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It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society - WSKS 2008 that was organized by the Open Research Society, NGO, and hosted by the American College of Greece, during September 24-27, 2008, in Athens, Greece. The World Summit on the Knowledge Society Series is an international attempt to promote a dialogue on the main aspects of a knowledge society toward a better world for all based on knowledge and learning. The WSKS Series brings together academics, people from industry, policy makers, politicians, government officers and active citizens to look at the impact of infor- tion technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today's world: the state, business, society and culture. Six general pillars provide the constitutional elements of the WSKS series: - Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society--Emerging Te- nologies and Systems for the Society and Humanity - Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning for the Knowledge Society - Information Technologies--Knowledge Management Systems--E-business and Enterprise Information Systems for the Knowledge Society - Culture and Cultural Heritage--Technology for Culture Management--Management of Tourism and Entertainment--Tourism Networks in the Knowledge Society - Government and Democracy for the Knowledge Society - Research and Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society The summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research that is relevant to international re-
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Ernesto Damiani is a professor at the Department of Information Technology of the University of Milan. He is the Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP).
David Avison is Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences (SID) at ESSEC Business School, Paris, France. He has published and edited over twenty leading texts on Information Systems.
Gottfried Vossen lehrt seit 1993 Informatik am Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universität Münster. Er studierte, promovierte und habilitierte sich an der RWTH Aachen und war bzw. ist Gastprofessor u.a. an der University of California in San Diego, USA, an der Karlstad Universitet in Schweden, an der University of Waikato in Hamilton, Neuseeland sowie am Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik in Potsdam. Er ist europäischer Herausgeber der bei Elsevier erscheinenden Fachzeitschrift Information Systems und seit Januar 2004 Vizepräsident der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. mit Sitz in Bonn.
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It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society - WSKS 2008 that was organized by the Open Research Society, NGO, http://www.open-knowledge-society.org, and hosted by the American College of Greece, http://www.acg.gr, during September 24–27, 2008, in Athens, Greece. The World Summit on the Knowledge Society Series is an international attempt to promote a dialogue on the main aspects of a knowledge society toward a better world for all based on knowledge and learning. The WSKS Series brings together academics, people from industry, policy makers, politicians, government officers and active citizens to look at the impact of infor- tion technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today’s world: the state, business, society and culture. Six general pillars provide the constitutional elements of the WSKS series: • Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society––Emerging Te- nologies and Systems for the Society and Humanity • Knowledge, Learning, Education, Learning Technologies and E-learning for the Knowledge Society • Information Technologies––Knowledge Management Systems––E-business and Enterprise Information Systems for the Knowledge Society • Culture and Cultural Heritage––Technology for Culture Management––Management of Tourism and Entertainment––Tourism Networks in the Knowledge Society • Government and Democracy for the Knowledge Society • Research and Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society The summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research that is relevant to international re-
