Monthly Archives: December 2014

Towards a global sustainable information society

26 calls for papers (calls are open until 27 February 2015) and other programme items are by now online: 3 independent conference series joined the hitherto existing Foundations of Information Science conferences to form the Summit of the International Society

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Summit opening day in the world’s first office tower that feeds more energy into the grid than is required for operation and use

The plus-energy office building of the TU Wien on the Getreidemarkt campus (photo: TU Wien) The Summit programme has been almost fixed for the first day. The content will build a bridge from the natural history of human information (Terry Deacon)

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Submissions and registrations get started

We are happy to announce that usage of our platform for submission and registration gains momentum. We received the first submissions 5 days ago. By now, we have got 6 abstracts, notwithstanding the fact that by far not all calls

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Chinese information studies

Colleagues from China announce a Track on information studies in their country. This Track will be a window for the international public into China and a window for Chinese scholars into the other world as well! By doing so that

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A distributed, collective intelligence system for our planet. The Global Brain Institute launched its call

The call says: “The Global Brain can be defined as the self-organizing network formed by all people on this planet together with the information and communication technologies that connect and support them. As the Internet becomes faster, smarter, and more encompassing, it increasingly links its

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About FIS

FIS does, in our context, not mean the Fédération Internationale de Ski. It signifies the oldest international community in our field – in the field of foundations of information science. FIS is the backbone of our Summit and is together with other

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All submission and registration links active starting from now

You can submit! Just click on the “submit” link in every open call for papers. And you can already register. Read the details on our submission and fees sites.

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