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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 30 October 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010

March 18-21, 2010 – Porto, Portugal

(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)

* Conference Background and Goals

The IADIS e-Society 2010 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 eSociety and Digital Divide,  eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, 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. 

* Format of the Conference 

The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (online accessible). The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and other selected Journals. 

* Types of submissions 

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

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics: 

«« eSociety and Digital Divide »»

Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite may result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude certain individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the next keywords:

• Social Integration

• Social Bookmarking

• Social Software

• E-Democracy

• Social Integration 

«« 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

. E-Citizenship and Inclusion 

• eLearning Organisational Issues

• Evaluation and Assessment

. Political and Social Aspects    

• Virtual Learning Environments and Issues

• Web-based Learning Communities 

«« New Media and E-Society »»

May include issues relating to:

• Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence

• Interactivity and virtuality

• Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy 

• Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome

• Internet Cultures and new interpretations of “Space”

• Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

«« Digital Services in E-Society »»

May include issues relating to:

• Service Broadcasting

• Political Reporting 

• Development of Digital Services

• Freedom of _expression_

• E-Journalism

• Open Access

«« 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

«« 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: 30 October 2009

- Notification to Authors: 27 November 2009

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 18 December 2009

- Late Registration: After 18 December 2009

- Conference: Porto, Portugal, 18 to 21 March 2010

* Conference Location 

The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal. 

* Secretariat 

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal 

E-mail: secretariat AT esociety-conf.org/

Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee 

Program Chair

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands 

Conference Chair

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members:* 

* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events

Please also check the co-located events:

Information Systems 2010 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 18-20 March 2010 

Mobile Learning 2010 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 19-21 March 2010

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend Information Systems and Mobile Learning conferences’ sessions free of charge.

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Haggen