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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions extended: 5 April
2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (MCCSIS 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed)
Professor Mireia Fernández Ardèvol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Professor António Câmara, YDreams and FCT - New University of
Lisbon, Portugal

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2007 conference aims to address the main issues
of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers
both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the
Information Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment /
eGovernance, eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information
Systems, and Information Management. These broad areas are divided
into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes
that don't fit into these areas will also be considered since they
might be of benefit to conference attendees.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published
in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available
also in the IADIS Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in the IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)
and other selected Journals.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are
subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eGovernment / eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
• Accessibility
• Democracy and the Citizen
• Digital Economies
• Digital Regions
• eAdministration
• eGovernment Management
• eProcurement
• Global Trends
• National and International Economies
• Social Inclusion

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
• Business Ontologies and Models
• Digital Goods and Services
• eBusiness Models
• eCommerce Application Fields
• eCommerce Economics
• eCommerce Services
• Electronic Service Delivery
• eMarketing
• Languages for Describing Goods and Services
• Online Auctions and Technologies
• Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
• Political and Social Aspects
- Political Drivers and Barriers of e-Learning
- Impact of e-Learning in the e-Society
- Aspects of Globalisation of Education
- Societal Expectations of e-Learning
- Diversity, Globalisation and Cultural Domination on the Web
• E-Citizenship and Inclusion
- e-Learning in the Developing World
- e-Learning to Support Life-Long Learning
- e-Learning and the Digital Divide
- e-learning and the Social Divide
- e-Learning for e-Citizenship

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
• Data Security Issues
• eHealth Policy and Practice
• eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
• Legal Issues
• Medical Research Ethics
• Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Intelligent Agents
• Intelligent Systems
• IS Security Issues
• Mobile Applications
• Multimedia Applications
• Payment Systems
• Protocols and Standards
• Software Requirements and IS Architectures
• Storage Issues
• Strategies and Tendencies
• System Architectures
• Telework Technologies
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual Reality
• Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Content Development
• Cyber law and Intellectual Property
• Data Mining
• ePublishing and Digital Libraries
• Human Computer Interaction
• Information Search and Retrieval
• Knowledge Management
• Policy Issues
• Privacy Issues
• Social and Organizational Aspects
• Virtual Communities
• XML and Other Extensible Languages
* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline extended: 5 April 2007
- Notification to Authors: Until 27 April 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 May
2007
- Late Registration: After 18 May 2007
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@.../
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

e-Society 2007 Conference Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

e-Society 2007 Track Chairs

eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia


eLearning Track
Drew Whitworth, School of Education, University of Manchester, UK

Information Systems Track
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, University Of South Australia, Australia

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-
conf.org/committees.asp