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

The First World Summit on the Knowledge Society at a Glance

Six Vertical Pillars and Five Horizontal Lenses of Analysis

MAIN TRACK I: Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society

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

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

MAIN TRACK IV: Information Technologies for the Knowledge Society

MAIN TRACK V: Culture and Tourism in the Knowledge Society

Quotes:

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.", Aristotle

"Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue." Charles Darwin

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.", Socrates

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.", Socrates

"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." Dalai Lama

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Isaac Newton

Letter from the Organizing and Program Committees

Dear All,

The World Summit on the Knowledge Society, is an international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a BETTER WORLD for all. The World Summit on the Knowledge Society will bring together Academics, People from Industry, Policy Makers, Politicians, Government Officers and active citizens to look at the impact of Information Technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today’s world: the state, business, society and culture.

Five general pillars provide the constitutional elements of the Summit:

- Information Technologies - Knowledge Management Systems -
E-business & Enterprise Information Systems for the Knowledge Society

- Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning for the Knowledge Society

- Social & Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society - Emerging Technologies for the Society and the Humanity

- Culture & Cultural Heritage - Technology for Culture Management - Management of Tourism and Entertainment - Tourism Networks in the Knowledge Society

- Government and Democracy in the Knowledge Society

- Research and Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society

The Summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favouring the dissemination of research that is relevant to international research agendas as the EU FP7.

We need a better world. We contribute with our sound voices to the agenda, policies and actions. We invite you to join your voice with ours and all together to shape a new deal for our world. Education, Sustainable Development, Health, Opportunities for well being, Culture, Collaboration, Peace, Democracy, Technology for all. Open Minds for a Better World.

Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras
President, OPEN RESEARCH SOCIETY, NGO

Five Mini-Conferences Announced

Call for papers available below:

Mini-Conference One:

SEMANTIC WEB AND WEB 2.0 FOR THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY [in English]

Detailed CFP: Here - Download PDF: Here

Mini-Conference Two:

World Collaboration: Doing Business in China and in Arab World [in English]

Detailed CFP: Here - Download PDF: Here

Mini-Conference Three:

Mini-Conference on Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital: Challenges for Firms, Universities and Regions - GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGY

Detailed CFP: Here - Download PDF: Here

Mini-Conference Four [in Greek]:

Greece - Sustainable Development - New Strategy: Education, Culture, Society, Entrepreneurship, New Tεchnologies, Tourism, Maritime, Regional and International Role

Detailed CFP: Here

Coming Soon: 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society