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IPv6 Latest Report 2009
by Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues A new report on IPv6. May be you find it interesting http://tinyurl.com/7q8kbw Alaa __________________________________________________________________ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Number of Online News Websites?
by Angela Lee 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Greetings, I'm sorry for the spam, but does anyone have, or know know where I can find, the most recent statistics on the number of online news websites in existence? Somehow I am having trouble finding records beyond 1999... Any pointer is greatly appreciated, and thank you in advance. :) Angela -- Angela M. Lee Ph.D. Student Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania

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Cisco 2008 Annual Security Report
by Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear Colleagues A very good resource to read http://cisco.com/en/US/prod/vpndevc/annual_security_report.html Alaa __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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INVITATION: War, conflict and reconciliation on the Internet
by Adi Kuntsman 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Dear all, You are cordially invited to the research symposium,War, conflict and reconciliation on the Internet, on Wednesday the 21 of January, at 4-6pm, Liverpool John Moores Universitym Dean Wwalters Building, room 103. The event is free and open to all. For more details and directions, please visit our website http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/91705.htm War, conflict and reconciliation on the Internet Speakers: Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton,"'Websites of Remembrance: British Memories of the Second World War on the Internet‘" Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou, Sussex University, "The new faces of Cyprus on Facebook: the Internet as a tool for peace and reconciliation" Adi Kuntsman, LJMU, "Cyberwars and cyberhate: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and homophobia on the Russian-language Internet" Look forward to seeing you there Adi ---- Dr. Adi Kuntsman Lecturer in Internet and Communication Schoolof Media, Critical and Creative Arts LiverpoolJohn Moores University 1 St. James Road, Liverpool , L1 7BR Tel 0151 231 5035 Email Web

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Reminder: LIT 2009, LNBIP proceedings, deadline: 1 Feb 2009
by Dominik Flejter 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** 2nd Workshop on Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology (LIT 2009) in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009) Poznan, Poland April 27 or 28, 2009 http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/12th_bis/wscfp.php?i=34&ws=lit2009 *************************************************************************** Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2009 *************************************************************************** The Legal Informatics and Legal Information Technology workshop weld as part of the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems. The BIS Conference is held annually and is a leading world conference in the area of Business Information Systems. Submissions are rigorously refereed. Accepted papers are published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series. After a long hiatus, the domain of Law and Information Technology is finally receiving much attention, not only from researchers, but also from practitioners. Hence there is a need for forums that discuss new research and innovative applications in Law and Information Technology. The workshop is receptive to all papers dealing with any topic in the interdisciplinary domain of Law and Information Technology. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Automated semantic indexing, information extraction and categorization of legal documents * Computational models for legal reasoning * Information Technology and Dispute Resolution * Information Technology and Crime Prevention * Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Law * Knowledge management in the legal domain * Legal argumentation * Legal discourse modeling and legal reasoning * Legal electronic agents * Legal Expert Systems * Legal ontologies and their creation and use * Legal reasoning and its computer representation * Natural language processing in law * Online Dispute Resolution * Question answering retrieval in law and governmental services * Risk management in law * Semantic Web technologies for law and e-government * Specialized knowledge representation and logics for law * Text mining and knowledge extraction in law SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-487211-0. Submission system is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lit2009. Papers approved for presentation at LIT 2009 will be published in BIS 2009 workshop proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. WORKSHOP FORMAT All authors of accepted papers as well as other participants will be asked to read accepted papers abstracts before the workshop (papers will be available on-line in advance) to facilitate discussion. Workshop participants will be also invited to take part in the BIS conference and other BIS workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * February 1, 2009 - submission deadline for papers * February 22, 2009 - notification of acceptance/rejection * March 15, 2009 - submission of final papers * April 27 or 28, 2009 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Poznan University of Economics, Department of Information Systems (http://kie.ae.poznan.pl/) CHAIRS * Piotr Stolarski * Tadeusz Tomaszewski PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended) * Emilia Bellucci, Victoria University, Australia * Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Presidente da Diretoria Executiva IJURIS, Brasil * Hugo Hoeschl, IJURIS Research Group, Brasil * Arno Lodder, Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Rafal Morek, University of Warsaw, Poland * Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria, Austria * Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland * Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Australia * Tadeusz Tomaszewski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland *************************************************************************** -- Dominik Flejter < http://dominik.flejter.net/ > Poznan University of Economics Department of Information Systems < http://www.kie.ae.poznan.pl/ > BIS 2009 Organizing Committee

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2nd Call For Papers EGOV09 Linz/Austria
by Hans J. Scholl 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Apologies for Double Postings Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals Eighth international EGOV conference 2009, Linz (Austria), August 30 - September 3, 2009 The international EGOV conference annually presents the state of e-Government and e-Governance research and practice. Thereby, the conference provides important guidance in this fast-moving domain of study. http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2009/call-for-papers The EGOV conference brings together leading researchers and professionals from all over the globe and from many disciplines. Over the years, the interest has increased tremendously. The 2008 conference attracted some 130 participants from more than 30 countries from all over the world including developing countries, with 32 contributions in outstanding research, 25 contributions in ongoing research, 10 projects contributions and 5 workshops. Also, 10 PhD papers were accepted and presented at the doctoral colloquium preceding the conference. Every year the EGOV Conference proves its capacity to serve as a platform for academics and professionals and as an important ground for networking in the community. Organizational and user-related issues long discussed among researchers have finally gained influence on practice. Conversely, e-Government practice has influenced and inspired e-Government research. A wide range of topics has received scholarly attention. In recent years, the assessment of e-Government efforts, the prospects of e-Government as a research discipline, and the role of information and communication technology for development rank among the top topics on the research agenda. These themes will also be well-received contributions at EGOV 2009. The eighth EGOV conference includes, but is not limited to the following topics around e-Government and e-Governance and other fields of ICT application in the public sector: - Research theories and frameworks for public sector modernization with the support of ICT - Research methods, method integration and techniques - Analyzing and assessing contemporary research in e-Government and e-Governance - Designing systems for the public sector: innovative cases and systems - Studying ICT usage, acceptance and performance of technology-supported public sector activities: methods and contemporary case analyses - Future directions in research and practice of ICT in the public sector - Innovation management, change management and complexity management in shaping public sector advancements - Transformation, customer-driven public sector reengineering and change management - Mass collaboration of stakeholders in government modernization: participative governance, simulation, animation, gaming and policy modeling - New ways of innovative developments: crowd sourcing, grid computing, social software etc. - Economics, evaluation and stakeholders - Theories, concepts and solutions to deal with specific challenging topics in the application field: complexity, system dynamics, evolution, change management, mobile technologies, information preservation, trust and privacy, information management, ICT4D, information quality, adaptability and agility, integration and interoperation, systems and enterprise architecture, domain-specific social networking cases and solutions, semantic technologies, etc. - Crises management, emergency and disaster response, public-private cooperation, transnational government - Education, training courses, and curricula The EGOV Conference Series hosts four distinct formats of contributions: Scientific papers (distinguished between completed research and ongoing research); project presentations, and workshops. These formats encourage scientific rigor and discussions of the state of the art in the study domain, but also welcome innovative research in progress, and studies of practical e-Government or e-Governance projects, as well as system implementation. We seek innovative and rigorous contributions. Accepted papers of high-quality, completed research will be published in Springer Os Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS.) Ongoing research and project papers will be published in the Trauner (Linz) proceedings. Read more in the submission guidelines and review criteria The conference will again host a PhD student colloquium providing doctoral students with an international forum for presenting their work, networking opportunities and cross-disciplinary inspiration. Read more about the PhD Colloquium ... Submission of papers: February 28, 2009 Submission of workshop/panel proposals: April 15, 2009 Submissions to PhD colloquium: April 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance for papers: April 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance for workshops/panels/PhD submissions: May 15, 2009 Camera-ready papers due: Papers in LNCS proceedings: May 31, 2009 Papers in Trauner Druck proceedings: June 15, 2009 For 2009, EGOV will be first time co-located with ePart, the new International Conference on e-Participation, which will be dedicated to topics on e-Participation and e-Democracy. ePart will be parallel to EGOV at the conference venue. To submit a paper to EGOV, please consult www.egov-conference.org/egov-2009 <http://www.egov-conference.org/egov-2009> . To submit a paper to ePart, please consult www.demo-net.org/epart/. The deadline for contributions in the categories completed research, ongoing research, projects and cases, and issues of general development is 28th February 2009. Workshops, panels and PhD proposals may be submitted until the 15th April 2009. We would appreciate if you could spread the word about the open calls and open submission system to your colleagues, collaborators and communities. Dr. Hans J (Jochen) Scholl, MBA Associate Professor The Information School University of Washington Mary Gates Hall, Suite 310C Box 352840 Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA Skype: jochenscholl Phone: (206) 616-2543 Fax: (206) 616-3152 Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl

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CfP Digital Cities ( TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS, Special Issue)
by Hans J. Scholl 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

TELEMATICS AND INFORMATICS: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies, by ELSEVIER Call for Papers Special Issue on Digital Cities Aims and Scope During the last years, extensive broadband network infrastructures are being constructed in more and more cities worldwide, offering high-speed connectivity to public organizations, businesses and citizens, that allow the deployment of highly useful applications and electronic services. These e-services aim at both economic objectives (such as enhanced competitiveness and growth) and social objectives (such as higher quality of life, better services to various groups, social networking and inclusion, environmental protection). It is important to analyze systematically these Odigital cities¹ projects (usually including both network infrastructures and applications/e-services). Gaining knowledge from them is going to be useful for improving both design and implementation of future attempts, and also public policy making in this area. In particular, it is important to gain a deeper understanding of the main motivation and objectives of these projects, the main difficulties and challenges they faced, the business models they adopted and the role of both public organizations and private companies, and assess their social, economic and other city/municipality-related impact and value. This Special Issue of the OTelematics and Informatics¹ solicits original high-quality papers investigating the above issues of digital cities, with main emphasis on the following topics: - Motivation and objectives for developing broadband infrastructures and applications/e-services on them - Detailed analysis of such broadband infrastructures or electronic service development projects in municipal contexts - Adoption of applications / e-services by the public and factors affecting it - Main challenges and difficulties faced during digital cities projects - Reports on achievements, current situation analysis of digital cities projects - Mobile applications and field force automation in government based on broadband infrastructures - Assessment of social, economic and other city-related impacts of such projects - Decision-making tools and models for assisting elected representatives and city officials in Odigital planning and management¹ - Approaches for managing digital transformation and policy support for municipalities - Business models, role of public companies and private organizations (such as municipalities and government) - Projects and initiatives specifically targeting e-Inclusion or minimization of Digital Divides, at municipal level - Specific applications and lessons learnt in developing countries or regions - Future, forward looking approaches and initiatives for digital cities Submissions Authors are invited to prepare original manuscripts of 5000 to 6000 words (excluding references), adopting the guidelines defined in the website of OTelematics and Informatics¹ (www.elsevier.com/wps/product/cws_home/703) Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be refereed through a peer review process. All papers should be submitted via the Journal's online submission and peer-review systems (http://www.ees.elsevier.com/tele) Please follow the instructions given on this site. Schedule * Submission deadline: March 31, 2009 * Completion of first review: May 31, 2009 * Revisions deadline: June 30, 2009 * Final decisions notification: July 15, 2009 * Final manuscripts deadline: July 30, 2009 Guest Editors Assistant Prof.. Euripidis Loukis University of the Aegean, Greece Email: eloukis(a)aegean.gr Dr Yannis Charalabidis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Email: yannisx(a)epu.ntua.gr Associate Prof. H. Jochen Scholl University of Washington, Information School, USA Email: jscholl(a)u.washington.edu

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New Book: Powerscape of Internet Governance
by Holly Kruse 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Forwarded on request. Holly ---------------------------------- From: "Antonova, Slavka" <S.Antonova(a)massey.ac.nz> Date: Wed, January 14, 2009 6:28 pm To: "holly(a)aoir.org" <holly(a)aoir.org> Dear colleagues, I'm delighted to announce the publishing of my book Powerscape of Internet Governance. How was global multistakeholderism invented in ICANN? by the German publisher VDM Verlag. Author: Slavka Antonova Paperback: 348 pages Publisher: VDM Verlag (December 23, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 3639106148 ISBN-13: 978-3639106145 The book is available through major online retailers: www.amazon.com<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?field-author=&field-title=&fi eld-subject=&field-asin=&field-publisher=VDM+Verlag+Dr+M%FCller&field-bindin g=&rank=+salesrank&field-dateop=before&field-datemod=0&field-dateyear=2009&s earch-alias=stripbooks&mysubmitbutton1.x=0&mysubmitbutton1.y=0> www.amazon.co.uk<http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?field-author=&field-title =&field-subject=&field-asin=&field-publisher=VDM+Verlag&field-binding=&rank= +salesrank&field-dateop=before&field-datemod=0&field-dateyear=2009&search-al ias=stripbooks&mysubmitbutton1.x=0&mysubmitbutton1.y=0> amazon.de (ger. Titles)<http://www.amazon.de/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?__mk_de_DE=%C5M%C5Z%D5% D1&search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=&field- title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=VDM+Verlag+Dr.+M%FCller&node=&url=&field- binding=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&emi=&sort=relevanceran k&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=48&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=13> amazon.de (engl. Titles)<http://www.amazon.de/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_english_books/?__mk_de_DE= %C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&search-alias=english-books&unfiltered=1&field-keywords=&field -author=&field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=VDM+Verlag+Dr.+M%FCller&no de=&url=&field-binding=&field-subject=&field-browse=&field-dateop=&field-dat emod=&field-dateyear=&emi=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=69&Adv -Srch-Books-Submit.y=14> www.barnesandnoble.com<http://www.barnesandnoble.com> www.abebooks.com<http://www.abebooks.com> Just type "powerscape of Internet governance" on one of the above websites and you'll be provided with the book's details. If you would like to review the book for an academic journal, please contact Ms Esther von Krosigk: e.vonkrosigk(a)vdm-publishing.com<mailto:e.vonkrosigk@vdm-publishing.com> for a review copy. I'll appreciate if you drop a line to me as well. Regards, Slavka Dr. Slavka Antonova Senior Lecturer Dept. of Management & Int. Business Massey University Auckland Ph.: 064 (0)9 414-0800 ext. 9240 s.antonova(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.antonova@massey.ac.nz> Skype: slavka.antonova

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Peter Kollock, RIP
by Barry Wellman 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

>From Marc Smith's Connected Action Blog Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ My friend, colleague and teacher Peter Kollock January 13th, 2009 by Marc Smith I share the loss of Peter Kollock with the many people who knew him. Peter died Saturday after a motorcycle accident near his home. Many people in the social sciences and beyond have been influenced by Peter's works of scholarship, teaching, mentorship, entreprenurship and friendship. Peter had a big impact on his many students at UCLA and the larger academic community that built on his scholarship. A lecture from Peter was a great thing that left his audiences feeling both smarter and challenged with a whole new landscape of choices. Peter brought many people to a better appreciation of the issues of cooperation and conflict, collective action and common goods, of trust and deception in risky transactions. He made it clear how most of our biggest challenges on this planet are cooperation dilemmas. He gave many of his students the inspiration to think that conflicts could be resolved and cooperation sustained by leveraging insights from studies of these situations. His was the only class I ever took that proved mathematically that it paid to be good to other people, even if there were short term costs. He saw early on the importance of communication networks to change the landscape of cooperation and collective action. His scholarship extended to the very real world of high tech entrepreneurship- building tools for markets on the Internet. My thoughts are with his family and friends who appreciate the great presence Peter had. I am shocked by his loss and will miss him deeply. http://www.connectedaction.net/2009/01/13/my-friend-colleague-and-teacher-p…

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Call for ASIS&T panelists on Library 2.0
by Michael Zimmer 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Dear colleagues, and apologies for the cross-posting: I would like to propose a panel discussion for the ASIS&T 2009 Annual Meeting (November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver) on issues/challenges related to implementing Library 2.0 services. Topics might include: * Measuring patron needs * Technological constraints * Staffing * Cost * IP/copyright concerns * Privacy and data retention policies [my focus] * Sustainability & scalability * Impact on nature/culture of the library Please e-mail me off-list (zimmerm(a)uwm.edu) if you're interested in participating. Conference and submission details: <http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/am09cfp.html > Thanks, Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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