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Mobile Development: a Special Session at the EURO mGOV 2008
by i k 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

----- Apologies for X postings .. Please distribute widely ----- Mobile Development: a Special Session at the EURO mGOV 2008 ------ The Third European Conference & Exhibitions on MOBILE GOVERNMENT 15 - 16 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey ----- http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ The EURO MGOV Conference series aim to bring together public and private sector professionals, and the researchers to exchange and disseminate advances in the mobile government field - a next revolutionary progress of eGovernment. Mobile Development Session at the EURO mGOV 2008 aims to shed light on issues relevant to the role of the mobile technologies social, economic, institutional and political development. Some of the questions to be raised may include: --- How the public sector and the NGOs can utilize mobile technologies in helping developing world? --- How the people of developing countries are benefiting from mobile technologies? --- How this can improved in empowering the people better and improving the quality of life? --- Are there any economic benefits of mobile boom in the world for the developing world? EURO mGOV organization invites submissions and participation to this significant session from public/private sector professionals and researchers working in the areas of mobile technologies and development. The Euro mGOV 2008 ------------------------------------ The Mobile Government Conference series establish a forum and provide a showcase for the developments on the public administration and mobile Internet technologies, services and business models, and tie them to the existing and future m-government applications and government business models. The series will present evidences of applications and trends in mobile government implementations from various parts of the world. For submissions, participation and more information please visit http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ or email to mgov2...(a)mgovernment.org ---- mLIfeEvents Mobile Government Consortium International, UK msociety2...(a)mgovernment.org mgov2...(a)mgovernment.org http://www.mgovernment.org/events/

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cfp Mobile Government Summit at the EURO mGOV 2008
by i k 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Dear Colleagues Mobile Government Consortium International is organising the Third European Conference (EURO mGOV 2008) for September 2008. As the public sector is an essential part of mobile government applications and services, the key feature of the EURO mGOV 2008 is the mGovernment summit. This summit aims to share, disseminate and promote experiences of mobile government initiatives and, also, to establish strong links among various mGov projects in the world. We are therefore inviting high level public sector professionals from various countries as panel members or speakers for this session. These representatives typically may either be actively involved in and/or have in depth knowledge of eGovernment/mGovernment projects in their respective countries. They may also be decision and policy makers. Researchers who are active in field of IS for the public sector are also welcome. I am enclosing information about the summit below. Sincerely, kushchu IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org http://www.aykey.net ik(a)mgovernment.org ik(a)aykey.net +44 1273 777853 == please visit mLife events www.mgovernment.org/events/ -- Apologies for cross-postings -- please distribute widely --- Call for Participation in mGovernment Summit Public Sector Representatives will meet to share their experiences and discuss the future of mGovernment -------- EURO mGOV 2008 The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government 15-16 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ ------- At present, mobile government projects are being implemented in numerous countries and regions worldwide. These implementations often focus on similar, if not the same, problem areas, and produces similar solutions. However, the experiences gained in each project are often not communicated well on a national and international level. Therefore, there is a need for increased efficiency, cost reduction and better cooperation in sharing those experiences and creating alliances among mobile government projects. In this summit, the EURO mGOV 2008 aims to bring together the representatives of mobile government projects across countries to create a platform for the presentation, implementation and dissemination of the latest developments, ideas, applications and services in the field of mGovernment and to discuss and evaluate the future. The EURO mGOV 2008 organization invites national representatives who are involved in the development of Mobile Government related applications and services, and policy or decision makers on a local or central government level. Who will attend? - Public sector professionals with an extensive experience at the local or central level who are developers or implementers of mobile technologies, policy and decision makers. - The summit will feature a panel of top-level public sector professionals aiming to share cases, lessons learned and experiences gained. How to participate? - Please send a page long proposal with a short bio of the leading contributor and summary of the experiences or issues to be discussed. Creating alliances and sharing resources? - Support, sponsor and /or exhibit at the mGOV2008 - Share resources and create a strong network of businesses and professionals Please get in touch for further info?. - EURO mGOV 2008 ? mgov2008(a)mgovernment.org www.mgovernment.org/events.html - Mobile Government Consortium International - info(a)mgovernment.org - Other mGCI events ? www.mgovernment.org/events.html

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yet another panel call for IR 9.0 :-)
by Kimberly De Vries 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi all, I'm organizing a panel on particpatory culture, in particular how websites like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Facebook, etc channel user behavior and encourage contributions and other participation in their design. In particular, they encourage: - further disclosure of personal data (for marketing purposes) - further contributions from the user - recruitment of or connections with other users - click through to advertiser and partner sites - purchasing a product or membership The panel will explore this dynamic on several levels: - analyzing the aesthetic syntax of the actual user interface - analyzing the rhetorical behavior of users through their actions and comments - analyzing the interaction of users and web designers other ideas are welcome too, like targeting specific groups, linkages between sites--it's open! If you are interested, please contact me with your ideas/abstract ASAP! Best, Kim De Vries -- http://else-if-then.blogspot.com

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Twine: The Semantic Web is Here!
by Gerry Mckiernan 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

***APOLOGIES FRO RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Colleagues/ Our Facebook Friend Sarah Miller, a librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington is interviewed in the Feb 3 2008 NYTimes about Twine "a revolutionary new way to share, organize, and find information" [ http://www.twine.com/ ]. /Gerry NYTimes |February 3, 2008 | Novelties An Online Organizer That Helps Connect the Dots By ANNE EISENBERG HOW often have you wasted time searching through page after page of e-mail messages, Web sites, notes, news feeds and YouTube videos on your computer, trying to find an important item? If the answer is *too often,* a San Francisco company, Radar Networks, is testing a free, Web-based application, called Twine, that may provide some robotic secretarial help in organizing and retrieving documents. Twine (twine.com) can scan almost any electronic document for the names of people, places, businesses and many other entities that its algorithms recognize. Then it does something unusual: it automatically tags or marks all of these items in orange and transfers them to an index on the right side of the screen. This index grows with every document you view, as the program adds subjects that it can recognize or infer from their context. Customers have individual accounts on Twine*s Web site, where they save URLs or other information. They can make their collections, or *twines,* private, share them in groups with other members having common interests like politics or fashion, or even make the twines public. [snip] Twine is based on technologies created for the developing semantic Web - foreseen as a smarter Web where machines may someday be able to process the meaning of words and phrases in documents and even routinely answer direct questions. Sarah Miller, a librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, became a member of Twine*s test group in November, partly because she and her husband, Ethan, a doctoral candidate, needed a place to organize all the documents they wanted to share with each other about teaching and learning. For More Of The Story (and Photos) ... Visit [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/02/twine-semantic-web-is-here… ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://www.alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (Volume 2) 53 Country Reports
by Jeremy Hunsinger 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.354.html these are only short reports, but they are enough to highlight some trends and issues that are worth exploring -jh Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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Book Announcement: HCI Remixed
by Tom Erickson 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

We're pleased to announce a new book that should interest AoIR folks. HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community What is a remix? In music, a remix is an edited version of a song that builds on the themes of the original while incorporating new elements. But anything can be remixed, and in HCI Remixed we asked contributors to reflect on a piece of work -- a paper, system or demo -- that is at least ten years old. We asked them to pick a piece of work that they were enthusiastic about, and to consider how it had changed their view of HCI and shaped their work. The result is a book of 51 short, engaging and idiosyncratic essays that take a positive and synthetic approach to the work, asking what it got right, and what, after ten years or more, still has value. The essays cover a lot of ground. One considers Murial Cooper's contributions to dynamic typography, another the relationship between Cinderella and the Diffusion of Innovations, and another how a toy doll named Lily can transcend time and space to go Beyond Being There. The essayists of HCI Remixed explain how the Wizard of Oz was really John Gould, how both adults and children are willing to use felt and flannel and how "1 + 1 = 3" during user interface design. Taken together, the essays offer an accessible, lively, and engaging introduction to HCI research, illustrating where our community has been so that we can better understand where we are going. Check it out. We think you’ll enjoy it! --Tom Erickson and David W. McDonald, Editors http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11330 ----------------- Tom Erickson http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/

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Carnavatar 2008
by Gilson Schwartz 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

*Carnavatar 2008 * Welcome to the Carnavatar 2008 at the Bradesco Cultural Center in Second Life! Next Tuesday, we are holding the metaphantasies contest with prizes offered by Livraria Cultura. The Bradesco Cultural Center has been selected by Brazilian newspaper "O Estado de S.Paulo" as one of the best destinations in SL and highlightes as an educational area. Please spread the word and help us turn this celebration into a truly universal sharing of the carnavatarian spirit! A global, open and anthropofagic carnival 3.0! Bring your avatars and run for best "metaphantasy" in 3 genres: originality, luxury and humour. The University Lounge of the Bradesco Island will be open for dancing and sharing from 8 P.M., São Paulo time but other performances may run anywhere in the island - even the glassy circling planet may host carnavataric encounters. Thanks for partying with us! Teleport to http://tinyurl.com/2ax7xe Gilson Schwartz Curator, aka Simplesmentenuma Boa Centro Cultural Bradesco Brazil Research Leader City of Knowledge Project University of São Paulo www.cidade.usp.br Brazil

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'Communities and IT' for IR 9.0
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

I'd like to get together a panel of papers on Communities and IT - working around the conference theme of 'Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place'. If you are interested, please contact me off-list. Papers related to IT and geographically- based communities preferred, including IT use or support of particular community members (students, elderly, children, low-income), IT impacts on communities, participatory design for community, etc. /Caroline ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Re: [Air-L] New Publication: "What is Community Informatics? (and Why Does It Matter)" (Gurstein, M.)
by Michael Gurstein 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi Nico, ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net; 'cracin-canada(a)vancouvercommunity.net'; incom-l(a)incommunicado.info; 'bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com'; 'ugabytes(a)ugabytes.org'; 'air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org' Here are the lists. MG -----Original Message----- From: Nico Sica [mailto:nico@polimetrica.eu] Sent: February 1, 2008 7:15 AM To: Michael Gurstein Subject: Re: New Publication: "What is Community Informatics? (and Why Does It Matter)" (Gurstein, M.) Dear Michael, Thank you very much. Can you let me know please the name of the lists where you have sent the message? Many thanks! Best, Nico Il giorno 29/gen/08, alle ore 22:50, Michael Gurstein ha scritto: > FYI, > > I sent this out to various lists. > > Best, > > MG > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:gurstein@gmail.com] > Sent: January 29, 2008 11:39 AM > Subject: New Publication: "What is Community Informatics? (and Why > Does It > Matter)" (Gurstein, M.) > > > Apologies for duplicate copies. > > ************************** > > Allow me to bring to the attention of list members the recent > publication of the book "What is Community Informatics? (and Why Does > It Matter)", written by Prof. Michael Gurstein and published by > Polimetrica. > > You can check it out at: > http://www.polimetrica.com/ > > Thanks to author and publisher, the book has been licensed through > the terms of an Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons license > that allows the reader to freely distribute the work for non- > commercial purposes. > > You can download a FREE reading copy of the book from the E-LIS (E- > Prints in Library and Information Science) repository: > > Abstract: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00012372/ > > Full text: (tiny URL) http://tiny.cc/ltSOU > > http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00012372/01/ > WHAT_IS_COMMUNITY_INFORMATICS_r > eading.pdf > > > If you want to support this experimental project that aims to promote > a free and open access to scientific knowledge, please buy a printed > copy of the book. > Many thanks! > > All the best, > Viviana Sica > > Eng. Viviana Sica > Editorial Office (Head) > Polimetrica Publisher > Corso Milano 26 > 20052 Monza Mi Italy > E-mail viviana [dot] sica [at] polimetrica [dot] com > http://www.polimetrica.com >

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AoIR Conference 2008 Panel - eHealth and Web 2.0
by mh550＠york.ac.uk 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

eHealth and Web 2.0 Panel I would like to invite participation in a panel at the AoIR 2008 conference focused on 'eHealth and Web 2.0'. Participation, user-generated data, SNSs, Blogs and the whole range of ideals and resources that inform the Web 2.0 sensibility should provide a wealth of possibilities. This could include both theoretical and empirical material. In addition, you may want to argue that web 2.0 is not relevant to particular areas of eHealth. Those interested please send me a 250-500 word abstract - with the usual details. Michael.Hardey(a)hyms.ac.uk

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