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ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (AKCSN) BOOK SERIES
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

The AKCSN is an international book series that publishes high-quality
original research about knowledge communities and social networks.
This book series calls for a knowledge based perspective adopting
concepts belonging to advancement on information science, knowledge
communication and knowledge management pertaining to
multi-disciplinary aspects. This series will cover, but not limited to
knowledge management, knowledge communications, knowledge economy,
information society, information dynamics, information processing,
information retrieval, digital divide, grass-roots communities,
developing countries, mobile computing, e-governance, e-commerce,
e-society and e-applications.

To improvise the effects of information revolution and reach out to
the general community, this book series will try to establish
innovative model of approaches in understanding the dynamics of
knowledge communication, drawing upon knowledge gains from the various
branches of information science and the cognitive arena. The book
series will try to provide an analytical approach to the holistic
situation of the newly emerged knowledge perspectives featuring
innovative models of technology transfer focusing upon the concepts of
knowledge communication processes. When knowledge is a good to
exchange through technological communication, then understanding of
the dynamics influencing knowledge intelligibly become the premier
issue to initiate high-end researches. In this context, the book
series will aim to investigate which functions the knowledge-intensive
services will form a major research area within the process of
knowledge communication. It will also promote a systemic focus on the
communication process underlying knowledge transmission, within the
broader framework of the knowledge-based economy.

By becoming a contributor to the Advances in Knowledge Communities and
Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series, you will be granted an
opportunity that a few have ever gained.  Your work will be showcased
in a collection that finds wide acceptance by both libraries and
international indexes, and a diverse international editorial advisory
board will support it.  As major audience of books under this book
series will be comprised of academics, scientists, technologists, and
policy makers, it is highly likely that your edited book will be used
as guide in the national and regional development processes
reinforcing different tiers of knowledge implementations. I welcome
you to consider submitting your research to this series in hopes of
providing the field of E-Government with collections of pivotal
applications, methods and technologies.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD:

Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series

Editor-in-Chief: Hakikur Rahman

Associate Editors:
Baanda A. Salim, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
A.V.Senthil Kumar, CMS College of Science and Commerce, India
Yanbo J. Wang, The University of Liverpool, UK


International Editorial Advisory Board:
Anne-Marie Oostveen, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
James Piecowye, Zayed University, Dubai
Ali Serhan Koyuncugil, Capital Markets Board of Turkey, Turkey
Robert A. Cropf, Saint Louis University, USA
Arla Juntunen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Deborah L. Wheeler, United States Naval Academy, USA
Vincenzo Ambriola, University of Pisa, Italy
Tsegaye Tadesse, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Alemayehu Molla, RMIT University, Australia
Subhajit Basu, Queen's University, UK
Claude Ghaoui, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Teresa Sancho Vinuesa, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain


NEXT SUBMISSION DUE DATE: OCTOBER 15, 2007

MISSION OF AKCSN:
The Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book
Series is a multi-disciplinary international book series that aims to
publish high-quality, original research about knowledge management.
The AKCSN will provide an analytical approach to the holistic
situation of the newly emerging knowledge dynamics featuring
innovation in knowledge acquisition, knowledge communication and
knowledge management focusing upon the concepts of the knowledge
communities and social networks.


COVERAGE of AKCSN:
The coverage of AKCSN Book Series is international and focused on
original research in knowledge communications, applications,
management, policies and implications. Areas of interest include, but
are not limited to the following:

·          Knowledge Management and Business Improvement
·          Knowledge as Capacity for Action
·          Knowledge as a Symbol/Model of Development
·          Knowledge as an Empirical Problem Solving Tool
·          Agent-mediated Knowledge Management
·          The Framework of a Pragmatic Conception of Knowledge
·          Knowledge as a Competitive Force
·          Flourishing Knowledge Creation Environments
·          Measuring and Evaluating Knowledge Assets
·          Technology Orientation and Capitalization of Knowledge
·          Current State and Future Development of the Institutional
Knowledge Management
·          Knowledge Management Practices and Future Perspectives
·          Challenges of Knowledge Management
·          Methods, Measures and Instruments of Knowledge Management
·          Conceptual Role of ICTs in Knowledge Communication and
Management
·          Organizational Knowledge Communication and Knowledge
Transfer as the Focal Point of Knowledge Management
·          Distributed Knowledge Management Business Cases and Experiences
·          Knowledge Management System Architectures, Infrastructure
and Middleware
·          Strategic Management and Business Process Analysis
·          Networks as Institutionalized Intermediaries of KC
·          Organizational Knowledge Communication
·          Communication of Knowledge in Organizations
·          Knowledge Communication and the Role of Communities and
Social Networks
·          General Importance and Role of Knowledge Communities
·          Importance and Role of Knowledge Communities in R&D and
Innovative Knowledge Creation
·          Supporting Virtual Communities of Practice and Interest
Networks
·          Methodologies to Analyze, Design and Deploy Distributed
Knowledge Management Solutions
·          Social Models to Design and Support Knowledge Intensive
Collaborative Processes
·          Meta-data Representation and Management (e.g.,
semantic-based coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies, etc.)
·          Knowledge Acquisition Systems and Networks
·         Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Deployed Systems
·          Networks and Knowledge Communication in R&D Environments
·          Communication and Management of Knowledge in R&D Networks
·          Application of Social Network Analysis as a Knowledge
Management Tool
·          Leveraging Knowledge Communication Networks – Approaches to
Interpretations and Interventions
·          Whole-Network Properties and Knowledge Communication
·          Knowledge Communication and Impact of Network Structures
·          Roles and Positional Models of Knowledge Communication Networks
·          Leveraging Knowledge Communication in Social Networks
·         Epistemology of Knowledge Society
·          Citizens' eParticipation in Local Decision-Making Processes
·           eCapacity Building Programmes to Ensure Digital Cohesion
and Improved eGovernment Performance at Local Level
·          Broadband Infrastructure and the New Wireless Network Solutions
·          Local eGovernment Interoperability and security
·          Generation of Municipal Services in Multi-Channel Environments
·          Introduction to Mobile Computing
·          Business Process Modeling
·          Information and Data Management
·          Communication and Agent Technology
·          Best Practices for Mobile Computing
·          Information Policy Overview
·          Communications and the Internet
·          Knowledge Chains
·          Community Practices
·          Learning Utilities
·          Advanced Researches in Knowledge Communities


SUBMITTING TO AKCSN:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously
unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Final decision regarding
acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews and
assessment of the publisher, IGI Global. All submissions must be
forwarded electronically to email@... by ****** NO LATER THAN
OCTOBER 15, 2007 ******

PROSPECTUS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Your 5-10 page (not including your CV) book prospectus should contain
the following information:

1.  3-5 SUGGESTED TITLES for your proposed publication
2.  A SYNOPSIS of your proposed publication, including a concise
DEFINITION of the subject area
3.  INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT AREA
4.  5-10 INDEXING KEYWORDS for your proposed subject area
5.  Overall OBJECTIVES AND MISSION of your proposed publication
6.  SCHOLARLY VALUE AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION to information science,
technology and management literature
7.  PURPOSE AND POTENTIAL IMPACT on your field of research
8.  UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS of your proposed publication
9.  PROSPECTIVE AUDIENCE for such a publication
10.  POTENTIAL BENEFITS readers will gain from your proposed publication
11.  EXISTING COMPETING PUBLICATIONS and their advantages and
disadvantages in comparison to your proposed publication
12.  TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS
13.  PROJECTED TOTAL PAGE/WORD COUNT for proposed publication
14.  TENTATIVE TIMETABLE for the entire project
15.  POTENTIAL CHANNELS OF CALL DISTRIBUTION for the procurement of
submissions and contacts (List-Servs, Universities, etc.)
16.  COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS, phone, fax and e-mail information FOR
EACH EDITOR/AUTHOR
17.  A COPY OF YOUR VITAE, listing education and publication records
FOR EACH EDITOR/AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER:
The Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book
Series is published by IGI Global, publisher of the "IGI Publishing,"
"Information Science Publishing," "IRM Press," "CyberTech Publishing"
and "Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the
attention of:

Please forward proposals and submission inquiries to:
Hakikur Rahman
Editor-in-Chief
Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks (AKCSN) Book Series
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Hello, I am a German student and writing my Master's thesis about
South African cs participation in WSIS. I would like to know how many
South Africans are in this caucus. Thank you very much!
petra.sander@...

From: "Rik Panganiban" <rikp@...>
To: plenary@...
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Information about the upcoming UN
meetings in New York..
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:15:25 -0400

...  We can presume that the event will be webcast:
>
>  http://www.un.org/webcast/index.asp
>
> As Richard said, there is a listserv operated by the Millennium+5
NGO
> Network where folks are sharing information about the upcoming
> Millennium+5 Summit and the negotiations among the various
> governments.  You can subscribe to the M+5 listserv by going to :
>
>  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/millenniumplus5ngonetwork/
>
> Or send an email to :
> millenniumplus5ngonetwork-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .  I manage
that
> listserv if you have any problems or questions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rik Panganiban
> CONGO

(A version of this item - with live links - is available at
<http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/21/1059131.html>.)



Dear Colleagues,

The eRider Starter Kit, which was created by Teresa Crawford and the
Tactical Technology Collective with help from the global eRider
community, has just been released as a free downloadable resource.  I
strongly recommend it to members of the nonprofit and philanthropic
community everywhere.

But what are eRiders?  Here's an explanation from the Global eRider
web site:

      "eRiders are many things to many people but their main aim is to
make organizations more effective, efficient and innovative through
the use of all forms of technology."

Here's an excerpt from the CompassPoint Circuit Rider Evaluation Report:

      "The formal role of the [eRiders] is best defined, in the words
of one leading advocate and practitioner, as "part trainer, part
management consultant, part computer expert. They provide consulting
and assistance with technology strategy development, make multiple
visits to the organizations they serve, and provide advice and
information by phone and e-mail. They can serve regional
constituencies by travel from a central location." In the best
circumstances, [eRiders] may even "cross-pollinate" the groups they
service, transmitting insights, tools, and tips as they travel
throughout the sector. In addition, training materials and resources
can be used at multiple sites thereby spreading the development cost
out across a number of organizations."

The eRiders  form a network of individuals who work all around the
globe with mission-based organizations that strive to make the world a
better place.  For example, Dirk Slater, one of the contributors to
the new eRider Starter Kit (and eRider coordinator of TacticalTech), says:

      "I eRide because I couldn't figure out any other job where I
could use my interest in technology to really have an impact and
contribute to real change in policies that impact negatively in low
income communities."

Much of the hard-earned wisdom and experience of eRiders is collected
in this starter kit, which is published under a Creative Commons
license that allows all of us to use it freely for non-commercial
purposes and even to modify the kit for our own purposes - as long as
we give proper credit to the originators and publish our own versions
under a similar  license.  This is very much in keeping with the open
source spirit of the movement, which is oriented to collaboration and
mutual support.

If you're helping to implement technology that serves your
organization's mission -  then you may already be an eRider and not
know it!  If you acquaint yourself with the eRider Starter Kit, you
may find that you not only have a lot to gain but a lot to contribute.
In either or both cases, you are welcome to participate in the
worldwide community.

Best regards from Deborah

P.S.  A disclaimer:  I've been a member of the Riders movement  for
about five years, and consider Dirk Slater and Teresa Crawford to be
oracles on the topic of bringing technology to mission-based
organizations.  So I'm not exactly objective about this new resource.

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog
http://public.xdi.org/=deborah.elizabeth.finn

From: "Maja Andjelkovic" <mandjelkovic@...>

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies if you have already seen the announcement
below. I thought that some of you would be interested in
participating in the discussion.  The online forum is
part of a larger research project, through which eight
young researchers are taking different approaches in
answering the question ""What national information
society policy changes in [country X] would help to better
achieve the country's sustainable development goals
and strategies?"

The discussion opens on Monday, June 13. More details
follow, but if you have any further questions, I would
be very happy to answer them.  I would also greatly
appreciate your help in disseminating the announcement.

With thanks and best wishes,
Maja

Maja Andjelkovic
Associate, Knowledge Communications
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Tel. +1-204-958-7700 | Email: mandjelkovic@...
http://www.iisd.org



***Solving the IS and SD Puzzle: A Forum to Explore
Links Between Information Society and Sustainable Development Policy
Development***

How can we harmonize the visions of the emerging
information society with the priorities articulated by the
Millennium Development Goals and the World Summit on Sustainable
Development?

From June 13-24, 2005, join eight researchers working
at the national level to identify the key convergence areas between
the Information Society and Sustainable Development policy making in
the Global South.

*Solving the IS and SD Puzzle* will gather practitioners, students,
academics, policy-makers and the general public in an
e-forum to examine local policy questions in the following areas:

1) ICT for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
* What is the real, tangible impact of mobile connectivity to
environmental sustainability and pollution abatement? - Led by
Robert Sagun, Philippine Resources for Sustainable
Development, the Philippines
* What are some examples of effective use of geographic information
systems for coastal resource development? - Led by Amira Sobeih,
Sustainable Development Association, Egypt
* What economic and other incentives for innovation can be used in
the area of ICTs for environmental protection? - Led by
Wainaina Mungai, OneWorld International, Kenya

2) Participatory Frameworks: the Importance of Local Content and
Knowledge and Grassroots Voices in the IS and SD Debate
* How are linkages between IS and SD expressed by grassroots
voices? - Led by Anusha Lall and Atanu Garai, OneWorld South
Asia, India
* What are the key issues surrounding SD, ICTs and Local Content in
South Africa? - Led by Steve Vosloo, Empowerment for African
Sustainable Development, South Africa

3) Equity and Equality: Reducing Regional Disequilibria and
Prioritizing Equality as a Foundation Principle of the Information
Society
* Why are women a minority in many national IT sectors? - Led by
Margarita Salas Guzman, BELLANET LAC/Fundacion Acceso, Costa Rica
* How can the information society help to balance development and
reduce the regional disequilibria? - Led by Diogo Andre de
Assumpcao, Grupo Interagir, Brazil

The topics are varied, but our primary intention is to gather those
working around the issues through an interesting exchange, not to
find all of the answers to these questions.  If in the meantime, we
do find some of the answers, then all the better. The results
of this research effort will be published in a book, which will be
launched at the Third Preparatory Committee Meeting to the World
Summit on the Information Society, in September 2005.

Whether your country is already represented in the research, or you
are bringing a new regional perspective, please join us as
we work to meet the need for harmonizing the work of policy-makers
in the areas of the Information Society and Sustainable Development.

To sign up to participate in the e-forum, just send a blank email to
join-issd@... or visit
http://lists.iisd.ca:81/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=issd.

To read messages online, please visit the forum archives at
http://lists.iisd.ca:81/read/?forum=issd.

For more information about the e-forum, or the wider
Information Society and Sustainable Development work undertaken by
the International Institute for Sustainable Development, please
visit the Next Generations Policy Research page at
http://www.iisd.org/networks/issd.asp or contact
Maja Andjelkovic at mandjelkovic@...

Dear all,

I'd like to inform you that the webstreams from the WSIS Contributing
Conference on ICT&Creativity, held in Vienna from 2-3 June 2005, are now
online.

Thanks to the organizers of the conference and Telekom Austria as the
technical facilitator, people from around the world can watch what was
being discussed at this important conference which can be described as
"Linking the individual in the center of sustainable development with the
potential benefits of ICT". To me, this approach is the basic layer of a
sustainable future: it's about empowerment and capacity building where
social development is a precondition to economic development and not so
much the other way round.

Please find the program of the conference at www.wsa-conference.org and the
streams here: http://multimedia.telekom.at/portal/programmA.asp?id=246

Best regards,
Laurent Straskraba


---
Mag. Laurent Straskraba
Information Society Researcher

Board member of IT Business & Research in Europe
http://www.itbeurope.org

Information Society Representative
United Nations Youth & Student Association of Austria
http://www.afa.at

post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe
mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1)
e-mail: laurent@...
web: http://www.straskraba.net
---

T182, Law, the Internet and Society:
Technology and the Future of Ideas.

This course originally formed part of the Relevant Knowledge
undergraduate programme at the Open University. The university has now
taken this course out of its academic programme, but the authors have
decided to make the material available to a wider public under a
Creative Commons licence.

If you would like to access the material, please register and login
http://technology.open.ac.uk/t182/

>Here's the latest info. More available at
>http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com and http://www.tsunami-info.org. Again,
>please warn Asian colleagues immediately.
>
>ac
>
>AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS
>
>   ORIGIN TIME -  1610Z 28 MAR 2005
>   COORDINATES -   2.3 NORTH   97.1 EAST
>   LOCATION    -  NORTHERN SUMATERA  INDONESIA
>   MAGNITUDE   -  8.5
>
>
>   WARNING... THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE A WIDELY
>   DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI IN THE OCEAN OR SEAS NEAR THE EARTHQUAKE.
>   AUTHORITIES IN THOSE REGIONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS POSSIBILITY
>   AND TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION.  THIS ACTION SHOULD INCLUDE EVACUATION
>   OF COASTS WITHIN A THOUSAND KILOMETERS OF THE EPICENTER AND CLOSE
>   MONITORING TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR EVACUATION FURTHER AWAY.
>
>http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/wmsg
>
>--
>-----------------------------------
>Andy Carvin
>Program Director
>EDC Center for Media & Community
>acarvin @ edc . org
>http://www.digitaldivide.net
>http://www.tsunami-info.org
>Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
>-----------------------------------


---
Mag. Laurent Straskraba
Information Society Researcher

post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe
mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1)
e-mail: laurent@...
web: http://www.straskraba.net
---

FYI:

There are some funding opportunities available for Asian participants in
Communication Rights activities.

Best,
Laurent

>PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE:
>
>The Church Development Service (EED), Germany, has generously granted
>funds for the facilitation of participants to CRIS related activities.
>The CRIS campaign is glad to inform you that it will be able to
>co-sponsor some delegates to events that we feel are key to the
>Communication Rights.
>
>In accordance with the CRIS Campaign strategy for 2005, the grants will
>support individuals to attend global meetings and CRIS Campaign working
>meetings. The amounts are not provided to cover the whole costs, so
>applicants may have to cover some of the traveling costs.
>
>The aim will be to both develop a team of expert correspondents who
>could inform progress on communication rights related issues in depths
>as well as providing opportunities to consolidate the capacity of the
>campaign through internal working meetings.
>
>Currently, we are looking to support applicants wishing to be CRIS
>correspondents to attend the WSIS ASIA meetings to be held in Tehran
>from  29th May to 2d June. The amount allocated for the grant is Euro
>750. Deadline for application is 29th April, all efforts will be made to
>provide responses during that week.
>
>For more information, please see:
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/611/
>
>Myriam Horngren
>WACC/CRIS Network and Advocacy Coordinator
>357 Kennington Lane
>London SE11 5QY
>United Kingdom
>Tel: 44 (0) 207 582 9139
>Fax: 44 (0) 207 735 0340
>web: www.crisinfo.org/www.wacc.org.uk
>email: mh@...


---
Mag. Laurent Straskraba
Information Society Researcher

Board member of IT Business & Research in Europe
http://www.itbeurope.org

Information Society Representative
United Nations Youth & Student Association of Austria
http://www.afa.at

post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe
mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1)
e-mail: laurent@...
web: http://www.straskraba.net
---

Sorry for multiple postings.
Thank you for disseminating this annoucement.
Regards,

Michel J. Menou



This is a forwarded message
From: Valerie Peugeot <vpeugeot@...>
To: GCNP <gcnp@...>
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 1:16:11 PM
Subject: [gcnp] [EN] Conference :  A Development View on Information Commons

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A Development View on Information Commons
and Intellectual Property.
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Public conference
Friday, April 1st : 9.00 – 18.30
ENST, 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris - France

Information and registration:
http://www.vecam.org

- Introduction
- Program of the conference
- Organisation

1 - introduction
----------------------

Information and communication technologies enable a quick and rather
cheap circulation of knowledge, cultures and emotions.
How can we build a global right of intellectual property that would use
this capacity so as to favor access to knowledge to all (individuals,
people, countries) ?
Developing Southern countries need the exchange of knowledge. Now, the
new international laws regarding intellectual property, on the contrary,
aim at reinforcing the domination of Northern countries and the
merchandising of knowledge and culture. (TRIPS at the WTO, reform of the
WIPO, Convention on cultural diversity at the UNESCO...).

Thankfully, opposition is very strong and many social movements are
rising everywhere in the world to point out injustices related to the
enlargement of intellectual property in all domains. Especially to offer
concrete alternatives such as free software, free access to science,
Creatives Commons license, generic drugs, exchanges of knowledge…
Culture and knowledge are not to be treated like any merchandise. People
and individuals’ lives as well as education and democracy are at stake.

We offer you a day of thought and debates through workshops on health,
agriculture, industrial technologies and culture issues.
- How can development and solidarity actors build information commons at
the world scale?
- How will new social and political practices enable knowledge to
circulate and fully serve equality in the world?
- How to reconstruct the balance of intellectual property between
interests of the whole of society in the access of knowledge and
financing of creation and innovation?

Coming from various places in the world, key actors of this new movement
for free access to knowledge will be present during this public conference.


2 - Program
--------------

Conference opens: 9.00 a.m.

4 Successive workshops:
- Health and intellectual property: conducted by Florent Latrive.
Speakers: Bernard Pécoul, Philippe Pignarre, Benjamin Coriat and Gaëlle
Krikorian.

- Agriculture, traditional knowledge, biopiracy and intellectual
property: conducted by Valérie Peugeot. Speakers: François Dufour,
Frédéric Thomas, Anne Chetaille and Suman Sahai.

- Research, industry and patents: conducted by Philippe Aigrain.
Speakers: Mohamed Larbi Bouguerra, Cheick Oumar Sagara, Michel Trometter
and Jamie Love

- Knowledge, creation and intellectual property: conducted by Hervé Le
Crosnier. Speakers: Pascal Renaud, Jean-Claude Guédon and Claudine Belayche.

Plenary closing session: 5.00 p.m.: conducted by Valérie Peugeot.
Speakers: Suman Sahai, German Velasquez and Jamie Love


3 - Organisation:
-------------------
The April 1st meeting is an initiative of French non for profit
organisation Vecam made possible by a partnership with:
- the Intergovernmental Agency of French speaking countries
- The journal Transversales sciences culture
- l'ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)
- The non for profit organisations Mosaïque du Monde, April and the
Foundation Sciences Citoyennes.
- C&F editions

The organising committee is coordinated by Valérie Peugeot and gathers
Philippe Aigrain, Nicolas Casadevall, Florent Latrive, Véronique Kleck,
Hervé Le Crosnier, Pascal Renaud and Nicolas Taffin.

The complete program, a presentation of the speakers as well as a
documentary kit can be found on line http://www.vecam.org.
Registration on line http://www.vecam.org
The conference is free space willing.
Registration is advised.
A contribution is requested for the buffet.

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In March 2005, the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme will
celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Online Volunteering service
(www.onlinevolunteering.org).

For any representatives from the media: UNV would be happy to provide
you with information to help you in preparing an article about online
volunteering and this anniversary. We can put you in contact with
both organizations and individuals involved in online volunteering,
and support you in concentrating on a particular topic, such as a
specific development area (environment or HIV/AIDS, for instance), or
to concentrate on a specific geographic area or country.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Over the last five years, hundreds of organizations working to help
the developing world have benefited from the efforts of thousands
online volunteers, who have translated documents, edited and prepared
proposals & press releases, researched topics and gathered data,
created web pages, brochures and newsletters, provided professional
expertise and advice, managed other online volunteers, created
databases, and so much more. There are now more than 100 testimonials
from both organizations and online volunteers about the impact online
volunteering has made, including its contributions to the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). Starting in 2002, UNV began naming 10
Outstanding Online Volunteers each year, honoring exceptional women
and men around the world who dedicate their skills, time and energy
to help organizations serving the developing world.

BRIEF HISTORY
UNV launch the Online Volunteering service in March 2001. At that
time, it was hosted at NetAid, a nonprofit organization created a
year earlier as a joint initiative by Cisco systems and the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to contribute to the end of
extreme poverty. UNV, based in Bonn, Germany, managed the Online
Volunteering service from the beginning, supporting both online
volunteers and the organizations who needed them. After more than
three years of being hosted on the NetAid site, the OV service moved
to its own URL, www.onlinevolunteering.org, on February 2004,
remaining under the management and direction of UNV.

If you are interested in information for an article, or if you have
any questions, please write info@...

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Jayne Cravens  Online Volunteering Specialist
United Nations Volunteers
www.unvolunteers.org
Bonn, Germany

Online Volunteering:  www.onlinevolunteering.org
UNITeS: www.unites.org
Global volunteerism portal: www.worldvolunteerweb.org
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> From: Varun Arya <aryav@...>
> Subject: Permanent/Summer Placements
>
> Dear Friends and Well-wishers
>
> Aravali Institute of Management (AIM) was
> established in August 2000 by the
> management professionals (primarily the alumni and
> faculty of IIMs & IITs).
> It is shaping very well to be amongst the
> top-ranking management institutes
> for meeting the local and national needs. As per the
> Best B-Schools
> Surveys, AIM has been accorded "A" Rating (Business
> India survey 2003) and
> 1st Rank in Rajasthan & 63rd in India (Business
> Today survey 2002). AIM is
> also the first and only management institute in
> Rajasthan where the
> admissions are strictly through the Common Admission
> Test (CAT) conducted
> by IIMs.
>
> Our Two Years Full-time Post Graduate Programme in
> Management is on the
> pattern of IIMs. Our three batches have passed out
> so far and I am indeed
> very pleased to inform you that they had 100% final
> placements in reputed
> organizations all over India and abroad, who have
> been highly satisfied
> with them. Our fourth batch (2003-05) of students
> will be available for
> their final placements from end-March 2004 onwards
> and fifth batch
> (2004-06) for their two full months summer
> placements during April/May/June
> 2005.
>
> We are sure you would be interested to have
> management graduates for final
> and/or summer placements for contributing to your
> organisational growth and
> progress. On hearing from you, we will be pleased to
> send you our Placement
> Brochure and also CVs of the interested students.
>
> I can assure you that you will find our students
> knowledgeable,
> result-oriented, hard working, highly committed and
> with reasonable salary
> expectations - an asset to any organisation. What we
> have done at AIM is
> basically to develop the required competency and
> transform the students by
> inculcating in them the "spirit of enterprise".
>
> Looking forward to hear from you and with best
> regards,
>
>
> Varun Arya
>
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> Director
> Aravali Institute of Management
> Marwar Bhawan
> Polo No. 2, Paota
> Jodhpur 342 006
> (Rajasthan) India
> Tel.    : 0291-2550070 (D), 2542235
> Fax     : 0291-2543600
> Web     : http://www.aravali.org
>
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> Formerly President, IIT Delhi Alumni Association &
> Secretary, IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Association

CALL for PAPERS
CULTURAL CHANGE, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Sociology for a Global Society

http://www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics/symposium2005/angles.html


THEME
Talking and writing about globalization and information society, or
more recently knowledge society, is so widespread that it already
risks to become a repetition and platitude. And yet, a closer look,
scientific and interdisciplinary, reveals that behind surface
phenomena like economic globalization and the Internet there is a
deep-rooted change and upheaval of world society as well as
individual everyday life. This upheaval is comparable in scope and
consequences to what was called the Industrial Revolution in previous
centuries. The Information Revolution is, for sure, based on new
technologies, i.e. information technologies (IT), just like the
Industrial Revolution was based on new technologies. But the changes
brought forth are also in this case far-reaching cultural shifts and
innovations for which the concepts of digital towns, digital divides,
Internet and cyberspace are just first glimpses at a future still in
the dark. These shifts entail new kinds of social problems with new
qualities and hitherto unknown scopes. Under such a perspective this
conference brings together a number of distinguished scientists of
the International Sociological Association, ISA, representing a wide
range of social science specialties with whom to discuss the
implications of cultural change and the social problems inherent in
contemporary and future knowledge society.

The conference aims to clarify conceptual tools which contemporary
sociology and social sciences might be able to provide in order to
deal with these issues both at a theoretical and methodological
level. It intends to explore, to the extent possible within a few
short days of debate, how these could be applied for pertinent
research as well as for developing means and strategies to cope with
the social problems analyze.

This will be done in plenary sessions starting out with the issue of
social diagnosis for a single world and dealing in the following with
the issues of cultural change, new social problems in moving
societies, the digital world and cyberspace, and finally the issue of
building societies able to cope with the changing world and its
changing culture, and the challenges this poses for the social
sciences. The plenary sessions will be complemented by working group
sessions. This will permit to go into more detail and in particular
to discuss these issues in more depth.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Spanish
English


SYMPOSIUM on SOCIOLOGY MARCH, 7-9
EC-ISA-Meeting MARCH 7-12
All academic activities will be celebrated at Zaragoza University,
Paraninfo Building (Zaragoza City) and some Working Groups of the
Symposium at the Economics Faculty.

Zaragoza has a wide and diverse offer of hotels. Members of the EC-
ISA will be hosted at Zaragoza Royal Hotel. Other participants can
arrange their accommodation asking the local organization,
Secretariat of Symposium <ana@...>



CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
Any person interested in Sociology, Social Sciences or in the topics
of the Symposium is invited to participate. There are two options, as
a listener or as a participant presenting a paper.

Everybody should fulfill the registration form and pay an inscription
of 60¤ (40¤ in case of students or unemployed, previously
accredited). Fees should be paid in advance by bank transfer (in Euro
and including all charges) to the official account: Nº IBAN: ES83-
2085-0111-7103-3043-0505 BIC /SWIFT: CAZRES2Z (for any question,
please consult at ana@...); in special cases fees could be paid
either upon arrival at the Conference but it should be arrange with
the Secretariat.

Please, send the registration form and your payment slip by fax, mail
or e-mail to the Secretariat:

DI&CO
Paseo Sagasta 19, entlo. drcha
50008 Zaragoza
SPAIN
Tel. (+34) 976 21 17 48 *
Fax (+34) 976 21 29 59
e-mail: ana@...



ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND DEADLINES
Abstracts must deal with one of the major issues mentioned above and
fit well with the overall objectives of this Symposium. All abstracts
should be sent to Chaime Marcuello (chaime@...) Chair of
Symposium and Bernd R. Hornung (hornung@...) Chair of
the Abstracts Committee,

The deadline for the initial, 1000 word detailed abstract is 5
January 2005. This will be the basis for review. Those whose papers
have been accepted will be required to submit a 300 words abstract
suitable for publication on the Conference web site.

Both abstracts should contain the full name, title, institutional
affiliation, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers (if
available) of the prospective participant.

THE REVIEW PROCEDURE
The Abstracts Committee, consisting of five ISA-EC members and
members of the Organizing Committee will review the detailed
abstracts. The proposed papers that are accepted will then be
assigned to particular conference sessions. In certain cases the
Chair of the Abstracts Committee may contact the author with a
summary of reviewers' comments and suggestions so that the proposed
paper may better comply with the goals and theme of the conference.
All those who have submitted detailed abstracts will receive a letter
of acceptance or rejection by the end of January.


CONTACTS AND INFORMATION:
For any further questions and information you may consult the website
at <http://www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics/symposium2005/>

This may already answer many of your questions, or you may also
directly contact with chaime@...


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Piotr Sztompka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Bernd Hornung (University of Marburg, Germany)

Antonio Eito Mateo (Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Humanidades
Huesca)
Andrés García Inda (Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de Derecho)
Juan David Gómez Quintero (Universidad de Zaragoza, E.U.Estudios
Sociales)
Carmen Marcuello Servós (Universidad de Zaragoza, Facultad de CC.
Económicas y Empresariales)

José Luis Fandos Muñoz (Asociación Española de Sociocybernética,
Vicepresidente)
Chaime Marcuello Servós (Universidad de Zaragoza)


Carmen Marcuello
Dpto Economía y Dirección de Empresas
Facultad Económicas
Gran Vía, 2
50005 Zaragoza (Spain)
Tfno: 34 976 76 27 20
Fax: 34 976 76 17 67
http://www.unizar.es/geses
http://www.unizar.es/gidid

The Journal of Community Informatics (http://www.ci-journal.net/)
(JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its
Inaugural Issue http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php

JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for
and by the Community Informatics research community and produced
under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research Network
(CIRN)
http://www.ci-research.net

This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of
the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through
position papers, scholarly papers and other materials.

The issue includes:

An introduction (in part through video) to the work of K-Net, an
aboriginal group in Northern Canada which is innovating in the use of
ICT for education, for administration, for health and perhaps most
importantly, is demonstrating the way in which ICT truly can enable
AND empower communities to move beyond traditional barriers and
impediments to find a new and more equitable role in the Information
Society. (Beaton)

A description of an ambitious current research project examining the
impacts and outcomes of government support for community technology in
Canada with an overall objective of providing insight toward the
future of such programs and their impact on the larger society
(Clement, Gurstein, Longford, Luke, Moll, and Shade)

A presentation of a most important rural ICT initiative whose current
success is transforming large areas of rural India (Jhunjhunwala,
Ramachandran, and Bandyopadhyay)

An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed
Country (South Africa) as a base for a highly innovative program of CI
for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor)

A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with
respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might
go from here by three key actors in these developments. (Menou,
Delgadillo and Stoll)

A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of
ICT in the context of Human Capital development and giving most useful
directions for future research as well as community practice towards
this end. (Pigg and Crank)

A most original and insightful critique of current thinking and
approaches to ICT for Development (Robinson)

A path breaking approach to applying an analysis drawn from the
methods and insights of Social Anthropology to ICT design and
development as a response to rural poverty (Salvador)

A brave and insightful analysis of the opportunities and risks that
are attendant to ICT in a most important but largely unknown part of
the world. (Stafeev) and

A document presenting the current "state of play" for a leader in
supporting ICT use by women in local communities (Webb and Jones) .

--

The second issue which will appear January 1, 2006, will consist of
peer reviewed papers on "Sustainability and Community Technology"
presented at the recent CIRN Prato conference
(http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences) on this subject. The papers
will be revised and edited as per conference feedback and a second
round of peer reviews.

The third issue scheduled for April 1, 2006 is currently soliciting
articles
http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php

The fourth issue, scheduled for July 1, 2006 has the tentative
theme "Gender and Community Informatics" and will be edited by Lesle
Reagen Shade of Concordia University.

Each issue will include, in addition to peer reviewed articles, a
Review section, documents and reports of CI significance, and
commentaries on peer reviewed papers by leading CI practitioners and
those with a policy interest in CI and related matters.

The Editorial Board (for the Inaugural Issue)

Editor-in-Chief
Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ,
USA


    Editor: Reviews
Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
    Editor: Latin America and the Caribbean
Michel J. Menou, France
    Editor: Information Systems Research
Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    Editor: Rural and Remote
Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South
Africa
    Editor: Layout and Design
Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia

Editorial Board
------------------------------------------------------


Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
Lishan Adam, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Carlos Afonso, Rede de Informacoes Para o Terceiro Setor, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Barbara Craig, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New
Zealand
Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Joan Durrance, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann
Arbor, USA
Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Herbert Kubicek, University of Bremen, Germany
Brian Loader, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK
Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados
Michel Menou, France
Kenneth Pigg, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Madanmohan Rao, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre
(AMIC), Singapore
Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico DF
Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR, USA
Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA
Leslie Shade, Concordia University, Dept. of Communication Studies,
Montreal, Canada
Yero Sylla, University of Senegal, SAFEFOD, Dakar Senegal
Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South
Africa Victor Tischenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Peter van den Besselaar, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


Review Board
-------------------------------------------------------
Brian Beaton, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net), Sioux Lookout, ON,
Canada

Donald Cameron, Australia
Richard Fuchs, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa,
Canada

Beris Gwynne, Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane,
Australia
Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Klaus Stoll, President, Fundacion Chasquinet, Ecuador
Susan Webb, Community Development Foundation, London, UK

I'm forwarding this announcement along as an FYI. This
conference is highly recommended.
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Register for Technology + Learning Conference by Sept 30

The international education technology conference, T+L2: Leading
Learning to a Higher Level, takes place Oct. 27 to 29, 2004, in
Denver, Colorado.

At T+L2, Michael Hawley, director of special projects at MIT, will be
joined by dozens of educators at this three-day technology event. Sir
Ken Robinson, international expert on creativity in education, and
Cile Chavez, former superintendent and education reformer, will give
keynote addresses. Other noted speakers include Elliot Soloway, Ian
Jukes, Cheryl Lemke, Marc Prensky, Bernajean Porter, Susan Patrick,
Milton Chen, Timothy Waters, and members of the Thornburg Center.

T+L2 is the ideal venue to get a first-hand look at current education
technology solutions. To register, go to http://www.nsba.org/t+l

Please forward this message along to colleagues who may be interested
in attending this conference.

Hi,

I thought this could be of interest for affiliates from developing
countries dealing with ICT4Development research and related areas:

"UNESCO is calling on young researchers with advanced degrees (M.A., M.Sc.
or equivalent) in developing countries to apply to the UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi
Research Fellowship Programme for fellowships ranging from US$ 6,000 to US$
10,000. The amount varies according to duration and place of study. The
Programme is financed by Japan through its funds in trust programme for
capacity-building of human resources.

The Programme is named after the late Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi,
who was known for his commitment to furthering development. It grants a
total of 20 fellowships a year to researchers in four areas: environment,
intercultural dialogue, information and communication technologies, and
peaceful conflict resolution. (...)"

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22149&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.\
html

Best regards,

Laurent Straskraba

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Mag. Laurent Straskraba
Information Society Researcher
http://www.icts.sbg.ac.at

Information Society Representative at UN Youth & Student Association of Austria
http://www.afa.at

post: Ontlstrasse 3, A - 4040 Linz, Austria / Europe
mobile: +43.650.7711861 (GMT +1)
e-mail: laurent@...
web: http://www.straskraba.net
---

Dear Colleagues,

If you are interested in how nongovernmental and nonprofit
organizations use technology to help fulfill their social
missions, you are welcome to join the Information Systems
Forum.

The Information Systems Forum is an opt-in, flame-free email
distribution list for nonprofit professionals who want to
use information technology to increase organizational
effectiveness. The members range from the techno-phobic to
the techno-savvy - we share news, information, advice, and
referrals on an informal, collegial basis.

Topics range from the immediate ("how can I stop my monitor
from flickering?") to the strategic ("what is the best
approach to mission-based tech planning for a nonprofit on a
tight budget?") to the highly specialized ("where can I find
step-by-step instructions for putting a DONATE NOW button on
our Dreamweaver web site?").

This is a friendly exchange among peers, and there is (of
course) no charge for membership. Advertisements of products
or services for sale are strongly discouraged.

Because the Information Systems Forum is strictly an opt-in
list, you will not be added to it unless you confirm that
you are interested. To do that, just send a blank email to
information_systems_forum-SUBSCRIBE@yahoogroups.com. If you
have any colleagues who are also interested in the topic,
please feel free to pass along this invitation to them.

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Cyber-Yenta
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finn@...
http://www.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com