Relevant Events 2003

January

  • Communication for Development in the Information Age
    • "Extending the Benefits of Technology for All"
    • Held January 7-9, 2003 in Varanasi, India
    • This international conference will provide a forum for a civilizational dialogue between scholars and communication practitioners from the five continents to re-examine theory and practice of communication for development in the Information Age. The objective is that the genius of each geo-academic region may address the key questions of the day and seek to identify mechanisms for the masses in society to benefit from advances in communication technology. The conference will be open to all relevant areas of communication and development including politics, agriculture, education, economic literacy, employment and training, health and population and tourism.
  • Media Education and Technology Conference
    • A One-Day Intensive Conference for Educators
    • Held January 25, 2003 in Berkeley, CA
    • This intensive conference is designed for all levels of educators. Through a series of exciting, collaborative, and hands-on workshops, participants will learn a variety of strategies for incorporating video and the Internet into their instruction.
  • NLII 2003 Annual Meeting
    • "Teaching, Learning, Technology, and the New University"
    • Held January 26-28, 2003 in New Orleans, LA
    • Key themes: E-portfolios — Faculty Engagement and Support — Learner-Centered Practices — Learning Materials, Tools, Markets, and Standards — Learning Objects — Partnering in the Learning Marketspace — Readiness to Transform and Perform — Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning — Strategic Planning and Alignment for Institutional Transformation — Transformative Assessment Systems — Virtual Communities
  • Transforming Enterprise
    • First International Conference on the Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology
    • Held January 27-28, 2003 in Washington, DC
    • This conference will bring together prominent researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers. It will examine what makes the digital economy different in terms of the changing nature and relationship of information, knowledge, and value – and the implications for work, learning, and society. It will look at what we have learned and ask what we need to know. Do we have the right tools and metrics? How can research contribute to sensible policies?

February:

  • Bobcatsss 2003
    • "Information Policy and the European Union"
    • Held February 3-5, 2003 in Torun, Poland
    • Bobcatsss is an annual symposium founded by nine European universities in 1993. Every year students of two European universities organize the symposium. Target audience of Bobcatsss are information specialists, students, and professors in the field of Library and Information Education and Research and employees of libraries and information departments. This year students of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and the Copernicus University of Torun will organize the Symposium.

March

  • 2003 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference
    • "Strategic IT Leadership in Challenging Times"
    • Held March 24-26, 2003 in Chicago, IL
    • "Whether your focus is administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management within higher education, you'll find opportunities to learn, share, and connect with others in your field and from your part of the country".
    • Conference tracks:
      1. Enterprise Information Systems
      2. Teaching, Learning, and Libraries
      3. Technology and Infrastructure
      4. Corporate Presentations
  • SITE 2003
    • 14th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
    • Held March 24-29, 2003 in Albuquerque, NM
    • SITE represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines. The conference will cover topics related to the use of information technology in teacher education, and instruction about information technology in: Preservice, Inservice, Graduate Teacher Education, Faculty & Staff Development
  • digifest 2003
    • "Electronic Cities"
    • Held March 26-29, 2003 in Toronto, Canada
    • Digifest is a four-day celebration featuring the best in interactive digital media from across Canada and around the world. The festival begins with the one-day Electronic Cities Conference on March 26th. The following two days are devoted to the New Voices Competition, which celebrates leading digital innovations in the realms of 3D Web design, computer gaming design, immersive spaces and film. The festival concludes with the Fluid Youth digital culture fair in Toronto's historic Distillery District. Programming also includes the unveiling of four original commissioned real time works, keynote speakers, a series of roundtables, demonstrations and workshops, as well as exhibitions and additional off-site activities.
  • New Media Conference
    • "Connecting with the Wired Generation: Young People, Digital Technology, and the Media"
    • 6th Annual Online Journalism Conference
    • Held March 28-29, 2003 in Berkeley, CA
    • This year's conference focuses on how young people have become the driving force in the adoption of digital technology and the Internet and how their habits are reshaping the media industry.
    • Note: This conference will also be viewable via live webcast
  • Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference
    • 8th Annual
    • "The Challenge Continues"
    • Held March 30 - April 1, 2003 in Murfreesboro, TN
    • A place for higher education professionals from across the country to discuss and learn more about educational technology. Topics include:
      1. Effective Technology Based Learning Environments
      2. Innovation and Future Implementation in Instructional Technology
      3. Shaping a Transformative Learning Environment
      4. Policies, Standards, and Issues

April

  • Conference on Democracy in the Digital Age
    • Held in New Haven, CT, April 4-6, 2003
    • Panels: How do People Deliberate: Deliberative Discourse and the Internet — Designing for Democracy — How Political Decisions are Made: Citizen Participation and Decision-Making — Creating Public Discourse: Cultural Transmission and the Creation of Democratic Discourse — How Groups Form: Community, Organization and the Internet — Creating Alternative Discourse: Protest and E-Resistance.
    • Also: Exhibit of Technologies for Democracy
  • Building the Information Commonwealth
    • International Conference on Information Technologies and Building Prospects for the Development of Civil Society Institutions in the CIS Countries
    • Held in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 22-24, 2003
    • The main purpose of this conference is to achieve a critical understanding of the current state and prospects for using modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support the formation of civil society institutions within the CIS territories.
  • O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
    • Held in Santa Clara, CA, April 22-25, 2003
    • This conference is aimed at showcasing whatever the "alpha geeks" are playing with now. It will continue to explore the themes from past conferences, including peer-to-peer, web services, the idea of the "Internet operating system," Rendezvous and other mechanisms for ad hoc networking, and wireless. We'll also be looking at biological models for computing, lessons from complexity theory, and lots of other juicy ideas from the hacker noosphere.
    • Tracks: Rich Internet Applications — Social Software — Untethered — Nanotechnology and Hardware
  • Computer-Supported Social Interaction (CSI) 2003
    • Held in Oxford, OH, April 25-26, 2003
    • Computers and the Internet are becoming increasingly important mediums for social interaction. Many types of relationships including business, casual, and intimate are formed and maintained through the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC). The CSI 2003 conference is an effort to bring together leading researchers in the field of CMC to discuss the psychological implications of technology on social relationships.
  • Collaborative Communities 2003
    • Online Conference on Collaboration and Communities
    • Held April 29-May 2, 2003
    • A four-day international virtual conference that brings together leading organizations, practitioners, and thought leaders in an online "learning community" environment to:
      1. Explore and share emerging trends in online communities
      2. Learn how the leaders define and build communities that support collaboration, learning, and knowledge management
      3. Obtain practical tips, models, tools, and templates for bringing collaborative communities to your own organization
      4. Network with other professionals from corporations, universities, non-profits, consulting firms and vendors

May

  • Connecting in a Wireless World
    • "Bridging Global, Cultural, and Economic Divides"
    • The Constance F. and Arnold C. Pohs Symposium
    • Held May 2, 2003 in Ann Arbor, MI
    • Panels:
      1. Economic Possibilities of Wireless
      2. Social Interactions Through Wireless
      3. Political Interactions Through Wireless
      4. Regulation and the Innovation
  • mENU International Conference on Network Universities and E-learning
    • Held May 8-9, 2003 in Valencia, Spain
    • The conference focuses on organizational and technological aspects of network universities and open and distance learning: organization of network universities, technology, and pedagogical aspects of e-learning.
  • CUMREC 2003
    • "Leveraging the Magic of Information and Technology"
    • A Higher Education Administrative Technology Conference
    • Held May 11-14, 2003 in Orlando, FL
    • The purpose of CUMREC is to provide a forum for higher education professionals to share their expertise and experiences with computer systems in our ever-changing world of technology. Conference tracks:
      1. Enabling Web Applications
      2. Technical Infrastructure and Security
      3. Leadership and Management
      4. Building Effective Partnerships
      5. Applications Development and Case Studies
      6. Access to Information - Policy and Solutions
      7. Directions for Higher Education and Information Technology

June:

  • e-Society 2003
    • IADIS International Conference
    • Held June 3-6, 2003 in Lisbon, Portugal
    • The IADIS e-Society 2003 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are E-Commerce, E-Learning and E-Government.
  • Technology Policy and Innovation
    • "Connecting People, Ideas, and Resources across Communities"
    • 7th International Conference
    • Held June 10-13, 2003 in Monterrey, Mexico
    • The main objective of this series of international conferences is to bring together leading representatives of academic, business, and government sectors worldwide to present and discuss current and future issues of critical importance for using science and technology to foster regional economic development and shared prosperity at home and abroad. Multidisciplinary perspectives are encouraged to provide state-of-the-art and useful knowledge to decision makers in both the private and public sectors - including informed and effective education, business, and government policies and strategies for the global, knowledge economy.
  • Virtual Communities
    • International Conference on Virtual Communities and Online Communities of Practice
    • Held June 16-17, 2003 in London, England
    • Sample of presentation titles:
      1. Guerrilla-KM: Six Steps to Creating Successful Communities of Practice Online
      2. Communities of Practice: the Rolls-Royce Experience
      3. Supporting and Visualising Communities of Practice
      4. What Makes a Successful Virtual Community?
      5. Collaborative Technology Solutions
      6. What the Grid means for Virtual Communities
      7. Consolidation in the Collaborative Software Industry
  • IALLT 2003
    • "Connecting with a Diverse World"
    • 8th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)
    • Held June 17-21, 2003 in Ann Arbor, MI
    • Conference will feature presentations on teaching and learning with technology, cutting edge technologies, distance learning, best practices, software and courseware, copyright and intellectual property, multimedia, applications, evaluation and testing, development, and more.
  • Grassroots Use of Technology
    • Fourth Annual Conference
    • Held June 20-21, 2003 in New Haven, CT
    • Topics include: Training Sessions for Local Nonprofits — Using the Internet to Improve Outreach, Promotion, and Marketing: a Primer for EDs — Developing a Technology Strategy — Hands-on Demonstrations of Online Fundraising Tools — Content Management: Tools for Updating a Web Site — Case Studies on Low Cost Uses of Technology by Grassroots Groups — Free Software: Is It Ready for Prime Time? — How do I Choose a Cystem for Managing Online Activism? — Collaborative Web Sites — Life Savers for "Accidental Techies" — New Tools for Grassroots Political Campaigns — Appropriate Use of Technology in Low-Income Communities
  • ED-MEDIA 2003
    • World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications
    • Held June 23-28, 2003 in Honolulu, HI
    • Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing  in Education (AACE), this annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia/hypermedia and distance  education.
    • The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics:
      1. Universal Web Accessibility
      2. Infrastructure
      3. Tools & Content-oriented Applications
      4. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner
      5. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI)
      6. Cases & Project
  • Teaching OntheNet 2003
    • Fourth Annual Conference
    • Held online, June 24-26, 2003
    • The content of this asynchronous conference is geared to those in higher education and includes strategies for: Teaching online — Developing online courses — Administering online courses
    • Who should attend: Faculty in higher education experienced with teaching online — Administrators who want to stay current with education and online learning — Continuing education teachers, K-12 teachers and anyone else interested in staying current with teaching online. Previous participants have come from Canada, the United States, and Europe.
  • CTCNet National Conference 2003
    • "Creating Our Future: Shaping the Agenda of Community Technology"
    • 12th Annual Conference
    • Held June 26-29, 2003 in Washington, DC
    • From the announcement: As the phrase "The Digital Divide" continues to lose currency - along with the attention of major funders - more than 1,000 CTCNet members are concerned about the road ahead. While it is natural to react to these environmental shifts, CTCNet believes we are uniquely positioned to create our own path and collectively construct this road. [...] The past two years demonstrated to community technology practitioners and advocates that our network must do more than deliver great programs and measurable outcomes. We've learned that if we are not also involved in local, state and national policy debates, important decisions will be made without us. [...] The challenge we put forth this year is simple: rather than struggling to maintain the status quo, how can we use our numbers, energy, and effective spaces across the country to define our own agenda?

August:

  • 2003 Interactive Technologies Conference
    • Held August 6-8, 2003 in Arlington, VA
    • A premier venue for the presentation of the cutting edge of the state-of-the-art in education and training systems, job performance improvement systems, and knowledge management systems. The conference objective is to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest in research, design, and development in order to furnish attendees information on systems that are applicable in areas such as: Higher Education and Schools — Defense and Homeland Security — Skills Training — E-Learning — Knowledge Management/EPSS — Instructional Systems Development
  • Distance Learning 2003
    • 19th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
    • Held August 13-15, 2003 in Madison, WI
    • Each year 200 presenters contribute to the sharing of new knowledge, skills, and distance learning applications among conference participants. This year’s conference will feature distance educators who are working smarter to build successful strategies, methods, and techniques. To survive and thrive in challenging times, we need to learn from successes and seek out practical, new ways of developing cost-effective learning environments for education and training.
    • Topical areas: Managing programs on tight budgets — Using teaching methods that engage — Supporting faculty with innovative programs — Using evaluation to ensure best practices — Developing courses and training on budget, on time — Expanding instructional design with innovative techniques, games or simulations
  • BDPA 2003
    • "Information Technology: From the Classroom to the Boardroom"
    • 25th Annual National Conference
    • Held August 13-17, 2003 in Philadelphia, PA
    • The Conference appeals to African Americans seeking new opportunities for long-term success and a prosperous future. The conference provides a total information technology experience to students (high school and college), information technology professionals, entrepreneurs, IT senior managers, corporations, academia, government agencies and the research community. .
    • Topics: Information Technology — IT Leadership Development — Entrepreneurs & Small Business — Career Development — IT Research — IT & Community

September:

  • The Good, The Bad, and the Irrelevant
    • "The User and the Future of Information and Communication Technologies"
    • Transdisciplinary, proactive, and collaborative knowledge-building conference
    • Held September 3-5, 2003 in Helsinki, Finland
    • Through the four themes: 1. The extended human — 2. Users as innovators — 3. Dealing with diversity — 3. The reconfiguration of society, the organisers of this conference want to focus the attention of an interdisciplinary community on some of the key arenas where the future relationship of people and new digital technology and its applications are being negotiated
    • Who should attend: technology and product developers, designers, social scientists, policy makers, community representatives and others who are interested in the conference topics,
  • Many Voices, Many Places
    • "Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society"
    • Colloquium on Research Results, Lessons Learned, Policy Recommendations
    • Held September 15-16, 2003 in Prato, Italy
    • An opportunity for practitioners, researchers and policy makers from research centers, universities, cultural institutions, and agencies involved in governance to discuss and reflect on the role and opportunities for emergent communities as constrained by physical, distance, resource, political, and gender barriers for effective participation in an Information Society.
    • Possible topics: What Are the "Many Voices" in the Information Society? — What Are Their Barriers to Participation and What Opportunities Do They Present?— How Are These Many Voices "Sustainable"? — Many Voices as Communities of Interest (and of Place)? — Strategies for Innovation — ICTs and Local Economic Development at the Margins — Do ICTs Contribute to Poverty Alleviation? — Telecentres: Best Practices, Cost-Benefit Assessment — What Contribution Can ICTs Make to Building Civil Society? — Communities, ICTs and Emergent Democracy — What is the (Appropriate) Role of the Private Sector?
  • C&T 2003
    • International Conference on Communities and Technologies
    • Held September 19-21, 2003 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • The conference serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research into all facets of communities and information technology.
    • Topics include: Virtual Community Formation and Development — Knowledge Sharing and Organizational Learning — Communities and Innovation — Communities of Interest vs. Communities of Practice — Virtual Communities vs. Location Based Communities — Digital Cities — Ethnographical Studies of Virtual Communities — Social Capital and Communities — Design Methods for Communityware — Innovative applications

October:

  • ITAFE'03
    • International Congress on Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and Environment
    • Held October 7-10, 2003 in Izmir, Turkey
    • The major aim of the Congress is to provide a meeting place for experts, professionals and beneficiaries of information and communication technologies which are utilized mainly within the sectors of agriculture, food and environment.
    • Topics include: Information and Communication Systems for the Improvement of Activities — Decision Support Systems (DSS) — Database Management Systems (DBMS) — Strategy and Management Information Systems — eCommerce — Education and Training, Distance Learning — Role of IT in Rural Development — IT in Developing Countries
  • Social Venture Symposium 2003
    • "Challenges and Opportunities for Social Ventures"
    • The Annual Global Social Venture Symposium
    • Held October 10, 2003 in New York, NY
    • This Symposium will: Explore current trends in the capital markets affecting social entrepreneurs. — Highlight the experience of several leading experienced social venture entrepreneurs in getting to break-even and scale. — Act as a community-building opportunity for social venture entrepreneurs from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, social venture board members, academics and students, and foundation, venture capital, and corporate investors from New York and around the world.
  • The P3 Conference
    • "The Power of Fusion"
    • Held October 14, 2003 in Fairfax, VA
    • The P3 is the fusion of Private, Public, and Philanthropic forces coming together to solve today's social challenges by bringing together representatives from all three sectors for a one-day summit. Participants will break from "business as usual” and discuss new ways of collaborating. Representatives from the region's most influential companies, foundations, and public and nonprofit sector will join forces at the P3 Conference.
  • Collaboration 2003
    • Conference on Collaborative Technology Processes and Tools
    • Held October 20-21 in Annapolis, MD
    • For professionals interested in the latest LAN- and web-based collaboration tools to enhance team communication and meeting productivity. Learn about decision-making support tools from expert practitioners. Experience leading-edge technology in action at hands-on sessions. Join us as a participant or presenter to share innovative ideas, best practices and success stories. Visit the exhibitor forum and learn about a wide range of collaboration tools.
  • Networks for People
    • "Accessibility — Performance — Results"
    • Held October 20-23, 2003 in Montreal, Canada
    • Thanks to high-performance networks, everyone working in research and knowledge production can communicate and collaborate more efficiently. At their disposal are unprecedented collaborative tools and immense resources: databases, skills and knowledge, and even computing power, which can be multiplied massively by the pooling of computing cycles among networked machines. Distance has become an antiquated concept. These networks allow their users to employ every facet of collective intelligence and so improve their competitiveness: they accelerate action, creation, production, and even thought by facilitating access, efficient processing, and the pooling of abilities. Thanks to the semantic Web, available resources can communicate with one another from machine to machine, and solve complex problems that, until recently, only supercomputers could handle. Such issues are core issues for the Conference.

November:

  • EDUCAUSE 2003
    • "Balancing Opportunities, Expectations, and Resources"
    • Held November 4-7, 2003 in Anaheim, CA
    • It’s clear to all of us working with technology in higher education that the struggle to find balance will continue indefinitely. To be sure, new opportunities and challenges will come, along with new demands from our constituents for bigger, better, faster information systems and services. Somewhere, somehow, in the middle of the complexity, we need to find the right combination of resources, effort, and approach to satisfy the demand in the most appropriate manner for our institutions. It isn’t getting easier, but EDUCAUSE 2003 can help.
  • Digital Dynamics: Control, Participation and Exclusion
    • International Conference
    • Held November 6-9 in Loughborough, UK
    • This conference is the second in a projected bi-annual series on digital futures. Papers will address current issues and developments in three broad areas: 1. Control - infrastructural innovations, intellectual property rights, piracy, surveillance, privacy, digital colonialism, commercialization. 2. Participation - citizens' activism, Telecentres and community networks, everyday uses of the Internet, new opportunities for participatio. 3. Exclusion - changing dynamics of 'digital divides,' initiatives designed to address digital exclusion
  • E-Learn 2003
    • World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
    • Held November 7-11, 2003 in Phoenix, AZ
    • This conference series is an international forum designed to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas on the research, issues, developments, and applications of a broad range of topics related to e-Learning
    • Topics: Content Development — Evaluation — Implementation Examples and Issues — Instructional Design — Policy Issues — Research — Social and Cultural Issues — Standards and Interoperability — Tools and Systems
  • Tools That Work
    • "Improving Child Welfare Services through Research, Performance Measurement, and Information Technology"
    • A joint conference of the Walker Trieschman National Center for Professional Development and the National Council on Research in Child Welfare
    • Held November 12-14, 2003 in Miami, FL
    • The program will emphasize workshops that have the potential to inform and improve child welfare practice. The focus of research and evaluation reports will be consistent with the federally mandated themes of safety, permanency, and child and family well-being. The impact of HIPAA on child welfare research, practice, and information systems will also be emphasized. Evidence will be broadly defined to include administrative data, evaluation studies, and qualitative and quantitative research studies. Reports on emerging technology and information systems will highlight such topics as data collection, storage, management, analysis, and reporting.
  • The Power of Online Learning:
    • Implications for Teaching and Learning
    • 9th Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)
    • Held November 14-16, 2003 in Orlando, FL
    • Distance learning is one of the most talked-about topics today in higher education and corporate training. Asynchronous learning is the fastest-growing approach to distance learning. This conference, which will provide the latest information on asynchronous learning programs, processes, packages, and protocols, is geared to both experienced professionals and interested newcomers to online learning who hail from a variety of work sectors, including higher education, continuing education, business, government, health care, professional associations, and nonprofit organizations. It is especially designed to meet the needs of: College-level faculty and administrators — Instructional technology and media professionals — Instructional designers — Trainers in public- and private-sector organizations

December:

  • ICCE 2003
    • International Conference on Computers in Education
    • Held December 2-5, 2003 in Hong Kong
    • This conference is committed to advancing the use of ICT in education and training. Leaders from academia, industry, government and schools will present the latest developments while delegates will be able to discuss the issues and challenges currently facing the ICT community. ICCE 2003 will act as a major forum for the presentation of innovative developments in the Asia-Pacific region and internationally.