Call for Chapters: Promoting Social Change and Demoracy through ICTs

This is the title of a new book, to be released in the Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development (AEGDDRD) Book Series. The publication is aimed both at academics and practitioners working in the fields of development and democracy.

The editors are welcoming a geographic spread of cases and projects for example relating to:

• E-governance & E-government
• Role of ICT in social and political change
• Activist movements and citizenship practices
• Power relations among activists and citizens online
• Intersections of offline and online participation
• Issues of surveillance and privacy in contemporary participation
• Information technologies in the service for corruption fighting, transparency and accountability
• Information technologies in the service for civic empowerment and gender equality
• Information technologies in the service for poverty reduction
• Information technologies in the service for peace and human rights

Interested authors should submit their abstract by February 28, 2014.

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