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The role of science in the
information society
http://rsis.web.cern.ch/rsis/
8-9 December 2003, Geneva
The conference aims at reviewing the prospects that present developments in
science and technology offer for the future of the Information Society,
especially in education, environment, health, and economic development. This
event will bring together scientists, policy makers and stakeholders from
around the world to reflect on these issues. It will be the culmination of a
series of more focused science activities relating to the Information
Society that are being planned in the run-up to WSIS, to be held 10-12
December in Geneva.
Monitoring
the Information Society: Data, Measurement and Methods
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2003.12.wsis.htm
8-9 December 2003, Geneva
Statistical workshop in conjunction with the World Summit on Information
Society organized by: UNECE, UNCTAD, ITU, UNESCO Inst. of Statistics, OECD,
Eurostat
World Electronic Media Forum
http://www.wemfmedia.org/
9-11 December 2003, Geneva
The WEMF will present the hopes and concerns of
media leaders in Geneva, interacting live with listeners and viewers from
different environments around the globe. Five major sessions over two
days will explore the present and future opportunities of media in the
Information Society, with particular reference to the key role of media and
television, universal access to information, freedom of expression, cultural
diversity, economic development, social cohesion and education.
World
Summit on the Information Society
http://www.itu.int/wsis/
10-12 December 2003, Geneva
The
summit will be held in 2003, under ITU's leadership and in close cooperation
with other interested United Nations Agencies. The aim of the Summit is
to develop a common vision and understanding of the information society
and to draw up a strategic plan of action for concerted development towards
realizing this vision. The Summit will also seek to define an agenda covering
the objectives to be achieved and resources to be mobilized.
Women in
the Digital Era: Challenges and Opportunities (WIT 2003)
http://www.auwit.org
10-13 December 2003, Tamil Nadu,
India
The role of woman in societies, ranging from the
primitive hunter gathering communities, to the ancient agrarian societies,
to the early industrial society and the modern industrial society, has been
a subordinate one. For one reason or the other, women have never got a level
playing field both to realize their potential as well as to get their due
for their collective contributions. Will the new ICT revolution that is
ushering in the digital era change all that? Does the technology of the
Digital Era have in it the critical characteristics needed to provide women,
equal or better opportunities to participate in the mainstream activities
and provide solutions to many of the current social, cultural and
technological bottlenecks being faced by women of our society? This international conference
- Women in IT (WIT-2003) is being organised in an attempt to find answers to
these questions.
Idlelo: The First African Conference on the Digital Commons
http://idlelo.uwc.ac.za
12-16 January 2004, Cape Town, South Africa
The conference will address the challenges and
opportunities of the creation and use of free / open source software and
open content and their development potential for Africa. The conference has
both strategic and practical objectives, bringing together participants from
government, education, business and civil society together with the
developer community.
The 3rd
International Conference on Information Technology and Economic Development
4-5 March 2004, Accra International Conference Center, Ghana
The three-day conference will explore how information and communications
technologies may be employed to promote economic development. The 4 tracks
will be Harnessing ICT for Development, National Strategies for ICT Policy Development,
Africa and ICT Market Development and ICT for National, Regional and
International Networking for Development.
The 3rd International Conference
on Information Technology and Economic Development
3-5 March 2004,
United Nations Economic Commission For Africa, Int'l Agency For Economic
Development, UNESCO, Kenya, The Electronic Community,
Accra, Ghana
The three-day conference will
explore how information and communications technologies may be employed to
promote economic development.
Conference activities
will include, panel discussions, keynotes, roundtables, workshops, exhibits of
best practices, models, lessons learned etc.
The
Impact of ICT in Agriculture, Food and Environment
http://infolab.aua.gr/haicta/conf/index.html
18-20 March 2004, Greece
HAICTA will have its 2nd Pan-Hellenic with
international participation, 2days Conference (5-6 February 2004), in
Thessaloniki. The conference is an effort of HAICTA to bring together
Agriculture and ICT professionals. This conference offers an opportunity to
exchange ideas, opinions and experiences in applications and developments in
the use of ICT in Agriculture, Food and Environment.
The conference will have sessions in English. Contributions from various
countries will allow a broadened perspective for all attending.
World Congress on IT 2004 (WCIT 2004)
http://www.worldcongress2004.org
19-24 May 2004, Athens Greece
The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT),
is a biennial meeting attracting leading ICT (Information and Communication
Technology) professionals, top corporate executives, distinguished academic
professors and researchers, government ministers and policy makers from all
over the world, whose interaction and decisions shape the future of the ICT
world.
4th
International Conference of Asian Federation of Information Technology in
Agriculture and 2nd World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural
Resources
http://www.afitaandwcca2004.net/
9 -12 August 2004, Thailand
First, the information communication technology
such as the Internet that is now dynamically changing our life style and
social consciousness, will provide us a best tool for the information
sharing and mutual communication. Second, we should not forget the possible
contribution of information science to effective and stable production by
several models such as crop growth prediction and decision support. Thus,
the importance of the studies on agroinformatics is undoubtedly increasing.
EVENT ARCHIVES
Forum on ICTs & Gender: Optimizing Opportunities
20-23 August 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The
purpose is to foster a greater appreciation of the gender-related
barriers that exist in developing and developed countries, to develop an
understanding of why women need access to ICTs, and to discuss strategies
for overcoming these barriers. This will translate into policies that
support womenās access to ICTs and successful networking to enhance womenās
participation in the information economy, especially in the developing
world.
Indicators
workshop on community access to ICTs
25-27 August 2003, Mexico City
The objective of the workshop is to address the request made to the BDT to
discuss the subject of "Indicators on community access to ICTs". The topic
is of great relevance and the workshop will discuss and identify criteria to
be taken into consideration with regard to the formulation of these
indicators.
World
Information Technology Forum - WITFOR
27-29 August 2003, Vilnius, Lithuania
The topic of WITFOR is ICT-equity. The target of WITFOR is to hold a round table of politicians and senior officials
responsible for information development from both developing and developed
countries, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and
representatives of inter-governmental organizations, experts. The goal
of WITFOR is to prepare and help implement information development
strategies and projects in developing countries.
Expert Meeting on Measuring Electronic Commerce as
an Instrument for the Development of the Digital Economy
8ö10 September 2003, UNCTAD, Geneva
The Expert Meeting on Measuring Electronic Commerce
will bring together representatives from national statistical offices,
international organizations and other institutes involved in information society
measurements. The meeting provides a framework for introducing developing
countries« views into the existing debates and initiatives on e-statistics;
identifying key indicators on ICT usage; and exploring the need for future work
to establish an international database on ICT usage and e-business.
Transforming and sustaining inclusive development communities: an evidence-based
approach
19
September 2003, De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam
The workshop is organized by practitioners with a professional interest in
online communities in the development field. During the workshop, case
studies of development communities will be presented, together with a
consideration of the technological issues affecting these communities. We
encourage the participation of researchers in the wider area of online
communities so that we can profit from their research experience and
approaches. The 31st Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
19-21 September 2003, Center for Technology and Law, George Mason University
Law School, Virginia.
TPRC hosts this annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and
industry.
3rd International Symposium on Digital Earth
21-25 September 2003, Czech Republic
The 3rd International Symposium on Digital Earth
deals with: Earth observation and processing technologies for Digital Earth,
the meaning of sustainability and policy of its formulation, delivery,
monitoring and evaluation in the conditions of the Information Society.
Other important parts of the symposium are the Global Society Dialogue as
well as e-government, e-governance and e-parliament as accompanying factors
of a networked knowledge society. There are also topics linked with delivery
of services to citizens and digital cities, communities and localities.
Information and Communication Technologies in Education in
the South: Beyond Futurological Prophecies and Critical Dystopias
2-3 October
2003, Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
The Norwegian Network on ICT
and Developmentās annual workshop will combine keynote addresses with
presentation of papers and round table discussions.
Public Administration and Globalization: Challenges, Opportunities and
Options (Session on Globalization and Information Technology)
5-10 October, New Delhi, India
Information technology may
enable people to access more information that could be valuable in their
decision making process. Information and communication technology can open
new doors for developing countries, giving them the capacity to cope with
the demands of the global community. It can help the government improve its
methods of operation in providing public services. Public administration
must also analyze the downside of ICT such as aggravating the digital divide
and over dependence in technology
HELINA 2003 Conference: ICTs in the Fight against HIV/ AIDS in Africa
12-15 October 2003, Johannesburg, South Africa
The conference aims to bring expert clinicians and researchers in HIV/AIDS
together with regional and international experts in health informatics in a
unique forum. The goal of this meeting is to introduce all participants to
the broad range of issues of mutual concern facing those who develop and
manage HIV/AIDS interventions, and the potential for information and
communication technologies to further these aims.
World
Knowledge Forum
14-17 October 2003, Seoul
The international conference, to be held October
14-17, 2003 under the theme "Creating a New World Order and Economy", will
convene top opinion leaders from the worldās political, business, academic,
and media arenas, provoking discussion of the best strategies for weathering
economic and political turmoil and providing penetrating glimpses of the
best ways forward.
Asian Forum on Information and Communication Technology Policies and
Strategies
http://www.apdip.net/asia-forum/
20-22 October 2003, Kuala Lumpur
UNDP-APDIP (http://www.apdip.net),
in collaboration with the UN ICT Task Force
http://www.unicttaskforce.org/
and the Ministry of Energy, Communications and Multimedia, Malaysia (http://www.ktkm.gov.my)
is organizing an Asian Forum on ICT Policies and Strategies to provide Asian
countries an opportunity to share information on what works and what does
not work, and to benefit from each others knowledge and experiences. The
Forum is co-sponsored by the Government of Japan through its generous
contribution to the UNDP's Information Communication Technology for
Development Thematic Trust Fund.
Developing Countries Access to Scientific Knowledge-Quantifying the Digital Divide
http://www.ejds.org/meeting2003
23-24 October 2003, Trieste,
Italy
This is an open round table among scientists,
librarians, decision-makers, journalists, electronic publishers, contents
providers, information and communication technology experts, donors and
non-profit organizations working on the dissemination of science and the
transfer of knowledge and (open source) technology towards developing
countries.
The workshop will examine three primary facets
of new ICTs and e-government: 1) The most common, generic difficulties with
the development of e-government in the world; 2) The response of the
emerging ICTs to these specific difficulties; and 3) The future of ICT and
where the trends are going to bring us 10 - 20 years from now.
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