Dear Colleagues, If you are a researcher, practitioner, and or graduate student who cares about technology and community as they intersect and or relate to advocacy, activism, politics, and policy, then please consider submitting an abstract to this year’s Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference; hosted annually in Prato, Italy. 16th Annual CIRN Conference Wednesday, Nov 6th - Friday, Nov 8th 2019 Monash University Prato Centre <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.monash.it_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6pQyfTH0nohgEO36m5ESrK0hi3TkJ9OKOJcDwSr-USvIzGfWFEjbz0ucfB8ypKFA&m=G6uAuWe49iKOFWe2-cMr1asp6XXZl2-YT3hZuB38R88&s=zcCcsKWnrAhGz9OMNUPT0nvMnX2Lts9NNeJGTfxbIUk&e=>, Prato, Italy For more information please visit conference website <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_monash.edu_cirn-2Dprato-2D2019_home&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6pQyfTH0nohgEO36m5ESrK0hi3TkJ9OKOJcDwSr-USvIzGfWFEjbz0ucfB8ypKFA&m=G6uAuWe49iKOFWe2-cMr1asp6XXZl2-YT3hZuB38R88&s=AnFdm23sZhvUf7pZD0CHTxxVBIjPvsNiZdoyXoZR9x0&e=> 🗓 Abstracts due: May 15, 2019 Start a submission here <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_monash.edu_cirn-2Dprato-2D2019_home_submission&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=6pQyfTH0nohgEO36m5ESrK0hi3TkJ9OKOJcDwSr-USvIzGfWFEjbz0ucfB8ypKFA&m=G6uAuWe49iKOFWe2-cMr1asp6XXZl2-YT3hZuB38R88&s=ROI-ULZyvY0pcORmjGYykb9FS6oWPGc0KmY_iTThhek&e=>. We welcome submissions that explore the intersection of policy and politics, research and scholarship, and advocacy and action in relation to societal informatics (Archival, Community, and Development Informatics) as well as related fields of academic scholarship. We welcome submissions from faculty, doctoral candidates, master students, researchers, and activists from a wide-range of fields, scholarship, and expertise. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following questions: the role of research in shaping public policy the role of Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives in informing public policy the interplay between information, technology, and human rights the impact of national and international politics on local initiatives (whether stemming from academic or from communities) and vice versa the impact of disruptive technologies on the concepts of community and society the role politics plays in setting research agendas (and what is meant by politics? institutional, hegemonic forces? power inequalities? what about intersectionality?) the influence of research on action and advocacy issues of information sovereignty in a world of proprietary surveillance and datafication the potential of community-centered principles to shape policy in different contexts the intersection of grassroots political organizing on Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Informatics, Participatory Information Governance, Recordkeeping Informatics, Community Archives What type of proposal can you submit? Submissions can be: traditional papers peer reviewed / refereed papers non-peer reviewed / non-refereed papers short-papers presentations posters installations completed works or works in progress Submission guidelines can be found here: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission <https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home/submission> — Colin Rhinesmith Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Science College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences Simmons University phone: 617-521-2881 web: http://crhinesmith.com <http://crhinesmith.com/> pronouns: he/him/his