[WSIS CS-Plenary] IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society -- Deadline Extended

[Bill McIver]

*In response to requests to extend the deadline, ISTAS 08
will keep its submission site open until midnight
Atlantic Standard Time 
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=286> (UTC/GMT -4 hours),
Thursday, December 20, 2007.*

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The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 08)
will be held June 26-28 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

ISTAS is the annual symposium of the IEEE Society on Social Implications 
of Technology ( http://www.ieeessit.org/ ).

The theme for ISTAS 08 is: /Citizens, Groups, Communities and 
Information and Communication Technologies/.

The scope of ISTAS 08 will include research on:

    * How citizens, groups and communities are or could be linked with 
information and communication technologies (ICT); and
    * Designing and developing ICT with and for citizens, groups and 
communities.

ISTAS 08 will be a multi-disciplinary event for researchers in 
engineering, computer science, social sciences,
arts and humanities; as well as community-based researchers, policy 
makers and technology user communities.
Papers and discussions will address both the social and technical 
aspects of the specific topics.


The National Research Council Canada Institute for Information 
Technology  (NRC-IIT) is the conference host.


*Additional information can be found at:* http://istas08.ca. 
<http://istas08.ca>

Important dates

    * Submission deadline: December 17, 2007 *December 20, 2007*
    * Notification of acceptance: Feb 15, 2008
    * Final camera-ready paper due: April 4th, 2008
    * Author registration deadline (so that the author's paper will be 
included in proceedings): April 11, 2008
    * Last day for early registration: April 11, 2008
    * Conference: June 26-28, 2008



Sincerely,

WJM

-- 
William McIver, Jr, PhD (Bill)        
Senior Research Officer, People-Centred Technologies
National Research Council Canada -- Institute for Information Technology
Organizing Chair ISTAS 08 / http://istas08.ca | E-mail: Bill.McIver at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

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