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>First Call for Contributions
>Second International Summer School
>organized by IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 9.8
>"Risks and Challenges of the Network Society"
>in cooperation with Karlstad University and HumanIT, 4th 8th August 2003
>
>Mobile phones, i-Mode, WAP, telephone, fax, e-mail, Internet and
>personal digital assistants (PDAs) are dominating our society which
>is fast becoming a Network society characterised by electronic
>communications. While these developments bring many social and
>economic benefits, they also pose several social, ethical, political
>and cultural consequences and challenges.
>
>The focus of the Summer School will be on the Risks and Challenges
>of the Network Society as manifested in such areas as:
>
>¤ Digital divide
>¤ Privacy
>¤ Vulnerability and Dependency
>¤ Cybercrime & Security
>¤ Multilateral Security
>¤ Usability
>¤ Ethics
>¤ Gender issues
>¤ Developing countries
>¤ Usability
>¤ Health Care
>¤ Electronic Commerce
>¤ Electronic Government
>¤ Cultural dimensions of technology
>¤ Law
>
>Three IFIP working groups (working groups 9.2, 9.6/11.7, and 9.8),
>in cooperation with Karlstad University and HumanIT, are devoting an
>entire Summer School to these topics. Its dates are August 4-8, 2003
>inclusive. The venue will be Karlstad University in Sweden.
>
>Everybody who wants to participate actively in this Summer School is
>requested to send an abstract for contribution to Simone
>Fischer-Heubner ([log in to unmask]) by January 2, 2003.
>Extended abstracts will be due by May 2003. Accepted papers will be
>published in proceedings after the Summer School.
>
>All the sessions will start with an introduction by an invited
>speaker, followed by parallel workshops in the morning and
>afternoon. The workshops, in which the topics listed above will be
>covered, will consist of short presentations based on the
>contributions that have been submitted, followed by active
>discussion.
>
>For more information about other types of participation please
>contact Simone Fischer-Heubner ([log in to unmask]).
>
>Summer School Web-site:
><http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool/>http://www.cs.kau.se/IFIP-summerschool
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