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| InfoVision 2005 A Summit contouring the information landscape |
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Managing knowledge as enduring and sharable intellectual assets and economic power of organizations and the society is a grand challenge before the knowledge centric economy. Stakeholders are many authors and artists, publishers, and the new media companies, IT service force, libraries, intermediaries and the end users. Forging a meeting of this diverse group to map a new landscape is the prime goal of this Summit. Presenting a unified vision of the demands and challenges of the knowledge economy is the objective. InfoVision 2005 is the first and premier annual global event in India to bring together all stakeholders across the academia and the industry.
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| Thematic Programme Overview |
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The Summit is programmed for nine long hours of panel debates on six themes, each panel lead by a keynote setting the tone for the debate, anchors initiating and moderating and eighteen panelists three per session, fuelling the debate. Anchors will the orchestrate the debate to incite the panelists to articulate their views and perceptions on key issues and challenges and present to the participating delegates for a modulated interactive debate across the panelists and the audience. With inaugural and concluding keynotes, luncheon speeches, a banquet dinner lecture, InfoVision will be presenting an intellectual feast of forty global visionaries and leaders talking and interacting with three hundred participants.
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| IT and IM - meeting and melding points |
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Content is the king - technology is the master. The demands of information management and the deployment of IT are the focus. The conduit content convergence will be the theme of this session. This session will look at the collaborating and intersecting points across the content, the media (the container) and the enabling technologies. The demands of content management often drive the technologies and technology serves and directs the management of information. This session will outline the challenges before the IT Professionals and Information Managers.
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| KM: Practices and solutions |
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Knowledge Management practices at all levels - individual, organisational and societal, are a major concern of the knowledge centric economy for the investors and policy makers. The technologies and processes of KM are not only diverse but also difficult to package into precepts. Transforming tacit and explicit knowledge into sharable assets is the challenge before the KM leads and executives heads. Deliberations will center on case studies of KM tools and processes from cognition to computers to communities of practices. Listen to practitioners and preachers delve into the mysteries of this exciting, elusive and evolving domain of KM the hottest - talk of the town concern of CEOs, CTOs and CIOs in this session.
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| E Publishing: Changing paradigms and shifting markets |
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Since Gutenbergs print revolution, the principles and paradigms of publishing have evolved around the fixed medium of the printed word. Today the digital medium has set a new paradigm and is redefining the rules of the publishing game. Roles are changing leading to both conflicts and collaborations. Old business models and institutions nursing them are under serious threats leading to realignment of market forces. The debate in the session should lead to new insights and better understanding and appreciation of how and where old and the new players can meet to discover new growth opportunities.
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| Search Engines and Data mining |
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The information behavior of searching, retrieving, and finding information has been totally transformed in the present digital age. Database management systems and information retrieval techniques have spawned a total change in the ways and means of information management from access to use. Beginning with the early automatic text extracting experiments by H.P Luhn at the IBM and information retrieval systems by Gerarld Salton at Cornell University, the domain of information retrieval has not only been advancing at a frenetic rate but changing the information landscape as well. This exciting session on this wondrous field will not only enlighten but also ignite heated debate.
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| E-Learning and Digital Libraries |
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Since time immemorial libraries and learning are very closely entwined. The symbiosis continues into the digital age, often the two areas melding and becoming synonymous with one another. Digital libraries dissolve barriers to learning, bringing equity of access to education. The tremendous potential of E-learning is yet to be realized. The challenges of building digital libraries are many. The tools and technologies of digital libraries have matured since the days of Digital Library Initiative by the NSF and others in the early 1990s. However the issues of digital divide still divides the advocates and the detractors. This session will help one to discover the new vistas in this domain.
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| Intellectual Property Rights: ideologies, legalities and technologies |
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With knowledge and know how occupying center stage in the knowledge economy and society, the world of copyrights, patents and trademarks has become a hot button topic. The mobility and the malleability of the digital medium have constrained the different players to extreme positions from complete control to delicious freedom. Balancing public good with private interest has resulted in hair-splitting ideologies, demanding nimble footed legal framework and dexterous technology. The economics of knowledge assets underpins the legalities and technologies. The far-reaching implications of the IPR issues have raised quite a storm in the information landscape. Legal luminaries and academics provide a forum to discuss and debate in this session.
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| Policy Framework for Information Society |
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Transformation of societies from corporal to cerebral commodities brings to fore many conflating issues. The information economy and the economics of information are evolving. From infrastructure development to indicators for measuring informatisation are vexing issues. Building the cyber infrastructure demands policies that meet the expectations of all stakeholders. Concerns regarding issues such as control and privacy, governance and rights are heightened in an increasingly informatised world. The INTERNET has ushered in a new society and this new era is to be built on a policy framework articulated for the information industry and society. This session will throw light on the bulwark and the wires and frames of an information policy.
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Theme: Information landscape - Content, Technology and Stakeholders
- IT and Information Management: Meeting and Melding points
- KM: Solutions and Practices
- E-Publishing: Changing paradigms and Shifting markets
- Search Engines and Data Mining
- E-Learning and Digital Libraries
- IPR: Ideologies, Legalities and Technologies
- Policy Framework for Information Society
Audience: Who should attend?
- Leaders and aspiring leaders in Information Industry, Professionals in Information Sciences and Management in all sectors - Academia, Government and Corporate
- KM Heads, Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Librarians and Information Center Managers, CEOs and Senior Executives in Information Industry
- Electronic Publishers, Search Engine and Portal Service Providers, BPOs in Content Management and Publishing Services
- IT companies developing tools and technologies for Content Management, E-Learning and Digital Libraries
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