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Policy on e-health in European countries
by Monica.Murero＠MERIT.unimaas.nl 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Hi Folks: I am working on a comparative research project on "policy and e-health" in Europe. As a starting point, I wish to find out if national governments or private associations within European countries have already introduced policies on this matter. URLs, articles, references and suggestions are very welcomed. Anyone? Monica Murero P.S.: I will collect and send the results of this search to those of you interested in the subject. ------------------------------------- Monica Murero, PhD International Institute of Infonomics and University of Maastricht (NL) Telephone +31 45 570 7696

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A new spin ....
by Ken Friedman 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Dear Colleagues, Here's a new spin. This is almost a kind of urban mythology, with the stories improving all the time. And it is the first appeal I have received from Benin! Another pin in the map. Best, Ken Friedman -- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:38:23 -0800 From: mathew kahbah <mathewkahbah(a)yahoo.com> Subject: POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE NEEDED From: MR MATHEW KAHBAH COTONOU,BENIN REPUBLIC ATTN;Ken Friedman In brief introduction, I'm MR MATHEW KAHBAH from Sierra-Leone. My father ,Mr Foday William Kahbah was the former operations manager of the Sierra Leone Gold and Diamond cooperation during the tenure of the democratically elected head of state president Ahmed Tijan Kabbah who was forced out of office by the rebels led by major Paul Koromah.As a result of the otherthrow, top government officials and top civil servants who the rebel soldiers captured at the mining town of Bangashi district where he was in charge, may his gentle soul rest in peace. After the assassination of my late father Mr foday Williams Kahbah of Blessed Memory. I was busy ransacking his book sheeves, incidentially, I found a key to his underground safe in his family villa. Upon my opening to his undergroud safe, I was surprised to notice among other things 2 big trunk boxes which contained the sum of US$30million (thirty million united states dollars) I contacted my late father's friend who operated a fishing trawlers vessels through noble assistance, I and my family were smuggled out to cotonou through costal river with the sealed trunk boxes containing the money. On our arrival, I decided to deposit these boxes in a private security company here in cotonou for safe custody. Right now, your cooperation is highly needed to assist me lift these fund out of the security company to abroad for onward transfer. This is strictly on your advice in areas like real estate and stock markets or any other business you deem viable. Your compensation for this noble assistance is quite negotiable, for now 30% of this money stand as your commission for immediate transfer of this fund. Please your assistance is highly needed and your urgent reply indicating your interest through the above contacts. Furthermore my evidence of the deposit of this sealed trunk boxes in the security company will be furnished to you as soon as I receive your reply. Please treat this transaction as confidential for this is the hope of my family's survivals, now that the bread winner is no more every correspondences should be directed to me Mr Mathew Kahbah on my cellular phone 229 08 69 05.for more information and clarification. Thanks and yours sincerely, MR MATHEW KAHBAH 229 08 69 05. --

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Thanks for the beautiful websit ken.
by tom Kerrie 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Thank you. --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games

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FWD: JOB: Modelling digital content retailing (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

fyi Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:33:10 -0500 From: Kathleen Carley <Kathleen.Carley(a)cmu.edu> To: Kathleen.Carley(a)cmu.edu Subject: FWD: JOB: Modelling digital content retailing University of Surrey School of Human Sciences Research Officer (Ref: 3269) Salary up to: GBP 25,455pa Researcher Digital Content Distribution An experienced researcher is required for 3 years from March 2002 or as soon as possible thereafter for this EU funded project concerned with developing models of digital content distribution. The person appointed will work with other partners in evaluating computer models with content providers and in researching the digital content "scene". Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified and experienced candidates who are interested in building computer models, the Internet and consumer culture. Ideally, candidates will have experience of participatory methods and/or ethnographic techniques. The person appointed must be able to travel extensively within Europe and a degree of fluency in French and/or Portuguese would be beneficial. For further details and an informal discussion, contact Professor Nigel Gilbert by email n.gilbert(a)surrey.ac.uk. For an application form and further job details contact Lesley Gennoy, Human Resources Officer, School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7HX, UK, +44 1483 686912 or email l.gennoy(a)surrey.ac.uk Application forms can also be downloaded from www.surrey.ac.uk Employment Opportunities. Please quote Reference number 3269, supply your postal address and where you saw the advertisement. Closing date for applications is 08 March 2002 The University is committed to an Equal Opportunities Policy. -- Prof. G. Nigel Gilbert, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Guildford GU2 5XH, England Tel: +44 1483 259173 gng(a)soc.surrey.ac.uk

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Computer Games Conference: Manchester, UK
by Jason Rutter 26 Feb '02

26 Feb '02

Apologies for any cross posting PLAYING WITH THE FUTURE: DEVELOPMENT AND DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTER GAMING April 5-7, 2002 ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester Manchester, England www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz A draft programme and abstracts for papers to be presented at this international conference on computer gaming are now available online as well as facilities for booking a place at the event. The conference will feature approximately sixty papers on various aspects of computer and video gaming from the educational potential of computer gaming to the computer games and violence debate; from investigations of games markets to developing cheat-proofing protocols; from teenagers in Taiwan to senior citizen gamers in the USA. The event has already attracted delegates from around the world including Brunei, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, United Arab Emirates and USA. It has drawn the interest not just of academics but also industry and governmental organisations such as ELSPA (European Leisure Software Publishers Association), BECTa (British Education Communication and Technology Agency), and IGDA (International Game Developers Association). Gamers are represented at the event by key figures from the Cyberathletes' Professional League and the organiser of some of the UK's biggest gaming events. Playing with the Future is now only six weeks away and available places at the event are already limited so those interested in attending are encouraged to register as soon as possible. Further information on the conference can be found at www.cric.ac.uk/cric/gamerz Jase -- Dr Jason Rutter (Research Fellow) ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Ground Floor, Devonshire House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QH PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 http://www.jasonrutter.org.uk

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AoIR Conference 2002- Submissions
by Monica.Murero＠MERIT.unimaas.nl 25 Feb '02

25 Feb '02

Dear AoIR members and non... We have received 400 submissions for the AoIR 2002 conference !! This is an excellent number, considering that this year we have limited submissions to 1 per category/author, and that we have received proposals from some 40 or more countries! Reviewers are working on the abstracts, and results will be communicated starting from April 1st. Thank you very much for submitting your proposal. If you could not send one, we hope you will, maybe next year. We are looking forward to seeing you all in The Netherlands ! Monica Murero AoIR 2002 Conference Coordinator Steve Jones AoIR President Klaus Bruhn Jensen AoIR Program Chair Visit the 2002 conference web-site: http://www.infonomics.nl/aoir

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request for descriptions of experiences
by Charles Ess 25 Feb '02

25 Feb '02

Colleagues: As part of our effort on the ethics working committee to get a sense of cross-cultural differences concerning guidelines, procedures, and institutions that affect Internet research, we would be grateful for the assistance of the aoir folk in the following way. It is clear that relevant guidelines and decision-making procedures vary considerably from country to country. The typical United States university structure includes an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that has oversight responsibility for university-based research, especially research that runs the risk of harming human subjects in some way. If only because the state of Internet research ethics is not as developed as, say, the ethical guidelines for anthropology, psychology, medicine, etc. - it appears that different university IRBs may be making considerably different sorts of decisions regarding Internet research. On the other hand, in Europe - perhaps most notably, in Scandinavia - apparently stricter guidelines for human subjects research and data privacy exist than can be found in the U.S. At the same time, however - at least in Sweden, according to one of our committee members - there is nothing equivalent to the U.S. university IRB board. Rather, there are national committees with responsibility for ethical oversight - but these committees do not seem to take an active oversight role: rather, they are consulted when a researcher is in doubt. The upshot seems to be: Internet researchers in the U.S. are more directly confronted with the need to justify their research as ethically sound before an IRB board (or its equivalent) than colleagues elsewhere. And while the relevant law and ethical codes may be stricter elsewhere - the very lack of such codes in the U.S. may, paradoxically, issue in relatively stricter limitations on U.S. researchers? This is clearly a crude and limited picture: here's where we would like to enlist your help. We would appreciate not only any general tips and discussion that researchers may be able to provide the committee - e.g., pointers to ethical guidelines and law that we may have missed (please review our website resources - <http://www.cddc.vt.edu/aoir/ethics> and our preliminary report - <aoir.org/reports/ethics.html> to see what we have collected over the psat year), especially outside the U.S. context; descriptions of whatever ethical regulation may exist and how the process works, etc. We would also like to request accounts of specific experiences (in effect, specific case studies) - e.g., examples of where Internet research was either approved or disapproved on ethical or legal grounds, with some description of how these decisions were made, by what persons, institutions, committees, etc. We're hoping that this sort of information from aoir will give us a better picture of "what's going on" not just in the U.S. but around the world regarding oversight of Internet research - specifically as involving the application of particular ethical guidelines and legal requirements - as currently experienced by researchers. People are welcome to share their experiences with the general aoir list if they feel comfortable doing so. Any material sent to me - for distribution to the committee - will be treated in strictest confidence. That means: we will not refer to the material beyond the bounds of the committee without (a) acquiring permission from the author(s) to do so, (b) protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the authors as desired - e.g., by keeping material anonymous, using pseudonyms and other means of disguising sensitive information, etc. Of course, if individuals _want_ to be treated as authors making a contribution, perhaps to be published as part of our reports, web documents, etc., with appropriate attribution - we will happily do so as well. But please make your preference - i.e., for confidentiality or publicity - clear. On behalf of the ethics working committee - thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide. Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi

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Wellman vs Wellman
by Lachlan Brown 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Barry, Thank you for providing a hypothetical case in this research environment. Thank you also for the ToC of the Internet + Everyday Life book which looks excellent. Ill write early in the week, in the meantime everyone take a break to celebrate the remarkable achievement of our sister Esther among the Babylonians. Lachlan Brown -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Win a ski trip! http://www.nowcode.com/register.asp?affiliate=1net2phone3a

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Internet research project: BabyBoomWomen@Work2020
by Monika Merkes 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Greetings BabyBoomWomen@Work2020, an interactive Internet research project, will conclude in March 2002. The project explores questions such as: * What are the opportunities and challenges facing women of the baby boom generation regarding paid work and retirement between now and 2020? * What can we - individuals, families, communities, businesses and governments - do now to support women's present and future choices about paid work and retirement? * What policies can or should be implemented now to address the implications of an ageing workforce? If you wish to participate in this project, post your thoughts and ideas to the website or email me within the next two weeks. Contributions are welcome from women and men of all ages. Details at http://HS053287.health.latrobe.edu.au/bbww/ After March, preliminary findings will be available at http://member.melbpc.org.au/~monika/ Monika -- Monika Merkes http://member.melbpc.org.au/~monika/ http://hs053287.health.latrobe.edu.au/bbww/

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Fw: [Air-l] rhetorical analysis on SCMC
by shufang 24 Feb '02

24 Feb '02

Hi, all, If you happen to come across any resources/articles about postmodernist views on synchronous CMC, would you please let me know? Thank you. Shufang Shi shishufa(a)msu.edu.

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