[esocialaction] Fw: [ciresearchers] Who wants to enter a proposal for a networking session at IST 2006?

[C.W.Olphert]

This looks interesting.


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From: "David R. Newman" <d.r.newman at qub.ac.uk>
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Subject: [ciresearchers] Who wants to enter a proposal for a networking 
session at IST 2006?


The EU runs an annual Information Societies Technologies conference and
exhibition. This year it will be in November in Finland. See below.

They are calling for proposals for workshops and networking sessions.

I'm thinking of putting in a proposal for what they call a networking
session, if anyone else in interested in joining in.

> A networking session aims at bringing together new constituencies,
> that are preferably not already working together routinely in the
> Framework Programme, in view of submitting proposals or taking other
> actions in the context of FP7. A networking session has an output
> which is shared by the participants and has, at least in part,
> concrete and action-oriented implications. A networking session will
> [produce] concrete documentation of the results that are achieved at
> the meeting. The session should leave a lasting imprint on the
> participants, based on enthusiastic, original, promising and
> stimulating person-to-person contacts.

See
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/networking/more/index_en.htm
for more about what they mean by a networking session.

What I'm thinking of doing is trying to bring together practitioners
developing IT, with community and public sector people who have rather
different needs than those of large e-businesses, and researchers
interested in working on the people/technology boundaries (e.g. in
community informatics or e-democracy).

The session would start with a social problem (e.g. how to improve the
participation and influence of citizens in public policy; how to imagine
the technologies and processes needed for a Europe of
networked/integrative governance, where decisions and policies are
distributed; how to support distributed research between community-based
practitioner researchers, as opposed to mere collaboration between
engineers in big companies).

The participants would work through an agenda of problem definition,
creative generation of multiple solutions, refining and rating these
solutions, to end up with a list of approaches that might be followed in
research projects.

To speed up ideas collection, we would use a Group Support Systems like
WebIQ (www.webiq.net) or Zing (www.anyzing.com) so that everyone could
type at the same time. In Marburg we got 82 ideas in just 15 minutes
(http://wiki.e-consultation.org/TheoryMarburg).

So any interest, and if so, what's your favourite problem to be
addressed in 3 hours?

Dave Newman

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: IST Event e-newsletter: IST 2006 Calls for Proposals Launched
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:23:34 +0200
From: Marleen.VAN-DAMME at cec.eu.int

* Preliminary Conference Programme

<http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/conference/index_en.htm>
      *Now Live:* The IST 2006 Conference Programme will look at one of
      the central questions facing European competitiveness today from
      two complementary angles:
          o *policy:* how can governments help ICTs contribute to an
            innovative Europe?
          o *EC ICT research: *exploring the content, objectives and
            practicalities of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for
            research and development (2007-2013), launched at around the
            same time as IST 2006.
    * *Exhibition and Networking Calls for Proposals Now Open:* the
      Event’s exhibition and networking programme are being defined by
      the participants themselves via open Calls for Proposals:

          o Networking Sessions and Workshops Call:

<http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/networking/index_en.htm>
            closes 15 June 2006

-- 
Dr. David R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast, School of
Management and Economics, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland (UK)
Tel. +44 28 9097 3643 FAX: +44 28 9097 5156
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