The International Academic Forum in partnership with Waseda University (Japan), Birkbeck University of London (UK), The National Institute of Education (Singapore), The National University of Tainan (Taiwan), Lincoln University (UK), the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKSAR), Auburn University (USA), and its global partners is proud to announce the First Annual Asian Conference on Society, Education and Technology, to be held from October 23-27 2013, in Osaka, Japan.

www.acset.iafor.org

The First Asian Conference on Society, Education and Technology encourages submissions to the following interdisciplinary streams:

ACSET Stream 1: Technology and Society: The Social and Societal Impact and Implications of Technology
Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Humans and Technology Interact: Interfaces, Robots, and Cyborgs
- Technology, Media and Communications
- Intellectual Property and Digital Rights: Sharing, Complying and Avoiding
- Data and Metadata Communications Technologies
- Multilingualism and machine translation
- Encoding Historical Documents
- Artificial intelligence


ACSET Stream 2: Technology and Society: Technologies, Societies and Communities
Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Virtual communities
- Technologies for participatory citizenship: E-democracy & E-Government E-Businesses & E-Services
- E-Inclusion & Solidarity
- Globalization and technology
- Multilingualism and cultural diversity in the digital age: preservation and protection vs assimilation and absorption
- Internet regulation
- Cultural difference and technology
- Cyber-identities and privacy
- Technology, Art and Design
- Technology, Ethics and the Law
- Technology and Philosophy


ACSET Stream 3: Education and Technology: Teaching, Learning, Technology & Education Support
Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Curriculum instruction and design
- Playing and Learning: Edutainment, video games and education
- Learning Support Education, Learning & Creativity
- Changing Learning Styles: Learning Through Technology
- Interactive and collaborative learning
- Technology: lifelong, adult, distance and access learning
- E-learning, training and professional development
- Organizational learning and change
- The virtual university/virtual universities
- MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
- Educational Change through Technology
- Innovative Assessment Collaboration and Problem Solving
- Educating Educators: Teacher Learning and Professional Development
- Visions for the Future


ACSET Stream 4: Education, Technology and Society: Technologies, Knowledge Creation and Access
Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Information systems and people in organizations
- Research infrastructures
- Participatory design
- Technology, knowledge and innovation
- E-commerce, open markets and open knowledge: contradictions or complementarities?
- Collaborations: from personal to interpersonal computing
- Technologies in developing countries
- Information and communications technologies and development
- ICTs and how the poor do or do not benefit
- Situating ICTs in development policies and strategies
- Global interactions: technologies, development and globalization


ACSET Stream 5: Technology and Society: Computers, Technology & Society: IT Delivery
Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Delivering Communications & Infrastructure in Developing Countries: Innovation, Trial and Practical Technical Solutions
- Biologically Inspired Computing
- Robots as an Invasive Species
- Embedded Systems
- Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice
- Future Communications Networks
- Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Interoperability & ICT: Problems and Solutions
- Information Processing Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping


ACSET Stream 6: Technology and Society: ICT & Security: Questions of Privacy, Governance & Trust
Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Implications for Security, Privacy, International Law and the Cloud
- Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
- Surveillance and Privacy
- Global Information Systems Processes (GISP)
- E-Government, E-Services, E-Business, E-Society
- Ethics and Governance
- Efficiency, Efficacy & Safety in E-Health: Healthcare Computing and Communications


ACSET Stream 7: Technology and Society - Green Computing: ICT, Sustainability, Energy and the Environment
- Submissions dealing with the following areas should submit under this stream:

- Political and Environmental Implications
- Energy Efficiency in Production and Implementation
- Conceptions of the Information Society and Sustainable Development


Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 1 2013
Results of abstract reviews returned to authors: Usually within two-three weeks of submitting an abstract
Deadline for full conference registration payment for all presenters: October 1 2013
ACSET Conference: October 23-27 2013
Deadline for submission of full papers: December 1 2013