LAWCC 2013
V Latin American Women in Computing Congress

Second Call for Papers

Program Committee

Chairs:
Maria Carolina Monard, Brazil
Yudith Cardinale, Venezuela,

Organizing Committee

Chair:
Yudith Cardinale (USB)
Members:
Leonid Tineo (USB), Rosseline Rodríguez (USB), Wilmer Pereira (USB-UCAB), Xiomara Contreras (USB), Soraya Carrasquel (USB), Carlos Figueira (USB), Macringer Omaña (USB-Litoral), María Elena Villapol (UCV), Evelenir Barreto (UCAB), Eric Gamess (UCV), Antonio Silva (UCV), Claudia León (UCV), Diliana Rodríguez (UBV), Carlos Herrera (UBV), Ernesto Coto (UCV), Rosaura Paladino (UCAB)

Institutions:

Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela
Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática

Important dates

Paper submission opening: February 1st, 2013
Paper submission deadline: May 6th, 2013 (extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2013
Final version submission: July 31th, 2013

Purpose of the Congress

Since 2009, the Latin American Women in Computing Congress (LAWCC) is a conjoin event in the Latin American Conference in Computing (Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática), annually promoted by the Latin-american Center for Informatics Studies (CLEI). The Fifth LAWCC aims at highlighting research, interest, and successful experiences of women in different areas in computing, in order to encourage the active participation of more women. Works and presentations identifying the challenges in Information Technologies (IT) for women in the academy, at enterprises, and in research are expected. This edition is focused on finding ways to approach the recurrent problems relative to the female gender and the interaction with society in this context. LAWCC 2013 will be part of the 39th edition of CLEI 2013, to be held from 7 to 11 October 2013 in Naiguatá, Edo. Vargas, Venezuela.

Topics

LAWCC 2013 invites to present papers which report original contribution or relevant experiences in the following topics, but not limited to:

• Encouraging participation of women in IT areas.
• Gender equity and IT
• Gender particularities in developing and deploying ITs
• Gender particularities in teaching IT.
• Analysis of women research activities in ITs
• Gender and Human-Computer Interaction
• Female leadership models in Computing
• Social networks and women
• Women participation in decisions making at national and international levels, regarding the use of ITs.
• Public policies for women and ITs.

Information for Paper Submission

Papers could be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English and have to be submitted until May 6th, 2013 in PDF format according to the CLEI 2013 home page (http://clei2013.org.ve/):

• Submitted papers must be the result of original research or reports with relevant experiences and should not be published or under evaluation on other conferences and/or journals.
• All submitted papers must have a maximum of 12 pages, including figures, references and an abstract of 150 words in one of the official languages accepted by CLEI 2013 (Spanish, Portuguese and English). Submissions written in Spanish or Portuguese, should have an abstract in English. Submitted papers must be formatted according to IEEE rules, referenced in the CLEI 2013 site (http://clei2013.org.ve/llamado- a-articulos/).
• The final program and the proceedings will only include papers with at least one author registered in the AUTHOR category of the conference before the final version submission date.
• All accepted papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)

Contacts

Maria Carolina Monard: mcmonard@icmc.usp.br
Yudith Cardinale: yudith@ldc.usb.ve

“...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.” - Victor Hugo