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Mobile Life 2009 Conferences - preliminary program
by Prof. I. Kushchu 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Dear Colleagues The preliminary detailed program for Mobile Life Conferences (mGOVERNMENT, mSOCIETY and mDEVELOPMENT) to beheld in Barcelona 2-4 September is now posted on the conference web site: http://www.m4life.org Key speakers include: -- Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation -- Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Deutsche Telekom - Board Member of T-Mobile Germany and T-Home. -- Evelyne Rys, CISCO, Sales and Business Development Manager, EMEA Public Sector Vertical, Cisco Systems -- Ken Banks, Kiwanja Net -- Micheal Bull, Professor, University Sussex SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES: Only two days left to submit proposals to speak, to present demos at the interactive practice sessions. Please download the call and follow the instructions in the Call for practice talk, panels, workshop, demos and exhibitions: http://www.m4life.org/newdocuments/practicecall.pdf BACKGROUND: mLife Events form A Platform for Socially Responsible Organizations in Mobile Value Chain The influences of mobile technologies range from personal relations to interaction in society, and from the transformation of the public sector to the dynamics of economic development. mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events for all organizations and professionals who would like to monitor, take part in, and shape the development of the social impact of the mobile revolution. They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and be informed in order to reach their goals. The three conferences will cover all aspects of mobile life, technology, services, implementation as they relate to individuals, society, economies and governments. ORGANIZERS and SUPPORTERS: mLIfe Events are organized by the MObile Government Consortium Int, and Barcelona City Council and Sponsored / Supported by CISCO, BlackBerry and SPIDER ONLINE REGISTRATIONs and for further information please refer to the http://www.m4life.org/ or email conf(a)m4life.org Regards Kushchu ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Founding Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik(a)mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853

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Need advice on webcrawler
by Brenda L Battleson 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hello all, I'm hoping that some of you expert data miners can give me some advice on software (preferably shareware) that can be used to search online news sites for specific topic-related keywords. These will not be limited to English language although at this time we are limiting to western alphabets. (We plan to expand once we fine-tune retrieval methods.) We've used Google alerts in the past, for testing purposes though there are limitations as to what we can retrieve due to Google's built-in "parameters". We want to pull in everything related to physical and mental disabilities from tv & news sites, news-related blogs, health agency websites, etc. We'll filter out the "junk" later. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. As I mentioned "free" would be ideal but I'll consider reasonably priced commercial products as well. (I'm a librarian, not a hedge fund manager, after all ;-) ) Thanks in advance for your help. -Brenda -- Brenda L. Battleson University at Buffalo Central Technical Services 134 Lockwood Library Buffalo, NY 14260-2210 USA Ph: +1-716-645-2305 ext.225 Fax: +1-716-645-5955 Email: blb(a)buffalo.edu * *

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CFP: 2nd international workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009)
by Uldis Bojars 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

*** Submissions deadline extended until August 10th *** CALL FOR PAPERS: SDoW2009 ==================================================================== 2nd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009) October 25, 2009 collocated with ISWC-2009 Westfields Conference Center, near Washington, DC., USA Paper submission: August 10, 2009 http://sdow.semanticweb.org/2009/ ==================================================================== The 2nd International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDoW2009), co-located with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2009), aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the Semantic Web and Social Web. Important dates --------------- * Submission deadline: Aug 10, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: Sep 04, 2009 * Camera-ready paper submission: Oct 02, 2009 * Camera-ready proceedings: Oct 09, 2009 * Workshop: Oct 25, 2009 Description ----------- Since its first steps in 2001, many research issues have been tackled by the Semantic Web community such as data formalism for knowledge representation, data querying and scalability, or reasoning and inferencing. More recently, Web 2.0 offered new perspectives regarding information sharing, annotation, and social networking on the Web. It opens new research areas for the Semantic Web which has an important role to play to lead to the emergence of a Social Semantic Web that should provide novel services to end-users, combining the best of both Semantic Web and Web 2.0 worlds. To achieve this goal, various tasks and features are needed from data modelling and lightweight ontologies, to knowledge and social networks portability as well as ways to interlink data between Social Media websites, levering proprietary data silos to a Giant Global Graph. Following the successful SDoW2008 workshop at ISWC2008, SDoW2009 aims to bring together Semantic Web experts and Web 2.0 practitioners and users to discuss the application of semantic technologies to data from the Social Web. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and tools using Social Semantic Web technologies * Creating RDF-based knowledge using social media services * Data Portability and Social Network Portability * Emerging semantic platforms for the Social Web * Enriching Social Web with semantic data - RDFa, microformats and other approaches * Linked Data on the Social Web - providing linked data from social media sites * Mining and analysis of Social Data * Ontologies for the Social Web - developing, using and extending lightweight ontologies/vocabularies for social media sites * Querying and mining social semantic data * Policies, authentication, security, and trust within collaborative scenarios * Producing Semantic Web data from social software applications * Reasoning for Social Web applications * Semantic blogging, wikis and social networks * Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) * Social and semantic bookmarking, tagging and annotation * Using Semantic Web technologies for Social Data integration Submissions ----------- The following types of contributions are welcomed: * Full technical papers, up to 12 pages. * Short technical papers and position papers, up to 6 pages. * Posters and Demos, 2-3 pages with a description of the application, ideally accompanied with a link to an online demo. Workshop Chairs --------------- * John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Uldis Bojārs, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland * Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain Program Committee ----------------- * Alessandra Toninelli, Università di Bologna, Italy * Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany * Dan Brickley, FOAF project & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Denny Vrandecic, DFKI, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain * Eric Prud'hommeaux, MIT, USA / W3C, USA * Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France * Frederick Giasson, Zitgist, Canada * Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, DFKI Knowledge Management Lab, Germany * Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh, UK * Hideaki Takeda, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, UK * Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Jose E. Labra, University of Oviedo, Spain * Josephine Griffith, NUI Galway, Ireland * Kotaro Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Libby Miller, BBC, UK * Olaf Hartig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany * Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA * Marta Sabou, KMi, The Open University, UK * Matthew Rowe, University of Sheffield, UK * Meena Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA * Michael Hausenblas, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland * Richard Cyganiak, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland * Sebastien Dietzold, Universität Leipzig, Germany * Sofia Angeletou, KMi, The Open University, UK * Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany * Susie M. Stephens, Eli Lilly, USA * Stefan Decker, DERI, NUI Galway Ireland * Steve Harris, Garlik, UK * Valdis Krebs, orgnet.com, USA * Yves Raimond, BBC, UK

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CFP: E-waste management in the IV Congress of CyberSociety 2009
by Dani Matielo 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

IV Congress of CyberSociety 2009 12-29 November 2009 Online Congress The Observatory for CyberSociety <http://www.cibersociedad.net/> and CitiLab-Cornellà <http://www.citilab.eu/> organized the IV Congress of CyberSociety, a Living Congress that is taking place in different phases, and whose period of discussion of online communication will take place between 12 and 29 November 2009. The conference this year is structured around six broad themes, grouping them in various working groups with specific themes: - Education - Politics - Communication - Science and Research - Economy - Culture Here you can find a list with all the Working Groups of the Congress: http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2009/en/gts/ Communications or "papers" are at the core of the Congress. Therefore, they must be framed and appeal directly to the issues presented by any of the Working Groups. This year, it was included the possibility of communication in different formats (text, audio, video or slide show). The working languages of the Congress and the ones in which the organization will accept submissions are: English, Catalan, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese. The organization of the conference will provide an automatic translation system for all web submissions. ===E-waste management Working Group=== The development of the CyberSociety and its intensive use of technology is also associated with a huge production of electronic equipment: from personal computers and mobile phones to the major data centers which constitute the complex physical network of Internet, production and consumption of electronic devices play a central role in the economy of the Information Society. E-waste is the general label given to all kinds of waste generated from electrical and electronic equipment. With the exponential rise in the production and consumption of such devices, the amount of e-waste generated each year has become an issue which also grows bigger with the rapid spread of the use technology in the different aspects of our everyday life. There are different issues which call for attention regarding e-waste management, along all stages of the electronic devices' production cycle, from design and development, through consumption and use, up to recycling and disposal. Regarding the topic of consumption, for example, a point to be explored is the concept of "obsolescence" and the roles of mass media and the industry of electronics in the construction of consumers' "need" to constantly change their laptops, mobiles, cameras and other equipments. Another issue is how to properly dispose e-waste, since it can not be discarded alongside household garbage because of the large amount of toxic substances present in these devices which can severely pollute the environment. Also, electronic products contain huge amounts of applied knowledge, and to simply throw them away is a loss of all this knowledge. Furthermore, one of the still unresolved problems related to the egalitarian dissemination of access to computers and the Internet among disadvantaged groups, specially in developing countries, is the impossibility of many people and associations to afford the prices of the devices. The high cost of some of the equipment, services and appliances is still a key factor for the existence of the "digital divide" which could also be addressed by the use of supposedly obsolete technologies. Thus it is clear that the issue of what to do with e-waste touches many issues that need to be discussed and disseminated, from a technical point of view of how to make the process more sustainable and cause as less impact as possible to the environment, to the different strategies of appropriation, re-signification and reuse of e-waste. In this context, our proposal for this working group is to discuss the different issues related to electronic waste, through reflection on data and case studies about how communities, NGOs, companies and governments are dealing with the problem, the different strategies and public policies on the issue, and possible environmental and social solutions. We encourage communications in video format (surveys, documentaries etc) and text (articles, reports etc). We also plan to organize remote round-tables using video-conference technology. If you are interested in participating, please contact the coordinators of the WG. The coordinators of this WG are part of the projects obsoletos.org from Spain, lixoeletronico.org from Brazil and the MetaReciclagem network http://rede.metareciclagem.org ===Requirements .=== http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2009/en/estatic/bases-para-la-presentac… ===Key dates=== Submission deadline: September 15, 2009 Online discussion period: 12-29 November 2009 -- Daniela de Carvalho Matielo WebLab.tk http:// <http://weblab.tk/>www.dacamat.com.br | http://weblab.tk | http://lixoeletronico.org ASSINE O MANIFESTO DO LIXO ELETRÔNICO http://lixoeletronico.org/manifesto "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say an uncommon-place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." ~ Jack Kerouac

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Pew Internet Report > The Future is Wireless
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Colleagues/ The Latest Pew Internet & American Life report > Pew Internet Report: Wireless Internet Use / July 22 2009 <http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2009/07/pew-internet-report-wirele ss-internet.html> /Gerry 56% Of All Americans Have Accessed The Internet By Wireless Means Overviw An April 2009 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project asked respondents whether they had used a variety of devices - laptops, cell phones, game consoles, and more - to go online using a wireless network. Altogether, 56% of Americans said they have at some point used wireless means for online access. * 39% of all Americans have used a laptop computer to go online wirelessly, making this the most prevalent means of wireless access. * 32% of all Americans have gotten online with a mobile device - meaning they have used a cell phone or other handheld device to check email, access the internet for information, or send instant messages. [snip Use of the internet on mobile devices has grown sharply from the end of 2007 to the beginning of 2009. [more] Links To HTM and PDF versions of the Full Report available at [ http://tinyurl.com/mxqrtt ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed / Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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The World in 2020: The Mobile Device Will Be The Primary Connection Tool To The Internet
by McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Colleagues/ Pew Report :The Future of the Internet III / Dec 14, 2008 > The World in 2020: The Mobile Device Will Be The Primary Connection Tool To The Internet /Gerry Overview A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves. [snip] The Evolution of Mobile Internet Communications / Prediction > The mobile phone is the primary connection tool for most people in the world. In 2020, while "one laptop per child" and other initiatives to bring networked digital communications to everyone are successful on many levels, the mobile phone-now with significant computing power-is the primary Internet connection and the only one for a majority of the people across the world, providing information in a portable, well-connected form at a relatively low price. Links To More Predictions About The Evolution Of Mobile Communications And The Full Text Of The Pew Report Available From [ http://tinyurl.com/npljcy ] Enjoy ! //Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck(a)iastate.edu There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed / Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace

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E-Government & Low-Income People in OECD Countries
by Marc Hebert 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hello, Can you please help in my search for cross-disciplinary research about low-income people in OECD <http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html>countries who use computer, Internet and cell phone technologies to apply for government services? Thank you for any assistance you may provide. Kind regards, Marc Hebert PhD Candidate, Anthropology University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, SOC 107 Tampa, Florida 33620-7200 U.S.A. http://anthropology.usf.edu/graduate/hebert/

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IGI Global networks, surveilland and locative media: CFC proposals (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

fyi. Pls respond to Prof Duarte; not to me. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:06:01 -0300 From: Fabio Duarte <duarte.fabio(a)pucpr.br> To: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: IGI Global networks, surveilland and locative media: CFC proposals dear barry wellman, our call for chapters proposals is open till next august 15th. i would like to ask if you could spread this information to your list. thank you .................. Together with other 2 colleagues, I am organizing a book with IGI Global (http://www.igi-global.com) called "ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks". We would like to invite you to attend to the attached call for chapter proposals - perhaps with the final version of this working paper. Please note that for the first deadline we only need a 2-3 pages chapter PROPOSAL. We would also appreciate if you could help us distribute this call as widely as possible (we wanted a balanced book in terms of origins of the authors). Here is the link to the call (also attached): http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=660 Thanks and regards, ..................... Fábio Duarte PPGTU - Gestão Urbana Mestrado e Doutorado (41)3271-2623 www.pucpr.br/ppgtu

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Re: [Air-L] The Internet and Politics: Key Readings
by William Dutton 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

My thanks to all who have commented on the list, or to me personally. All input is extremely helpful, so please don't hesitate to send even a single reference that you have found critical to your own research or teaching in the area of politics and the Internet. I've avoided commenting on each response but appreciate all. To those who may not recall my mission: >> I have agreed to edit a 4 volume set that will reprint journal >> articles and >> book chapters that are core to the study of the Internet and >> politics. In a >> very open-ended fashion, I would be very grateful for your >> nominations of >> work that should be included in such a set. I plan to include work >> that >> predates the Internet as we know it today, which has helped to >> shape and >> inform academic perspectives on the political role of computing and >> telecommunications, but also be as contemporary as book publishing >> allows. >> Here is an opportunity to assembly the key works in an increasingly >> significant area, so please do take the time to provide me with your >> recommendations. I will acknowledge those who provide me with their >> considered views on this, as it will be important for the field to >> get this >> list as strong as possible. Professor William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1865 287 210/ 212 direct Fax: +44 (0)1865 287 211 Mobile-Cell: +44 (0)776 882 3906 Web: www.oii.ox.ac.uk Dutton at http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/ View my research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=478025

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CFP: Networks
by Aaron Benyamin Retish 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

Networks The 7th Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI April 8-10, 2010 Call for Papers Citizenship requires networks and networks can confer citizenship. The theme of the 2010 conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship explores the similarities and the tensions between networks and citizenship in the past, present, and future. It also considers how networks have shaped citizenship and how citizenship has influenced the development of networks. Noted scholar Yochai Benkler (Harvard University and author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom) will give the keynote speech. networks ⇒ citizenship How do our interpersonal relationships affect our sense of belonging within our societies and the ways we experience our rights and responsibilities? How do networks enrich our lives and build our capacity to solve collective problems? How do they limit our freedom of action and constrain our choices? In particular, how do networks affect the place of immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, women’s, LGBT, and other groups? How do they shape our conduct of electoral politics and our sense of civic engagement? In what ways do networks serve as sites of alternative forms of citizenship for NGOs, grass-roots organizations, or watchdog groups? How do networks transcend national boundaries and do they vary from West to East, North to South? citizenship ⇒ networks What rights and responsibilities do we hold within our various networks? How does our network participation (in such networks as trade, migration, religious, artistic, and political) bind us and/or empower us? What are the norms of behavior in those networks and how do they differ from some networks to others? How deep is our sense of belonging in networks and how does this vary with the type of network and our position in it? How do we practice citizenship in online networks and how do governments engage in the regulation of them? networks⇒citizenship⇒citizenship⇒networks⇒ Have the patterns of citizenship and networks changed? What will patterns of the future look like? How do traditional networks (kinship, migratory, labor) evolve into modern or post-modern networks? How have political alignments in democratic and authoritarian regimes fashioned citizenship? How do new networks mediated by electronic communications and computing technology reshape our understanding of our connection to one another? These points illustrate the wide range of possibilities to link networks and citizenship and we encourage papers that address citizenship/networks in ways not addressed above. We welcome proposals from any time period or geographic area and across the widest range of disciplines from faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars. Proposals should be submitted online at http://141.217.132.114/csc/csc_request.htm no later than Friday, October 23, 2009. Both panel proposals and individual submissions are welcome. Those interested in submitting panel proposals can use H-Citizenship (http://www.h-net.org/~citizen) to locate scholars with compatible interests. Questions should be directed to Marc W. Kruman, aa1277(a)wayne.edu. -- Dr. Aaron B. Retish Associate Professor Department of History Wayne State University 3107 FAB Detroit, MI 48202 ph. 313-577-6143 Now available: Russia's Peasants in Revolution and Civil War by Aaron Retish. For more information, see http://www.cambridge.org/9780521896894

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