[WiTRUE 2011] International workshop on Wireless Communication and Networking Technologies for Rural Enrichment

WiTRUE 2011

The First International workshop on Wireless Communication and Networking Technologies for Rural Enrichment

Shanghai, China.

*Scope*

The International workshop on Wireless Communication and Networking Technologies for Rural Enrichment (WiTRUE-2011) shall be co-located with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2011), on 9th Oct 2011. The WiTRUE 2011 will focus on the various technological solutions being researched and developed across the globe to address rural challenges and identify channels that can directly benefit the rural masses. 

The objective of the workshop is to bring together under one roof researchers, administrators, NGO's and other like minded people with a common objective of using tomorrows technologies for today's rural development. There have been several small pockets of technology use for rural development in the areas of agriculture, education, self-help, empowerment etc. The focus of this workshop is to not only to make these innovations reach the rural folks around the globe, but also to provide a platform where new rural development ideas can germinate and grow. Along with highlighting and bringing in focus the various technologies that are already being used on the field for rural benefits, the workshop will also focus on future technological trends to assist rural development. The workshop will hence provide a platform for discussion on basic challenges faced by rural population in the area of health, education, security, earnings and sustainability and the different technological advances being undertaken to address them.

All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings for being indexed and archieved through IEEExplore. 

Authors are encouraged to send their papers describing original and unpublished work in the areas which are closely related to Technologies to address potential Rural development challenges. The list of topics includes, but are not restricted to

· Precision agriculture

· Wireless sensor networks

· Cell phone based Sensor Networks

· Agri-Sensor data fusion

· Information dissemination to rural masses

· Signal Processing for rural applications

· Mobile computing

· Mobile phone application

· Agriculture expert system

· Energy and power Security

· Technologies for Irrigation

· Sensors, Actuators and Control

· Supply chain of agro-produce

· Plant health and safety

· Sustainability

· Security

· Rural health

· Rural education and training

· Rural Development

· Profit optimization

· Rural data mining

· Rural Human Computer Interface

· Mobile databases

· Mobile Visualization

· Rural social networking

*Submissions*:

Authors are invited to submit papers on original, unpublished work on the topics of this workshop. Submissions should follow the WiTRUE 2011 length and formatting requirements.

*Important Dates*:

Paper Submission: 15th July 2011

Acceptance Notification: 22th July 2011

Camera Ready: 30th July 2011

Presentation at Workshop: 9th Oct 2011

*WiTRUE 2011- Committee*

Chair: Arun Pande, Tata Consultancy Services

*Technical Program Committee (Invited, to be confirmed)*

• Kenneth Brown, University of California Davis

• Deepthi Chander, IIT Bombay

• Naveen Chilamkurti, La Trobe University

• Ipsita Das, IIT Bombay

• Arijit De, Tata Consultancy Services

• Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad

• Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs India

• Rikin Gandhi, Digital Green

• Kannan Govindan, University of California Davis

• Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad

• Ramesh Jain, UC Irvine

• Bhushan Jagyasi, Tata Consultancy Services

• Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay

• Sunil Kumar Kopparapu, Tata Consultancy Services

• Pallavi Manohar, General Motors India Science Lab

• Shabbir Merchant, IIT Bombay

• Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Lab

• Vinod Kumar Pandey, Tata Consultancy Services

• Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley

• Nimmi Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research

• Hemant Kumar Rath, Tata Consultancy Services

• Himanshukumar Soni, G H Patel Engineering College

• William Thies, Microsoft Research

• Thomas Thundat, ORNL

• Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research

• Moe Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

*Contact*

For any information about the workshop, please contact: oc.witrue@gmail.com

For further and up to date information, please visit official webpage of the workshop 

http://www.tcsinnovations.com/component/content/article/617