[Sigiii-l] ICSTI Helsinki meeting,June 10-11

[Richard Hill]

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Colleagues,

Attached is an announcement of an interesting meeting on "From Information to Innovation" to be held in Helsinki, June 10-11, 2010.  At this meeting there will an interesting roll out of an international, multilingual portal for scientific and technical information.  If you want more information go to WWW.ICSTI.org.

Hope you will considering attending.

Meeting highlights:

>From Information to Innovationhas been chosen as the main theme of the 2010 ICSTI Conference. The significance of information as the enabler and catalyst for scientific, technical and business developments will be discussed. Elements of success in building the future will be highlighted. There are three special sub-themes: 
➢Information as the lifeblood of research and innovation
➢Intelligent information solutions and services 
➢Creating the future -towards the global innovation economy 
Through Multilingual Translation
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) presents: 
For more information: 
www.icsti.org/www.vtt.fi/sites/icsti2010/www.worldwidescience.org

A capstone of the conference will be the 
launch of a Multilingual WorldWideScience.org.

Enables speakers of any language to search science databases from countries such as the U.S., Russia, China, and Japan regardless of the language of the query, or language of the response. Search 60 databases and portals in WorldWideScience.org in over 60 countries and numerous native languages and have results translated into the language of the inquiry. See this innovation demonstrated on 11 June in Helsinki.


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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
Fax: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900