ICKET 2017 in Russia and more open for South Africans

We just stared at the coloured marble columns and the exceptional paintwork in St Petersburg, Russia

The lifting of the visa restrictions for South Africans who want to travel to the Russian Federations is great and welcome news to all academics. The 6th International Conference on Knowledge and Educational Technology (ICKET) will take place in Moscow from 28 to 30 August at the Best Western Plus Vega Hotel and Convention Center. The registration fee is 350$ for presenters (there are also publication options available) and abstracts must be submitted before 15 April 2017. Registrations must be done by 20 May. 

To say that almost every aspect of Knowledge and Education technology will be covered is not an exaggeration of the scope of this conference. I am sure every academic can find at least a hand full of topics on which to present and another hand full that are of interest to him or her. Just look at this impressive list of topics:

Information Technology and Applications	Agents and Datamining
Augmented and Virtual Reality	Biometrics, Bioinformatics and Healthcare
Computer Human Interaction	Computer Vision and Image Processing
Cyber Security	Digital Graphics and Multimedia
Distributed and Parallel Computing	E-Commerce and E-Business
Electronic Design Automation	Fuzzy Logic, Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence
Games and Entertainment	Genetic, Evolutional, Computational Intelligence
GIS and Remote Sensing	Handheld Devices and Micro Systems
Information and Communication Systems	Information security
Heuristic and Semantics	Intelligent and Multi-agent Control Systems
Information Technology in Accounting and Business Administration	Information Technology in Design, Architecture and Building
Information Technology in Education	Information Technology in Governance and Government Policy Making
Information Technology in Literature and Art	Machine Intelligence and Information Fusion
Mobile Data Communications	Operating Systems and Design
Simulation Methodology	Programming Tools and Compilers
Signal and Information Processing	Software and Firmware Engineering
Natural language processing	Advanced Knowledge Technologies
Sustainable Energy Management and Environmental Issues	System and Information Management
Telecommunication and Information Networking	Knowledge Technology and Applications
Business intelligence & Customer Relationship Management	Communication, collaboration and information sharing
Content management & digital rights management	Context modeling and management
Digital libraries, Archives and Repositories	Domain analysis and modeling
e-Business and interoperability issues	e-Learning, e-training and executive training
Decision support systems and intelligent systems	Human-Machine Interaction
Impact measurement of knowledge management	Innovative Approaches to Knowledge Management
Intelligent multi-agent systems	Interoperability
Intelligent information systems	Intelligent problem solving
Knowledge Relationship Discovery	Knowledge Management and Projects
K-Economy, k-community and k-enterprise	Knowledge acquisition
Knowledge Management strategies and implementations	Knowledge Reengineering
Knowledge Visualization	Ontology sharing and reuse
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning	Knowledge Services
Learning organization & organizational learning	Metadata and structured documents
Semantic Web and Ontology	Organizational semiotics
Ontology matching and alignment	Organizational memories
Process knowledge and semantic services	Social networks and the psychological dimension
Ontology Engineering and Technology	Tools and technology for knowledge management
Studies, metrics & benchmarks	Data Structure and Algorithm