New ID Cards and Control, Citizenship and Social Sorting are two of the issues that will come under the spotlight at the iCS Symposium to be held at the University of York on 20-22 September 2006.

The 10th Anniversary symposium will focus on issues at the centre of contemporary debates relating to the development and application of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Health informatics and the distributed patient: considerations for a socially robust e-health cultures of use and the need for new formats are also among topics to be tackled in keynote addresses.

Brian Loader, General Editor of ICS based at the University of York, said: The iCS symposium is a significant event in the annual calendar that critically analyses key issues emerging from the ubiquity of information and communications technologies in our everyday lives.

Organised in association with the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), Taylor & Francis and the ESRC E-Society programme, an extensive programme has now been confirmed with over 70 of the most contemporary academics in the field giving papers.

Keynote speakers are:

• Prof Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago/LSE
  
• Prof David Lyon, Queens University, Canada
  
• Prof Helen Margetts, Oxford Internet Institute
  
• Prof Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
  Prof Andrew Webster, University of York

Sessions are organised around e-health spatial informatics e-commerce and economics young and older generations privacy trust and surveillance e-governance e-learning and policy issues cutting across all these themes.

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www.york.ac.uk/res/siru/ICSprogramme.htm

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