Workshop on Technologies, Contents and Services for Social Inclusion
As part of the Lisbon Research and Policy Workshops on Science, Technology and Social Change (text in Portuguese), organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, a Workshop on Technologies, Contents and Services for Social Inclusion: Facing the digital divide and the emergence of ambient assisted living will be held on 29th-30th October 2007 at the Fundação das Comunicações, Lisbon.
This workshop is being prepared in conjunction with the UT Austin – Portugal Programme, which was approved as part of the Partnerships for the Future project.
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Presentations:
- Dieter Rombach, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft IESE, Germany – Ambient Assisted Living: Towards Solving the Aging Society Problem
- António Câmara, New University of Lisbon, YDreams, and Director UT Austin - Portugal Program, Portugal – Interfaces for All
- Brian Loader, Co-Director SIRU, University of York, Department of Sociology, United Kingdom – Towards the Co-Construction of Web 2.0 with Older Users?
- Kieron O'Hara, Web Science Research Initiative, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom – Digital Divides and Web Science
- Lusitana Fonseca, Digital Aveiro, Portugal – The Aveiro Digital Internet Spaces to face the educational divide…
- Sharon Strover, University of Texas, Austin, USA – Taking stock of the digital divide