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[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded for Chuck McCllure.  Dick]

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Richard Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
Fax: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900
 
www.asis.org


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Enhancing Access for Social Connectivity:
New Technologies, Strategies, and Policy Challenges
CALL FOR PAPERS

Ninth Annual Florida Communications and Information Policy Symposium
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Turnbull Center for Professional Development
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

In its ninth annual meeting, the Florida Communications and Information
Policy Symposium addresses access to communications and information
services that enable social connectivity. More specifically, the Symposium
will explore issues associated with broadband wireless technologies and
the implications for such technologies on access to and use of information
resources and services, the digital divide, e-government initiatives, and
other technical, policy, and social aspects.  As such, the Symposium will
present multiple perspectives regarding wireless broadband technologies -
from the technical developments to the service and resource enabling
capabilities that such technologies can have on society.

A series of panels will address the deployment and use of new services and
networks in a variety of settings, including both public sector and
private sector applications.    This includes case studies or surveys of
wireless applications and services offered to support local, state, and
federal government provision of public services; new services and wireless
platforms; wireless and access of underserved communities in urban and
rural areas; defining the roles for the public sector and the private
sector; telecommunications policy needs and practices to promote wireless
broadband infrastructure, and; international comparisons of wireless
broadband strategies, cases, or policies.  Additional panels and sessions
will address the service enabling capabilities of wireless broadband in
the context of access to information services and resources, e-government
initiatives, and other societal factors.

Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in
Government Information Quarterly (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf),
a peer-refereed journal published by Elsevier.  A special issue on
wireless broadband applications is planned, and papers will also be
considered for other issues of the journal.

Those interested in presenting papers at the Symposium should submit a 250
word abstract to Steve McDowell (see below) no later than March 25, 2005.
Papers broadly related to wireless issues, the role of E government, and
the E-rate are especially of interest.  Proposals will be peer reviewed
and high quality proposals will be selected for presentation at the
Symposium. Completed papers will be due no later than June 1, 2005.

The symposium is organized by the College of Communication and the College
of Information at Florida State University.  Program updates will be
available at http://www.comm.fsu.edu/ or the Information Institute at the
College of Information at http://www.ii.fsu.edu/.  For more information
please contact the College of Communication at 850-644-9698, or contact
Steve McDowell at smcdowel at mailer.fsu.edu.