Media Report Public Forum in Sydney: ==================================== "The Internet: Anarchic Dream to Legal Minefield" Join the Media Report's Mick O'Regan and a panel of New Media experts to discuss how the internet has become subject to the very restraints that it was set up to by-pass. It’s at the Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris St, Ultimo, Sydney. On Wednesday September 18. Doors open at 5.30pm and the forum starts at 6pm. Entry if free. Guests on the panel are: - Roseanne Bersten, former editor of The Age newspaper's "e-mag" - Peter Leonard, lawyer, Gilbert & Tobin - Sandra Davey, President, AIMIA (Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association) - Sherman Young, lecturer in New Media at Macquarie University To book seats either call our booking line (02) 8333 1002 or email: justine@your.abc.net.au The ABC cannot provide parking for this event - though we can provide disabled parking spaces on request. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:mgurst@vcn.bc.ca] Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 16:33 To: community informatics; Ciresearchers@Vancouvercommunity. Net; Air-L@Aoir. Org Subject: [ciresearchers] FW: ICIS Workshop CFP - (Virtual) Community Informatics (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2002 Barcelona, Spain Sunday December 15, 2002 http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/vci-workshop-2002.html We cordially invite you to participate in the (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop, held the day before ICIS 2002. Researchers, students and practitioners interested in the areas of community informatics and virtual communities are welcome to submit either a position statement or a full paper for presentation. (Virtual) Community Informatics lies at two cross-roads: bringing together people concerned with Local and Virtual or On-line Communities, and bringing together the researchers and practitioners (developers, leaders and participants) in these two domains. Community Informatics is the study of information and communications technology to support communities and their processes. (Virtual) Community Informatics promotes the cross-fertilization found at this cross-roads, bringing together researchers and practitioners from many varied disciplines. Workshop Program Overview - keynote address - overview of and current issues in Community Informatics - paper presentations - panel - short overview of several nascent Virtual Community Informatics activities - general discussion The workshop's focus will be on opportunities for the field of Information Systems to support both virtual and local communities. For further information and submission details, please see the workshop Web site: http://web.njit.edu/~bieber/vci-workshop-2002.html --- Stay Informed on Virtual Community Informatics If you would be interested in further developments concerning (Virtual Community) Informatics, please email Michael Bieber (bieber@oak.njit.edu) or Mike Gurstein (gurstein@njit.edu).