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The fifth international workshop on the quality of future Internet services, aimed at identifying techniques to ensure the higher quality of future web services, will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from 29 September to 1 October.

Emerging technologies in areas such as terminals, mobility, and embedded systems are expected to create a new environment of ambient networks. In such environments, protocols for the quality of service of these networks will need to be assessed and redesigned.

The focus of this workshop is 'the provision of quality of service in emerging networking panorama' based on the results of experiments carried out in simulation platforms and test beds.

On 1 October, there will also be a parallel workshop on quality of service routing.

Data Source Provider : Technical University of Catalunya
Document Reference : Based on an event announcement
Programme Acronym : MS-E C
Subject Index Codes : Information Processing, Information Systems, Information, Media, Standards
Contact Person : For further information, please consult the following web address:
http://www.qofis.org

9 - 10 February 2004
Affordable Technologies for Sustainable Development Conference: IT @ Work in Asia
Brussels, Belgium
The event will gather ICT professionals, policy makers, service providers & donors and key development players from Europe, China and India to explore how the IT revolution can create both business and human development opportunities in those emerging markets. Microfinance and ICT synergies will help to outline the critical role of innovative public-private strategic alliances in China and India.
Email: euroasiaitconf@planetfinance.org

6 February 2004
Safer Internet Day
Europe wide event
European Safer Internet Day is the celebration of children's right to a safer Internet. The event will be celebrated in a number of EU Member States with the involvement of more than 150 multiplier organisations. The Safer Internet Awareness Campaign, an initiative under the European Commissions Safer Internet Programme, is promoting the event
Email: nuria.quintana@fcr.es

OECD Workshop on Spam, 2-3 February 2004 (13/01/2004)
The European Commission, Information Society Directorate-General, will host an OECD workshop on spam in Brussels, on 2-3 February 2004. This workshop will be opened by Commissioner Liikanen and aims to explore the growing problem of spam, with a focus on the international dimension. For more information on the workshop and registration, please visit the website.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Symposium Gender & ICT: Strategies of Inclusion

Research on the inter-relations between Gender and Information & Communication Technologies is  dynamic, multidisciplinary, engaging and creative.
This symposium aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines and research schools that are familiar with ICT  and gender studies, women's studies or feminist studies.
The symposium will be held in Brussels on 20 January 2004.
We invite abstracts on the following themes :
- Women, Work and Computerization
- Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life
- Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education
- Gendering Technology: Structure and Design
Examples of possible paper sections in the different themes:
Women, Work and Computerization
Job profiles and the influence of ICT, the impact of ICT skills in the job function classifications, influence of ICT on work organisation, computerization of work and surveillance, portrayal of ICT (functions), etc.
Gendered Relations towards ICT in Daily Life
Possession and use of ICT, domestication, ICT-literacy, user and skill divide, consequences of use of ICT in the organisation of daily work and private life, ICT and family life, privacy and ethics, wearables and biometrics, on-line activities, interaction, Participation and democracy, etc.
Gender issues in ICT at School and Informatics Education
Gender differences in ICT-use in school contexts
Computer attitudes, learning styles, informatics curriculum, e-learning, feminist pedagogies, ICT and lifelong learning, etc.
Gendering Technology: Structure and Design
Women designing and shaping contents and systems of the new technologies, social shaping of technology, production of ICT, feminist critiques of computing, gender scripts of technology, participatory design, user-friendlessness, adaptivity, etc.

The deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is November 15.
The final programme will be available by December 15.
The working language of the symposium will be English.
Abstracts may be submitted to: Laurence Claeys or Sarah Meersman at:
steunpuntgeka@ua.ac.be
The symposium is a joint initiative of the Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities (Belgium) and the European SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society) network. It is part of Digitales and is supported by the. Dutch Association for Gender and Technology (The Netherlands). During the symposium, members of SIGIS will present their final research reports.
Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities :
http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be
(website only in Dutch)
Dutch Gender and Technology Association:
http://www.indexsociety.nl/genderictsymposium/aboutvgt.htm
Digitales: http://www.digitales-online.org
SIGIS (Strategies of  Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society):
http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis/
 Website of the conference:
http://www.steunpuntgelijkekansen.be/genderandict
[still under construction].

Workshop on next generation Internet protocol

The European telecommunications standards institute (ETSI), together with the European Commission's Enterprise DG, is organising an international workshop on the testing, certification and market acceptance of new applications for the next generation Internet protocol IP version 6 (IPv6) , to take place on 22 September in Brussels.

This 'plugtest' event is part of the eEurope standards Action Plan. The keynote address will be given by Fabio Colassanti, Director General of the Information Society DG.

The Internet's underlying protocol, IPv4, is now nearly 20 years old and needs upgrading, not least to remedy a shortage of IP addresses, which are needed by any new machine added to the net. IPv6 is expected gradually to replace IPv4, and during the transition, interoperability events are being held regularly, to test and showcase new applications.

Data Source Provider : European Commission, DG Enterprise
Document Reference : Based on an event announcement
Programme Acronym : MS-B C
Subject Index Codes : Information Processing, Information Systems, Standards
Contact Person : For further information, please consult the following web address:
http://www.ipv6event.be

OSCE - Amsterdam Recommendations on Freedom of the Media and the Internet
At the end of a two-day conference on Internet-related perils to freedom of expression, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve, has issued a call for the OSCE to take up a strong position towards free flow of information on the Internet. The so-called Amsterdam Recommendations on Freedom of the Media and the Internet were issued at the conclusion of the conference held on 13 and 14 June in the City Hall of Amsterdam. The event brought together more than 25 experts from international organizations, media, academia, specialized non-governmental organizations from Europe and the U.S. as well as from the European Parliament, Council of! Europe, European Commission and the OSCE.
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