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  Technology Conference 2008

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Technology Conference 2008

 

International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society

 

http://t08.cgpublisher.

com/welcome.html

 

 

This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society.

 

Themes:

1)       Technologies for Human Use

2)       Technologies for Participatory Citizenship

§         Technology, participation, access and     equity.

§         Technology in capacity development.

§         Digital development: bridging the digital divide.

§         E-government, e-democracy and cyber-civics.

§         Participatory systems.

§         The politics of information.

§         Globalisation and technology.

§         Multilingualism and cultural diversity in the digital age.

§         Technological meets social transformation.

§         Technical and social systems of sustainability.

§         The wild world of the Web: regulation and its discontents.

 

3). Technologies for Autonomous Communities

4)       Technologies for New Learning

5)       Technologies for Common Knowledge

6)       Technologies for Development

 

 

Northeastern University in Boston

18-20 January, 2008.

 

Deadline for the first round in the Call for Papers:

13 September, 2007