Proceeding : Education and the Knowledge Society

Education and the Knowledge Society
Information Technology Supporting Human Development
Series : IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol. 161
van Weert, Tom J. (Ed.)
2005, XII, 306 p., Hardcover
ISBN : 1-4020-7755-6

Contents

• Contents

• Contributing Authors

• Preface

• Foreword

• A COMPREHENSIVE SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH
  Information and Communication Technology in education
  Niki Davis & Roger Carisen

• LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
  Implications for education
  Tom van Weert

• COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE AND CAPACITY BUILDING
  In a networked society
  Bernard Cornu

• ETAMPERE
  Social engineering of the Knowledge Society
  Jarmo Viteli

• INFORMATION : A STRATEGIC RESOURCE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
  Jean-Marie Leclerc

• PRESERVING INFORMATION
  André Hurst

• TOWARDS AN INDIGENOUS VISION FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
  Kenneth Deer & Ann-Kristin Håkansson

• VULNERABILITIES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
  Impact on the Information Society
  Klaus Brunnstein

• PROFESSIONAL DEONTOLOGY, SELF-REGULATION AND ETHICS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
  Jacques Berleur

• DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELDS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
  Professionalism, standards and best practice
  J. Barrie Thompson

• THE ROLE OF IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY IN THE INFORMATION AGE
  Willis K. King

• MANAGING ICT SKILLS PROFILES
  Anneke Hacquebard, Steven Dijkxhoorn & Anita Erkelens

• ENABLING ICT ADOPTION IN DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES
  Colin Harrison

• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
  From Rio to Geneva
  René Longet

• THE "E-WELL"
  ICT-enabled integrated, multisectorial development of rural areas in the least developed countries
  Antoine Geissbuhler & Ousmane Ly

• NETWORKED ECONOMY
  Effects on organisational development and the role of education
  Mikko J. Ruohonen

• UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETING THE DRIVERS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
  Mohan R. Gurubatham

• BEYOND TECHNOLOGY
  Mankind as an end, or the end of mankind ?
  André-Yves Portnoff

• SOCIAL ENGINEERING OF THE INTERNET IN DEVELOPING AREAS
  Wesley Shrum

Project proposals

• THE "FOUR PILLARS" AND E-EDUCATION FOR ALL
  Bernard Cornu

• E-SOLIDARITY, A MEANS OF FIGHTING AGAINST FGM (FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION)
  Annie Corsini-Karagouni

• AN INDIGENOUS APPROACH TO BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
  Kenneth Deer & Ann-Kristin Hkansson

• E-WELL : MULTI-SECTORAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS
  Antoine Geissbuhler & Ousmane Ly

• CYBERTROC : A BARTER SYSTEM FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
  Colin Harrison

• CYBER INCLUSION THROUGH ACTIVITY Jean-Marie Leclerc

• EXPLORING DILEMMAS : ETHICS, SOCIAL VALUES AND E-SOCIETY Deryn Watson

• NETWORK-BLENDED EDUCATION OF TOMORROW
  Tom J. van Weert & David Wood

• ICTS FOR EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
  Sithabile Magwizi

• JUST IN TIME SUPPORT FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
  Niki Davis

Declarations

• UNESCO - IFIP YOUTH DECLARATION
  IFIP World Computer Congress 2002

• VILNIUS DECLARATION
  IFIP World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR)

• CARTHAGE DECLARATION
  On the Digital Divide
  World Congres on the Digital Divide

• VIENNA DECLARATION
  On Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs)
  Conference on Security in Wireless Local Area Networks

Index

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About this book

This book presents a cross-section of educational implications of the Knowledge Society (or Information Society), an emerging society in which Information and Communication Technology plays an important role. The book addresses : Lifelong Learning and education, e-inclusion, ethics and social impact, the role of engineering, economy and e-Society. It also includes concrete project proposals to address these issues in educational practice.

The book contains the contributions to the Forum "Engineering the Knowledge Society", one of the events of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva, December 2003.

Written for :

Post-graduate researchers in Computer Science and Education