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Towards what knowledge society? 2nd Online Congress of the Cybersociety Observatory

2 - 14 November 2004
An Online event

A Congress that studies the concept of CyberSociety from a multidisciplinary perspective. It discusses in workgroups concepts the new technologies seem to have brought, such as ’Knowledge society’ – will the highly technified society result in a new way of production and evolved social life, or ‘digital divide’ – the introduction of new technologies in the political sphere with concepts like digital or electronic democracy.
We speak about so-called knowledge economy. A few of the characteristics of that concept are the economic globalisation processes and internationalisation of finances, the industrial outsourcing, new productive methods or new organisational business models, as well as the appearance of new tools for knowledge management.

Registration for the 2nd Congress ONLINE for the Observatory for the Cyber Society (OCS) is free and it allows to have access and to participate in the congress in all its levels. There is a voluntary fee of 36€ which allows to receive by ordinary e mailing a participation certificate issued by OCS and a copy in CD-ROM of the complete minutes of the congress. The levels of access, participation and privileges are exactly the same whether you pay the voluntary fee or not.

The online congress works in working groups. Below a selection of the great number of topics of the accepted working groups.
GT-91 - A Knowledge Society accessible to everyone
GT-60 - Digital Art
GT-35 - Digital Cities: Reviewing the Concepts of City and Citizenship
GT-1 - Digital Divide: Towards a Dual Cybersociety?
GT-84 - Freedom of Knowledge
GT-48 - Gender, Women and Knowledge Society
GT-40 - ICTs, power and social control
GT-82 - Interaction between ICT and Learning: advances, future and its role in the evolution of the Information Society
GT-62 - Knowledge Society and answers by spontaneous social organizations
GT-21 - Learning Communities around virtual forums
GT-29 - Learning with ICT. An educational challenge for the XXI century
GT-32 - New media in Education; new educational messages?
GT-75 - Reflection and interchange of experiences about ICTs as tools for inclusion: electronic government and citizen participation
GT-92 - Shared Knowledge and the Semantic Web
GT-42 - The power of sight. Audiovisual Technologies in the utopia of a transparent society

http://www.cibersociedad.net/congres2004/index_en.html