Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Conference
*** SAVE and Register Early by May 17 *** International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'02) 12-15 July 2002, University of Montréal, Quebec, Canada Conference theme: The Net(s) of Power: Language, Culture and Technology Website: www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ ------------------------------------------------------- This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies (ICT). "Cultural attitudes" here includes cultural values and communicative preferences that may be embedded in both the content and form of ICT - thus threatening to make ICT less the agent of a promised democratic global village and more an agent of cultural homogenisation and imperialism. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. PROGRAM An exciting program has been arranged, including presenters from Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA. See the conference website for paper details. Ample time is allowed for open discussions at the end of each session. The conference concludes with a panel discussion. The panel is led by session discussants and integrates the themes of the conference, focusing on future research directions in the converging areas of culture, technology and communication. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Susan Herring (Associate Professor of Information Science, Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University) will be speaking on "The language of the Internet: English dominance or heteroglossia". INVITED SPEAKER Laurie Walker, University of Lethbridge, Canada LOCAL CHAIR Lorna Heaton, University of Montreal, Canada ACCOMMODATION Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the university residences and at the Royal Terrasse Hotel. Be sure to make your reservation early, particularly at the hotel where rooms are limited. CONFERENCE DINNER The conference dinner will be held on Sunday 14 July at Fairmont Le Château Montebello, a stunning red cedar log château famed for its rugged luxury in beautiful surroundings. Dinner and bus transport to Montebello are included in the registration fee. Montebello is approximately a one-and-a-half hour drive from Montreal. REGISTRATION Until 17 May, the conference registration fee is USD300 with further discounts for authors (one author discount fee per paper) and full-time students. After 17 May, each fee type will increase by USD40. Conference and author registration fees include technical sessions, conference dinner and transport, reception, proceedings, satchels, breakfasts, lunches, morning and afternoon coffees, panel and closing cocktails. Student registration fee excludes the conference dinner and transport. All fees include the panel on Monday 15 July. The panel is also open to the public for a fee of USD30. See the registration form on the conference website for more information and REGISTER NOW. CONTACTS Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA Tel: 417-873-7230; Fax: 417-873-7435 Fay Sudweeks Senior Lecturer School of Information Technology Murdoch University Murdoch WA 6150 Australia Tel: 61-8-9360-2364; Fax: 61-8-9360-2941
PILOT PROJECT @LIS SEARCH FOR PARTNERS
for joining in a Networking e.Learning on the issue:
"Skill Shortage in Knowledge Management for Knowledge Based Economy "
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Florence LRE-EGOCREANET Dept. starts for a search for partners aiming to aggregate a large partnership between "e.Europe" and "e.Latin-America" in a net-learning system for life-long education.
Therefore I send to you the following preliminary information:
"Networking e.Learning" on the issue "Skill Shortage in Knowledge Management for Knowledge Based Economy " for improving development of shared knowledge society and evaluating the existing interactive capacities and the exploration of new developmental areas in a networking e learning international system .
General Objectives of the pilot project : New professional networked frontiers.
The main idea of the above proposal is to enhance intellectual labour productivity in the knowledge driven international economy, by means a new partnership between science & humanity in the World Wide Web.
In fact the contemporary knowledge based economy is invariably associated with a team-work of professional co-operation, as a solution > of higher productivity, ensuring an accurate understanding of innovative development and encouraging new enterpreneurship into an integrated infrastructure long distance permanent education on line.
Therefore the development of human professional networking intellectual > resources will be the main goal of the pilot project @LIS on Networking e.learning i(NET-LEARNING" nitially proposed by the LRE/EGO-CreaNET of the University of Florence , Italy, for anticipating a team professional model for the knowledge driven international society.
In conclusion of this preliminary presentation the LRE-EGO-CreaNET of the University of Florence STRONGLY BELIVES that "Cultural diversity" is the richness for solving global problems . Therefore the promotion of cultural diversity into a shared NET-LEARNING MODEL for LIFE-LONG SYSTEM of EDUCATION in the WWW is a marvellously democratic interactive cultural iniciative where anybody can publish or receive, using well organized ITC, what they chose within the common aim to develop new knowledge for skill shortage labour- professional education, considering that intellectual labour productivity is an important need for all to solve different local aspects of global problems of contemporary knowledge driven society.
-- ( @LIS proposal: NET LEARNING information see-->>)
-http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/alis/index_fr.htm http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/alis/guidelines_en.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/international/latin/alis/index_en.h...
DEAD LINE OCT/31//2002
-Thematic Area: 2.education and cultural diversity Projects fostering the development of innovative and multilingual e-learning tools Development of Networking e. Learning as an international co-operation of experts and exchange of knowledge on the
issue "SKILL SHORTAGE" FOSTERING A NET-LEARNING INTERACTIVE > KEY ACTIONS IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY NEW > PROFESSIONALITIES AMONG EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA COUNTRIES."
Until (16-05/2002) we find the following potential partners that want to put together their experiences in the networking e-learning sector, who will evaluate the progress of their activity and try to compare or confront it with partners of other countries.
"Potential Partners" preliminary adhesions ( until: 16/5/2002)
- Dr. PAOLO MANZELLI <LRE@UNIFI.IT> http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/index.html Education Research Laboratory / EGO-CreaNET Tel//Fax.:+39/055/332549; handy GSM ;+39//335/6760004
- Dr. Lydia.Montandon@sema.es - E-Learning Unit SchlumbergerSema Spain ; e.mail <lydia.montandon@sema.es>
- Prof. Antonio Mendez-Vilas ,Departamento de Fisica,Universidad de Extremadura Avda. de Elvas s/n 06071 Badajoz SPAIN // e.mail: <amvilas@unex.es>
- Prof. Adelaide Bianchini e-mail: <abianc@ldc.usb.ve> ; Depto. de Computación y Tecnología de la Información Universidad Simón Bolívar ,Caracas Venezuela
- Prof. Illeana Castillo; Director International Office - ULACIT - COSTA-RICA e.mail: <icastillo@ulacit.ac.cr>
- Prof. Naiyú Yamaguchi Coordinadora general-Oficina de Gestión de Proyectos Relaciones Internacionales - Universidad de Camagüey, Cuba. e.Mail :<dri@reduc.cmw.edu.cu>
Alexander Ludi Epifanijanto e.mail <alexanderludi@lycos.com> OpenUSS --http://openuss.sourceforge.net ; http://www.openuss.org Reference Implementation contact person: Dipl; Wirt.-Inf. Blasius Lofi Dewanto dewanto@uni-muenster.de Intitute of Business Informatics and Controlling at the University of Muenster, Germany Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Muenster Germany. OpenUSS Team Prof. Dr. Heinz Lothar Grob Dr. Frank Bensberg Lofi Dewanto (dewanto@uni-muenster.de) Torsten Menzel (torsten.menzel@informatik.uni-leipzig.de) Alexander Ludi (openuss@yahoo.com) P.S.
Any colleague that will give a preliminary adhesion to the above proposal for developing a PILOT project into the Latin America Information Society (@LIS) promoted by the of the European Union can rewrite to the LRE/EGO-CreaNET address to :
Paolo Manzelli
Very cordially ti all. Paolo Manzelli --------------------------------------------
Director of LRE // EGO-CreaNET PAOLO MANZELLI <LRE@unifi.it> http://www.chim1.unifi.it/group/education/index.html Education Research Laboratory / EGO-CreaNET Via Maragliano 77 -50144 - Firenze - Italia Tel//Fax.:+39/055/332549 ; handy GSM ;+39//335/6760004
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Paolo Manzelli