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From: <jeroen.heres@tno.nl> Date: 6 June 2005 15:52:38 BDT Subject: invitation for registration SOCQUIT conference

Dear Madam/Sir, Information- and Communication Technologies are changing society and the everyday life. ICT policy and industry often assume that this development will provide important opportunities to increase quality of life and especially social relationships. The EU project SOCQUIT (Social Capital, Quality of Life and IST) analyses the effects of ICT on social capital and quality of life.

On behalf of the SOCQUIT consortium and France Télécom R&D I am very happy to invite you to register for the conference "Social Capital and Quality of Life in the Information Society", 29 and 30 September 2005 in Paris where the SOCQUIT results will be presented.

http://www.eurescom.de/socquit/socquit-conference.htm

About the program:

At this conference experts from within and outside the SOCQUIT project will show the recent insights about social capital and quality of life and the way this is influenced by ICT. The opportunities and threats of ICTs will be discussed based on empirical results from four case-studies carried out by SOCQUIT:

- employment

- the ageing society

- local ICT initiatives

- migrants.

The implications of the results will be discussed together with European policy makers as well as with representatives from ICT industry. SOCQUIT will also demonstrate its decision support tool enclosing the SOCQUIT findings and recommendations. This tool facilitates the use of the SOCQUIT results by policy makers.

Time and venue

The conference will start Thursday 29 September at 9h00 and will end Friday 30 September at 13h00. The venue of the conference is: Groupe Scolaire Saint-Nicolas 6, rue Vaudétard 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris

Registration

There are no costs involved for attending the conference, but as the number of available seats is limited registration is required.

Information about the conference including registration forms can be found at: http://www.eurescom.de/socquit/socquit-conference.htm