Official Website of the Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications

The success of the international World Wide Web conferences, as organised by the International WWW Conference Committee, prompted the invention of a similar and local series for South African researchers and Web developers. Prof Pieter van Brakel, previous head of the Department of Information and Knowledge Management of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) consequently organised and chaired the 1st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications, held in 1999. The first international WWW conference was held in 1994 at the Web’s birthplace at CERN, Geneva and organised by Robert Cailliau, the person who wrote the first source code for a hypertext system for physicists, of what would eventually become today’s World Wide Web.
 
 The overall aim of the South African conferences was to provide academics, researchers and Web developers with an opportunity to describe and discuss novel Internet, Web and intranet applications and developments, and to exchange ideas on applying the Web for teaching and research purposes. The outstanding success of this first conference necessitated the arrangement of a second, a third and further events in the years to come. Academics and those from industry were brought together from the wide spectrum of human knowledge - with Web applications as the common denominator.
 
 The month of September is each year set aside for ZA-WWW. The 12 years of conferencing created the opportunity for about 750 authors to present their research. Since 2005 these papers have been peer-reviewed according to the SA Department of Higher Education and Training’s requirements
 
 The year 2011 marks the 13th event of the Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications. The 2011 Conference will be hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand’s Knowledge and Information Unit in Johannesburg from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th September. The Conference covers a wide variety of areas from e-Learning and web applications to software development and e-Commerce. ZA-WWW 2011 is about creating conversations around the web that could lead to new insights and developments in the field.

 Typical features of the annual WWW conference are –

• Prominent keynote speakers
• Various programme tracks
• Poster presentations
• Proceedings published permanently in electronic format via the Conference’s website.

Peer-reviewed papers

	Submission of abstracts (±500 words)	24 March 2011
	Notification of abstract acceptance	25 March 2011
	Submission of full text papers for peer-reviewing	15 May 2011
	Notification of acceptance of papers	30 June 2011
	Submission of updated version of accepted papers	25 August 2011

	Submission of abstracts (±250 words)	31 August 2011
	Notification of abstract acceptance	2 September 2011

Further enquiries:

Prof Pieter van Brakel (ZA-WWW Conference Organiser)
vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za

               +27 82 966 0789         (mobile)

               +27 21 469 1015         (office)

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