{"119011":{"#nid":"119011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"International Information and Communications Technologies Conference Convenes at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of people from all over the\u0026nbsp;world attended the Fifth International \nConference\u0026nbsp;on Information and Communication Technologies and Development \n(ICTD2012) hosted on campus March 12-15 by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal \nArts and the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EICTD is the world\u0027s premier \nconference examining the role of\u0026nbsp;computers\u0026nbsp;and communications in social, \neconomic, and political development.\u0026nbsp; According to conference co-chair Mike \nBest, associate professor\u0026nbsp;in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the \nworld really came to the Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech campus for the four day event.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe had significant delegations from Africa and\u0026nbsp;Asia and\u0026nbsp;representations from \nAustralia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Of\u0026nbsp;course we also had attendees \nfrom across the USA.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECentral themes that emerged included the explosive growth of mobile \ntelephones worldwide and the development of innovative applications on mobile \nhandsets, the continued need for robust and inclusive methods that match \ncomputing systems with real needs and local realities, and the sustained \nenthusiasm demonstrated globally for internet-enabled services.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBeyond geographic diversity,\u0026nbsp;the conference attracted a broad range of \nscholars and practitioners including\u0026nbsp;university researchers, members of \ninternational organizations such as the\u0026nbsp;World Bank, senior government officials, \nand members of civil society.\u0026nbsp; There were over fifty panels and workshops, \ntwenty-nine\u0026nbsp;technical demonstrations, and thirty-eight peer-reviewed papers in \nplenary and poster\u0026nbsp;presentation.\u0026nbsp; Keynote presentations included the Honorable \nOmobola Johnson,\u0026nbsp;Minister of Communication and Technology, Federal Republic of \nNigeria, who\u0026nbsp;discussed the role of computers and communications in Nigerian \ndevelopment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe conference was co-chaired Ellen Zegura in the College \nof Computing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhotos by Bence Kollanyi\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHundreds of people from all over the\u0026nbsp;world attended the Fifth International Conference\u0026nbsp;on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012) hosted on campus March 12-15 by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2012-03-23 15:02:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:52","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"118991":{"id":"118991","type":"image","title":"ICDT2012 photo by Bence Kollyani","body":null,"created":"1449178268","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:31:08","changed":"1475894738","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:38","alt":"ICDT2012 photo by Bence Kollyani","file":{"fid":"194319","name":"250phoneguycredittobencekollanyi.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/250phoneguycredittobencekollanyi.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/250phoneguycredittobencekollanyi.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19839,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/250phoneguycredittobencekollanyi.jpg?itok=T0kOfL8f"}},"119001":{"id":"119001","type":"image","title":"ICTD 2012","body":null,"created":"1449178268","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:31:08","changed":"1475894738","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:38","alt":"ICTD 2012","file":{"fid":"194320","name":"audiencecreditbencekollanyi.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/audiencecreditbencekollanyi.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/audiencecreditbencekollanyi.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":22356,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/audiencecreditbencekollanyi.jpg?itok=3PqwfbRj"}}},"media_ids":["118991","119001"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"27931","name":"communications technologies"},{"id":"13990","name":"ICTD"},{"id":"1093","name":"Mike Best"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane 404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}