Terms & Conditions

Registrations

All registrations for the in-person 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day are subject to availability and to making the required payment.

Registrations are not valid until confirmed via email.

Any accessibility requirements should be notified to ICT4D Conference at the point of registering.

The early bird rates end on December 22, 2023.

ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day fees are listed in USD ($) and payment can only be made in USD ($) via PayPal, credit or debit card.

You can receive a refund minus the PayPal fees and additional costs if you request a cancellation/refund before 23:59, December 19, 2023.

If you request a cancellation/refund from 00:01, December 20, 2023, you will not be eligible for a refund.

If you cannot attend the event, your registration fee can be transferred to a substitute participant from your organization. Forward your confirmation email with details (full name, job title and email address) on who from your organization is attending instead to adminict4dconf@crs.org.

If you have booked a one or two-day ICT4D Conference registration, you cannot split the registration between two or more participants across the different days.

If an incorrect registration has been purchased, the ICT4D Conference Organizing Team will contact you by email and request an additional amount to pay. Your place will be unconfirmed until we have received the outstanding payment. Failure to pay will result in the registration being cancelled with no reimbursement being made to you.

Badges are issued for use at the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day 2024 are valid for the named participant only.

Prices and Payment

ICT4D Conference require full payment in advance of the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day. In the event of the incorrect level of ticket being purchased and a lower price being paid, we shall contact you and request the additional amount to be paid. Your registration will not be confirmed until we have received the outstanding payment. Any failure to pay the outstanding amount will result in the registration being cancelled, with no reimbursement being made to you.

Our prices for attending the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day are set out on the ICT4D Conference website or on the relevant registration portal.

ICT4D Conference only accept payment for the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day via PayPal unless we expressly agree otherwise with you in writing. We reserve the right to cancel your registration at any time if payment is not made.

ICT4D Conference fees and ICT4D Training Day are listed in USD ($) and payment can only be made in USD ($) via PayPal, credit or debit card.

Onsite in Accra, Ghana only, ICT4D Conference will take registration cash payments in both USD ($) and in the local currency, Ghanaian Cedi. Cash payments will only happen on March 19 and March 20, 2024.

Changes to the ICT4D Conference, Postponement and Cancellation

ICT4D Conference reserve the right and shall be entitled to make changes to the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day at any time without liability to you including, without limitation, in respect of the advertised content, timings on the day, date, format, venue and/or location of the events or the advertised speakers.

We reserve the right and shall be entitled, in our sole discretion, to cancel or postpone the date of the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day. We shall give written notice to you of our decision to cancel or postpone the events. In the case of our:

(A) Postponement of the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day, we will offer you the choice of either:

(i) a credit for a future event run by ICT4D Conference of your choice (up to the value of sum paid by you in respect of the Conference or workshop);

(ii) the opportunity to attend the ICT4D Conference and/or ICT4D Training Day on the new date as varied; or

(iii) a reimbursement of the sum paid by you minus any admin fees to cover the PayPal fees and additional costs in respect of the 12th ICT4D Conference and/or ICT4D Training Day, should you be unavailable to attend on that date.

(B) Cancellation of the 12th ICT4D Conference and/or ICT4D Training Day 2024 we will offer you the choice of either:

(i) a credit for a future event run by ICT4D Conference of your choice (up to the value of sum paid by you in respect of the Conference or workshop); or

(ii) a refund of the sum paid by you minus any admin fees to cover the PayPal fees and additional costs in respect of the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day 2024.

If you are unable to attend the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day no refunds will be given in respect of any cancellation by you after December 19, 2023. After then, we will welcome a substitute participant attending in your place at no extra cost if we have prior notice of your proposed participant and have already received your payment in full.

If attending the 12th ICT4D Conference from overseas and in the event of a visa not being issued to you after your place has been confirmed, no refund will be offered by us. We strongly advise that registration applications are not made until visas have been obtained. Letters of support will be issued to everyone wishing to attend ICT4D Conference 2024.

Visa letters are not issued for attending any side events or the ICT4D Training Day.

Insurance

It is your responsibility to arrange appropriate insurance cover in connection with your attendance at the 12th ICT4D Conference and/or ICT4D Training Day. We cannot and shall not be held liable for any loss, liability, or damage to your personal property whilst attending the ICT4D Conference and/or ICT4D Training Day.

Anti-Harassment Guidance

The ICT4D Conference is dedicated to providing a productive and informative in-person experience.

Every in-person participant at the and ICT4D Training Day must conduct themselves in a manner which is not objectionable or disruptive to the event and/or to any partner or participant of ICT4D Conference and/or ICT4D Training Day Any person who does not comply with these requirements shall be liable, at the sole discretion of ICT4D Conference and without penalty to the same, to being removed from the Conference or Training Day and refused re-admission thereafter. The decision of ICT4D Conference shall be final and binding in this respect.

If someone is made to feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report immediately it to the ICT4D Conference Organizing Team or via adminict4dconf@crs.org.

View the Event Etiquette statement.

What data privacy protections will be in place?

ICT4D Conference are collecting your personal information for the following reasons in relation to the event:
(1) So we can give you a log in (user account) for the Dryfta online platform.

(2) So ICT4D Conference can contact you during and after the event.

All ICT4D Conference events are subject to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

The ICT4D Conference will utilize the online event platform Dryfta for networking, agenda planning, and resource sharing. You can find Dryfta’s privacy policy here: https://dryfta.com/privacy-policy/. Any personal information that you publicize (via your profile page, etc.) on Dryfta will be publicly accessible. Private messaging an attendee or a speaker in Dryfta does NOT reveal the email address used to log in to Dryfta.

At the ICT4D Conference participants are likely to visit one or more exhibitors on their stand or attend one or more sessions. By allowing your badge to be scanned by an exhibitor, or at a session, the exhibitor or session sponsor will have access to your name and contact information provided during the registration process for them to follow up post event. For contact details not to be passed on, please refrain from having your badge scanned by exhibitors or at session entrances. Badges will be scanned at the main entrance to the event upon arrival, this badge scan is for analytical purposes only and no data is transferred to any other parties.

For future marketing activities, contact information will be safeguarded by the ICT4D Conference as identified in the ICT4D Conference Privacy Policy.

Force Majeure

We shall not be liable for any hindrance, failure or delay in performing any of our obligations arising out of or in connection with these Terms & Conditions as a result of an event or series of connected events beyond our reasonable control (including, without limitation, acts of God, extreme weather conditions, power failure, internet failure, floods, lightning, storm, fire, explosion, war, riot, civil commotion, military operations, acts or threats of terrorism, malicious damage, strike action, lock-outs or other industrial action (whether involving our workforce or the workforce of any other party), default of suppliers or sub-contractors, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule regulation or direction, accident, failure or breakdown of plant, machinery, systems or vehicles, or a pandemic, epidemic, civil emergency or other widespread illness) (together a “Force Majeure Event”).

In the event of a Force Majeure Event, we shall be entitled, without liability, at our sole discretion to vary, perform, suspend performance of, postpone or cancel the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day subject to these Terms & Conditions.

Content

All rights in all presentations, documentation and materials published or otherwise made available as part of ICT4D Workshops 2024, ICT4D Conference 2024 and ICT4D Training Day 2024 including, but not limited to, any documentation packs or audio or audio-visual recording of the ICT4D Workshops 2024, ICT4D Conference 2024 and ICT4D Training Day 2024 (together the “Content”) are owned by ICT4D Conference or are included with the permission of the owner of the rights. No recording, republication, broadcast, or other dissemination of the Content is permitted without the express written permission of ICT4D Conference. You shall not distribute, reproduce, modify, store, transfer or in any other way use any of the Content (save that used by the relevant delegate for internal business purposes shall be permitted), and in particular (but without limitation) you shall not (and shall procure that each of your delegates shall not): upload any Content into any shared system; include any Content in a database; include any Content in a website or on any intranet; transmit, re-circulate or otherwise make available any Content to anyone else; make any commercial use of the Content whatsoever; or use Content in any way that might infringe third party rights or that may bring us or any of our affiliates into disrepute.

The Content does not necessarily reflect views or opinions of ICT4D Conference. Views expressed by speakers are their own. We assume no responsibility for the Content or presentations, or materials provided by speakers at the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day, and we cannot give any warranty that the information will be accurate or up to date.

Suggestions or advice contained in the Content should not be relied upon in place of professional or other advice. Whilst we take reasonable care to ensure that the Content created by us is accurate and complete, some of it is supplied by third parties and we are unable to check its accuracy or completeness. You should verify the accuracy of any information (whether supplied by ICT4D Conference or third parties) before relying on it. The Content is provided on an “AS IS” basis without any warranties of any kind (express or implied). We hereby exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law all liabilities, costs, claims, damages, losses and/or expenses arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the Content or arising from any infringing, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material in the Content.

To the extent that any Content is made available by us online we reserve the right to suspend or remove access to such Content at any time.

Photography and Filming

By registering for the 12th ICT4D Conference and ICT4D Training Day, the participant acknowledge and accept that photographs or video will be taken by the organizer or its service providers and partners, and those maybe used for promotional materials of ICT4D Conference, including but not limited to use in annual reports, future conference programs or other promotional material, and on the internet by ICT4D Conference and its service providers. ICT4D Conference reserves the right to publish the names of conference participants in promotion materials and on the internet by ICT4D Conference and its service providers.

For future marketing activities, contact information will be safeguarded by the ICT4D Conference as identified in the ICT4D Conference Privacy Policy.