The Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University of California, Irvine and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are pleased to announce an international conference on Home/ Community Oriented ICT for the Next Billion. The conference will be held in Chennai, India and the dates are August 22-25, 2007.

The purpose of the conference is to present papers, exchange ideas between and among researchers from different disciplines relating to the development of information and communication technologies for home and community applications. The participants will include researchers and specialists from universities, research organizations, industry and government.

One of the major themes of the conference is the emerging economies and the rural sector.

Conference Contacts/ Program Chairs:

Alladi Venkatesh
Professor, The Paul Merage School of Business
and Associate Director
CRITO (Center for Research on Information Technology)
3200 Berkeley Place
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697 USA
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Timothy A. Gonsalves
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
Chennai 600 036 India
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