Keynotes

Professor John Carroll
Edward M. Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology,
Pennsylvania State University, USA

Professor Robert Tennyson
Univ. of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development, USA

Editor in Chief, Computers in Human Behavior, Eslevier

Professor Amit Sheth

Wright State University
Director: Kno.e.sis Center, USA

Editor in Chief, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, IGI-Global

Dr. Ambjorn Naeve
Director, Knowledge Management Research Group,

Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Co-Editor in Chief, International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, Inderscience

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Main Tracks

MAIN TRACK A: Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society

Subjects covered include, but are not limited to:

• Challenges and foundations of e-Democracy
• Concepts and models of e-Democracy
• E-Democracy strategies and initiatives
• E-Democracy on the international, national, regional, and local level
• Drivers and barriers for e-Democracy
• Case studies and best (or worst) practice studies illustrating success or failure of e-Democracy
• Development and implementation issues of e-Democracy instruments (especially in the fields of e-Participation and e-Voting)
• Actions against cyber terrorism
• Citizen journalists
• Effective participation models

Democratic Internet - Foundations, Ideas, Approaches, and New Perspectives.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

MAIN TRACK 2: Social & Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society

• Human and social computing in living, science, health, culture , government, education, knowledge, learning, commerce, business, education, tourism
• Social software
• Collaborative platforms
• Personalisation and adaptation
• Usability studies
• Context awareness
• Community computing/community informatics
• Social informatics
• Participatory/cooperative design
• Participatory action research methods
• Policy development
• Privacy and security
• Ubiquity and pervasiveness
• Emotional intelligence

Sustainable Development:

• Adapting strategic planning to the need for change
• IT for Sustainable Development
• IT for Strategic Management and Strategic Management of IT
• Business Models for Sustainable Development
• Regional Studies: E.g. China, Arab World, Africa, North and South America etc
• Outsourcing
• Global business and IT
• Joint Ventures and IT
• IT scientific parks
• Intellectual Capital and IT
• Global content and knowledge repositories
• IT for the disabled and minorities
• IT and under development world
• IT for Humanistic Visions
• Benchmarking Reports

• Managing strategy
• Change implementation and follow-through
• Competitive advantage and strategic change management
• Leadership
• The role of learning at different levels (individual, group, organisational and interorganisational level)
• Strategic change and human capital
• TQM

Anti-Poverty: Information Technology for Social and Human Networks Against Poverty

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

"Open" Prisons: Learning/Working/Educating/ Inspiring/Involving -Inclusion for People in Prisons

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

MAIN TRACK 3: Knowledge, Learning and Education for the Knowledge Society

Knowledge Society: A roadmap for government consultation

Strategies and support for:

• Creating a public knowledge and learning management environment
• Achieving sustainability and interoperability of knowledge-intensive public services in an open and accessible digital environment
• Replicating services across national borders – handling regulatory, administrative, linguistic and cultural differences
• Improving the take-up and quality of public services
• Bridging the digital divide and avoiding new forms of digital exclusion based on, e.g., education, language, culture, age or gender
• Raising the level of trust and confidence in the enabling technologies for the knowledge society
• Creating sustainable business models for the knowledge society that leverage the entire value chain and enable the full participation of as many stakeholders as possible
• Establishing policies and practices that would help to make the knowledge society an implementable reality.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

• Knowledge-based learning management systems
• Knowledge-based approaches to competence management
• Design and conceptual issues about learning objects
• Knowledge and learning flows
• Learning and knowledge in social networks
• Knowledge and learning strategies
• Benchmarking of learning and knowledge strategies
• Learning and knowledge exploitation in corporate and government
• Learning and knowledge portals
• Virtual learning symposiums
• Ubiquitous and pervasive learning
• Epistemology of knowledge and learning
• Innovative case studies
• Lessons learned (successes and failures)
• Focused studies of learning and knowledge in sectors
• Maturity models of learning and knowledge exploitation
• Methodologies for effective learning
• Virtual communities and universities
• Corporate universities
• Knowledge and learning for people with disabilities Open forums
  

TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING

• Learning models and theories
• Deployment of ICTs in education
• Policy issues of TEL, integration issues,
• Pedagogical theories and models of TEL
• Constructivist approaches to TEL
• Collaborative/context aware/personalised TEL approaches
• Communities of learners and TEL
• Web 2.0 and TEL
• Semantic web and TEL
• Adaptive and personalised hypermedia for TEL
• Metadata and content standards and TEL
• Free and open source software for TEL
• Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies for TEL
• Intelligent agents for TEL
• Learning management systems
• Emerging technologies
• Grid technologies for learning
• TEL practices in different educational/learning contexts
• Surveys of TEL adoption in education
• Future of TEL
• TEL tools/emerging technologies

The School of the Future: New World, New School - Knowledge Society to its Best

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Section A. The School of the Knowledge Society

Section B. The Big Agenda of Open Issues

Section C. The Key Propositions

Section D. Cases/ Demonstration of worldwide activities

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Knowledge and Learning Technologies for National Educational Systems: New Horizons for open minds

• Educational paradigms of the knowledge and learning societyKnowledge and learning technologies in national educational systems
• Educational portals at the national level
• Digital educational archives and context-driven learning
• Culture for educational, technology-enhanced initiatives
• Virtual spaces for knowledge and learning in educational systems
• Educational content repositories and content dissemination strategies
• Approaches for community development of educational content
• Frameworks, models and strategies for the deployment of knowledge and learning technologies in educational systems
• International technology-enhanced partnerships for education
• Knowledge and learning technologies for education in developing countries
• Knowledge and learning technologies for minorities and excluded communities

Exploiting Information and Communication Technologies for Effective Management of Education: Towards Interactive Managerial and Leadership Styles in Schools

Topic include but are not limited to:

Topic include but are not limited to:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Technology Enhanced Learning in FP5-FP6 and FP7 Programmes of the European Union: A European Citizen/Learner Perspective – Real World Learning Services – Missing Opportunities – Great Challenges

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Knowledge Management Technologies for E-learning

• Knowledge Management Systems for learning purposes
• Knowledge Networking & E-learning
• Knowledge Engineering & E-learning
• Communities of Practice, Learning Communities & E-learning
• Virtual & corporate universities and knowledge flows
• Knowledge sharing in learning communities
• Innovative Case Studies
• Ubiquitous Learning
• Ontologies & Knowledge Systems
• Peer-to-Peer Technologies and E-learning
• Learning value propositions of Interactive TV & Mobile Technologies from a knowledge management perspective
• Ubiquitous Computing and Knowledge Management

Advances of Semantic Web for E-learning: Expanding learning frontiers

A. Preparation for Semantic E-learning / Semantic e-learning readiness
In this area the main emphasis is placed on the conversion and the compliance of learning content to semantic web standards. In the current stage of Semantic Web evolution, this is basically pursued through the specification of ontologies and their use for e-learning. Typical themes in this area are:

B. Semantic E-learning
The Realization of Semantic E-learning requires a multifold approach to a number of vertical and horizontal themes. The international collaboration can promote such a goal, and obviously the success of the previous area (Semantic E-learning Readiness) will influence the possibilities for successful and wide adoption of Semantic E-learning. Some interesting research themes in this area include:

C. Next Generation E-learning
Undoubtedly, Semantic Web is present on many milestones towards our goal for effective learning. In the next years we think that the key challenge for Semantic Web as well as for e-learning will be to develop infrastructures capable of exploring learning content in every format in an integrative way. This means that we will see a shift of focus from formalizing/codifying learning content to managing content in multimedia forms through automated reasoning and exploitation of mobile, wireless networks as well as new vehicles through digital TV channels.
Some interesting research themes in this area include:

MAIN TRACK 4: Information Technologies for the Knowledge Society

Information Systems: The new research agenda the emerging curriculum and the new teaching paradigm

• New Research Agenda of Information Systems and Integration with the Classical IS Curriculum
• The Emerging Curriculum for IS
• The New Teaching Paradigm and Teaching Case Studies

E-BUSINESS AND E-BANKING

Electronic Trade/Electronic Commerce: Contexts
Citizens
Consumers
Business
Government
Community
Global

Electronic Commerce: Business Issues
Globalisation
Sustainable development
Business models
Marketplaces
Supply chain management
Logistics
Marketing
Strategic adoption frameworks
Communities/collective intelligence
Outsourcing and process modelling
Business process reengineering
Customer relationship management
Training and education
Security and control
Business strategy alignment
Social/business networking
Knowledge management
Learning

Electronic Trade/Electronic Commerce: Practices
and Applications
E-commercein different countries/markets/products/services
Surveys of e-commerce adoption
Benchmarking/best practices
Case studies at regional/national/global levels
Domain applications
Tools/emerging technologies and new generation applications Challenges for the future; specification of government policies
Roadmaps for the future

Electronic Commerce: The Technologies
Front/back office
Portals
Push/pull technologies
Web 2.0
Semantic web
Adaptive and personalised technologies
Metadata and content management
Free and open source software
Intelligent agents
Mobile/ubiquitous/pervasive technologies
Security
Payment systems
Grid technologies
IT strategy
Content/knowledge management systems
Emerging technologies

Strategic Management of E-Banking: Business Strategies and Beyond - Alternative Channels and New Core Businesses

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

SECTION A: ARTIFACT LEVEL

SECTION B: INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

SECTION C: TEAM LEVEL

SECTION D: ORGANISATIONAL LEVEL

SECTION E: INTER-ORGANISATIONAL LEVEL

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

MAIN TRACK 5: Culture and Tourism in the Knowledge Society

Digital Culture and Cultural Heritage: Archives, Museums and Art – New Technologies, New Channels, New Culture

• Culture portals
• Advanced systems for digital culture in museums, archives and art institutions
• Digitalisation of cultural property
• Worldwide initiatives for the protection of cultural heritage
• Linking digital culture and learning
• Annotation of cultural content
• Web 2.0 and development of social networks on the top of cultural heritage portals
• Applications of mobile technologies for digital culture and cultural heritage
• Ubiquitous and pervasive computing for digital culture and cultural heritage
• Integration of digital culture and education
• A diverse and multilingual cultural heritage
• Changing meanings of culture:
• Cultural diversity and multilingualism
• Methodologies and approaches to digitisation
• Cost and access to digital culture heritage resources
• Science portals
• Schools portals
• Virtual reality and digital culture
• Emerging forms of digitisation
• Sustainable cultural heritage
• Long term planning for protecting digital resources
• Access to archives in Europe
• Books and electronic publishing
• Cultural policy and cultural diversity
• Culture and neighbourhoods
• Culture, creativity and the young
• Case studies: cinema, dance, arts, tales and legends, tourism
• New information technologies
• Training of cultural administrators

Digital Libraries: From Alexandria to YouTube and Wikipedia –
Embedding Social Dynamics

• Semantic Web approaches to digital libraries
• Web 2.0 and social web approaches to digital libraries
• Collaborative/community annotations of content in digital libraries
• Collaborative filtering
• Integration of digital libraries with knowledge management and technology enhanced learning systems
• Ontologies for cataloguing and retrieving digital resources
• Semantic Web-enabled resource retrieval in electronic libraries
• Managing catalogues through ontologies
• Approaches to annotation of resources and its cost
• Regulatory ontologies: implications for library management
• Scientific knowledge organisation and ontologies
• New roles and competencies of librarians in semantic, metadata-intensive institutions
• Concepts of digital libraries and digital documents
• System architectures, integration and interoperability
• Information organisation, search and usage
• Digital preservation
• Frameworks, technical architectures and reference models
• Evaluation of repository models
• Digital repositories and open access
• Workflows and dataflows
• Common and shared repository services
• Ingest and metadata capture
• Automated metadata creation
• Policy and organisational issues
• Trust, audit and certification, authenticity, validation
• Rights management

National Tourism Organisations and Exploitation of Information
Technologies - Tourism Portals in the Web 2.0 and Semantic Web Era

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Tourism portals
• Push/pull technologies for tourism portals
• Web 2.0 and tourism portals
• Semantic web and tourism portals
• Adaptive and personalised technologies
• Metadata and content standards
• Free and open source software
• Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies
• Intelligent agents
• Content/knowledge management systems
• Emerging technologies
• Grid technologies
• Domain applications: tourism portals for national government tourism organisations, hotels, marketplaces, etc
• Tools/emerging technologies and new generation applications
• Challenges for the future; specification of government policies for the promotion of tourism portals
• Roadmaps for the future
• Collaborative tools for tourism
• Design variables and conditions for knowledge sharing and creation systems in tourism
• Blogging for tourism
• Collaborative filtering of tourism content
• Analysing social interaction for finding knowledge among web users
• Semantic desktops
• Social network analysis to support implicit learning and sharing within tourism environments
• Analysis of large online tourism communities
• Folksonomies, tagging and other collaboration-based categorisation systems in tourism portals
• Wikis, semantic wikis and other collaborative knowledge creation systems
• Online social networking at all levels of tourism
• Applications of online semantic networks to tourism