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Conference organisers:
Ministry of
Culture and Mass Communications, Russian Federation
Federal Agency on
Culture and Cinematography
Ministry
of Communications and Informatisation, Russian Federation
St. Petersburg city
administration
Smolensk
regional administration
Information for All
UNESCO programme, Russian Committee
National
Library of Russia
St. Petersburg State
University
UNESCO
Moscow office
Library
Assembly of Eurasia
Centre PIC, Ministry of Culture, Russia |
With support of:
Commission
of the Russian Federation for UNESCO
CIS Interparliamentary Assembly
State Russian
Museum
Legal information
consortium Codex
United Nations
Information Centre in Moscow
Investment
Foundation in support of Culture
Partnership
for Information Society Development in North-West Russia
Web-site
"Internet-law"
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The conference agenda will include:
- implementation of documents adopted by the 32nd UNESCO General Conference and
the World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, December 10-12, 2003;
- general access to information of global purport—official, legal, municipal,
environmental, business, consumer, for children and the youth, on healthy living, etc.;
- information infrastructural development for education, research, culture and
communication;
- promotion of state teamwork with business and NGOs for general access to information;
- digitisation of, and access to cultural, research and educational content;
- multilingualism in cyberspace.
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The conference envisages:
- Roundtables:
- Culture in Information Society
- Education in Information Society
- Libraries in Information Society
- Cultural Diversity in Information Society;
- Seminar of Minerva and Minerva
Plus EC projects establishing a network of Culture and Research ministries of new and
existing EU Member States, Russia and Israel, to discuss, correlate and harmonise
activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content;
- Other events will be determined as conference preparations
go on. The Programme Committee will approve a final list, May 2004.
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Spokesmen
of international organisations and government, nongovernment and commercial agencies;
library, museum and archive personnel; journalists, researchers, professors, legal experts
and other professionals engaged in promoting information and knowledge societ are welcome
to take part.
Participation
terms:
You ought to register initially on-line at http:/confifap.cpic.ru
no later than April 15, 2004. The Organisation Committee will make a final decision and
will send you a personal invitation before May 1, 2004.
No registration fees.
Papers:
The Programme Committee accepts on-line
applications at http:/confifap.cpic.ru before May 15, 2004. You should
register your paper on the conference WEB-site and then upload abstracts and/or full
texts.
The Programme Committee reserves the right to reject any paper
or determine the status of each paper (plenary session report, key report, report,
contribution, stand report), forward accepted communications to particular sections, or
qualify them as stand reports.
Presentation duration: plenary
session and key reports, up to 30 minutes; reports to particular events, up to 15 minutes;
contributions, up to 5 minutes.
Papers shall be included in Conference Proceedings on Programme Committee resolution.
Please follow Paper
submission guidelines on the WEB-site!
Applications non-complying with the above WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Russian and English shall be Conference working languages.
Simultaneous
and parallel translation provided.
ATTENTION! The Conference will coincide in time with white
nights—peak of St. Petersburg tourist season, so the Steering Committee will not accept
hotel bookings after April 15.
Steering Committee spokesperson for St. Petersburg
(Registration, visas, accommodation, cultural programme etc)
Tatiana Bataeva, National Library of Russia
Telephone +7 (812) 310 98 50, Fax +7 (812) 310 61 48, E-mail: uch.sec@nlr.ru
St.-Petersburg Hotels. Rent an
apartment. Online reservation - http://rus-hotel.com
Programme Committee and on-line
registration contact person
Nadezhda V. Brakker, senior expert of Centre PIC, Ministry of Culture of Russia
Telephone/fax +7 (095) 940 0284
E-mail: NBrakker@cpic.ru
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