FM 1 New Definitions: Value Community Space
24/09/2001
Conference
November 4-6, Heerlen/Maastricht, The Netherlands
The impact on society of the technologies of "digitisation" has transcended the limits of any single discipline. It is universal and ubiquitous, affecting everything. But how does this digitisation affect our basic concepts about society - such as value, community, law, space?
This conference will bring together the world's leading thinkers and doers in various fields - from anthropology to law, economics to information technology - to ask: What, if anything, is new about the way we redefine our understanding of these concepts?
Topics covered include:
- notions of value, non-monetary economic activity,
- measurement without prices, free software
- the meaning of money, electronic currencies
- communities, social networks
- reputation, trust and identity
- formal and informal law, dissappearing borders and Internet jurisdiction
- space and navigation
- political space, government, new media and freedom
- geographical space, access, impact and inequality
Format and speakers
This conference is uniquely designed to contrast opinions from different disciplines in sessions linked by common themes: Value, Community, Space. A special Crosstalk session each day brings together participants from the different themes in debate, to elicit a broader understanding of the issues that face us.
The conference emerges from First Monday's reputation as a source of quality ideas and research on digitisation and society. Beginning with keynote presentations from two of First Monday's well-known editorial board members: Esther Dyson and Anthony Rutkowski, this conference draws on First Monday's long list of authors, some of the foremost thinkers in their fields. Confirmed speakers include:
Wilfred Dolfsma, International Institute of Infonomics
Paul Duguid, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Kasper Edwards, Technical University Denmark
Andreas Harsono, Institute for Studies of Freeflow of Information, Jakarta
Leo van Hove, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bernardo Huberman, Hewlett-Packard Sand Hill Labs
Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam University
Christopher Kelty, Rice University, Houston
Bonnie Nardi, Agilent Technologies Inc
Bruce Perens, Open Source evangelist, Hewlett-Packard,
David Post, Temple University School of Law
Howard Rheingold, author, "The Virtual Community"
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam
Richard Wiggins, Michigan State University
Who should attend
This conference will offer insights into issues that are critical to economic, social and technological development in Europe as well as worldwide. It will appeal to everyone concerned with the emerging understanding of digitization and its impact on society, policy and business. We expect as participants academics, corporate officers, government policy makers, thinkers and activists from around the world.
Registration
Online registration and hotel reservation forms, as well as the conference
programme are available at the website.
The conference is jointly organised by First Monday - the peer reviewed journal of the Internet (www.firstmonday.org) and the International Institute of Infonomics (www.infonomics.nl). For more information and sponsorship opportunities please contact Conference Coordinator Kamini Aisola (see mail below).
