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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Subject: cfp: Conference on
Social and Ethical Impact of Technology (SoftWars 2006)<BR>From: Filipe de
Sa-Soares <fss@dsi.uminho.pt><BR>Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:52:08
+0100<BR>X-Message-Number: 3<BR><BR><BR>CALL FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS<BR><BR><BR>SoftWars 2006: Conference on Social and Ethical Impact
of Technology<BR><BR>Important Dates<BR> Conference: September
13-15, 2006<BR> Submit by: June 1,
2006<BR><BR><BR>Venue<BR> University of Minho, Guimaraes (World
Heritage), Portugal<BR><BR><BR>Conference Website: www.soft-wars.org<BR>All
enquiries to: chairs@soft-wars.org<BR><BR><BR>As attention to 'social and
ethical issues' continues both among technology<BR>managers and academics, an
important question emerges: what counts as a<BR>social and ethical issue? Is it
privacy and security? Or, is it fairness,<BR>equality and justice in access to
technology? Is it responsible corporate<BR>governance? Or, is it the challenge
of establishing solidarity with others?<BR>SoftWars 2006 will provide a forum
for discussion on social and ethical<BR>challenges related to technology
use.<BR><BR><BR>Submissions may be in the form of full papers (about 5000 words)
or position<BR>papers for round table discussion (about 1000 words). Submission
details and<BR>call for papers is available at
www.soft-wars.org.<BR>Representative topics include, but are not limited
to:<BR><BR> - Domestic and international technology use and
adoption<BR> - Growing up in a surveillance society<BR>
- Social networking<BR> - Aspects of free speech in a technology
enabled world<BR> - The challenge of emerging technologies (e.g.
RFID)<BR> - Intellectual property issues<BR> -
Technology and Privacy<BR> - Intellectual property and Law
enforcement<BR> - Datamining the unknown unknowns<BR> -
Social and ethical challenges in technology transfer<BR> - Trusted
computing<BR> - Techno crimes and related management
challenges<BR> - Government profiling and Private
data<BR> - Electronic voting<BR> - Identity
theft<BR><BR><BR><BR>Submission details<BR><BR>Submissions can be made in a
number of categories: Completed research<BR>papers, research-in-progress papers,
case studies, panels and posters/round<BR>table discussion papers. Please visit
www.soft-wars.org<BR><<A
href="/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.soft-wars.org/"
target=_blank>http://www.soft-wars.org/</A>> for further details and
access to the online<BR>submission system.<BR><BR><BR>Chairs<BR><BR>
Gurpreet Dhillon<BR> Virginia Commonwealth University,
USA<BR><BR> Filipe de Sa-Soares<BR> University of Minho,
Portugal<BR><BR> Qing Hu<BR> Florida Atlantic
University, USA<BR></DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Walker, Senior Lecturer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leeds Metropolitan University</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>School of Information Management</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phone: (44) 113 283 7448</FONT></DIV>
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