CALL FOR PAPERS

10th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD WIDE WEB APPLICATIONS (ZA-WWW2008)

VENUE 1:

Cape Town (South Africa) Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 September 2008

Hosted by __ Cape Peninsula University of Technology __ University of Cape Town __ University of the Western Cape

VENUE 2:

Nairobi (Kenya) Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 September 2008

Hosted by __ African eDevelopment __ Cape Peninsula University of Technology __ University of Cape Town __ University of the Western Cape

The year 2008 sees the 10th consecutive World Wide Web Applications Conference. To highlight this milestone anniversary, the event will be celebrated in two places. The programme will kick-off in Cape Town and then continues the week after in Nairobi - reinforcing the Conference's engagement with African Web developments as a whole.

Although papers will not be duplicated, both conferences will reflect the same features and themes:

__ Prominent keynote speakers from abroad as well as from the local scene __ Various appropriate and applicable programme tracks __ Peer-reviewed scientific papers as well as invited presentations __ Poster presentations __ Proceedings published in electronic format __ Selected papers published in a special 10th anniversary conference issue of The Electronic Library: International Journal for the Application of Technology in Information Environments

The Conference Programme Committee invites authors to submit proposals of ±500 words for papers or posters (±250 words) of their original and unpublished work, research results innovations, ideas, and problems or issues that require solutions from any field in which the World Wide Web is applied or used as a tool or system.

Submit your abstracts at http://www.zaw3.co.za (follow the Call for Papers link)

Topics might relate to trends and developments over the last ten years; for example the growing number of "foreign" language sites; the politics of the Web; censorship and legal issues; new methods of access and device and network convergence; search engines and search techniques; emerging Web technologies, developments and trends; Web 2.0; and e-anything (government, commerce, marketing, learning, society, entertainment).

Target dates:

Peer-reviewed papers

__ Submission of abstracts (±500 words): 31 March 2008 __ Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 April 2008 __ Submission of full text papers for peer-reviewing: 31 May 2008 __ Notification of acceptance of papers: 31 July 2008 __ Submission of updated version of accepted papers: 25 August 2008

Posters

__ Submission of abstracts (±250 words): 10 August 2008 __ Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2008

Further enquiries:

Cape Town:

Prof Pieter van Brakel Conference Chair Cape Peninsula University of Technology Cape Town

vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za +21 82 966 0789 (mobile) +27 21 469 1015 (office) http://www.zaw3.co.za

Nairobi:

Mr Harry Hare Mr Andrew Karania Directors: African eDevelopment Nairobi

harry@africanedevelopment.org + 254 72565004 (mobile) andrew@ africanedevelopment.org +254 72 270 2187 (mobile) http://www.africanedevelopment.org/

Conference Secretariat:

Elizabeth Danckwerts Conference Secretariat PO Box 2760 Clareinch 7740 South Africa aecon.e@mweb.co.za Phone +27 21 683-5522 Mobile +27 82 468 7504 Fax +27 21 674 3269 www.aecon.co.za

www.iw3c2.org

http://www.uwc.ac. za/portal/public/ho me/index.htm http://www.uct.ac.za/

http://www.cput.ac.za/