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Electronic Publishing - 2nd CFP Elpub2002
by Ana Maria 16 Jan '02

16 Jan '02

This message is cross-posted to several lists - We apologize for possible duplicate postings! CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications. The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. PROGRAMME The focus is on electronic publishing for academic and industrial purposes and for the general public. There will be two tracks: a general track and a technical track. The General track aims to provide an overview of the main issues of the area, such as Human, Cultural, Social, Economic and Legal issues. The Technical Track, on the other hand, aims to provide a more in depth view over the state of the art technologies, applications and tools worldwide. We welcome speakers on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK - New Publishing Models; - New services for the Web; - Old Actors - New Roles: Scholars, Publishers, Librarians, Journalists, Teachers, etc. and Electronic Publishing in E-Commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, advertisement, etc.; - The Semantic Web; - Multimedia and Multimodal Web; - Web for the TV / TV for the Web; - Multilingual Systems and translators; - Systems for disabled persons; - Metadata - its usage and interoperability; - Accessibility; - Infocracy / Infoexclusion; - Copyright and other rights issues; - Security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Standards and recommendations from well-established bodies and their comparison. TECHNICAL TRACK - Using XML and its related technologies(XSL, XSLT, DOM, XLink, XPath, ...); comparing its use with older technologies (like DBMS, for instance); - Development and use of XML applications (XHTML, MathML, NewsML, RDF...) and tools; - Development and use of Metadata vocabularies, application profiles and metadata registries; - Development and use of codification mechanisms and technologies for metadata encoding (RDF, Topic Maps,...); - Knowledge discovery on the Web; Content Search and Retrieval on the Web; - Profiling and personalization; - Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications; - Electronic Publishing for mobile devices; - Technologies for the selection of content; their use and/or comparison; - Technologies for security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Technologies for copyright assurance; - Mechanisms for the integration of recommendations, standards and standards proposals. THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE AND SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED. Proceedings of the conference will be published both as a book and electronically. AUTHOR GUIDELINES 1. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: February 15th, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission must include: - Title of paper - Authors' names - Affiliation - Full Address (including phone, fax, e-mail) - Abstract in English (200 - 400 words) Abstracts should be sent by e-mail (using text-only format; no formatting; double space between paragraphs) to the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by May, 2nd. The deadline for full papers will be June 28th, 2002. Speakers will be given 35 minutes total including time for questions. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings (print and online version). One author per paper (speaker) will be charged a reduced conference fee. GENERAL INFORMATION Host: Chemnitz Technical University, Germany General Chair: Arved Hubler email: arved.huebler(a)mbv.tu-chemnitz.de Program Chair: João Álvaro Carvalho email: jac(a)dsi.uminho.pt Program Committee: - BAPTISTA, Ana Alice - University of Minho - Portugal - BORBINHA, José Luís - IST - Portugal; and National Library of Portugal - Portugal - CARVALHO, João Álvaro - University of Minho - Portugal - CHAN, Leslie - University of Toronto - Canada - CORREIA, Ana Maria Ramalho - Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ISEGI - Portugal; and University of Sheffield - UK - COSTA, Sely - University of Brasília - Brazil - DELGADO, Jaime - University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona - Spain - ENGELEN, Jan - Catholic University of Leuven - Belgium - IYENGAR, Arun - IBM Research/T.J. Watson Research Centre - USA - JEZEK, Karel - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - KHAKHAR, Dipak - University of Lund - Sweden - KREINES, Mikhail - Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow Centre for New Information Technologies in Medical Education - Russia - KREULICH, Klaus - Chemnitz Technical University - Germany - LINDE, Peter - Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden - MATOUSEK, Vaclav - University of West-Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - OKERSON, Ann - Yale University - USA - RODRIGUES, Eloy - University of Minho - Portugal - SCHWÄNZL, Roland - University of Osnabrück - Germany - SMITH, John W. T. - University of Kent at Canterbury - UK - TARGINO, Graça - Federal University of Piauí - Brazil - TSCHAMMER, Volker - ECCO(Competence Centre for Electronic Commerce)- Fraunhofer FOKUS - Germany For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt Ana Maria Pereira Centro Algoritmi Universidade do Minho

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Electronicb Publishing - 2nd CFP Elpub2002
by Ana Maria 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

This message is cross-posted to several lists - We apologize for possible duplicate postings! CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications. The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. PROGRAMME The focus is on electronic publishing for academic and industrial purposes and for the general public. There will be two tracks: a general track and a technical track. The General track aims to provide an overview of the main issues of the area, such as Human, Cultural, Social, Economic and Legal issues. The Technical Track, on the other hand, aims to provide a more in depth view over the state of the art technologies, applications and tools worldwide. We welcome speakers on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK - New Publishing Models; - New services for the Web; - Old Actors - New Roles: Scholars, Publishers, Librarians, Journalists, Teachers, etc. and Electronic Publishing in E-Commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, advertisement, etc.; - The Semantic Web; - Multimedia and Multimodal Web; - Web for the TV / TV for the Web; - Multilingual Systems and translators; - Systems for disabled persons; - Metadata - its usage and interoperability; - Accessibility; - Infocracy / Infoexclusion; - Copyright and other rights issues; - Security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Standards and recommendations from well-established bodies and their comparison. TECHNICAL TRACK - Using XML and its related technologies(XSL, XSLT, DOM, XLink, XPath, ...); comparing its use with older technologies (like DBMS, for instance); - Development and use of XML applications (XHTML, MathML, NewsML, RDF...) and tools; - Development and use of Metadata vocabularies, application profiles and metadata registries; - Development and use of codification mechanisms and technologies for metadata encoding (RDF, Topic Maps,...); - Knowledge discovery on the Web; Content Search and Retrieval on the Web; - Profiling and personalization; - Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications; - Electronic Publishing for mobile devices; - Technologies for the selection of content; their use and/or comparison; - Technologies for security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Technologies for copyright assurance; - Mechanisms for the integration of recommendations, standards and standards proposals. THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE AND SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED. Proceedings of the conference will be published both as a book and electronically. AUTHOR GUIDELINES 1. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: February 15th, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission must include: - Title of paper - Authors' names - Affiliation - Full Address (including phone, fax, e-mail) - Abstract in English (200 - 400 words) Abstracts should be sent by e-mail (using text-only format; no formatting; double space between paragraphs) to the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by May, 2nd. The deadline for full papers will be June 28th, 2002. Speakers will be given 35 minutes total including time for questions. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings (print and online version). One author per paper (speaker) will be charged a reduced conference fee. GENERAL INFORMATION Host: Chemnitz Technical University, Germany General Chair: Arved Hubler email: arved.huebler(a)mbv.tu-chemnitz.de Program Chair: João Álvaro Carvalho email: jac(a)dsi.uminho.pt Program Committee: - BAPTISTA, Ana Alice - University of Minho - Portugal - BORBINHA, José Luís - IST - Portugal; and National Library of Portugal - Portugal - CARVALHO, João Álvaro - University of Minho - Portugal - CHAN, Leslie - University of Toronto - Canada - CORREIA, Ana Maria Ramalho - Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ISEGI - Portugal; and University of Sheffield - UK - COSTA, Sely - University of Brasília - Brazil - DELGADO, Jaime - University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona - Spain - ENGELEN, Jan - Catholic University of Leuven - Belgium - IYENGAR, Arun - IBM Research/T.J. Watson Research Centre - USA - JEZEK, Karel - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - KHAKHAR, Dipak - University of Lund - Sweden - KREINES, Mikhail - Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow Centre for New Information Technologies in Medical Education - Russia - KREULICH, Klaus - Chemnitz Technical University - Germany - LINDE, Peter - Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden - MATOUSEK, Vaclav - University of West-Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - OKERSON, Ann - Yale University - USA - RODRIGUES, Eloy - University of Minho - Portugal - SCHWÄNZL, Roland - University of Osnabrück - Germany - SMITH, John W. T. - University of Kent at Canterbury - UK - TARGINO, Graça - Federal University of Piauí - Brazil - TSCHAMMER, Volker - ECCO(Competence Centre for Electronic Commerce)- Fraunhofer FOKUS - Germany For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt Ana Maria Pereira Centro Algoritmi Universidade do Minho

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FW: Bridging the Digital Divide and more
by Augusto Casaca 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: terca-feira, 15 de Janeiro de 2002 08:08 To: All Subject: Bridging the Digital Divide and more Dear All - 1. United Nations adopts Resolution on the World Summit on the Information Society 2. Other IFIP business 1. United Nations adopts Resolution on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) The United Nations has taken a major step towards bridging the 'Digital Divide' with the adoption, by the General Assembly, of a resolution which welcomes the organization of the WSIS. The Summit is expected to promote access by all countries to information, knowledge and communications technologies for development and will be held in two phases, in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunisia in 2005. It will convene under the high patronage of the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. The resolution calls on governments to actively participate in Summit preparations and to be represented at the highest possible level. It has also asked for the active participation in the Summit and its preparations by all relevant United Nations and intergovernmental organizations, international and regional institutions, non-governmental organizations, the civil society and the private sector. ITU will work to create synergies and develop cooperation among the various ICT initiatives at the regional and global level. The full text of the Press Release is available at http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2002/01.html UNESCO will hold a series of consultative meetings intended to formulate a set of proposals for inclusion in the Declaration of Principles and the plan of action that WSIS 2003 is expected to adopt. IFIP is invited to participate in one of these consultative meetings on "Infostructure in developing countries". Several other IFIP activities are geared towards WSIS, among them the organization of an IFIP-UNESCO Roundtable during IFIP's Congress in Montreal, 25-30 August 2002 and the First IFIP World Information Technology Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania 27-29 August 2003. [An internal IFIP GA note related to ICT for development was circulated last week and is posted at http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00097.html ] 2. Other IFIP business The "First Story for 2002" http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00096.html showed that IFIP has achieved an important objective -- from the responses we note that many IFIP people are proud of being Silver Core Holders and included IFIP "SC Holder" in their signature line. The other positive development is that people wish to re-establish their participation in IFIP and to maintain contact with each other. Sylvia Charp's note, which we shared with you, is an expression of this process and it triggered mails from several of you who wrote to find out how she is faring and to ask for her coordinates. Sylvia is obviously faring well and she is Editor-in-Chief of THE Journal (Technical Horizons in Education). Finally, the lighter side is that the "Men's Camp" is split over JAN Lee's VERY LAST Story [5 stages of man's life]. An "anti-Lee" faction is not happy with it as they feel their manhood is tested while a "Leeist" [but not least] group fully supports JAN's observations which they confirm by another story [see Fun Lover's Zone below]. Greetings, The Delivery Co. -------------------------------- Fun Lover's Zone Only! Man is like a train: At 20 he is like the local: He stops at every station. At 30 he is like the special: He stops at large towns only. At 40 he is like the express: He stops only in very big cities. At 50 he is like the old locomotive: He stops often to water. At 60 ..... He remains in the yard.

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FW: Electronic Publishing - 2nd CFP Elpub2002
by Augusto Casaca 15 Jan '02

15 Jan '02

-----Original Message----- From: Ana Maria [mailto:anamaria@ccom.uminho.pt] Sent: terça-feira, 15 de Janeiro de 2002 11:31 To: anamaria(a)ccom.uminho.pt Subject: Electronic Publishing - 2nd CFP Elpub2002 This message is cross-posted to several lists - We apologize for possible duplicate postings! CALL FOR PAPERS ICCC / IFIP 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING at Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ELPUB2002 - "Technology Interactions" http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/elpub02/ Hosted by the Institute for Print and Media Technology of Chemnitz Technical University, Germany and by the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic November 06 - 09th, 2002 Electronic Publishing is an area that is crossed over other areas such as E-commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, etc. New technologies keep appearing everyday in the Electronic Publishing arena. These interact not only among them, but also with all these areas, and not always in the same way. The "What, Where, How, and Why" questions about these technologies interactions is the main theme of the 2002 ElPub conference. ELPUB2002 is the 6th in a series of annual international conferences on Electronic Publishing. The objective of ELPUB2002 is to bring together researchers, managers, developers, and users working on the issues related to electronic publishing for public, scientific and commercial applications. The conference will continue the tradition of the previous conferences which took place in Great Britain in 1997, Hungary in 1998, Sweden in 1999, Russia in 2000 and England in 2001. PROGRAMME The focus is on electronic publishing for academic and industrial purposes and for the general public. There will be two tracks: a general track and a technical track. The General track aims to provide an overview of the main issues of the area, such as Human, Cultural, Social, Economic and Legal issues. The Technical Track, on the other hand, aims to provide a more in depth view over the state of the art technologies, applications and tools worldwide. We welcome speakers on the following topics: GENERAL TRACK - New Publishing Models; - New services for the Web; - Old Actors - New Roles: Scholars, Publishers, Librarians, Journalists, Teachers, etc. and Electronic Publishing in E-Commerce, Digital Libraries, Distance Learning, advertisement, etc.; - The Semantic Web; - Multimedia and Multimodal Web; - Web for the TV / TV for the Web; - Multilingual Systems and translators; - Systems for disabled persons; - Metadata - its usage and interoperability; - Accessibility; - Infocracy / Infoexclusion; - Copyright and other rights issues; - Security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Standards and recommendations from well-established bodies and their comparison. TECHNICAL TRACK - Using XML and its related technologies(XSL, XSLT, DOM, XLink, XPath, ...); comparing its use with older technologies (like DBMS, for instance); - Development and use of XML applications (XHTML, MathML, NewsML, RDF...) and tools; - Development and use of Metadata vocabularies, application profiles and metadata registries; - Development and use of codification mechanisms and technologies for metadata encoding (RDF, Topic Maps,...); - Knowledge discovery on the Web; Content Search and Retrieval on the Web; - Profiling and personalization; - Interoperability and scalability of Web publishing applications; - Electronic Publishing for mobile devices; - Technologies for the selection of content; their use and/or comparison; - Technologies for security, and reliability/quality assurance on the information sources; - Technologies for copyright assurance; - Mechanisms for the integration of recommendations, standards and standards proposals. THE LIST OF TOPICS IS NOT MEANT TO BE EXHAUSTIVE AND SUBMISSIONS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE OVERALL CONFERENCE THEME WILL BE CONSIDERED. Proceedings of the conference will be published both as a book and electronically. AUTHOR GUIDELINES 1. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: February 15th, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission must include: - Title of paper - Authors' names - Affiliation - Full Address (including phone, fax, e-mail) - Abstract in English (200 - 400 words) Abstracts should be sent by e-mail (using text-only format; no formatting; double space between paragraphs) to the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt The programme committee will send notification of acceptance of submitted papers by May, 2nd. The deadline for full papers will be June 28th, 2002. Speakers will be given 35 minutes total including time for questions. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings (print and online version). One author per paper (speaker) will be charged a reduced conference fee. GENERAL INFORMATION Host: Chemnitz Technical University, Germany General Chair: Arved Hubler email: arved.huebler(a)mbv.tu-chemnitz.de Program Chair: João Álvaro Carvalho email: jac(a)dsi.uminho.pt Program Committee: - BAPTISTA, Ana Alice - University of Minho - Portugal - BORBINHA, José Luís - IST - Portugal; and National Library of Portugal - Portugal - CARVALHO, João Álvaro - University of Minho - Portugal - CHAN, Leslie - University of Toronto - Canada - CORREIA, Ana Maria Ramalho - Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ISEGI - Portugal; and University of Sheffield - UK - COSTA, Sely - University of Brasília - Brazil - DELGADO, Jaime - University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona - Spain - ENGELEN, Jan - Catholic University of Leuven - Belgium - IYENGAR, Arun - IBM Research/T.J. Watson Research Centre - USA - JEZEK, Karel - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - KHAKHAR, Dipak - University of Lund - Sweden - KREINES, Mikhail - Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow Centre for New Information Technologies in Medical Education - Russia - KREULICH, Klaus - Chemnitz Technical University - Germany - LINDE, Peter - Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden - MATOUSEK, Vaclav - University of West-Bohemia in Pilsen - Czech Republic - OKERSON, Ann - Yale University - USA - RODRIGUES, Eloy - University of Minho - Portugal - SCHWÄNZL, Roland - University of Osnabrück - Germany - SMITH, John W. T. - University of Kent at Canterbury - UK - TARGINO, Graça - Federal University of Piauí - Brazil - TSCHAMMER, Volker - ECCO(Competence Centre for Electronic Commerce)- Fraunhofer FOKUS - Germany For additional information, please contact the Programme Committee: programme-elpub(a)mail.uminho.pt Ana Maria Pereira Centro Algoritmi Universidade do Minho

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FW: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!
by Olli Martikainen 11 Jan '02

11 Jan '02

SMART NETWORKS SMARTNET'2002 April 8-10, 2002 Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************* Please register now to the 7th Conference on Intelligence in Networks, Smartnet 2002, sponsored by IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). The detailed program information available at http://www.lut.fi/~jhyvarin/Smartnet2002.htm Registration at http://www.lut.fi/~jhyvarin/Smartnet2002.htm, registration form etc. will be available on Monday, January 14, 2002. The deadline for the registration is already February 8, 2002, and the deadline for the hotel reservation is already February 1, 2002. So please, hurry! (Please feel free to send this to all your colleagues and partners working on this field.) For more information, please contact Ms. Jenni Hyvärinen Project Assistant Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology P.O. Box 21 FIN-53851 Lappeenranta Finland tel +358 5 621 2870 fax +358 5 621 2899 e-mail jhyvarin(a)lut.fi

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FW: ICT for development/DID draft report
by Augusto Casaca 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 10 de Janeiro de 2002 12:29 To: GA&MS Subject: ICT for development/DID draft report To: IFIP GA representatives and TC Chairs cc. IFIP Member Societies, UNESCO Dear All, In September 2001, you were informed -- http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00071.html -- of a consultative meeting on 11 and 12 September 2001 in Beirut in which the IFIP Executive Director took part. The meeting was attended by experts from regional and national agencies, the World Bank, UNDP, IFIP and other organizations. ICT activities for development were explored and the plausibility for founding a specialized agency to focus on issues related to the Digital Divide and ICT for Development was considered. I said that we will keep you informed as this initiative develops. Now I am pleased to let you know that the Draft Workshop report is available at http://www.ifip.or.at/pdf/workshop.pdf Needless to say, the meeting discussion and draft report reflect ideas as expressed by the participants and not necessarily the organizations they work for. At the same time, the draft and the ideas in the report could be of interest to IFIP's Member societies, to IFIP's Developing Counties Support Committee, our TCs and the organizers of IFIP's Congress in Montreal, 25-30 August 2002 and the First IFIP World Information Technology Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania 27-29 August 2003. Since UNESCO is also engaged in this area, I copy the message to some of my UNESCO colleagues. UNESCO will organize a series of consultative meetings intended as an input to formulate a set of proposals for inclusion in the Declaration of Principles and the plan of action that WSIS 2003 is expected to adopt. IFIP is invited to take part in one of these consultative meetings on "Infostructure in developing countries". Expectations are to develop a set of principles for the formulation of national, regional and international policies with a focus on strengthening institutional capacities and creating the conditions for equitable access to information and knowledge by using ICTs and traditional media. The draft report from the Beirut Workshop might also be helpful in this respect. Good wishes, Plamen ----------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 www: http://www.ifip.or.at/

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FW: Register today for NOMS 2002: Management Solutions for the New Communications World
by Augusto Casaca 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

-----Original Message----- From: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org [mailto:CommunicationsSociety@comsoc.org] Sent: quarta-feira, 9 de Janeiro de 2002 13:45 To: conferencesa(a)comsoc.org Subject: Register today for NOMS 2002: Management Solutions for the New Communications World ============================================================================ =================== NOMS 2002 (IEEE/IFIP 2002 Network Operations and Management Symposium) 15-19 April, Florence, Italy Just click www.noms.org/2002 and you'll see why this year's program is not to be missed. This symposium will combine in depth technical sessions and panels with a demo/exhibition area showing the latest network and service management technologies and products. An excellent opportunity for meeting the world's top operations managers, developers and innovators. It will give you the perfect stage to voice your ideas and proposals in this crucially important area. In addition to an in depth technical sessions over two parallel tracks, NOMS 2002 will have a third track that will cover paper presentations and lively panel discussions on the operational aspects, industry experiences, and business aspects. It is the first time in NOMS history that we have combined into a single track all sessions with particular relevance to an industry audience. See http://www.comsoc.org/confs/noms/2002/Program1.html for the technical program. Look for major management issues for the emerging telecommunications environments: - B2B solutions - 3rd Generation mobility - Telephony over IP - Optical Networking - Content Delivery Networks - Component-based OSS. Coming from the four corners around the planet and representing all different sectors of the telecommunications industry, top-level Keynote Speakers will daily open the technical sessions with their forward-looking views, and a Distinguished Experts panel will provide the grand closing session. As part of the exhibit/patron program; The TeleMangement Forum will be sponsoring Catalyst Projects. Catalyst Projects offer companies a way of working together in a "living lab" environment to validate ideas. Catalyst projects provide a window into the future by showing what happens when real and prototyped products are linked together in an implementation scenario. For the first time in its long history, this global symposium will be held in Europe, right at the heart of the beautiful city of Firenze (Florence). Hotels and major Italian art masterpieces will be within walking distance from the Conference Center, providing the ideal combination of professional and personal experiences. Many of these masterpieces are the result of painstaking cooperative work whose operation and management efforts are shining through the results we can still be enjoying today. To all the colleagues that have experienced the previous NOMS/IM conferences and to all others who have not done so yet, a warm "arriverderci a Firenze": we are looking forward to seeing you all at NOMS 2002.

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FW: The First Story for 2002
by Augusto Casaca 09 Jan '02

09 Jan '02

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quarta-feira, 9 de Janeiro de 2002 12:44 To: All Subject: The First Story for 2002 Dear All, The Last Story http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00094.html generated an overwhelming response and we wish to thank you all for the nice words and warm feelings. It is impossible to include all the messages we received at the end of 2001 but to give you a flavor we have selected a line or two from the mails of ONLY 6 IFIP Silver Core Holders of whom you probably have not heard for quite a while: Here they are: OTTO SPANIOL, DE [TC 6 Chair 1992-1997, SC Holder] "Your informations and (in particular) your monthly jokes are brilliant!!!" KAREN DUNCAN, USA, [IFIP Publications Officer until 1989, SC Holder] "I was going to vote for the regular e-mail communications from the Secretariat, as the most significant IFIP event of the year! I've enjoyed hearing from you regularly." PN - Karen and I first met in Koprivshtitsa (BG) at about the time the Berlin wall crumbled. Her visit was intended to help me learn about the IFIP Publications process. It was followed by a lot of email communications resulting in a smooth transition, however, one project still remains outstanding - rafting on the Colorado river with Karen and her husband, George Glaser [an IFIP Vice-President 1982 -1988] VEITH RISAK, AT [Past President of OCG, SC Holder] " Thanks for your nice mails.I think, that by this IFIP is more and more visible... I think, such positive societies [P.N.: IFIP and OCG] can do a lot for a good international climate. Perhaps we should think, how we could go more public (in a broader sense)." SYLVIA CHARP, USA, [WG 3.3 Chair -1971-1977, SC Holder] "I have thoroughly enjoyed all of your messages. Unfortunately I have not been active in IFIP for a number of reasons but I remember fondly all of my friends and the time I spent on all of the activities with which I was involved... I am still involved with international activities, but not through IFIP. Perhaps, it is time to get reacquainted." P.N.-- WE HOPE THE TC 3 MANAGEMENT WILL TAKE NOTE OF SYLVIA'S INTENTIONS! TOM VAN WEERT, NL [WG 3.2 Chair 1996-2001, SC Holder] "Now that I have stepped down as Chair of Working Group 3.2 I also want to thank you and your staff for your support and humorous contributions. IFIP needs a Delivery Co. like yours!" [P.N. Tom is one of the authors of the IFIP-UNESCO ICT Curriculum for Higher Education -- http://www.ifip.or.at/pdf/ICF2001.pdf ] And here is a very special note from MARIA TOTH, HU, [OC Co-Chair, IFIP Congress 1998, SC Holder] "Dear Santa No 3! I have made for you and Dorothy a few recognitions during the last years, but far not so many as many times I'm thinking with acknowledgement, gratefully of both of you. Your wonderful personalities makes IFIP human and friendly beyond the perfect controlling and administrative fulfillment of the work." P.N. THANK YOU MARIA for being so generous! In the December 1998 issue of the IFIP Newsletter http://www.ifip.or.at/newsletters/nl4q98/congress98.htm there is a very nice article about Congress 98. * * * Several of you were intrigued by the analogy of 2001 with a Shakespearean play in the Last Story. Some asked us how we see the international scene and the internal IFIP stage during 2002. The international 2002 scene would be hard to predict judging from an apocryphal photo http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/jokeimages/Photofamille.jpg we received in early Jan 2002 from neutral Switzerland. Would 2002 be "deja vu", as the body language and seating arrangement suggest, or would the gentlemen invite others and sit around the round table? If they could only find their Delivery Co.! As to the IFIP 2002 scene, two IFIP officers -- President Elect W. Grafendorfer and Executive Director P. Nedkov -- were interviewed publicly on what they personally think should be the guiding principle of IFIP this year [ http://www.ifip.or.at/minutes/C2000/heads.jpg ]. Their unanimous response was: "Soft on Diversity, Hard on Process" A primary effort in 2002 would be the IFIP Congress http://www.wcc2002.org If you have still not submitted a paper there are still some days for you to write it! In all cases, the Delivery Co. hopes to see you all in Montreal! Finally, once again, thank you very much for your generous words. We take it that we have passed the 2001 Audition and we look forward to future pleasant and productive cyberspace and bio encounters. Greetings, The Delivery Co. P.S. JAN LEE, USA (IEEE CS GA Representative to IFIP, SC Holder) responded to the Last Story with a VERY LAST Story as follows: [In response to the part about the 4 stages of a man's life] "I tell the story of the FIVE stages of man's life: At a very early stage of his life, when a girl smiles at him, he hits her! At the next stage , when a girl smiles at him, he blushes and turns away! In the teenage years , when a girl smiles at him, he smiles back! In middle age , when a girl smiles at him, he looks around to see if his wife noticed! At my age, when a girl smiles at him, he checks his zip!"

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