Call for Contributions
The eBorneo Knowledge Fair (eBKF) has been organized every other year since 2007 by The Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations (ISITI), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). It has turned the orthodox conference model on its head by taking academicians, development professionals, policymakers, and government officials into the rural communities they are discussing and mixing them with the residents in their natural environment in the remote interior of Borneo.
The event succeeds in giving voice to marginalized communities within debates whose outcomes will affect them. It enables fruitful interaction among the participants through engagement in insightful dialogues that lead to lasting relationships and mutual learning. Over the years, the event has spawned applied research around deploying technologies to solutions for local problems whose outcomes have far exceeded expectations in the areas of agriculture entrepreneurship, art and handicrafts, community resilience, community-based tourism, digital inequality, geomorphology maps, community based land mapping, language preservation, service learning for communities, rural technology for connectivity, resolving disputes, preserving traditional knowledge, technology for education and health, sustainable livelihoods, stimulating grass-roots interest in local culture, and understanding climate change impacts and their mitigation.
Consequently, we invite papers, workshops, exhibition and panel submissions along the following sub-themes:
The event succeeds in giving voice to marginalized communities within debates whose outcomes will affect them. It enables fruitful interaction among the participants through engagement in insightful dialogues that lead to lasting relationships and mutual learning. Over the years, the event has spawned applied research around deploying technologies to solutions for local problems whose outcomes have far exceeded expectations in the areas of agriculture entrepreneurship, art and handicrafts, community resilience, community-based tourism, digital inequality, geomorphology maps, community based land mapping, language preservation, service learning for communities, rural technology for connectivity, resolving disputes, preserving traditional knowledge, technology for education and health, sustainable livelihoods, stimulating grass-roots interest in local culture, and understanding climate change impacts and their mitigation.
Consequently, we invite papers, workshops, exhibition and panel submissions along the following sub-themes:
1
Climate change and environmental degradation
2
Bio-diversity loss and its mitigation
3
Policy formulation and implementation, development practices and SDGs #13 and #15 on the island of Borneo and beyond
4
Community-engaged research on community-based strategies for climate change mitigation and biodiversity preservation
5
Resilience, adaptation strategies and livelihood strategies of local communities and indigenous peoples (LCIPs) and changing climate patterns
6
Strengthening indigenous institutions capacities for indigenous knowledge preservation
7
Technology for sustainable development Sustainable livelihoods & rural tourism
8
Sustainable livelihoods & rural tourism
9
Heritage awareness and management
10
Indigenous innovation systems & TRIZ
11
Agriculture practices and sustainable livelihoods
12
ICTs for enthodevelopment and climate resilience
13
Community-based tourism and digital technologies
14
Community-based service learning
15
Community scholars & indigenous knowledge organization
16
Social entrepreneurship for a heathier life & a better environment
Submission
Submissions can be for extended abstracts of technical research papers, video presentations, exhibitions, cultural performances, panel discussions, virtual/physical walk-shops and/or field trips, seminars, and etc. Set your imagination loose to help us blend traditional ecological knowledge with contemporary science towards addressing one of today’s most pressing problems. All submissions should indicate the theme which closely relates to the topic when submitting and email to eBKFsubmission@gmail.com If your paper abstract does not fall within the remits of the listed themes, please email us at eBKFsubmission@gmail.com