Call for Papers


The ETHICOMP conference series was launched in 1995 by the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR). Professor Terry Bynum and Professor Simon Rogerson are the founders and joint directors. The purpose of this series is to provide an inclusive forum for discussing the ethical and social issues associated with the development and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Conferences are held about every 18 months. There have been eight previous conferences in Europe. Delegates and speakers from all continents have attended. Over 500 papers have been presented.
In the second ETHICOMP decade it is proposed that occasional special ETHICOMP conferences will replace the normal European conferences in order to increase participation of those from other parts of the world.
Given its excellent credentials Meiji University is an ideal place to launch this initiative.

ETHICOMP 2007
has the overall theme of "Glocalisation: Bridging the Global Nature of Information and Communication Technology and the Local Nature of Human Beings". The aim of the conference is to present and discuss the social and ethical impact of advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) on society, organisations and individuals.

Papers of an ethical or societal nature within the following areas are particularly welcomed.
  • Globalisation
  • E-Government, E-democracy and citizenship
  • Agents
  • Nanotechnology
  • Assistive technology
  • E-inclusion
  • Health informatics
  • Technology-enhanced learning
  • Human communication
  • Professional practice and system development
  • Digital resources
  • Knowledge management
  • Technology and the workplace

Papers covering one or several of these perspectives are called for from business, government, computer science, information systems, law, media, anthropology, psychology, sociology and philosophy. Interdisciplinary papers and those from new researchers and practitioners are encouraged. A paper might take a conceptual, applied, practical or historical focus. Case studies and reports on lessons learned in practice are welcomed.

How to submit

As in previous ETHICOMP conferences, papers written in English and not published nor submitted elsewhere will be accepted on the basis of an extended abstract of between 700 and 1000 words after a careful review by Programme Committee members.

The first page of each submission must include the title, all of the authors' names, affiliations, complete mailing addresses including email, telephone numbers, and a statement of commitment that one of the authors will present the paper at ETHICOMP 2007 in Japan.

A submission lacking any of the above information or outside the range of 700-1000 word limit will not be considered by the Programme Committee for inclusion in the conference programme.

Please make submissions in the electronic form via email as embedded plain text or an attachment in RTF format.

Abstracts must be submitted no later than 1 September 2006 to ccsr@dmu.ac.uk. Authors will be informed of the decision of the Programme Committee by 15 October 2006.

Important Dates

1 July 2006 Call for papers
1 September 2006 Latest date to submit abstracts to ccsr@dmu.ac.uk
6 November 2006 Authors informed of programme committee decisions
20 January 2007 Last date for receipt of full papers from authors (electronic/camera ready versions)
27 March 2007 to 29 March 2007 ETHICOMP 2007, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
* Note: the dates for programme committee decision has been changed.

CONFERENCE DIRECTORS

 Professor Kiyoshi Murata, Meiji University, Japan

Professor Simon Rogerson, De Montfort University, UK

Professor Terrell Ward Bynum, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 Professor Alison Adam, Salford University, UK

Professor Philip Brey, Twente University, The Netherlands

Professor Terrell Ward Bynum, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Dr Jean Camp, Harvard University, USA

Professor Göran Collste, Linköping University, Sweden

Dr Penny Duquenoy, Middlesex University, UK

Dr N Ben Fairweather, De Montfort University, UK

Professor Donald Gotterbarn, East Tennessee State University, USA

Professor Fran Grodzinsky, Sacred Heart University, USA

Professor Sven Ove Hansson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Professor Chuck Huff, St Olaf College, USA

Professor Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska, Southern Connecticut State University, USA

Professor Kenneth Einar Himma, University of Washington, USA

Professor Lucas Introna, Univ. of Lancaster, UK

Professor Junfichi Iijima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Associate Professor Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dr. Paul B. de Laat, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Professor Kiyoshi Murata, Meiji University, Japan

Associate Professor Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece

Professor Simon Rogerson, De Montfort University, UK

Associate Professor Naoki Shiba, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Dr Stanislaw Szejko, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland

Professor Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Professor John Weckert, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Professor Bogdan Wiszniewski, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland

Professor Hiroshi Yamashita, Meiji University, Japan

 

ADMINISTRATION 

Mohammed Hawash

Ryoko Asai

Izumi Hanawa

Nyunho Jung

Takeshi Matsuda

Wassim Mnif

Yohko Orito

Conference language is English
Papers remain the property of the authors. All papers will be subsequently published in the electronic ETHICOMP Journal.


For further information contact

Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
UK

Telephone +44 116 250 6143
Fax +44 116 207 8159
E-mail ccsr@dmu.ac.uk
Web www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk

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