A conference on "the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet... technological and non-technological"? The conference description almost reads like the Nigerian 419 emails that get filtered out by our server. If it were a genuine conference on data protection, FOI or E-commerce, then it might be of interest. As it stands, it's a fairly bizarre call for papers on an incredibly vague and ill-described topic (only described in either laughable terms or in a list of IT subjects which could have been lifted from the index of a text book), and your paper may appear in their book/online journal or whatever.
Actually, it reminds me of those poetry competitions in the 90's whereby after entering the company said your poem was escellent and had been included in their "world class" anthology and incidentally a copy of it can be yours for £49.99..... "The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet. ". The similarities are worrying - and coupled to their lack of response to Tim, the whole thing screams "scam" to my mind.
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] WWW/Internet 2005 (2nd call extension): Call forPapers
Perhaps we should ask the following question: Has anyone on this list
attended a conference offered by this organisation?
Rather than assume some vague academic interest, there are only 3 degrees
of separation between academic ideas, ( :) ) we need to see if there is a
genuine interest in the conference.
Best
Lawrence Serewicz
Lawrence W. Serewicz
Scrutiny Manager
Management Support Unit
Wear Valley District Council
01388-761-985
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