FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP/TC9 5TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN CHOICE AND COMPUTERS COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION GENEVA AUGUST 1998 Dear Colleagues and To whom it may concern, The IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing http://www.ifip.or.at) Technical Committee 9 (http://www.uta.fi/jarjestot/ifip/) is preparing a World Conference on Implications of new Information Technologies: The fifth Conference on "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC5) on COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Web site : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/) This Event will take place in Switzerland (Geneva) from 26 to 28 August 1998 (Tutorials, Working Groups Meeting, get together, 25 August), organize by the Inforge (http://www.hec.unil.ch/inforge/) from Lausanne University Business School (http://www.hec.unil.ch) In a particularly choatic period with a lot of social, economic, political and ethical problems, that Conference must be a most interesting and challenging event to cross intercultural perceptions and examine the issues to be settled for the next Millenium in relation with Informatics, Computer Science, Networks and Information Systems. As wide field of disciplines are concerned, the Programme and Organizing Committees, hope for large scientific contributions from non-computer research fields ie Sociology, Economy, Law, Politics, Business, Electronic Commerce, etc. The main topics of that Conference will covered: * Methodological Paradigms and Shifts : Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Cyberspace, Information and Communication Infrastructures * National and Regional Developments of Information Infrastructures * Role of Work in Information Societies : Experiences and Perspectives * Human Rights in Information Societies and Role of Groups with Special Needs * Home Informatics and Telematics * Threats to Information Economies and Societies: Legal Implications * Information Societies in Historical Perspective * Role of Education in Information Societies and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Education * Impact of Global InformationInfrastructures on Democracy and Culture * Economic changes induced by Globalization * Emerging organisational forms such as "virtual organisations" * Towards an Ethics of Information Societies and Cyberspace * Informatics, Telematics & Automation * Virtual Worlds - Applications and Social Implications * Women, Work and Computerization * Gender and Information Technology Accepted papers will be published with an official editor of IFIP SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The HCC-5 Programme Committee invite the submission of research papers, case studies, research-in-progress articles, panel session proposals to the Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC-5). IMPORTANT DATES January 5 1998 : Deadline for submission February 11, 1998 : Paper Selection April 6, 1998 : Final Papers LANGUAGE English The original, unpublished papers, limited to 10-12 pages should be submitted electronically (Microsoft Word) : E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk If not possible, send your disk ( or paper) to the address of the Programm Committee Chairman : Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN Address for submission : Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN Project Centre CESAR Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Science Park SYMBION Fruebjergvej 3 DK-2100 COPENHAGEN 0 Denmark Phone : +45 39 17 98 66 Fax :+45 39 17 98 63 E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk See our Web site to get all other detailed informations : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/ We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your interested colleagues and within your own scientific networks. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN and Prof. Silvio MUNARI Chair of Programme Committee and Chair of Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------- Professeur Silvio MUNARI e-mail: Silvio.Munari@hec.unil.ch HEC-INFORGE Tel: ++41.21/692.34.01 University of Lausanne Fax: ++41.21/692.34.05 CH - 1015 Lausanne