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IST AT THE SERVICE OF A CHANGING EUROPE BY 2020: LEARNING FROM WORLD VIEWS

FISTERA FINAL CONFERENCE

Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, December 2005

ISBN 973-27-1252-X

 

In June 2005, JRC-IPTS hosted the international conference IST at the service of a changing Europe by 2020: Learning from world views" on behalf of FISTERA network. At this two day event, more than a hundred IST experts,including innovative thinkers, policy decision makers, research managers in industry and socio-economists discussed the current and coming developments that will set the trend for future IST policy and research in Europe in a globalsied society. A book comprising all contributions for FISTERA Final Conference held on 16-17 June 2005 in Seville, Spain has just been published, comprising a summary of the major outcomes, as well as the views of numerous participants. The articles cover a variety of improtant issues like IST Visions and Economic Prospects, Technology Futures, and IST Policies and Strategies around the World.

 

Contents 

Foreword

Outline of FISTERA results 2002-2005 -Ramon Compañó, Corina Pascu, Jean-Claude Burgelman(JRC-IPTS)

 

ARTICLES

A Futurereality (a retrospective from 2025) (Geoff WOODLING)

New Ethics for nanosciences and the future information technology? Let the limits move (Françoise ROURE)

The end of the internet rush (Theodore MODIS)

Introducing the big next thing: the transactional internet (Jean-Marc LEVY-DREYFUS, Patrick CORSI)

ICT security stakes and identity management in the future Europe (Alain ESTERLE)

IST at the service of the people in a changing society (José L. MONTEAGUDO, Juan REIG, Rafael LAMAS)

The future of IT and media technologies and their use in Baden-Würtenberg (Simone KIMPELER, Thömas DÖBLER)

Regional strategy of the information society in Extremadura (Luis Millán Vázquez DE MIGUEL)

Information Society Technology policy options and strategies for changing Europe by 2020: lessons from Asia (Pranov N. DESAI)

IST trends and CEE boosters (Plamen NEDKOV)

L’Europe de 2020: la construction d’une économie territoriale de la connaissance (Laura GARCIA VITORIA)

Scenarios for measuring the impact of ISTs of human life (Juan Hernández HERNÁNDEZ)

 

SHORT CONTRIBUTIONS

VISIONS AND THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION

Liam J. BANNON, John PETERSON, Violeta BULC, Emilio FONTELA, José Manuel RUEDA, Bruce LLOYD, Carlos BUHIGAS SCHUBERT, Hans MARTENS, Wim DE WAELE, Géry COOMANS, Peter H. METTLER

TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS

Bruno BASALISCO, Colin BLACKMAN, Denis LECOQ, Mark LEYS, Jochen DENZINGER, Theresa SQUIRE, Chandrika NATH

ICT POLICIES AROUND THE WORLD

Simon FORGE, Erik BOHLIN, Javier MEDINA VÁSQUEZ, Pál GÁSPÁR, Renáta Anna JAKSA, Balint DOMOLKI, Stefan MENGEL, Tarmo KALVET, Celia V. GALLAGHER, Conor LONG, Jonathan M. FELDMAN, Kevin CULLEN, Wolfgang DRECHSLER, Brian HOLMES, Metka STARE, Jean Paul SIMON

 

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Last revised: November 2006
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