-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2005 --

              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

* 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 (2nd CFP extended): 1 April 2005
- Notification to Authors: 22 April 2005
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 29 April 2005
- Late Registration: After 29 April 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

* Scientific 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

for the full Committee Members list please access
http://www.iadis.org/es2005/committees.asp

* 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/)