WISURD 2012 - First Workshop on Information Society and Regional-Urban Development (WISURD 2012)

The evolution of the Information Society includes aspects related to intelligent human behavior, such as perception, communication, reasoning, learning, evolution, adaptation, autonomy, social interaction and pro-activity. However, the dynamic world of today these features has become a requirement in almost all social systems. Over time these systems evolve given the rapid technological development, and social systems are increasingly intelligent feasible, as they participate in our daily lives.
This workshop is aimed at building a proper forum for the discussion of many aspects of the creation and development of intelligent information and communication systems, both from a theoretical and practical exemplification of the possible applications and case studies in cities or rural areas. We intend to bring together the scientific community, industry and society for interdisciplinary discussion on the state of the art and architecture models and paradigms and boundaries that encourage the advancement of information society in the spaces urban and rural areas. Areas such as communication, artificial intelligence, web science, regional development, theories and models of economic and social sciences, the knowledge representation and engineering, information infrastructure and distributed intelligent systems and web society are some of the areas to be explored and deepened in this workshop.
Let's try social technology with its great potential for application in different areas of expertise and sectors of society, so it is very important multidisciplinary development, with the collaboration of many different areas, not just the humanities and social sciences, but also engineering, computer science and computer
This workshop is supported by the Master in Information Society to the University of Santiago de Compostela and the research project called Sindur. Information Society and Regional-Urban Development. (Government of Spain, CSO2009-10938).
Topics of Interest:
1. Analysis of the evolution of cultural industries
2. Analysis of TV models
3. Tourism and information technology.
4. Gender and information technology.
5. Mobile applications in education.
6. Semantic annotation of content-managed applications.
7. Regional marketing and information technology.
8. E-governance and data protection.
10. Innovation and entrepreneurship.
11. Advanced design of ICT projects for the development of information society.
12. Disintermediation and electronic commerce.
13. Text messaging and mobile phones in social groups and territories.
14. Telework in cities and rural areas.
15. Policy analysis for the development of information society.
16. Web audits and regional development (municipalities, countries, regions).
17. Analysis of experiences and Knowledge Centers and City Labs
18. Energy Efficiency and information technology.
19. Efficiency in hospital management and information technology.