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Digital Cities 3:
local information and communication infrastructures:
experiences and challenges
A workshop organized within the context of the
Communities Technologies Conference Amsterdam 19-21 September 2003
The relationship between technologies and communities is ambiguous. On the one
hand, changing technologies of communication and cooperation
have facilitated the changes in the way people relate to each other. Wellman has
introduced the concept of networked individualism for this
(3), and this points at the phenomenon that people often participate in a
variety of only partly overlapping and often non-local
communities. On the other hand, the role of place remains crucial important, as
the local environment remains an important place of
organizing and coordinating social life. Digital cities are developing on the
intersection of these two phenomena: network and place.
Digital cities can be seen as an effort to develop and use ICT-applications for
the improvement of the local and urban infrastructure for
living, working, collaboration, and communication within a networked society.
Many experiments have taken place and are still taking place
all over the world (see 1, 2, 3 for overviews), showing a large variation.
- Some are developing advanced cutting edge technologies, others use established
and well known technologies.
- Some are mainly technological projects that aim at demonstrating the potential
usefulness, while others are mainly social development
projects, using the technology as an instrument for supporting the development
of deprived groups, neighborhoods or regions.
- Some are very resourceful, whereas others are low budget initiatives.
- Finally, where some digital cities are merely (temporary) experiments, other
are meant as sustainable part of the local infrastructures.
The nature, functioning, use and sustainability of digital cities is highly
dependent on contextual factors such as the political and social
context, the actors involved with their different aims and resources, the
organizational forms, and choices for certain technical solutions.
Especially the arena of actors and organizations involved is a crucial factor in
the development of digital cities.
In the workshop we will discuss the state of the art in digital city
experimentation and research, and build upon the lessons of the earlier
workshops organized in Kyoto. We invite papers on the following topics, but the
list is not exclusive.
- Technologies for digital cities and community networks: development and
especially evaluation of infrastructures, systems, and tools. What
is 'appropriate technology' in this field?
- Organizational forms of digital cities and community networks: the question of
ownership and resources of local information an
communication infrastructures.
- ICT and social change in urban environment on different levels: examples,
empirical studies, theoretical understanding.
- Real and virtual public domain: differences, analogies, implications.
- Interdisciplinary design approaches, methods and theories for community
systems.
- Digital cities / community networks and problems of privacy and identity.
The objective of the workshop is to evaluate the state of the art in the
field, and to formulate perspectives for research and for socio-technical
design.
References
(1) Toru Ishida, Communityware and social interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 1519 (1998).
(2) Toru Ishida & Karen Isbister, Digital Cities: experiences, trends,
perspectives. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1765 (2000).
(3) Makoto Tanabe, Peter van den Besselaar & Toru Ishida, Digital Cities 2,
computational and sociological approaches. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 2362 (2002).
Format of the workshop
The workshop will last a whole day and will have 4 two-hours sessions, with a
maximum of 25 participants. We aim at a discussion between
social scientists, computer scientists, and practitioners with experience in
constructive, reflective, and empirical research in the field
of digital cities. To emphasize the cross-cultural dimensions of the research
field, we will have three invited speakers from Japan, the
USA, and Europe. Participants have a full paper by the end of August, to be
distributed (electronically) among participants in advance. The
discussion in the workshop will be organized around the main themes in the
papers, as well as the new ideas and results. We aim at
publishing revised versions of the workshop papers in a volume.
Important dates
- Extended abstract due June 7 (2500 words).
- Author notification June 21
- Full papers (10-15 pages) August 31
- Revised (accepted) papers November 1
The extended abstract (2500 words) should clearly summarize the work and results
that will be fully described in the paper: - For social
science papers: clearly describe in the abstract the research questions, the
data and methods used, an indication of the findings and of the
relevance of the findings. - For technology papers: clearly describe the
abstract in the design approach and motivation of decisions made,
the resulting system, and possibly an evaluation. (design theory, perspective,
considerations, description of system plus evaluation).
Please send your extended abstract to: [log in to unmask]
Format of the final version of the paper
Please format the final version of your paper using the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (Springer Verlag) formatting instructions for
MsWord or LaTeX: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#authors
Contact
Workshop Website: www.digitalcity.jst.go.jp/conferences/
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Organizers
Peter van den Besselaar Social Sciences Department
Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
Satoshi Koizumi Digital City Research Center,
Japan Science and Technology Corp.
Program committee:
Jun-ichi Akahani NTT Communication Science Laboratory, Japan
Allesandro Aurigi University of Newcastle, UK
Fiorella De Cindio University of Milano, Italy
Noshir Contractor University of Illinois, USA
Vanessa Evers University of Amsterdam
Toru Ishida Kyoto University, Japan
Satoshi Koizumi Digital City Research Center, JST Corp, Japan.
Peter Mambrey FIT - Fraunhofer Gesellschaft & Duisburg
University, Germany
Carolien Metselaar City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doug Schuler Public Sphere Project (CPSR) & The Evergreen
State College, USA
Sheng HuanYe Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Peter van den Besselaar NIWI-KNAW, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sponsors
NIWI-KNAW, Social Sciences Department, the Netherlands
Kyoto University, Japan
Japan Science and Technology Corp., Japan
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