Upcoming Conferences that Preoccupies My Attention

ELI RIYADH 2009
First International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Learning
March 16-18-2009
Riyadh, KSA
Link: http://www.eli.elc.edu.sa/en/index.php


ICICTE 2009
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education
July 9-11
Corfu, Greece
Link: http://www.icicte.org/index.htm
Critical Dates:
February 13
Deadline for proposals.
February 28
Notification from Scientific Committee about whether proposal has been accepted.
April 10
Deadline for first draft of papers.
May 10


eISTA 2009
The 7th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2009
in the context of
The 3rd International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2009

July 10th - 13th, 2009 – Orlando, Florida, USA
Link: http://www.iiis2009.org/imsci/Website/AboutConfer.asp?vc=5

ICIT 2009
The 4th International Conference on Information Technology
June 3rd – 5th, 2009
Amman, Jordan
The conference is organized by the AL-Zaytoonah University of Jordan
Link: http://newsite.alzaytoonah.edu.jo/ICIT/pages/index.aspx
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With all these worthwhile conferences, I pray I can attend any of them this 2009. I don't mind a few extra waiting hours in the airport, long hours of travel, sleepless nights to write and improve my paper, another set of sleepless hours to make a good presentation, read and brief myself of the place of the conference, and even shell out some extra money for the taxi and other expenses that my funding will not cover~~ ALL OF THESE just to be able to participate and learn from other ideas, see other beautiful places, taste different dishes, learn some other culture and meet bright minds and maybe have new friendships..

The 7th International Conference on e-Business 2008

This is actually another late posting. I had the chance to join another conference in Thailand, on this occasion, an e-Business conference sponsored and organized by the Faculty of Information Technology of Rangsit University. The title of the conference is The 7th International Conference on e-Business 2008 (INCEB2008) held last November 6th – 7th , 2008 at the Grand Mercure Fortune Bangkok Hotel. I presented a paper entitled, "ClicktheCity.com Case study: Examining e-Yellow Pages". (Search the title in the search field of this page~~http://www.inceb2008.info/index.php?p=paper).


In this conference, the Thais are again commended for the organized and smooth conference, warm attitude of the organizers, staff and students~~in particular of course was Rangsit University. I was able to observe too, the cohesive synergy among different university directors and professors. Dr. Srisakdi Charmonman of Assumption University and Dr. Amornvan Limsommut of Suan Dusit Rajaphat University were around to grace, assist and support the event.

Thai universities had made a big leap from thinking only of their turfs but more on having a warm rapport and interactivity among them. Each university has identified its own strength while most of them have them have already welcomed internationalization in terms of university practice. Cheers to Thailand!!

**Special thanks to Dr. Chonawat Srisa-an, Program Chair of Inceb 2008.