-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 7 June 2010 --

IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society
29, 30 November and 1 December 2010 – Perth, Australia
(http://www.its-conf.org/)


* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS Internet Technologies & Society 2010 Conference (ITS 2010) aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet as well as to assess the influence of Internet in the Information Society.
Broad areas of interest are Internet Technologies, Information Management, e-Society and Digital Divide, e-Business / e-Commerce, e-Learning, New Media and e-Society, Digital Services in e-Society, e-Government / e-Governance and e-Health. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that do not fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (online accessible).

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

Internet Technologies
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Systems
- IS Security Issues
- Mobile Applications
- Multimedia Applications
- e-Payment Systems
- Protocols and Standards
- Semantic Web and XML
- Services, Architectures and Web
Development
- Software Requirements and Web
Architectures
- Storage Issues
- Strategies and Tendencies
- System Architectures
- Telework Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Virtual Reality
- Web 2.0 technologies
- Social Networking and Marketing
- Wireless Communications

Information Management
- Computer-Mediated
Communication
- Content Development
- Cyber law and Intellectual
Property
- Data Mining
- e-Publishing and Digital Libraries
- Human Computer Interaction and
Usability
- Information Search and Retrieval
- Knowledge Management
- Policy Issues
- Privacy Issues
- Social and Organizational Aspects
- Virtual Communities
- Internet and Disability
- Internet and Aging Population

e-Society and Digital Divide
- Social Integration
- Social Bookmarking
- Social Software
- e-Democracy
- Social Integration

e-Business / e-Commerce
- Business Ontologies and Models
- Digital Goods and Services
- e-Business Models
- e-Commerce Application Fields
- e-Commerce Economics
- e-Commerce Services
- Electronic Service Delivery
- e-Marketing
- Languages for Describing Goods and
Services
- Online Auctions and Technologies
- Virtual Organisations and
Teleworking

e-Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- e-Mobile Learning
- Curriculum Content Design &
Development
- Delivery Systems and
Environments
- Educational Systems Design
- e-Citizenship and Inclusion
- e-Learning Organisational Issues
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Political and Social Aspects
- Virtual Learning Environments and
Issues
- Web-based Learning
Communities

New Media and e-Society
- Digitization, heterogeneity and
convergence
- Interactivity and virtuality
- Citizenship, regulation and
heterarchy
- Innovation, identity and the global
village syndrome
- Internet Cultures and new
interpretations of “Space”
- Polity and the Digitally Suppressed
Digital Services in e-Society
- Service Broadcasting
- Political Reporting
- Development of Digital Services
- Freedom of Expression
- e-Journalism
- Open Access

e-Government /e-Governance
- Accessibility
- Democracy and the Citizen
- Digital Economies
- Digital Regions
- e-Administration
- e-Government Management
- e-Procurement
- e-Supply Chain
- Global Trends
- National and International
Economies
- Social Inclusion

e-Health
- Data Security Issues
- e-Health Policy and Practice
- e-Healthcare Strategies and
Provision
- Legal Issues
- Medical Research Ethics
- Patient Privacy and Confidentiality


* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: 7 June 2010
- Notification to Authors: 5 July 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 28 July 2010
- Late Registration: After 28 July 2010
- Conference: Perth, Australia, 29, 30 November and 1 December 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Perth, Australia.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES & SOCIETY
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@its-conf.org/
Web site: http://www.its-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Conference and Program Co-Chairs

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tomayess Issa, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located event:
International Higher Education 2010 (http://www.ihe-conf.org/) - 29, 30 November and 1 December 2010

* Registered participants in the Internet Technologies & Society conference may attend International Higher Education conference sessions free of charge.