"International Conference on
Rural Information and
Communication Technology 2009"

17th-18th of June, 2009, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) campus
Jl. Ganesha No.10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
It is of primary importance to find effective and optimal ICT system to enhance well being of communities in rural areas to maximize the benefits of this technology. Related problems will include finding innovative network infrastructures, affordable computing, effective software applications, and sustainability policy scheme, social, economics, and regulation issues.

The r-ICT2009 will be a great opportunity for researchers, practitioners, policy makes, and anyone who are interested in any aspecy of rural information and communication technologies, to share their ideas and to build a strong network among each others. All submitted papers will be blindly perr-reviewed by international experts and selected outstanding papers will be invited for a publications in a Special Issue of the ITB Journal on ICT and/or internationally published book chapters. Topic covered in this conference are, but not limited to, the followings :

Network Infrastructure for Rural-NGN   Affordable High Performance Computing
NLOS Radio Link for Rural Areas   Mobile Computing
Mesh Networks   Low Cost Computing HW
Satellite and HAPS   Next Generation Interface
Low Cost Antennas   Grid, Cluster and Seamless
Low Cost IT Backbones   Computing
    Smart Computing
    Open Source