NEWSLETTER WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS #3, April 2012

Welcome to WCC 2012
In less than six months the 22nd World Computer Congress will open with "the likely shape of the ICT World in 2020": an exploration of the way ICT will be shaping the world we live in. And that is only one of the many themes of WCC 2012 in Amsterdam. So - thinking of the 60's: tune in, turn on and register now!

Newsletters will appear irregularly and you are encouraged to forward this and upcoming newsletters to colleagues, friends ... to everyone who is interested in our information society.

Registration and Ticket Packages
Individual registration for the congress is possible via the registration page. For researchers and students, institutes may buy a ticket package consisting of 10 tickets for a reduced price. For more information please contact the congress secretariat at wcc2012@caos.nl or by telephone +31 (0)20 589 32 21.

Program and Speakers
The International Program committee of WCC 2012 has established a second version of the program on the programme page. The program is subdivided into three parallel streams and the program committee is in the process of inviting speakers for the various sessions. Follow the progress on our website or via social media (see Follow WCC).

Committee of Recommendation
Mr Wu Jichuan from China (former minister from China and now working for the Chinese Institute of Electronics, CIE) and Mr Amandus Lundqvist (SURF) have accepted seats in our Recommendation Committee. The committee now has the following members (see the committees page):
  • Indrajit Banerjee, Director Knowledge Societies Division UNESCO
  • Robbert Dijkgraaf, President Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences
  • Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Chairman Dutch Social and Economic Council
  • Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General UN International Telecommunication Union
  • Wu Jichuan, Chinese Institute of Electronics, CIE
  • Amandus Lundqvist, Chairman SURF
Themes in the spotlight
As promised in our last newsletter, in this and following newsletters we will pay attention to the various themes and speakers for WCC 2012. In this newsletter the two themes are:
  • Session 2, stream 2: Social media - an irreversible innovation?
  • Session 8, stream 2: Mobile, Cloud and Embedded Technologies (Cyber Physical Systems)
Not all lectures in this stream have as yet been confirmed, so keep following the latest updates on our website and via social media!

Social media - an irreversible innovation?
In line with the WCC's general motto "Towards an innovative, secure and sustainable information society" this session on social media will explore the future of social media and what is needed in order for it to make a sustainable contribution to a human and worthy information society. Three core issues in this regard are:
  1. The development of social media towards 2020
  2. What are the social and security risks in internet-based social media?
  3. What is the role of government in protecting the privacy of social media data?
These issues will be addressed by speakers from 3 continents (America, Asia, Europe), who are experts in social media and related issues, one of them (Pavan Duggal) being an eminent advocate of the Supreme Court of India, another (Dr. Thilo Weichert) the Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner of Schleswig Holstein, Germany. A third speaker has been invited, but has not as yet confirmed.

The session owner is Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg from the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany).

Mobile, Cloud and Embedded Technologies (Cyber Physical Systems)
This session addresses the aspects of Mobile, Cloud and Embedded Technologies which may emerge in so-called Cyber Physical Systems. Such systems have the potential to substantially influence all kinds of ITC-based infrastructure and thus human society. Confirmed speakers are:
  1. Manfred Broy: "Cyber Physical Systems: From Embedded Systems to Real World Aware Services in the Cloud - Challenges for Engineering and Systems Modeling"
  2. Ingacio M. LLorente: "OpenNebula - Unleashing the Potential for Innovation of Cloud Computing"
The third speaker has confirmed, but a title is not yet available. This lecture will address aspects of mobility, including possibilities opened-up by Android.

The session owner is Prof. Dr. Franz J. Rammig, University of Paderborn (Germany).

Follow WCC
There are several opportunities to connect to information about WCC2012 (in addition to the website) via social media:
  • Shortly, a community on the Internet will start (to be available for everyone who is interested). Congress-participants and speakers will get an account, so speakers are able to start discussions that congress-participants can join. Congress-participants can also compose their own program by selecting parallel sessions, and they can have access to the lists of all congress-participants.
  • There is a special page for WCC2012 on Facebook: search on WCC2012 and click on World Computer Congress.
  • The congress is also present on Twitter: use hash tag #WCC2012 and username @wcc_2012.
  • Last but not least, a group WCC2012 and an event WCC2012 are available on Linkedin.
No Copyrights
The WCC 2012 newsletter has no copyrights and you are encouraged to forward this and upcoming newsletters to colleagues, friends ... to everyone who is interested in our information society.