[esocialaction] CfP: Conference on Social and Ethical Impact of Technology

[Walker, Steve]

A little short notice, but this may be of interest,
 
Steve
 
 
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Subject: cfp: Conference on Social and Ethical Impact of Technology (SoftWars 2006)
From: Filipe de Sa-Soares <fss at dsi.uminho.pt>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:52:08 +0100
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS


SoftWars 2006: Conference on Social and Ethical Impact of Technology

Important Dates
   Conference: September 13-15, 2006
   Submit by: June 1, 2006


Venue
   University of Minho, Guimaraes (World Heritage), Portugal


Conference Website: www.soft-wars.org
All enquiries to: chairs at soft-wars.org


As attention to 'social and ethical issues' continues both among technology
managers and academics, an important question emerges: what counts as a
social and ethical issue? Is it privacy and security? Or, is it fairness,
equality and justice in access to technology? Is it responsible corporate
governance? Or, is it the challenge of establishing solidarity with others?
SoftWars 2006 will provide a forum for discussion on social and ethical
challenges related to technology use.


Submissions may be in the form of full papers (about 5000 words) or position
papers for round table discussion (about 1000 words). Submission details and
call for papers is available at www.soft-wars.org.
Representative topics include, but are not limited to:

   - Domestic and international technology use and adoption
   - Growing up in a surveillance society
   - Social networking
   - Aspects of free speech in a technology enabled world
   - The challenge of emerging technologies (e.g. RFID)
   - Intellectual property issues
   - Technology and Privacy
   - Intellectual property and Law enforcement
   - Datamining the unknown unknowns
   - Social and ethical challenges in technology transfer
   - Trusted computing
   - Techno crimes and related management challenges
   - Government profiling and Private data
   - Electronic voting
   - Identity theft



Submission details

Submissions can be made in a number of categories: Completed research
papers, research-in-progress papers, case studies, panels and posters/round
table discussion papers. Please visit www.soft-wars.org
<http://www.soft-wars.org/>  for further details and access to the online
submission system.


Chairs

   Gurpreet Dhillon
   Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

   Filipe de Sa-Soares
   University of Minho, Portugal

   Qing Hu
   Florida Atlantic University, USA

 
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Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer
Leeds Metropolitan University
School of Information Management
Phone: (44) 113 283 7448
Skype: steve_walker


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