NACTIS 2014 - The IAFOR North American Conference on Technology, Information and Society 2014

There was a time when oil companies drilled for crude oil to fuel kerosene lamps, but discarded the gas as industrial waste. Similarly but more recently, businesses, governments and individuals have realized that data generated from actions or transactions may be more valuable that the action or transaction itself. This has led to development of “The Data-Enriched Society”, the theme underlying this conference. The successes or failures of governments, industries, firms and individuals are shifting and being reshaped by their relative recognition and facility in turning data and technology to advantage, and in developing actionable feedback loops. Such endeavors create serendipitous opportunities, unsuspected risks and possibly ethical dilemmas.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts.
NACTIS2014 Conference Sub-Themes
Submissions for presentation will be located in the following sub-themes:
Transformation through Information
Mining and Minding Our Interconnected World
Sensors, Texts, and Other Sources of Data
New Realities through Artificial Intelligence
Social Aspects of Mobile Technology
Web Scraping and Crowdsourcing
The Data-Enriched Society
Social Media and Communities
Open-Source Initiatives
Privacy, Security and Ethics