Copy of november 2003

Barcelona, Spain
The festival aims to become a framework for reflection and the promotion of childhood and the influence the audiovisual media currently exercises on childhood.

Lisbon, Portugal

IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2004 is calling for paper submissions the history, architecture and future of virtual communities. The submission deadline is 10 November 2003. Authors will be notified by 9 December 2003. The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from March 25-26, 2004. The mission of this conference is to publish and integrate scientific results and act catalytically to the fast developing culture of Web communities. The conference invites original papers, review papers, technical reports and case studies on WWW in particular the emerging role of so-called WWW-based Communities. The better papers will be candidate for the recently started "International Journal of Web Based Communities" (IJWBC); ISSN: 1477 - 8394 [4 issues per year]. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

New Orleans, LA

The Association of Christian Community Computer Centers (AC4) is co-sponsoring the Technology and Ministry Conference: Using Technology to Love Others on November 11 and 12, 2003 at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.

London, UK

The Undercurrents Foundation seeks videos of social and environmental activism for the BeyondTV film festival. This festival will showcase independent video makers working for environmental and social awareness and change.

The EGOVOS conference is a high-level international event covering the topic of free/open source software, interoperability and open standards in the government sphere.

Geneva, Switzerland

The idea of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Pre-Summit conference is to bring together library and information professionals from many countries and the national delegates to the World Summit. The purpose is to facilitate the briefing of the delegates of the issues which we believe to be important in order to make a real difference to people's lives by harnessing the power of ICTs.

Caloundra, Queensland, Australia

The ITiRA 2003 Conference explores strategies that link ICT enhanced economic, social and cultural development efforts with emerging opportunities in such areas as electronic commerce, community and civic networks, telecentres, electronic democracy, on-line participation, self-help and virtual health communities, advocacy, cultural enhancement and others. ITiRA 2003 will be of interest to practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in both developed and developing countries, and are particularly interested to share ideas across practice, research and policy .

Algarve, Portugal

A conference focusing on the social, economic, technical aspects of the Internet and the Web.

Sussex, England

Earshot is offering a free course for unemployed people aged 16-26 in which they will learn how to make and present professional radio programmes and gain general media skills. The aim is to raise the employment prospects of those who attend by improving their ICT, team-working, time and project-management, research, marketing and general workplace skills.

Maastricht, the Netherlands
This conference aims to analyse the institutions of the information society and welcomes scholars from all social sciences with an interest in understanding the economic significance, broadly conceived, of the information society.