PUTS-14 Call for Extended AbstractsTHE 1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE POSITIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

(PUTS-14)

The PUTS-14 workshop is an annual workshop for researchers in technology and science that will be held in Banjul, The Gambia. PUTS-14 seeks papers on positive uses of technology and science within the Sub-Saharan African region.

Location: The University of The Gambia.

Deadline Submission: 8 March 2014Date: 19 March 2014

Submit Paper: Click following link to submit paper https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=puts14

Topics: Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Health information technology

• Open source software

• Technology innovation

• Techno-entrepreneurship

• Networking

• Mobile learning

• Cyber security

• Manufacturing robotics

• Surgical technology

• Military defense technology

Proceedings will be published in a book with Common Ground Publishing's Technology, Knowledge,

and Society or IGI Global. Only proceedings published with a minimum of 8 pages single spaced

will be included in the book. However only abstracts will be published in the general proceedings

booklet. The format for full papers can be found

at http://mdslab.unime.it/fsci11/authors_information-IGI_Chapter_Template.doc The book will be

titled "Handbook of Research on Sub-Saharan African Innovations in Technology and Science".

Program Chair:

Dr. Maurice Dawson

Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems

Department of Management and Marketing

College of Business and Public Affairs

P.O. Box 429

Normal, Alabama 35762

+1-256-372-4801

maurice.e.dawson@gmail.com

maurice.dawson@aamu.edu