Events: ISIS Summit 2015 Vienna
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY AT THE CROSSROADS
Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information
Vienna University of Technology, June 3-7, 2015
The International Society for Information Studies (ISIS) holds every 2 years a conference. The ISIS Summit Vienna 2015 is the first conference of that kind. It is organised under the guidance of the current president of ISIS, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, at the university he is affiliated to. It will be continued in 2017 by then ISIS president Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The aim of the summit is to bring together different communities that research into information (which shall be understood just as a generic term for cognition, communication, co-operation; data, knowledge, wisdom; intelligence; and the whole diversity of related terms), develop or implement applications of their findings (be they technological or social) or use those applications. That is, not only representatives of different disciplines meet but also the latter meet with different stakeholders. The summit shall help discuss the betterment of society. Thus it is an endeavour in transdisciplinarity.
The ISIS Summit Vienna 2015 is called summit also because it is supported by co-initiators (networks and institutions that hold their regular meeting as conference stream together with our summit), by co-organisers (networks, institutions and groups of people that take over the responsibility for organising tracks) and by partners.
Conference Streams
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](http://summit.is4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fislogo.gif)Sixth
International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science 2015
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](http://summit.is4is.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/09/ictsandsocietyHeader_WP.jpg)Fifth ICTs and Society
Conference 2015
(see Call for Papers)
[
](http://summit.is4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/icpitop.jpg)Second
International Conference on Philosophy of Information 2015
(see Call for Papers)
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](http://summit.is4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/logo-2015.jpg)The
Difference that Makes a Difference (DTMD) 2015 – An interdisciplinary workshop
(see Call for Papers)
Tracks
Fundamentals of information processes
- Information Science and Semiotics – and beyond (Joseph Brenner)
- The ethics of foundations (Rainer E. Zimmermann