Dates: Wednesday, March 22 through Saturday, March 25, 2017
Location: Wuhan, China
Hosts: Wuhan University School of Information Management and the Sungkyunkwan University Library & Information Science and Data Science Department
Chinese website: Click here for a Chinese verison of the conference site.
REGISTRATION and Submissions: Click here to visit our secure registration and submissions site.
IMPORTANT UPDATES:
§ iConference 2017 registration is now open, with discounted early rates available through Jan. 20, 2017. Visit our Registration page for details.
§ iConference participants can now book their rooms at the conference hotel. Visit our Accommodations page for details.
§ The Wuhan hosts have issued a Call for Student Volunteers. Click here for information how you can become a student volunteer at iConfernce 2017.
§ We’ve posted travel and lodging information to help make your trip to China easy and enjoyable. Visit our Venue Page for information on accomodations, flights, visas and letters of invitation, local travel, and useful tips.
iConference 2017 will take place March 22-25, 2017, in Wuhan, China. It is the second iConference to be held outside North America, and the first to be held in Asia. The conference theme is: Effect • Expand • Evolve: Global collaboration across the Information Community. Registration is now open.
The 3,500-year-old city of Wuhan represents a combination of ancient culture and modern lifestlye, and conference participants are assured a memorable and rewarding experience. Click here for more inforation about travel and tourism in Wuhan.
iConference 2017 will bring together information scholars, researchers and professionals from around the world to share in high-quality research presentations and myriad opportunities for engagement. The program will include research papers and posters, as well as thoughtful keynote presentations, workshops, interactive sessions, a doctoral student colloquium, and early career collowquium. New this year, we offer a Chinese Papers track, and special sessions on iSchool Best Practices and iSchools and Industry Partnership. Read our CFP for details on how you can particpate.
iConference 2017 is jointly hosted by the Wuhan University School of Information Management and the Sungkyunkwan University Library & Information Science and Data Science Department
About the iConference
Since 2005, the iConference series has provided forums in which information scholars, researchers and professionals share their insights on critical information issues in contemporary society. An openness to new ideas and research fields in information science is a primary characteristics of the event. Attendance has grown every year; participants appreciate the inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement.
The iConference series is presented by the iSchools Organization, a worldwide association of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field, and preparing students to meet the information challenges of the 21st Century. Affiliation with the iSchools is not required—all information scholars, researchers and practitioners are welcome at the iConference.
The following is a list of sample topics from past conferences:
§ information behavior
§ social, cultural, health and community informatics
§ human-computer interaction
§ education in Library and Information Science
§ information systems
§ social computing
§ information policy
§ knowledge management
§ information retrieval
§ information services
§ information organization
§ digital curation and preservation
§ bibliometrics and scholarly communication
§ history and philosophy of information
§ participatory cultures
§ digital youth
§ social computing
§ human computer interaction
§ knowledge infrastructures
§ computer-supported cooperative work
§ data, text and knowledge mining
§ computational social science
§ digital humanities
§ network science
§ information and communication technology for development
§ data science
§ information economics
§ information work and workers
§ user experience and design
For more information about the iConference series, including official proceedings of past conferences and other archives, please view our About The iConference page.
