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Digital Society and Technologies (DST) National Science Foundation(NSF) - European Commission workshop and e.2001 Conference
 Final
Report Now Available
Dates/Location
- DST/NSF WORKSHOP: Tuesday, October 16, 2001
Time: 8:30 - 5:00. Location has been changed!
New Location: Sala dei Chiostri in the Future Centre 4826 I Campo San Salvador, Venice, Italy
- The U.S. portion of the workshop is supported by a grant from the Computation and Social Systems program of NSF/CISE/IIS.
- e.2001 CONFERENCE: Wednesday-Friday,
October 17, 2001 - October 19, 2001
Location: Future Centre, San Salvador, San Marco,
4826 I Campo San Salvador, Venice, Italy
- U.S. participants are invited to stay on as observers at the EC Conference. We hope that many of you will stay.
We will reimburse the conference fee if you do decide to stay. You can find out more about the content of the e.2001 by looking at the following web site:
http://www.ebew.net/
PLAN OF THE WORKSHOP
NSF--EC Workshop on Collaborative Research
Venice, Italy, Tuesday, October 16, 2001
Objectives
There are three workshop objectives:
(1) to identify research issues that could be dealt with in parallel between EU and US researchers; (2) to determine the benefits from such transatlantic cooperation on these issues; and (3) to suggest how we might carry out such collaboration between existing and new projects.
The specific research issues that might be dealt with are many and will be determined somewhat by the interests and current/planned research of the participants.
However, the issues need not be limited to these as new issues might be identified. Among the issues that might be discussed are: (1) the global diffusion of ICT production and use; (2) new ways of work and e-business enabled by ICTs; (3) the demand dynamics of e-commerce, including the mobile Internet and e-commerce; (4) the socioeconomic and digital divide impacts; (5) the influence of national environments (financial, consumer, business) and governmental policies (e.g., privacy, security, IPR) on IT impacts; and (6) the impacts of ICTs on economic growth and employment.
The one-day workshop will be comprised of about 20 people from among grantees of the CSS Program and some new researchers. The workshop will involve a similar number of EU researchers. The
workshop will be organized to use small groups to pursue its objectives, and will use plenary sessions for delivering group reports and reaching consensus on issues dealt with by the small groups.
Preparation for the workshop
We ask each participant to prepare two short papers that should be turned in by Friday, September 7:
- 1-2 page summary of your current research efforts, including no more that 4-5 publications or working papers. You may use your
NSF abstract and/or project summary, or similar materials to describe your current project(s).
- 1-2 page description of 1-2 global issues related to the social and economic aspects of IT that you would be interested in
working on with others.
These papers will be circulated in advance to
all of the participants as a way of creating a common information base for the workshop. In addition, the descriptions of global issues will be used to create a series of small groups, and to form the basis of
small group discussions. These will then be reported out to the full workshop in plenary sessions and discussed by the entire workshop.
We will pull together the main conclusions of the workshop and a
workshop report. The draft report will be circulated electronically, comments collected, and revised for delivery to NSF and the EC.
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