MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES 2010
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CONFERENCE DATES: 27-28-29 October 2010
-- Registrations are open at www.m4life.org
-- Draft Program Posted at http://www.m4life.org/conferences/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mlife2010pgm.pdf
WE ARE SOLiCITING INDUSTRY / PRACTICE TALKS, DEMOS AND COMPANY SHOWCASES:
if interested please send email to organisers.
The Grand Hotel, Brighton, UK,
http://www.m4life.org conf@m4life.org
-- The 5th European Conference on Mobile Government (The EURO mGOV 2010)
-- The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Society (mSOCIETY 2010)
-- The 2nd Int. Conference on Mobile Development (mDevelopment 2010)
The influences of mobile technologies range from personal relations to interaction in society, and from the transformation of the public sector to the dynamics of economic development.
mLife conference and exhibitions are prime events for all organizations and professionals who would like to monitor, take part in, and shape the development of the social impact of the mobile revolution.
They provide opportunities to businesses, public sector organizations and researchers to explore the frontiers of the social mobile revolution and be informed in order to reach their goals. The three conferences will cover all aspects of mobile life, technology, services and implementation as they relate to individuals, society, economies and governments.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation
Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, National Center for Digital Government (ncdg.org) Director, Science, Technology and Society Initiative (umass.edu/sts)
Dorothy Gordon, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
William H. Dutton, Professor and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College
Ibrahim Kushchu, Associate Prof. and Founding Director, mGCI, UK
Rain Rannu, Founder at Fortumo Ltd, Estonia
Roland Traunmüller, Professor Emeritus, the Institute for Informatics in Business and Government at Linz University, Austria.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
Speaking: Professionals from Industry can still propose a talk summary.
Organising: For panels, tutorials, demos or cases, please send a page long proposal.
Exhibiting: If you would like a high visibility, more face-to-face interaction to introduce your business, products and services, this is a best option. Please request the exhibition pack.
Sponsoring: The highest visibility and best impact during participation and a good way of supporting mLife events.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Euro mGov:
E-gov and m-gov integration
m-Government Applications and Services
Adoption of mGov
M-government Best practices & Business Models
Transforming Public Sector
Mobile Health, Education, M-payment applications
M-democracy, M-Voting
Mobile Society:
Mobile internet technologies, Standards and Protocols
Mobile Devices and capabilities
Impact of mobile communications, individuals and psychological issues
Mobile phones and household interactions
Mobility for improving impairments and disability
Mobile Gaming, Entertainment, Social Networks
Usability issues, Country and community case studies
Mobile Development:
The role of the governments, NGOs, private sector organizations
Community building, Technology transfer and use
Impact on developing economies
Social and economical welfare creation
Mobile Development Platforms
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Conference web site (http://www.m4life.org) for updates, detailed information on submissions and participation
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IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD
Associate Professor and Founding Director,
Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
http://www.mgovernment.org
ik@mgovernment.org
+44 1273 327876
- Visit mLife Conferences http://www.m4life.org
3.9.10
[cfp: digital narrative]
Mobile Digital Interactive Storytelling
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Special Issue
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp
Call for Papers
Until recently a location's memory could mainly be accessed through media surrogates, such as books, drawings, film or audio files, or through face-to-face encounters with people who were able to knit people into the rich but hidden experience fabric of a place. The integration of low-cost pervasive and personal technology in the form of mobile devices and augmented reality into our everyday life starts to change our expectations about how to perceive the world around us. We are now able to leave traces of our emotional or intellectual experience as virtual attachments to any location. As a result we expect that any place, indoors or outdoors, reveals itself to us by confronting us with connection, context, and uncommon perspectives. Yet, any exploration is in itself an experience and so we desire that the revelation is compelling and enjoyable on an individual and group level. We expect to experience the world around us as a continuous, flexible, and networked exchange of id
eas that are routed in where and who we are and how these intrinsic facets of our experience are connected to those of others.
For this special issue we solicit novel papers describing approaches in digital storytelling that address the challenges posed by real world environments experienced through mobile devices. We look for work solutions for redefining our understanding of narrative structure and theory through interactivity in computer-generated story worlds that are tightly interwoven with the places we visit, the objects we touch, and the people we meet. Emphasis will be given to work that seamlessly integrate computerised story telling with real world experiences, including but not limited to:
* Real-time techniques for interactive storytelling
* Story generation and plot management engines for mobile environments
* Interactive digital storytelling: theories, methods, and concepts applied to real world environments
* Emotion design for storytelling
* Educational digital storytelling
* Experience design for interactive storytelling
* Mobile urban drama
* Novel narrative forms inspired by new technology
* Storytelling and augmented reality
* Collaborative environments for interactive storytelling
* Interactive storytelling and gaming
* Interactive and pro-active authoring environments
* Evaluation and user experience reports of interactive storytelling applications
Papers should be not longer than 7000 words including references and should follow the NHRM author instructions. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham.
Important dates
September 10, 2010 Paper submission deadline
November 8, 2010 Authors notification
December 14, 2010 Final copy due
Summer 2011 Publication
Guest Editors
Frank Nack, ILPS, University of Amsterdam, nack@uva.nl
Annika Waern, Interaction Laboratory, SICS, annika@sics.se
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Special Issue
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp
Call for Papers
Until recently a location's memory could mainly be accessed through media surrogates, such as books, drawings, film or audio files, or through face-to-face encounters with people who were able to knit people into the rich but hidden experience fabric of a place. The integration of low-cost pervasive and personal technology in the form of mobile devices and augmented reality into our everyday life starts to change our expectations about how to perceive the world around us. We are now able to leave traces of our emotional or intellectual experience as virtual attachments to any location. As a result we expect that any place, indoors or outdoors, reveals itself to us by confronting us with connection, context, and uncommon perspectives. Yet, any exploration is in itself an experience and so we desire that the revelation is compelling and enjoyable on an individual and group level. We expect to experience the world around us as a continuous, flexible, and networked exchange of id
eas that are routed in where and who we are and how these intrinsic facets of our experience are connected to those of others.
For this special issue we solicit novel papers describing approaches in digital storytelling that address the challenges posed by real world environments experienced through mobile devices. We look for work solutions for redefining our understanding of narrative structure and theory through interactivity in computer-generated story worlds that are tightly interwoven with the places we visit, the objects we touch, and the people we meet. Emphasis will be given to work that seamlessly integrate computerised story telling with real world experiences, including but not limited to:
* Real-time techniques for interactive storytelling
* Story generation and plot management engines for mobile environments
* Interactive digital storytelling: theories, methods, and concepts applied to real world environments
* Emotion design for storytelling
* Educational digital storytelling
* Experience design for interactive storytelling
* Mobile urban drama
* Novel narrative forms inspired by new technology
* Storytelling and augmented reality
* Collaborative environments for interactive storytelling
* Interactive storytelling and gaming
* Interactive and pro-active authoring environments
* Evaluation and user experience reports of interactive storytelling applications
Papers should be not longer than 7000 words including references and should follow the NHRM author instructions. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham.
Important dates
September 10, 2010 Paper submission deadline
November 8, 2010 Authors notification
December 14, 2010 Final copy due
Summer 2011 Publication
Guest Editors
Frank Nack, ILPS, University of Amsterdam, nack@uva.nl
Annika Waern, Interaction Laboratory, SICS, annika@sics.se
2.9.10
[online networks and social behaviour]
Journal of Information Technology (2010) 25, 170–177; doi:10.1057/jit.2010.5; published online 4 May 2010
Gift-giving as a conceptual framework: framing social behavior in online networks
Jörgen Skågeby1
1Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence: J Skågeby, Department of Journalism, Media & Communication, Box 27 861, 115 93 Stockholm. Tel: +46 737 090420; Fax: +46 8 661 03 04
Top
Abstract
This paper explores the use of gift-giving as a theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior in online networks and communities. Not only has gift-giving the potential to frame and explain much social media behavior, but reversely, and perhaps more importantly, mediated social behavior also has the potential to develop gift-giving theory. Information and communication technologies form joint sociotechnical systems where new practices emerge. The paper focuses on describing the academic background of the gifting framework to help develop a deeper, theory-based, understanding of these sociotechnical phenomena. Three themes are prevalent in the gifting literature: other-orientation, social bonding and generalized reciprocity. The paper gives examples of how these themes are enacted by end-users via the use of information and communication technologies. Finally, sociotechnically embedded economies, called gifting technologies, are identified and discussed.
1.9.10
[jisc funding]
JISC has recently updated the future calls section of its website and now shows planned Grant calls and Invitations To Tenders from August 2010 to July 2011.
Details of the calls can be found via the following link http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/futurecalls.aspx
Further information relating to the calls and ITTs will be posted to JISC Announce as these are issued.
26.8.10
[cfp: communication technologies]
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline extended to September 24th, 2010
Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use
A book edited by John Lannon (University of Limerick, Ireland), Edward F. Halpin (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Steven Hick (Carleton University, Canada)
To be published by IGI Global
Website: http://tinyurl.com/33hy2zw
INTRODUCTION
Intergovernmental agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations are now using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to collect, organize and disseminate information on peoples' rights, the promotion of human rights, and the protection of individuals and communities at risk. These efforts have moved beyond the traditional human rights regime, as more attention is being paid to rights based approaches to development, and to the interconnectedness of environmental protection, climate change and the wellbeing of humanity. As a result, ICT policies and practices are having an even more far-reaching effect on the enjoyment of human rights by all.
Since 2001 ICTs have transformed the capacity of organisations, movements and oppressed communities to highlight human rights abuse, and to advocate for causes and victims of oppression. They make it easier to share and to access information; they facilitate human rights data aggregation and analysis; they offer innovative tactical approaches to campaigning; and they precipitate real-world campaigning and lobbying activities. They enable global participation, and give local actors and previously invisible groups international visibility. At the same time the features that make ICTs an effective tool for the promotion and protection of human rights also make them useful in the exploitation of people and the violation of human rights. They contribute directly and indirectly to the abuse of children, for example; they facilitate the distribution of material that is hostile to racial and religious groups; they threaten the security and the privacy of individuals; and they contribute to the operation of international trafficking and other criminal activities.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use will provide a comprehensive examination of the use and application of information and communication technologies in the world of human rights. This will contribute significantly to understandings of the impact of ICTss on the promotion and protection of human rights in societies around the world.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This book will provide a valuable tool and insight for academics from a range of fields, including information management, information systems, communications, information technology, international relations, human rights, politics, law, and sociology. It will also be useful to international non-governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, and governments, for policy and practice.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following:
- the impact of ICT policies on human rights;
- the role of information in the promotion and protection of human rights;
- the opportunities and pitfalls of ICTs for human rights campaigning;
- ICTs and human rights education;
- Human rights activism in the information age;
- communication rights, privacy and free speech;
- human rights and the Internet;
- ICTs and gender-based rights
- Information systems deployment in human rights
- Mobile technologies and their application to human rights
- Human rights organizations and the application/deployment of ICT
- Information security
- Information poverty, exclusion, and social, economic and cultural implications
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 27th, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 8th 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 17th, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
PUBLISHER
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com
IMPORTANT DATES
August 27, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 8, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
December 17, 2010: Full Chapter Submission
February 18, 2011: Review Results Returned
May 20, 2011: Final Chapter Submission
September 30, 2011: inal Deadline
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
John Lannon
Centre for Information and Knowledge Management
S1-20, Kemmy Business School,
University of Limerick,
IRELAND
Tel.: +353 87 8225087 E-mail: john.lannon@ul.ie
Proposal Submission Deadline extended to September 24th, 2010
Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use
A book edited by John Lannon (University of Limerick, Ireland), Edward F. Halpin (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) and Steven Hick (Carleton University, Canada)
To be published by IGI Global
Website: http://tinyurl.com/33hy2zw
INTRODUCTION
Intergovernmental agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations are now using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to collect, organize and disseminate information on peoples' rights, the promotion of human rights, and the protection of individuals and communities at risk. These efforts have moved beyond the traditional human rights regime, as more attention is being paid to rights based approaches to development, and to the interconnectedness of environmental protection, climate change and the wellbeing of humanity. As a result, ICT policies and practices are having an even more far-reaching effect on the enjoyment of human rights by all.
Since 2001 ICTs have transformed the capacity of organisations, movements and oppressed communities to highlight human rights abuse, and to advocate for causes and victims of oppression. They make it easier to share and to access information; they facilitate human rights data aggregation and analysis; they offer innovative tactical approaches to campaigning; and they precipitate real-world campaigning and lobbying activities. They enable global participation, and give local actors and previously invisible groups international visibility. At the same time the features that make ICTs an effective tool for the promotion and protection of human rights also make them useful in the exploitation of people and the violation of human rights. They contribute directly and indirectly to the abuse of children, for example; they facilitate the distribution of material that is hostile to racial and religious groups; they threaten the security and the privacy of individuals; and they contribute to the operation of international trafficking and other criminal activities.
OBJECTIVE OF THE BOOK
Human Rights and Information Communication Technologies: Trends and Consequences of Use will provide a comprehensive examination of the use and application of information and communication technologies in the world of human rights. This will contribute significantly to understandings of the impact of ICTss on the promotion and protection of human rights in societies around the world.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This book will provide a valuable tool and insight for academics from a range of fields, including information management, information systems, communications, information technology, international relations, human rights, politics, law, and sociology. It will also be useful to international non-governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations, and governments, for policy and practice.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS include, but are not limited to, the following:
- the impact of ICT policies on human rights;
- the role of information in the promotion and protection of human rights;
- the opportunities and pitfalls of ICTs for human rights campaigning;
- ICTs and human rights education;
- Human rights activism in the information age;
- communication rights, privacy and free speech;
- human rights and the Internet;
- ICTs and gender-based rights
- Information systems deployment in human rights
- Mobile technologies and their application to human rights
- Human rights organizations and the application/deployment of ICT
- Information security
- Information poverty, exclusion, and social, economic and cultural implications
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 27th, 2010, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by October 8th 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by December 17th, 2010. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
PUBLISHER
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com
IMPORTANT DATES
August 27, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 8, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
December 17, 2010: Full Chapter Submission
February 18, 2011: Review Results Returned
May 20, 2011: Final Chapter Submission
September 30, 2011: inal Deadline
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
John Lannon
Centre for Information and Knowledge Management
S1-20, Kemmy Business School,
University of Limerick,
IRELAND
Tel.: +353 87 8225087 E-mail: john.lannon@ul.ie
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