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Dhaka, Bangladesh

This meeting will try to culminate the issues, ideas and thoughts towards the World Summit on the Information Society from across South Asia. Please send your interest to participate by September 15 to bfes@bdonline.com.

Johannesburg, South Africa
The conference will bring together expert clinicians and researchers in HIV/AIDS together with regional and international experts in health informatics in a unique forum. The goal of this meeting is to introduce all participants to the broad range of issues of mutual concern facing those who develop and manage HIV/AIDS interventions, and the potential for information and communication technologies to further these aims.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This seminar will highlight the successes and failures in information for development attempts in the developing world, showcase key information for development related projects and provide an opportunity for academic and pragmatic discussions on the information for development related issues.

Toronto, Canada

Though the internet has become such an integral part of the daily existence of many cultures worldwide, we have only begun to understand the ways in which it transforms our interactions, our knowledge, and our very selves. This conference will focus on the state of Internet research today.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Asian Forum on Information and Communication Technology Policies and Strategies will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 20-22 October 2003. With regard to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), the greatest concern is not how countries will be able to adapt to new emerging technologies but how wide the rural-urban digital divide would be in the next decade within and among countries.

Oxford, United Kingdom

On Wednesday, 22 October 2003 from 17.00-18.30pm, the Oxford Internet Institute will host the OxIS Seminar, “Digital Choice: On Line, Off Line and Straddling the Line.” The event will take place at the OII Seminar Room, Oxford Internet Institute in Oxford. The seminar, which is open to the public and free of charge, will discuss the results of a new Oxford Internet survey. Please notify the Oxford Events Assistant (events@oii.ox.ac.uk) if you will be attending, giving your name and occupation.

Sao Paolo, Brazil

CYBERCITY is an international seminar that will gather investigators in the area of information and communications technology, urbanists, urban and regional planners, architects, engineers, social scientists and other professionals in the private, public and third sectors interested in the discussion of a society of information and knowledge with focus on the creation of cyber cities and local development.

Sao Paolo, Brazil

CYBERCITY is an international seminar that will gather investigators in the area of information and communications technology, urbanists, urban and regional planners, architects, engineers, social scientists and other professionals in the private, public and third sectors interested in the discussion of a society of information and knowledge with focus on the creation of cyber cities and local development.

Dakar, Senegal

This conference will look at the mobilization of volunteers for ICT projects. The conference will analyze volunteer mobilization in five specific areas: Infrastructure, Training, Development of Internet Content, Partnerships and Financing and Legal Frameworks.

Accra, Ghana

This national event will bring together ICT stakeholders to discuss the role of youth in the Information society and its relevant to national development. Participants will also discuss and finalize a national declaration document on Ghanaian youth's position in the information society. For more information, please contact Kafui A. Prebbie, oneVillage Foundation, at kafui@onevillage.biz.

Oxford, England

The uses of mobile phones, email and chat rooms help strengthen relationships and give people unprecedented access to communities of interest. But what will be the effect on face-to-face relationships at neighbourhood level? If the technologies stimulate connections between people who have something in common, does this imply fewer serendipitous encounters, less diversity, and less social capital? Do we retreat in cliques within the virtual equivalent of gated houses and condominiums - the contact lists on our mobiles functioning as electronic barriers to new encounters and cross-cultural experience? Or do these new technologies provide new opportunities for the creation of links at the local level? Does this mean the 'loss of community', and if so, does it matter? This conference will draw on academic and practitioner expertise to explore such issues in a policy context.

Bruges, Belgium

Different regions in the world are struggling to transform and adapt their societies to the new realities of globalization, regionalization and informationalization raise new societal and scientific questions. By bringing together European and South-African scholars this conference tries to come to grips with the new challenges ahead of us.