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-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions 2nd call: 7 May 2007 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems (MCCSIS 2007)
Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 8 July 2007
(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speakers (confirmed)
Professor Mireia Fern=E1ndez Ard=E8vol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(UOC), Barcelona, Spain
Professor Ant=F3nio C=E2mara, YDreams and FCT -  New university of Lisbon,
Portugal

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2007 conference aims to address the main issues of
concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both
the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information
Society. Broad areas of interest are eGovernment / eGovernance,
eBusiness / eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information Systems, and
Information Management. These broad areas are divided into more
detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don't
fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of
benefit to conference attendees.
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a
book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS
Digital Library (http://www.iadis.net/dl). The best paper authors will
be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS
Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641) and other selected
Journals.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject
to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

=AB=AB eGovernment / eGovernance =BB=BB
May include issues relating to:
=B7 Accessibility
=B7 Democracy and the Citizen
=B7 Digital Economies
=B7 Digital Regions
=B7 eAdministration
=B7 eGovernment Management
=B7 eProcurement
=B7 Global Trends
=B7 National and International Economies
=B7 Social Inclusion

=AB=AB eBusiness / eCommerce =BB=BB
May include issues relating to:
=B7 Business Ontologies and Models
=B7 Digital Goods and Services
=B7 eBusiness Models
=B7 eCommerce Application Fields
=B7 eCommerce Economics
=B7 eCommerce Services
=B7 Electronic Service Delivery
=B7 eMarketing
=B7 Languages for Describing Goods and Services
=B7 Online Auctions and Technologies
=B7 Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

=AB=AB eLearning =BB=BB
May include issues relating to:
=B7 Political and Social Aspects
- Political Drivers and Barriers of e-Learning
- Impact of e-Learning in the e-Society
- Aspects of Globalisation of Education
- Societal Expectations of e-Learning
- Diversity, Globalisation and Cultural    Domination on the Web

=B7 E-Citizenship and Inclusion
- e-Learning in the Developing World
- e-Learning to Support Life-Long Learning
- e-Learning and the Digital Divide
- e-learning and the Social Divide
- e-Learning for e-Citizenship

=AB=AB eHealth =BB=BB
May include issues relating to:
=B7 Data Security Issues
=B7 eHealth Policy and Practice
=B7 eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
=B7 Legal Issues
=B7 Medical Research Ethics
=B7 Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

=AB=AB Information Systems =BB=BB
May include issues relating to:
=B7 Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
=B7 Intelligent Agents
=B7 Intelligent Systems
=B7 IS Security Issues
=B7 Mobile Applications
=B7 Multimedia Applications
=B7 Payment Systems
=B7 Protocols and Standards
=B7 Software Requirements and IS Architectures
=B7 Storage Issues
=B7 Strategies and Tendencies
=B7 System Architectures
=B7 Telework Technologies
=B7 Ubiquitous Computing
=B7 Virtual Reality
=B7 Wireless Communications

=AB=AB Information Management =BB=BB
May include issues relating to:
=B7 Computer-Mediated Communication
=B7 Content Development
=B7 Cyber law and Intellectual Property
=B7 Data Mining
=B7 ePublishing and Digital Libraries
=B7 Human Computer Interaction
=B7 Information Search and Retrieval
=B7 Knowledge Management
=B7 Policy Issues
=B7 Privacy Issues
=B7 Social and Organizational Aspects
=B7 Virtual Communities
=B7 XML and Other Extensible Languages
* Registration Rates: rates are available at the conference web page.
Please note that registration in this conference entitles
participation and access to all open sessions from the MCCSIS
conference (including more than 14 keynotes).

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (2nd call): 7 May 2007
- Notification to Authors (2nd call): Until 25 May 2007
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd call):
Until 8 June 2007
- Late Registration (2nd call): After 8 June 2007
- Conference: Lisbon, Portugal, 3 to 6 July 2007

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2007
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@esociety-conf.org/
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

e-Society 2007 Conference Program Chair
Piet Kommers, university of Twente, The Netherlands

e-Society 2007 Track Chairs

eBusiness/eCommerce Track
Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia

eLearning Track
Drew Whitworth, School of Education, university of Manchester, UK

Information Systems  Track
Hans Weghorn, university of Cooperative Education, Germany

Information Management Track
Christian Voigt, university Of South Australia, Australia

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Pedro Isa=EDas, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),
Portugal
Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to http://www.esociety-conf.org/committee=
s=2Easp

* Parallel event:
Postgraduate Summer School on Computer Science and Information Systems
2007 - information available at http://www.mccsis.org/school/

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