Academic meetings and events comprise the workshops, conferences and seminars
that UNU-IIST has (jointly) organised with other institutions.
ICTAC 2007
, Macau, 26-28 September, 2007. The 4th International
Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing was
organised by UNU-IIST (Mike Reed was a conference co-chair, Chris
George was the Organisatuon Chair and Zhiming Liu was a PC
co-chair). The proceedings have been published as volume of
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The volume editors are
Cliff Jones, Zhiming Liu (from UNU-IIST) and Jim Woodcock.
Co-located with the colloquium there were two international events:
Festschrift Symposium Dedicated to the 70th
birthdays of Prof. Dines Bjørner and Prof. Zhou Chaochen, two
former UNU-IIST directors, held on the 24th and 25th
September. 24 computer scientists from the world were
invited to present their work, and there were about 60
participants. The event was supported by the Macao Foundation and
Macau Polytechnic Institute. Local VIPs attended the opening
ceremony, and the event was reported in the local
newspapers. The papers are published as a volume of
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Cliff
Jones, Zhiming Liu (from UNU-IIST) and Jim Woodcock.
1st International Workshop on Harnessing Theories for Tool Support in Software (TTSS07),
held on the 22nd and 23rd September. Volker Stolz (a postdoc research fellow at UNU-IIST) was
the organiser and Zhiming Liu was an Advisor). The
papers are to be published as an issue of Electronic Notes on
Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS), edited by Geguang
Pu and Volker Stolz (from UNU-IIST).
Workshop on Digital Governance and Hotspot Geo-Informatics
Macao SAR, China, 10-11 January 2007. The workshop was
organized by
the Center for Electronic Governance, conducted by Dr. Ganapati P.
Patil, Director of the Penn State Center for Statistical Ecology and
Environmental Statistics, and attended by 20 staff and students from
Macao Government, University of Macao and UNU-IIST.
Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for
e-Government
Macao SAR, China, 24 January
2007. See Section *
for details.
Workshop on Semantic Interoperability for
e-Government
Redmond, USA, 30 March 2007. See Section
*
for details.
UNeGov.net Network-Building Workshops
A series of four
UNeGov.net Network-Building Workshops on Governance in Developing
Countries were organized by the Center for Electronic Governance
with local government or academic partners:
8th UNeGov.net Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12 February 2007
9th UNeGov.net Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 27 August 2007
10th UNeGov.net Workshop, Incheon, South Korea, 8 October 2007
11th UNeGov.net Workshop, Bhubaneswar, India, 22 December 2007
Developing e-Governance in the South: New Models for
South-South Cooperation
UN Headquarters, New York, 18 October
2007. The event
was co-organized by the Center for Electronic Governance and the UNU
Office in New York. See Section * for details.
ICDCIT 2007
4th International Conference on Distributed
Computing and Internet Technology, 17-20 December, Bangalore, India
was co-organized by Kalinga Institute for Industrial Technology,
India, and the Center for Electronic Governance. See Section
* for details.
ICEGOV2007
1st International Conference on Theory and Practice
of Electronic Governance, 10-13 December, Macao, was co-organized
by the Center for Electronic Governance; Center for Technology in
Government, University at Albany, State University of New York; and
the Asian and Pacific Training Centre for ICT for Development, part
of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UN-ESCAP). See Section * for details.
