The fully networked human? - ITU Kaleidoscope 2011

12-14 December 2011, Capetown, South-Africa

The fully networked human? − Innovations for future networks and services − is the fourth in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences organized by ITU that brings together a wide range of views from universities, industry and research institutions of different fields. The aim of Kaleidoscope conferences is to identify emerging developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at an early stage to generate successful products and services through the development of international and open standards.

Kaleidoscope 2011 will highlight multidisciplinary aspects of future ICTs including future services and applications demand as well as social, economic and policy aspects of human-centric systems. In this environment, the user is placed at the center, and virtualized networks, other IT resources, services and applications are adaptively and automatically configured to support the users in carrying out their everyday life activities.

Besides many technical issues to be addressed, this also raises serious questions about access to ICTs, privacy, interoperability and sustainability. Future technologies should be designed to benefit humans, not the other way round.

The fully networked human? − Innovations for future networks and services is calling for original, academic papers offering innovative and bold approaches in research and development to integrate the real and the digital worlds.

Accepted papers will be presented during the event, published in the proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. A prize fund totaling $10,000 will be awarded to the authors of the three best papers, and Young Author Recognition certificates will be issued to young authors presenting at the event.

Call for papers (deadline 15 May 2011)
Sponsorship opportunities