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IFIP – International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP-TC9 "Relationship Between Computers and Society"
Seventh International Conference "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC7)
Organized by Slovenian Society Informatika with partners
SOCIAL INFORMATICS: AN INFORMATION SOCIETY FOR ALL?
An International Conference in remembrance of Rob Kling
Sponzored by IFIP-TC9
Maribor (Slovenia), September 21-23, 2006
CONFERENCE PROVED SUCCESSFUL
The HCC7 conference is finished and has proved to be a great success. According to the participants' opinions, voiced during the closing session, the conference was a worthy commemoration of the memory of Rob Kling and will certainly boost the development of the (sub)discipline of Social Informatics.
Participants from all continents gathered at the conference, with speakers coming from 17 different countries. Work was underway in six plenary sessions, five tracks on nine sessions and two panel discussions. The conference participants met the Mayor of Maribor at the mayor's reception in the old city hall and were also taken on a little trip, where they had a taste of the local culinary delights and enjoyed the company of a student folklore group.
A separate part of the conference was the Student forum on Fair Globalisation and ICT, based on the syntegration method and created by our Danish colleagues from CBS, which also took place at the Habakuk Convention Centre. Moreover, the annual meetings of WG9.9 and TC9 were held in Maribor.
AWARDS
At the award ceremony, which took place in the 500-year old city hall, Boris Sovič, the Mayor of Maribor, presented the City Seal to Heinz Zemanek and Jacques Berleur, a gift received only by distinguished guests of the city. Niko Schlamberger, President of the Slovenian Society Informatika, awarded Klaus Brunnstein and Chrisanti Avgerou (due to the 30th anniversary of TC9) with the medal of the society for their achievements in the development of Informatics in Slovenia. Franci Pivec, president of the HCC7 organising committee, presented Alice Robbin with the special award of the conference participants, which she received on behalf of the Rob Kling Center at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.
IFIP-TC9 "Relationship Between Computers and Society"
Seventh International Conference "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC7)
Organized by Slovenian Society Informatika with partners
SOCIAL INFORMATICS: AN INFORMATION SOCIETY FOR ALL?
An International Conference in remembrance of Rob Kling
Sponzored by IFIP-TC9
Maribor (Slovenia), September 21-23, 2006
CONFERENCE PROVED SUCCESSFUL
The HCC7 conference is finished and has proved to be a great success. According to the participants' opinions, voiced during the closing session, the conference was a worthy commemoration of the memory of Rob Kling and will certainly boost the development of the (sub)discipline of Social Informatics.
Participants from all continents gathered at the conference, with speakers coming from 17 different countries. Work was underway in six plenary sessions, five tracks on nine sessions and two panel discussions. The conference participants met the Mayor of Maribor at the mayor's reception in the old city hall and were also taken on a little trip, where they had a taste of the local culinary delights and enjoyed the company of a student folklore group.
A separate part of the conference was the Student forum on Fair Globalisation and ICT, based on the syntegration method and created by our Danish colleagues from CBS, which also took place at the Habakuk Convention Centre. Moreover, the annual meetings of WG9.9 and TC9 were held in Maribor.
AWARDS
At the award ceremony, which took place in the 500-year old city hall, Boris Sovič, the Mayor of Maribor, presented the City Seal to Heinz Zemanek and Jacques Berleur, a gift received only by distinguished guests of the city. Niko Schlamberger, President of the Slovenian Society Informatika, awarded Klaus Brunnstein and Chrisanti Avgerou (due to the 30th anniversary of TC9) with the medal of the society for their achievements in the development of Informatics in Slovenia. Franci Pivec, president of the HCC7 organising committee, presented Alice Robbin with the special award of the conference participants, which she received on behalf of the Rob Kling Center at the University of Indiana in Bloomington.