[WSIS CS-Plenary] Call for Papers: The 11th International Workshop on Telework, August 28-31, 2006

[Bill McIver]

The 11th International Workshop on Telework, August 28-31, 2006
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canada

_Second Call for Papers_


Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2006


The University of New Brunswick (UNB) will host the Eleventh 
International Workshop on Telework, August 28-31, 2006 in Fredericton, 
New Brunswick, Canada. This year's Workshop will be the first held in 
North America, occurring in Canada's first city to support a free urban 
wireless network. The aim of the event is to generate interaction and 
the sharing of ideas among academic researchers and business 
practitioners around the development and maintenance of 
computer-mediated networks. All papers selected for presentation will 
become part of the printed proceedings, which will be available to all 
registrants. Authors of select articles will also be invited to submit 
their paper for publication in a forthcoming book.

The theme of the 2006 workshop is "e-Networks in an Increasingly 
Volatile World". The increasing rate of technological innovation and a 
growing concern for continuity through periods of large-scale 
interruptions from natural, technological, and human-induced events are 
some factors contributing to a heightened sense of uncertainty and 
social turbulence. A major challenge today is how individuals, 
organizations and regions can leverage human capital to collaborate 
through unprecedented and complex work/life-scenarios. This workshop 
looks specifically at examining work strategies that involve e-networks 
that contribute to greater preparedness. We currently invite papers in 
the following themes:

Special Streams for Workshop 2006

1) Mitigating risk via E-networks.
2) Creating public infrastructures that support E-networks
3) Work/life balance: The tangled web of work and home networks.

Standing E-Work Streams

1) Organizational Change (complexity, ambiguity, conflict)
2) E-Collaboration, Technological Innovations & Support (platforms, 
collaboration)
3) Workspace Design (facilities, virtual space)
4) HRM Practices (diversity, professional development, retention)
5) E-learning in the workplace (content, delivery)
6) Community/Regional Initiatives (job creation, community viability, 
public policy)




Call for papers:  http://www.unb.ca/conferences/enetworks/callforpapers.html



WJM

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Bill McIver  
People Centred Technologies group
National Research Council Canada  Institute for Information Technology
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