===8<==============Original message text=============== Apologies for cross-posting ************************ ICT, the Knowledge Society and Changes in Work 1st Bi-annual European Conference The Netherlands, 9 & 10 June 2005 Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Hague Conference website <http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_64PB8P> Changes in ICT and work offer the framework for the conference. First and foremost among those changes is the emergence of the information society, in which production and employment are increasingly geared to the development of information and the creation of knowledge. Secondly, there is the growing importance of ICT-tools at the workplace. As a consequence, the work process and the organization of work are also undergoing major changes. Of course, not only does ICT have an impact on work, but also the other way around: social forces (the social dialogue, institutional shaping, transitional labour markets) influence technological developments. The relationship between ICT and work is reciprocal. The focus of the conference is on the impact of ICT and the knowledge society on work, the quality of work and new forms of work organization (networks, virtual teams). Special attention will be paid to the development of skill and competencies, the role of institutions, social actors and regulation and on new groups at risk (see also the preliminary programme and the subthemes). The conference is organized by SISWO/Social Policy Research <http://www.siswo.uva.nl/angloam/index1.html> in close co-operation with (and funded by) NWO-MES <http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5V6M2M_Eng> (The Dutch 'Society and the Electronic Highway' research funding programme) and the Dutch Cultural Planning Office SCP <http://www.scp.nl/english/index.shtml>. Book your place for the conference using the online registration form <http://www.nwo.nl/interact.nsf/pages/NWOP_65HKG9?OpenDocument>. Abstract (at least three A4-pages) for a thematic workshop hase to be send to the convenor of that workshop. ===8<===========End of original message text===========