IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2005
                    June 27-30, 2005 - Qawra, MALTA
                     (http://www.iadis.org/es2005)
  co-located with IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2005
                     (http://www.iadis.org/ml2005)

* Co-organised by University of Malta

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Professor Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Professor William Winn, College of Education, University of Washington,
Seattle, USA
Jan Blom, Nokia Research Center, Finland

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2005 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.

* Conference theme
e-Society 2005: How is the use of ICT in all its forms changing practices
and behaviours in the digital age?

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise invited talks and oral presentations.  The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book. The
best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their
papers in selected Journals, inlcuding IADIS International Journal on
WWW/Internet and International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL).

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

* Topics related to e-Society are of interest. These include best
practice, case studies, strategies and tendencies in the following areas:

«« 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:
· Collaborative Learning
· Curriculum Content Design & Development
· Delivery Systems and Environments
· Educational Systems Design
· eLearning Organisational Issues
· Evaluation and Assessment
· Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
· Web-based Learning Communities

«« 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 (Last Call): 6 May 2005
- Notification to Authors (Last Call only): 25 May 2005
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (Last Call only):
Until 1 June 2005
- Late Registration: After 1 June 2005
- Conference: Qawra - Malta, 27 to 30 June 2005

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Qawra, Malta.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE e-SOCIETY 2005
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.iadis.org/es2005

* Program Committee

Conference Co-Chairs
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Program Chair
Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Committee Members (not complete):
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Adam P. Vrechopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Aixin Sun, University of New South Wales, Australia
Åke Grönlund, Örebro University, Sweden
Akihiro Kashihara, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Alankar Karol, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alexandra Cristea, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Alla F. Manako, International Research and Training Center, Ukraine
Amjad Umar, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Andrea Kienle, University of Dortmund, Germany
Andreas Tolk, Old Dominion University, USA
Angela Guercio, Hiram College, USA
Ann M. Shortridge, University of Oklahoma, USA
Anxo Cereijo Roibás, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Arif Altun, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey
Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia
Axel Küpper, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
Bardo Fraunholz, Deakin University, Australia
Ben Daniel, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Bo Xiao, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Bob Travica, University of Manitoba, Canada
Brian Donnellan, NUI, Galway, Ireland
Bridget Cooper, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Buket Akkoyunlu, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Carlo Simon, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Carmine Gravino, University of Salerno, Italy
Charles B. Owen, Michigan State University, USA
Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, USA
Chul-Hwan Lee, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Chun Kit Lok, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Claude Ghaoui, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Coskun Bayrak, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Denise Whitelock, Open University, United Kingdom
Deniz Deryakulu, Ankara University, Turkey
Dilek Gözütok, Ankara University, Turkey
Dominique Deuff, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Dongge Li, Motorola Multimedia Communications Labs, USA
Drew Whitworth, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Edwin Bendyk, Polityka, Poland
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Elpida Tzafestas, National Technical University Of Athens, Greece
Elsie Chan, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Elva J. Jones, Winston-Salem State University, USA
Emrah Orhun, Troy University Montgomery, USA
Enrique Bonsón, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
Enrique Dans, Instituto de Empresa, Spain
Erik Rolland, University of California, Riverside, USA
Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland
Eugenia Kovatcheva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Eva Lindh Waterworth, Umeå University, Sweden
Ezendu Ariwa, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College, USA
Fay Sudweeks, Murdoch University, Australia
Ferhan Odabasi, Anadolu University, Turkey
Fidel Cacheda, University of A Coruña, Spain
Filomena Ferrucci, University of Salerno, Italy
Frank Bongers, Dialogic, The Netherlands
Frank Wang, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Frederic Andres, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Gang Wei, Accenture Labs, USA
George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Giuseppe Scanniello, University of Salerno, Italy
Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany
Hanne Albrechtsen, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark
Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz - Landau, Germany
Hans-Rüdiger Pfister, Universität Lüneburg, Germany
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Germany
Harald Mahrer, Legend Research Consulting, Austria
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Hentie Wilson, University of South Africa, South Africa
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, USA
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Ignacio Aedo Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Imran Ahmad, University of Windsor, Canada
Inga Hunter, Massey University, New Zealand
Ismail Guven, Ankara University, Turkey
Ivan Gojmerac, Telecommunications Research Center Ftw Vienna, Austria
Ivan Tomek, Acadia University, Canada
J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA
Jace Hargis, University of North Florida, USA
Jérôme Godard, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Jiying Zhao, Ottawa University, Canada
Joan Cooper, Flinders University, Australia
Jose Esteves, Instituto de Empresa, Spain
Juan Manuel Fernández Luna, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Julia Watkins, University of North Florida, USA
Junping Sun, Nova Southeastern University, USA
Kar Tin Lee, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Karin Axelsson, Linköping University, Sweden
Katarina Stanoevska, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
Katerina Pramatari, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Katerina Sinitsa, International Research and Training Center, Ukraine
Kathrin Möslein, TUM Business School, Germany
Kazimierz Krzysztofek, University in Bialystok, Poland
Kim Viborg Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand
Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Australia
Krassen Stefanov, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
Kuo-Ming Chao, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Leila Alem, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA
Licia Calvi, University of Parma, Italy
Lora Aroyo, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lynne Baillie, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria
Malik Yousef, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Manoranjan Dash, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Maria Moundridou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Maria Pontikaki, Intralot SA, Greece
Maria Teresa Molfino, IMATI-CNR, Italy
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Mario Allegra, ITD-CNR, Italy
Marinos Themistocleous, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Markku Sääksjärvi, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
Martin Hughes, NUI Galway, Ireland
Martin Smits, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Martin Wessner, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Masao J. Matsumoto, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Michael Koch, University of Bremen, Germany
Michael Wagner, Danube University Krems, Austria
Michal Okoniewski, Paterson Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom
Michele Risi, University of Salerno, Italy
Mieczyslaw Muraszkiewicz, Icie, Poland
Milos Kravcik, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Miltiadis D. Lytras, University of Patras &
Academic Research Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia
Monica Sebillo, University of Salerno, Italy
Muhammed Younas, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Nadia Papamichail, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Nandy Millan, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Narcyz Roztocki, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Ng Wee Keong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Nitya Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria
Norah Power, University of Limerick, Ireland
Nurettin Simsek, Ankara University, Turkey
Olivera Marjanovic, The University of New South Wales, Australia
P. Pichappan, Annamalai University, India
Paolo Maresca, University "Federico II", Italy
Pär J Ågerfalk, University of Limerick, Ireland
Paul Cunningham, IIMC, Ireland
Paula Swatman, University of South Australia, Australia
Pavel Azalov, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Petek Askar, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Peter Parycek, Danube University Krems, Austria
Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Ftw Vienna, Austria
Phil Joyce, Swinburne University, Australia
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, EPFL, Switzerland
Philippos Pouyioutas, Intercollege, Cyprus
Pietro D'Ambrosio, Grupponet Spa, Italy
Piotr Gawrysiak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Preben Hansen, SICS, Sweden
Ray A. Patterson, University of Alberta, Canada
Raza Abidi, Dalhousie University, Canada
Richard Kane, University of North Florida, USA
Robert Krimmer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
Robert Luk, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Robert Neumann, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Rolf Wigand, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Roman Brandtweiner, Danube University, Austria
Rong Zhao, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Rosa Maria Bottino, CNR, Italy
Roy Rada, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Sandy Chong, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Sara de Freitas, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Sarmad N. Alshawi, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Serap Kurbanoglu, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Sergio Di Martino, University of Salerno, Italy
Sharifullah Khan, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Shinobu Hasegawa, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Simeon J. Simoff, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Sri, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Stephane Bressan, National University Of Singapore, Singapore
Stephen Burgess, Victoria University, Australia
Suku Sinnappan, University of Wollongong, Australia
Sung Shin, South Dakota State University, USA
Susana Montero Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Svetlana Kudrjavtseva, International Research and Training Centre for
Information Technologies and
Systems, Ukraine
Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Teemu Santonen, Finland
Thomas Acton, NUI Galway, Ireland
Toby De Loght, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Tom Boyle, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Toshio Okamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Tuncer Ören, University of Ottawa, Canada
Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Taiwan
Vania Dimitrova, University Of Leeds, United Kingdom
Victor Kaptelinin, Umeå University, Sweden
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
Vincent Lee, Monash University, Australia
Vincenzo Deufemia, Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Vladimir Fomichov, Russian State Technological University, Russia
Volker Tschammer, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
Walter Baets, Euromed Marseille, France
William I. Grosky, University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA
William Russell, Florida State University, USA
Wojciech Cellary, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Yasemin Gülbahar, Baskent University, Turkey
Yavuz Akpýnar, Boðaziçi University, Turkey
Yeonwook Im, Hanyang Cyber University, Republic of Korea
Yongjian Fu, Cleveland State University, USA
Youssef Iraqi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Zahir Irani, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Zainal Hasibuan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

* Co-located event
Please also check the co-located event Mobile Learning 2005
(http://www.iadis.org/ml2005/) - 28 to 30 June 2005

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend the
Mobile Learning conference sessions free of charge.

* Check the PhD Summer School on "Educational Technology in a Cultural
Context" (http://www.educ.um.edu.mt/etcc/)