Conference to Discuss Role of Science in the Information Society

released December 04, 2003

On Dec. 8-9, CERN will host the Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference with UNESCO, the International Council for Science, and the Third World Academy of Sciences. A Summit Event to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, Dec. 10-12), RSIS is a grassroots initiative to bring science into the picture of the Summit.

During the first half-day of the conference, plenary speakers will give their perspectives on the past, present, and future of science, information and communication technologies, and society. The following morning, attendees will divide into parallel sessions in which they will explore one of five areas in more depth: enabling technologies, economic development, health, environment, and education. The plenaries will reconvene that afternoon, when participants will hear the results of the parallel sessions, a visionary panel, and closing remarks

Conference speakers will include Tim Berners-Lee, Indonesian activist Onno Purbo, and Romanian President Ion Iliescu.

A live webcast of the RSIS conference will be available during the conference at http://webcast.cern.ch/live.php.

In parallel with the conference, CERN will hold a Science and Information Society forum at the ICT for Development platform in Geneva's Palexpo Centre during the World Summit. The forum will serve as a venue for scientific organizations to exhibit their ICT-related initiatives. The platform will be open to the public from Dec. 9-13.

 

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