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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** First Call for Special Track Proposals ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">(GoodIT 2022)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">79 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/">https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Scope</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ACM GoodIT focuses on the application of IT technologies to social good. Social good</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">is typically defined as an action that provides some sort of benefit to the general </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">public. In this case, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">collaboration to create positive societal impact.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">GoodIT topics include but not limited to:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> I</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">T for education</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Data Science</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Data sensing, processing, and persistency</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Health and social care</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">IT for development</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Privacy and trust issues and solutions</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sustainable cities and transportation</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Smart governance and e-administration</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">IT for smart living</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Technology addressing the digital divide</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">IT for automotive</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Frugal solutions for IT</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Ethical computing</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Decentralized approaches to IT</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Citizen science</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Socially responsible IT solutions</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sustainable IT</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Social informatics</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Civic intelligence</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Special Tracks Proposals</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">GoodIT 2022 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">interest related to the overall scope of the conference. We solicit proposals for special </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">tracks to be held within the main conference and whose publications will be included</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">in the conference proceedings. Tracks proposals can focus on any contemporary </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">themes that highlight social good aspects in the design, implementation,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">deployment, securing, and evaluation of IT technologies. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Special Track Proposal Format</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">A special track proposal must contain the following information:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Title of the special track.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">information, and a single paragraph of a brief bio.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> A short description of the scope and topics of the track (max 1/2 page) and a brief</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to the conferences main theme; (3) why the track may attract a significant number of</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submissions of good quality.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track, possibly with </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">information on the process of selecting papers.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> The plan to disseminate the call for papers of the special track for achieving a </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">reasonable number of paper submissions (a list of emailing lists will help).</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> A tentative Program Committee list.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> A draft Call for Papers (max 1 page).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Publication</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Papers submitted to each particular track have to satisfy the same criteria as for the </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">main conference. They must be original works and must not have been previously </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">published. They have to be peer-reviewed by the track's Program Committee (at least</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">three reviews per submitted paper are required). The final version of papers must </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">follow the formatting instructions of the main conference</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(<a href="https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/).">https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/).</a> At least one of the </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ACM Digital Library. The special track may provide an option for publishing extended</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">versions of selected papers in a special issue of a journal. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Special track proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to the special track </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Chairs (see below) via email to: ombretta.gaggi@unipd.it, valentino.vranic@stuba.sk, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and rysavy@fit.vut.cz. The subject of the e-mail must be: GoodIT 2022 special</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">track proposal. The special track chairs may ask proposers for supplying additional </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">information during the review period. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Important Dates</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Special Track Proposal Submission Deadline: 13 December 2021</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Notification of Selection: 20 December 2021</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><u>Contact (Special Tracks Chairs)</u></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padua, Italy)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Ondrej Rysavy (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> Valentino Vranic (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)</span></div>
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