[Athena] {Disarmed} 11th IFIP-WG9.2 NAMUR AWARD Call for Nominations

[Philippe Goujon <pgo AT info.fundp.ac.be>]

11th IFIP-WG9.2 NAMUR AWARD

Call for Nominations

Working Group 9.2 of IFIP-TC9 concerned with Computers and Society has
created the IFIP-WG9.2 NAMUR AWARD. This award, biennial, is to be
accorded for an outstanding contribution to the awareness of social
implications of information and communication technology. The purpose of
the award is to draw attention to the need for an holistic approach in
the use of information technology in which the social implications have
been taken into account. The contribution can be in the form of a
publication, design, lecture, project or achievement of any kind within
the spirit of the NAMUR AWARD. 

 

Official reports, as well as all the necessary information, including the
Nomination Form, may be found at
http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/award.html 
(and in the attached file)

 

Nominations for the 11th IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award (to be awarded in 2012)
must be sent before December 1st, 2010. 

 

The winners: 

1991:     Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT, Cambridge,
Massachussets (USA) 

1993:     Dr. Riccardo Petrella, Head of the FAST Programme,
European Commission 

1996:     Dr. Carlos-Alberto Afonso, IBASE, Community of people
AlterNex, Brazil 

1998:     Prof. Gunilla Bradley, Royal Institute of Technology,
Kista, Sweden 

2000:     Prof. Simon Rogerson, CCSR, De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK 

2002:     Dr Deborah Hurley, Harvard Information Infrastructure
Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. USA. 

2004:     Prof. Ian H. Witten, New Zealand Digital Library
Project, University of Waikato, New Zealand 

2006:     = Nigel Williams, Founder of Childnet International
and Northern Ireland Commissioner for children and young people, UK

2008:     Prof. Daniel Pimienta, Founder of FUNREDES
(http://funredes.org),
ICT4D, Santo Domingo 

2010     Prof. Jeroen Van den Hove

 

We are waiting for your nominations. Many thanks for your cooperation.

 

Jacques BERLEUR 

IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award Committee Chair 

mailto:jberleur AT info.fundp.ac.be

Philippe Goujon
Professeur
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Projets en cours:
Projet IG3T :
http ://www.info.fundp.ac.be/IG3T

projets européens:
projet ETICA (Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications) : MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk80" claiming to be http://moriarty.tech.dmu.ac.uk:8080/

projet EGAIS (The Etical GovernAnce of emerging technologieS: http://www.egais-project.eu/
- New Governance perspective for integrating ethics into Technical development Projects and Applications)


It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase man's blessings. Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors.
Albert Einstein

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