographic studies, epistemological analyses may all be presented. For more details please check http://www.ict-conf.org/call-for-papers . * Paper Submission This is a blind peer-reviewed conference. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English through the conference submission system by May 13, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously. * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline (last call): 13 May 2016 - Notification to Authors (last call): 3 June 2016 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 17 June2016 - Late Registration (last call): After 17 June 2016 * Paper Publication The papers will be published in book and electronic format with ISBN, will be made available through the Digital Library available at http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/showsearch. The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by IET's INSPEC, Elsevier, EI Compendex, Scopus, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBSCO and other important indexing services. The best papers will be selected for publishing as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and also in journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers. * Conference Contact: E-mail: secretariat@ict-conf.org Web site: http://www.ict-conf.org/ * Organized by: International Association for Development of the Information Society * Registered participants in the ICT, Society and Human Beings conference may attend the other conferences part of MCCSIS 2016 free of charge. MADdOG PHOTOGRAPHYon Dr. Antonio Marturano Adjunct Professor of Philosophical Anthropology Dept. of Sccience and Technology of Education University of Rome, Tor Vergata via Columbia, 1 00173 Rome (Italy) Founder and Associate Editor Leadership & The Humanities, Edward Elgar|