The New Green Economy Conference (January 20-22, 2010)

This conference will take place in Washington next year. The promoting of  green (i.e. environmental) education  is part of the agenda of discussion in this conference.

Thanks to Daniel Araya for the link

From the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE):

The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) welcomes you to the 10th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: The New Green Economy. Marking a decade of conference history, the signature event will be held January 20-22, 2010 in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in the heart of Washington, DC.

NCSE’s national conference engages leading thinkers and doers from a diversity of disciplines, sectors, and perspectives in a structured conversation about the meaning of the green economy and how investment in green education, research and jobs can help solve both the economic and environmental crises.

 

Conference: 2009 NCTI Technology Innovators Conference

This conference will take place in November 16-17, 2009 at Washington, DC in the The Madison Hotel. You can read the agenda of the conference here

Thank you to Mousumi Mukherjee for the link

Conference Agenda

2009 NCTI Technology Innovators Conference
November 16-17, 2009 | Washington, DC | The Madison Hotel

 

Call for papers:Fifth Annual iConference

This conference will take place at February 3-6, 2010 in the Hotel and Conference Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can see their home page here

Thanks to Daniel Araya for the link:

The Fifth Annual iConference brings together scholars, professionals and students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in working at the nexus of people, information and technology. The 2010 iConference theme addresses iMPACTS. As the Obama administration brings new potential for our field to affect change, particularly through investments in education, broadband and scientific research, it also is providing a moment for critical reflection on the impacts of the iSchool movement (research, teaching, profession, industry and service) within and outside our community. In this theme, we thus consider such questions as: What are the broad impacts (actual and potential) of the iSchool movement? How can impact be defined, identified, measured and communicated to key audiences?

This Call for Participation solicits contributions that reflect on the core activities of the iSchool community, including research, design, methods and epistemologies, educational practices and engagement between the iSchools and wider constituencies both in the United States and abroad. Contributions are also solicited that reflect more broadly on complex interrelationships among people, information and technology in the iSociety, particularly those focusing on public and private sector settings. With invited speakers, paper and poster sessions, roundtables, wildcard sessions, workshops and ample opportunities for conversations and connections, the iConference celebrates and engages our multidisciplinary and diverse research communities drawing on the interest and expertise of people across disciplinary and organizational boundaries. Sessions will feature completed and early cutting-edge work. The iConference will also include a doctoral student workshop and a mentoring session for untenured faculty and post-doctoral researchers. (read full here)

 

Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Washington DC, 14-18 April 2010

Thanks to Rushika for the link:

Start making plans for the 2010 AAG Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, home of the Association of American Geographers and the heart of the U.S. Federal Government.

In addition to many scholarly presentations, the 2010 Meeting will feature opportunities for interactions with government agencies and will include keynote speakers from nonprofit groups and other influential nongovernmental organizations located in the nation’s capital. The District of Columbia is home to 174 foreign embassies, many high profile NGOs, and numerous universities.

Link : http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/index.htm

 

Video_Lowy Institute : The rise of China and India

Mark Thirlwell presents a summary of the impact the rise of India and China is having, as part of the Lowy Institutes Global Trends presentation.

Thanks to Daniel Araya for the link:

 

Resource: Ed/ITLib Digital Library (DL)

This is a very useful site to find articles, conference papers and the latest research on Educational Technology: The Ed/ITLib Digital Library

For instances a list of Journals included in their Website  are:

Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual

ISSN 1522-8185

Issues for ITCE | About ITCE | TOC Alert for ITCE

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications

ISSN 1077-9124

Issues for IJET | TOC Alert for IJET

International Journal on E-Learning

ISSN 1537-2456

Issues for IJEL | About IJEL | TOC Alert for IJEL

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching

ISSN 0731-9258

Issues for JCMST | About JCMST | TOC Alert for JCMST

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia

ISSN 1055-8896

Issues for JEMH | About JEMH | TOC Alert for JEMH

Journal of Interactive Learning Research

ISSN 1093-023X

Issues for JILR | About JILR | TOC Alert for JILR

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education

ISSN 1059-7069

Issues for JTATE | About JTATE | TOC Alert for JTATE

WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues

ISSN 1522-192X

Issues for WEBNETJ | TOC Alert for WEBNETJ

 

Conference: “Workshop on Information in Networks”, Sept 25-26, 2009

An upcoming multidisciplinary workshop on Information in Networks will take Place in New York, next week

From the Workshop on Information in Networks Website:

WIN is a Social Networks Summit intended to foster collaboration and to build community. The increasing availability of massive networked data is revolutionizing the scientific study of a variety of phenomena in fields as diverse as Computer Science, Economics, Physics and Sociology. Yet, while many important advances have taken place in these different communities, the dialog between researchers across disciplines is only beginning. The purpose of WIN is to bring together leading researchers studying ‘information in networks’ – its distribution, its diffusion, its value, and its influence on social and economic outcomes – in order to lay the foundation for ongoing relationships and to build a lasting multidisciplinary research community.

 

The complexity of Government 2.0: EU Ministerial eGovernment Conference

Posted on Jun 19 2009 on Complexity and Social Networks Blog by By Alexander Schellong,

[...]In November 2009, the EU Ministerial eGovernment Conference will take place in Malmoe, Sweden. It is planned to present a ministerial declaration on eGovernment in the EU for the next seven years. This declaration will be the result of back-room dealings between EU Member States (MS).

However, this year a group of people led by two companies decided to use a
social media facilitated bottom-up approach to create a declaration alongside the official one in Malmoe for eGovernment 2015 It is also their goal to get official endorsement of their version from the European Commission. As the content of the platform is openly accessibly, ideas might even find their way into the official document. The group’s motivation is probably a mix of self-marketing, fascination for social media and spirit to influence policy making.

So far, 75 individuals participated in the activity. It will be interesting to see how many people will sign the declaration. It will also be interesting to see whether and when the media will pick-up the story of alternative agenda and how much pressure this will exert on policy makers. Considering the total population of 500 Mio EU citizens, legitimacy of this initiative is questionable.

Nevertheless, the EU is at a crossroads: If it does not open up more, it will further strip itself of legitimacy. Gov 2.0 type activities provide one avenue to strengthen the EU and its institutions.

Finally, with regards to research, I see two issues. First, old and new research from various disciplines relating to Government 20 is not connected. Second, researchers can hardly keep pace with the current output of Government 2.0 policies and projects being implemented. [ read full here]

 

The Web is Not Just a Better Printing Press. Nature’s Timo Hannay on what the Web means for science

Posted on 19/10/2006 on Fornighly Mailing:

Timo Hannay leads Nature Magazine’s extensive, and for an established scientific journal, very unusual, web-publishing activities. He gave a lunchtime presentation on 17/10/2006 to a small group of mainly youngish researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Centre. Without question Hannay “knows what he is talking about”. So if you are interested in publishing, Open Access, e-research, how research is done (not just scientific research), blogging, the future of the Internet, Second Life (where Nature has an island, and is trialling integration between Second Life and external research databases) etc., you should spend an hour or so on one or more of the following three “views” of Hannay’s presentation, and the questions that followed it:

* PowerPoint slides- [24 MB ppt];
* video transcript – [200 MB mp4] – best viewed with the slides open in another browser window, as they are not distinct in the video;
* contemporaneous notes by David Weinberger, who chaired the session.

 

Video: Global Education in U.S. Schools Developing Global Leaders (The Goldman Sachs Foundation 2006 Prizes for Excellence in International Education)

From FORA.tv:

Global Education in U.S. Schools Developing Global Leaders: Bringing Our Schools Out of the 20th Century with Joel Klein, Robert Hormats, Orville Schell and Gaston Caperton. This panel precedes The Goldman Sachs Foundation 2006 Prizes for Excellence in International Education sponsored by The Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Asia Society. The Prizes were established to identify effective and replicable models of international education that address concerns about the economic, social, and diplomatic costs of educational isolationism.

Watch here