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Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope
Section Policies
Peer Review Process
Publication Frequency
Open Access Policy
Archiving

Focus and Scope

Regional economies and communities are facing increasing economic, social and cultural hardship in many parts of the world as economies adjust to the demands of the new orders of commerce and governance. A part of this is the paradox that regional economies and communities can be either enhanced or disadvantaged by information and communication technologies (ICT) products and services. The potential enhancement comes from the increased social, economic and cultural capital that comes from harnessing ICT products and services in a community sense. The disadvantage comes from the power that ICT products and services have in centralizing commerce, service provision and governance away from the regional community.

Unless we get a greater level of access AND adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) for education and development at community level, we will miss the opportunity to turn the "digital divide into a digital opportunity for all, particularly for those who risk being left behind and being further marginalised" ("Declaration of Principles", WSIS-03/Geneva/Doc/4-E, Principle 10). The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal, with free and open access, that seeks to address this issue.

IJEDICT aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries. The emphasis is on providing a space for researchers, practitioners and theoreticians to jointly explore ideas using an eclectic mix of research methods and disciplines. It brings together research, action research and case studies in order to assist in the transfer of best practice, the development of policy and the creation of theory. Thus, IJEDICT is of interest to a wide-ranging audience of researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, government officers and other professionals involved in education or development in communities throughout the world.

IJEDICT comprises: a "research articles" section for academic, peer-reviewed articles; a "studies from the field" section for case study and descriptive articles (that are subjected to editorial review and peer comment, but not peer reviewed); a "research in progress" section for descriptions of research not yet completed; a "project sheets" section for brief dedscriptions of relevant project; a "notes from the field" section for working papers, and other commentaries on relevant topics; and, a "book/media review" section for book, software and other media reviews.

Reviewers for research articles are selected from the Editorial Board, the Review Board and the Peer Review Panel.

Coverage

IJEDICT has a major emphasis on the use of ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world. The journal includes descriptive case studies about ICT projects in developing countries and in rural and remote regions of developed countries, as well research articles evaluating such projects, developing policy or creating theory. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Community informatics and development in remote, rural and regional areas;
Developing regional industries (e.g., agriculture, tourism) with ICT;
E-Commerce and Business in remote, rural and regional areas;
ICT for micro, small and medium enterprises;
ICT in local governance;
E-Democracy;
ICT and social marketing;
ICT enabled healthcare for remote, rural and regional consumers;
Social epidemiology and virtual communities;
Education: distance, e-learning, flexible learning and delivery, open learning, e-literacy.

Section Policies

Refereed Articles
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	This section contains articles that have been peer reviewed. To be included in this section, articles must be based on research and scholarship, and contribute "new" and significant knowledge to the field of ICT for education and/or development.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

Book/Media Reviews
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool

	Editors:
	Ed Brandon, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

From the Field
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	This section includes editorially reviewed and peer commented (but not peer reviewed) case studies and descriptive articles (2000-5000 words) on the use of ICT in education and/or development.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Invited Articles
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	As the name suggests, "Invited Articles" are ones specially requested by the Editors.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Project Sheets
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	This section includes brief descriptions (500-1000 words) of education and development projects that utilise ICT.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Notes from the Field
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	This section contains short comments or notes (500-1500 words) that are useful for practitioners working in the field of ICT in education and/or development.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Editorial
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	Only the Editors can submit to this section.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Front pages for this Issue
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	Only the Editors can submit to this section.
	Editors:
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Complete Issue as a PDF file
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	Only the Editors can submit to this section.
	Editors:
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Research in Progress
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	This section contains articles that have been editorially reviewed and extensively peer commented (but not peer reviewed). To be included in this section, articles must outline or describe research-in-progress that has the potential to contribute "new" and significant knowledge to the field of ICT for education and/or development.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Literature Reviews
	Open Submissions Peer-Reviewed	Indexed Research Support Tool
	This section contains articles that have been editorially reviewed and extensively peer commented (but not peer reviewed). To be included in this section, an article must provide a scholarly description and analysis of the literature in a specific area of the field of ICT for education and/or development.
	Editors:
	Tony Carr, University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University, Denmark
	Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
	Wal Taylor, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Peer Review Process

All peer-reviewed articles, i.e., those for the Refereed Articles section, are reviewed by at least two (usually three or four) academic peers in a process that ensures that authors and reviewers remain unknown to one another.

Reviewers are selected from the Editorial Board, the Review Board and the Peer Review Panel.

The peer review process used by IJEDICT ensures that articles are accepted internationally as "refereed articles" (e.g., the journal is listed in the "Register of Refereed Journals" by the Australian Government's Department of Education, Science and Training). This rigorous review process has resulted in the journal accepting only 47% of the articles submitted for the refereed section (see Journal Statistics).

Publication Frequency

There will be four issues of IJEDICT per year, although publication will be continuous throughout the year. Articles will be published immediately in the current issue of IJEDICT on completion of the review/editing process.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Technical Support

Technical support for IJEDICT is provided by:

Reeve Ramharry
Email: reeve.ramharry@open.uwi.edu

Publication Classification Details

Key title:
International journal of education and development using information and communication technology

Abbreviated key title:
Int. j. educ. dev. using inf. commun. technol.

ISSN: 1814-0556

Peer Review Panel

Helen, Kerala Agricultural University, India;
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab, University College of Technology Tun Hussein Onn, Malaysia;
Blessing Foluso Adeoye, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria;
Olufemi Adesope, University of PortHarcourt, Nigeria;
Isaac Akindutire, University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria;
Buket Akoyunlu, Hacettepe University, Turkey;
Abdulkafi Albirini, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;
Kendra Albright, University of Sheffield, UK;
Nor Alias, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia;
Muriyankulangara Ananthakrishnan , Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India;
Lisa Anderson, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Tampa, Florida, USA;
C Annamalai, SEAMEO RECSAM, Penang, Malaysia;
Aslam Ansari, G B Pant University of Ag. & Tech. Uttaranchal, India;
Emmanuel Asomba, Development Gateway;
Dan Balzer, Illinois Math and Science Academy, USA;
Kanishka Bedi, Universitas 21 Global, Bangalore, India;
Maria Beebe, Center to Bridge the Digital Divide, Washington State University, USA;
Kadir Beycioglu, Inonu University, Turkey;
Elly Broos, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands;
Russell Butson, Higher Education Development Centre, Otago University, New Zealand;
Mu-Yen Chen, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan, ROC;
Ngoni Chipere, The University of the West Indies, Barbados;
John Clayton, Waikato Institute of Technology, New Zealand;
Caroline Coit, University of Münster, Germany;
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain;
Robert Corderoy, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia;
George Dafoulas, Middlesex University, UK;
Muhammet Demirbilek, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey;
John Denny, UNESCO Bangkok, Thailand;
Thammi Raju Dhumantarao, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University, India;
Crispen Dirwai, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe;
Berrin Dogusoy, Middle East Technical University, Turkey;
Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece;
Ayman Elnaggar, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman;
Andy Fan, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau;
Robert Fitzgerald, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia;
Alexander Flor, University of the Philippines, Philippines;
Mailce Fortkamp, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil;
Bob Fox, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, China;
Suely Fragoso, Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, Unisinos, South Brazil;
Norjihan Ghani, University of Malaya, Malaysia;
Andrea Glorioso, Politecnico di Torino - Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Italy;
John Griffin, Consultant, Oklahoma, USA;
OP Gupta, Punjab Agricultural University, India;
Sheikh Mahbub Habib, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden;
Robert Hancock, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA;
Wu He, Old Dominion University, USA;
Syed Huda, East West University, USA;
Princely Ifinedo, University of Jyväskylä, Finland;
Mohd Nazri Ismail, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
A Jayakumar, Sikkim Manipal University, India;
Sarah Jones, BERA, eMint, CP Squared, UK;
Trishanjit Kaur. Punjabi University, India;
Don Krug, University of British Columbia, Canada;
Gulsun Kurubacak, Anadolu University, Turkey;
Kehbuma Langmia, Bowie State University, USA;
William Lauder, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK;
Beatrice Ligorio, University of Bari, Italy;
Nena Lim, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
Kathy Lynch, Monash University, Australia;
Qingxiong Ma, Central Missouri State University, Missouri, USA;
Ann MacCann, Retired Senior Learning Design Officer, Australia;
Settapong Malisuwan, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand;
Simone Celine Marshall, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia;
Florence Martin, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA;
Oscar Martinez Bonastre, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain;
Avinash Mathur, National Inst. of Science Technology & Development Studies, India;
Machdel Catharina Matthee, University of Pretoria, South Africa;
John McAvoy, University College Cork, Ireland;
Elspeth McKay, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
Jim Millar, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia;
Zaheeruddin Mirani, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan;
Santap Sanhari Mishra, ICFAI Business School, India;
Monika Mital, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, India;
Zoran Mitrovic, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa;
Azlinah Mohamed, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia;
Ton Mooij, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
Carlos Morales, Lock Haven University of PA, USA;
Johnnie Muwanga-Zake, University of New England, Armidale, Australia;
Gyanendra Narayan, IIT Bombay, India;
Alf Neumann, University of Cologne, Germany;
Avi Noy, The University of Haifa, Israel;
Sabiha Odabaşı Çimer, Karadeniz Technical Univeristy, Trabzon, Turkey;
Tokunbo Ojo, Algonquin College, Ottawa, Canada;
Nwachukwu Ololube, University of Helsinki, Finland;
Niyazi Ozer, Inonu University, Turkey;
Varsha Patil, University of Pune, India;
Krassie Petrova, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand;
Bob Petrulis, University of Sheffield, UK;
José Simão Pinto, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil;
Ganga Prasad, C-DAC, Electronics City, India;
Puthira Prathap, Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India;
Larry Press, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA;
Haikal Rahman, State University of Medan, Indonesia;
Smita Rajpal, Smita Rajpal, ITM college of Engineering and Tecnology, India;
T Ramayah, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia;
A. Abdali Rashed, Applied Sciences University, Amman, Jordan;
Ravinder Rena, Papua New Guinea Unviersity of Technology, Papua New Guinea;
Roxanne Russell, Georgia State University, USA;
D. R. Sahu. University of Lucknow, India;
Camilius Sanga, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania;
Kathy Schmidt, University of Texas at Austin, USA;
Jonas Sesemane, UNISA, South Africa;
Mrinalini Shah, NMIMS University, Mumbai, India;
Md. Sadeque Shaikh, University of Science and Technology Chittagong, Bangladesh;
Ramesh Sharma, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India;
Zarrin Siddiqui, The University of Western Australia, Australia;
Marianna Sigala, University of the Aegean, Greece;
Upasana Gitanjali Singh, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa;
Aditya Sinha, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu;
Sridhar Srivastava, National Council for Educational Research & Training, India;
Kirk St.Amant, East Carolina University, USA;
Joette Stefl-Mabry, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA;
Johannes Strobel, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;
Bronwyn Stuckey, University of Wollongong, Australia;
Ronald Styron, Jr, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA;
Kridanto Surendro, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia;
Antony Thanamani, Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu, South India;
John T. Thompson, Buffalo State College, USA;
Erdal Toprakci, Cumhuriyet University, Turkey;
Nashir Uddin, Daily New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh;
Franklin Wabwoba, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kenya;
Peter Wilson, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
Xiuwen Wu, National-Louis University, USA;
ZHAO Xinyou, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;
Saadiah Yahya, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia;
Pierre Ysewijn, Tolochenaz, Switzerland;
Omariba Zachary, Kabarak University, Kenya;
Shenghua Zha, University of South Florida, USA;
Eric Zimmerman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel;

Submission throughput time

According to the journal statistics at http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/statistics.php, "Submission throughput time = 101 days" - which is 14 weeks. That is an average, of course. Some articles take longer, some take less time.

Here's how it works.

After submission, each article goes out for review. If it is a "research article", then this review is the full academic refereeing process. If it is a "from-the-field" (non-refereed) article, then this review is to determine appropriateness for the journal and any improvements that could be made. We ask reviewers to respond in three weeks - but in all honesty it often takes longer - say 5 weeks - to get a final decision.

The decision and reviewers' comments are then communicated to the author. It is up to the author as to how long they take to make the required changes - but let's say this takes 3 weeks. The final decision is then made within 1 week of receiving the revised article.

The article then has to be converted to HTML by the copyeditor, ready for publication. This takes about one day.

Publication of IJEDICT is continuous, i.e., once we have 5 articles we will publish that issue and add further articles as they become ready. This continues until the issue reaches 10 articles, and then we start collecting for the next issue. So you do not have to wait long for it to be published once a decision has been made on the revised article - say 5 weeks.

So adding all that lot up, from you first submitting the article to it being published should be about 14 weeks - more or less.

Guidelines for Reviewers

On receipt of the manuscript, you should check to determine whether there is any conflict of interest for you (with the authors, their institution, or their funding sources) and whether you can judge a given article impartially. If you have a conflict of interest, contact the editor for instructions.

Organize your review so that an introductory paragraph gives your overall impression of the manuscript and highlights the major shortcomings. This paragraph should be followed by specific, numbered comments, which, if appropriate, may be subdivided into major and minor points. (The numbering facilitates both the editor's letter to the author and evaluation of the author's rebuttal.) Criticism should be presented dispassionately; offensive remarks are not acceptable.

Please make sure that you provide feedback on the following:
1. Relevance, clarity, significance, and originality of the article
2. Appropriateness of research methods if applicable
3. Adherence to Harvard Editorial Style and appropriateness of the references.

Most reviewers write 300-400 words, plus they might make tracked changes in the text itself, as described below.

You are also encouraged to provide detailed feedback as tracked changes in the manuscript itself, which can be uploaded as a separate document. But please make sure that your identity has been removed. To do this in Word:
# Display the "User Information" tab of the "Options" dialog box by selecting "Tools" | "Options"
# Replace the user's name and initials with a space or some nondescript wording, such as "Referee 1."
# Any changes from that point on will then bear that name, and anonymity will be preserved.

If you have created all your changes but forgotten to remove your identity first, you can do it afterwards:
# From the Tools menu, choose Options and then click on the Security tab
# Tick Remove personal information from file properties on save and click OK
# From the File menu, choose Save As
# In your new file you should notice that all comments have now had your identity removed.

In your comments intended for the author, do not make statements about the acceptability of a manuscript - suggested revisions should be stated as such and not expressed as conditions of acceptance.

Advise the editor of your recommendation for acceptance, modification, or rejection by checking the review form at the appropriate place. The final decision regarding modification, acceptance, or rejection of a manuscript rests solely with the editor, so do not state your recommendation in the portion of the review that will be sent to the author.

After completing your review, transmit your comments via the IJEDICT website (NOT by email).

It is recommended that you make a copy of the review for your files. The manuscript may be returned to you for a second review, particularly if the requested modification was extensive. In this case, you will need to evaluate the author's responses to your original criticisms.

Do not discuss the manuscript with its authors either during or after the review process.

The manuscript sent to you for review is a privileged document. Please protect it from any form of exploitation. Do not cite a manuscript or refer to the work it describes before it has been published and do not use the information that it contains for the advancement of your own research or in discussions with colleagues.

International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology. ISSN: 1814-0556