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Dear colleagues, I'd like to draw your attention to a relevant event taking place later this year. It is part of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's initiative to support innovation and technology analysis. The Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis of the Research Centre Karlsruhe and the VDI/VDE-IT Information Technologies GmbH are organising a conference on the "e-Society" for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This congress will take place in Berlin from 17 to 20 October of this year. Its full title is: "Innovations for an e-Society- Challenges for Technology Assessment". It is concerned with all aspects of society making increasing use of information and communication technologies, with special emphasis on the roles of knowledge and information. There will be sessions on the following topics: - e-Commerce - New Media and Culture - Electronic Governance - e-Health Services - "e-work or social contract?" - Opportunities for sustainable models of work - The vulnerability" of the e-society, data protection and IT Security - New Approaches of Technology Assessment and Forecasting The deadline for submission of short abstracts outlining the foreseen content of a presentation is June 11. In view of the brevity, we are prepared to accept abstracts for consideration after this deadline if this has been announced beforehand and we have been informed of a provisional title. Full details can be found on the web at: http://www.itas.fzk.de/e-society/ The conference organisers welcome all contributions and I would like to cordially invite you to draw colleagues' attention to the event, which we would like to be truly international. Kind regards, Michael Rader ********************************************************* Michael Rader Research Centre Karlsruhe, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) P.O.Box 3640 D-76021 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-7247/82 2505 Fax: +49-7247/82 4806 E-Mail: rader@itas.fzk.de URL: http://www.itas.fzk.de ****************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ****** Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html ****************************************************************************** ******* Jeremy Hunsinger far away from the office