Emerging technologies in
areas such as terminals, mobility, and embedded
systems are expected to create a new environment
of ambient networks. In such environments,
protocols for the quality of service of these
networks will need to be assessed and
redesigned.
The focus of this workshop is
'the provision of quality of service in emerging
networking panorama' based on the results of
experiments carried out in simulation platforms
and test beds.
On 1 October, there will also
be a parallel workshop on quality of service
routing.
Data Source Provider :
Technical University of Catalunya
Document Reference : Based on an event
announcement
Programme Acronym : MS-E C
Subject Index Codes : Information Processing,
Information Systems, Information, Media,
Standards
Contact Person : For further information, please
consult the following web address:
http://www.qofis.org
9 - 10 February 2004
Affordable Technologies for Sustainable
Development Conference: IT @ Work in Asia
Brussels, Belgium
The event will gather ICT professionals, policy
makers, service providers & donors and key
development players from Europe, China and India
to explore how the IT revolution can create both
business and human development opportunities in
those emerging markets. Microfinance and ICT
synergies will help to outline the critical role
of innovative public-private strategic alliances
in China and India.
Email:
euroasiaitconf@planetfinance.org
6 February 2004
Safer Internet Day
Europe wide event
European Safer Internet Day is the celebration
of children's right to a safer Internet. The
event will be celebrated in a number of EU
Member States with the involvement of more than
150 multiplier organisations. The Safer Internet
Awareness Campaign, an initiative under the
European Commissions Safer Internet Programme,
is promoting the event
Email:
nuria.quintana@fcr.es
OECD Workshop on Spam, 2-3 February 2004
(13/01/2004)
The European Commission, Information Society
Directorate-General, will host an OECD workshop
on spam in Brussels, on 2-3 February 2004. This
workshop will be opened by Commissioner Liikanen
and aims to explore the growing problem of spam,
with a focus on the international dimension. For
more information on the workshop and
registration, please visit the website.
Research on the inter-relations between Gender
and Information & Communication Technologies is
dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and
creative.
This symposium aims to be a meeting point for
researchers from different disciplines and
research schools that are familiar with ICT and
gender studies, women's studies or feminist
studies.
The symposium will be held in Brussels on 20
January 2004.
We invite abstracts on the following themes :
- Women, Work and Computerization
- Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life
- Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics
Education
- Gendering Technology: Structure and Design
Examples of possible paper sections in the
different themes:
Women, Work and Computerization
Job profiles and the influence of ICT, the
impact of ICT skills in the job function
classifications, influence of ICT on work
organisation, computerization of work and
surveillance, portrayal of ICT (functions), etc.
Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life
Possession and use of ICT, domestication, ICT-literacy,
user and skill divide, consequences of use of
ICT in the organisation of daily work and
private life, ICT and family life, privacy and
ethics, wearables and biometrics, on-line
activities, interaction, Participation and
democracy, etc.
Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics
Education
Gender differences in ICT-use in school contexts
Computer attitudes, learning styles, informatics
curriculum, e-learning, feminist pedagogies, ICT
and lifelong learning, etc.
Gendering Technology: Structure and Design
Women designing and shaping contents and systems
of the new technologies, social shaping of
technology, production of ICT, feminist
critiques of computing, gender scripts of
technology, participatory design,
user-friendlessness, adaptivity, etc.
The deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is
November 15.
The final programme will be available by
December 15.
The working language of the symposium will be
English.
Abstracts may be submitted to: Laurence Claeys
or Sarah Meersman at:
steunpuntgeka@ua.ac.be
The symposium is a joint initiative of the
Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities
(Belgium) and the European SIGIS (Strategies of
Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society)
network. It is part of Digitales and is
supported by the. Dutch Association for Gender
and Technology (The Netherlands). During the
symposium, members of SIGIS will present their
final research reports.
Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities :
http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be
(website only in Dutch)
Dutch Gender and Technology Association:
http://www.indexsociety.nl/genderictsymposium/aboutvgt.htm
Digitales:
http://www.digitales-online.org
SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender in the
Information Society):
http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/
Website of the conference:
http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be/genderandict
[still under construction].
The European
telecommunications standards institute (ETSI),
together with the European Commission's
Enterprise DG, is organising an international
workshop on the testing, certification and
market acceptance of new applications for the
next generation Internet protocol IP version 6
(IPv6) , to take place on 22 September in
Brussels.
This 'plugtest' event is part of the eEurope
standards Action Plan. The keynote address will
be given by Fabio Colassanti, Director General
of the Information Society DG.
The Internet's underlying protocol, IPv4, is now
nearly 20 years old and needs upgrading, not
least to remedy a shortage of IP addresses,
which are needed by any new machine added to the
net. IPv6 is expected gradually to replace IPv4,
and during the transition, interoperability
events are being held regularly, to test and
showcase new applications.
Data Source Provider : European Commission, DG
Enterprise
Document Reference : Based on an event
announcement
Programme Acronym : MS-B C
Subject Index Codes : Information Processing,
Information Systems, Standards
Contact Person : For further information, please
consult the following web address:
http://www.ipv6event.be
OSCE - Amsterdam Recommendations on Freedom of
the Media and the Internet
At the end of a two-day conference on
Internet-related perils to freedom of
expression, the OSCE Representative on Freedom
of the Media, Freimut Duve, has issued a call
for the OSCE to take up a strong position
towards free flow of information on the
Internet. The so-called Amsterdam
Recommendations on Freedom of the Media and the
Internet were issued at the conclusion of the
conference held on 13 and 14 June in the City
Hall of Amsterdam. The event brought together
more than 25 experts from international
organizations, media, academia, specialized
non-governmental organizations from Europe and
the U.S. as well as from the European
Parliament, Council of! Europe, European
Commission and the OSCE.
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