Call for abstracts for presentation

Tech for Seva calls for abstracts on following subjects from researchers, innovators, corporates, NGOs and grass root workers for their upcoming Techno-Social conference scheduled on 28^th & 29^th September 2013 in Pune on a subject of Sustainable & Inclusive Development.

The topics chosen for deliberations / presentation are education, health, livelihood and environment.

The topic of Environment is further classified in energy, water, waste management and bio-diversity.  

1. Education:

1. Creative & Innovative education,
2. access, equity, quality & inclusion,
3. ICT based education,
4. vocational education, value education,
5. Industry & academia interaction,
6. Technology for education & education for technology.

2.  Health:

1. Technology Innovations based on traditional knowledge and practices:
2. Nutrition, Diet, traditional medicine, health practices,
3. Children and women’s health, elderly populations,
4. Health promotion, disease prevention, low cost vaccinations,
5. Bio and Nano-technology for health,
6. IEC i.e. information, Education & communication,
7. Advertisements & life style,
8. Treatments for neglected diseases.

3.  Livelihood:

1. Technology solutions for efficient use of non- timber forest products,
2. Mechanization in agriculture to improve efficiency in general and reduce drudgery in particular,
3. Conserving local genetic resources and seeds etc. 

4.  Environment:

4.1 Water:

1. Use of technology in effective use of water in rural/urban areas,
2. Water literacy,
3. Innovative/ low cost methods of rain water harvesting,
4. Innovative/ low cost methods of water purification for potable purpose,
5. Urban decentralized waste water technology solutions,
6. Innovative ideas to recycle domestic sewage in urban areas,
7. Equipment modifications for use of treated waste water.
8. Use of technology in water shed management etc. 

4.2 Energy:

1. Awareness modules for energy conservations,
2. User friendly devices for energy conservation,
3. Small scale energy generation for rural electrification,
4. Innovative use of solar, wind, biomass energy for energy generation 

4.3   Waste Management:

1. Energy recovery technologies from solid wastes (chemical/physical and biochemical routes),
2. Rapid Composting technologies,
3. Low cost technologies for value addition/ recycling of solid or liquid wastes,
4. Innovations in biomedical wastes management in urban and rural perspective,
5. Decentralized solid waste management solutions for cities,
6. Innovative methods of recycling of dry solid waste (paper, leather, textile, glass, plastic etc.),
7. PPP models for waste management.

4.4 Biodiversity:

1. Tools and techniques for sensitization and education of people about biodiversity/its conservation,
2. Technologies to support (record, value and map) biodiversity conservation (terrestrial and aquatic),
3. Green infrastructure solutions to help conserve the urban biodiversity,
4. Web based technologies for biodiversity data management,
5. Novel technologies for field data collection,
6. Portable components/miniaturizing of research tools in biodiversity research (e.g. smart phone apps for species identification)

Abstracts conforming to these themes are requested for presentation during the conference.

The presentations can be in English, Hindi or Marathi.

The abstract should highlight success stories that are possible to be implemented by others, innovations available for application, chronic / long awaiting problems needing interventions by scientific community etc. The abstract should be in around 500 words in the format as shown below.

The abstracts should preferably be sent in soft form, using Microsoft word to reach the organizers positively before 10^th July 2013 on the address mentioned below. Hard copy communication can also be accepted in special cases.

Scientific program committee after careful scrutiny will inform their decision to the authors by 25^th July 2013 to either convert their abstracts in full length papers or posters. Abstracts not conforming to themes will be rejected. The decision of scientific program committee to accept or to reject any abstract will be final and cannot be challenged.

Permission for oral presentation of the papers during the conference will depend on total entries received. However, all accepted full length papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. The authors are requested to take note of plagiarism possibilities and must take care to strictly avoid them.

Tech for Seva will not be responsible for any plagiarism issues.
Format for writing abstract

Name of the author: ———————————-

Address of communication: ————————

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E-mail: —————————————————–

Phone number: —————————————–

Title of the abstract————————————————–——–——–

Pertaining to theme:  Education, Health / Livelihood / Environment

Abstract:

(Maximum 500 words, Microsoft Word Calibri 12 Font should be used)

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Tech for Seva prefers all the communication on e-mail. However, hard copy communication can also be accepted in special cases.

E-Mail: secretary@techforseva.org

Postal address:

Secretary,

c/o Sevasahayog,

Flat No: 7, 1015/4, Shreya Apartment, Near Swanand Hospital,

Deep Bungalow Chouk, Shivajinagar,

Pune 411016 Maharashtra

India