Pre-Sandpit Workshop - Call for attendees
Applications are invited to attend a workshop, organised by the EPSRC, examining
key user-focussed issues in the recently launched
Research Council Digital Economy Programme.
Increasingly, the novel, innovative and in some cases subversive design and use
of new technologies can affect an individual’s life choices, change the way society
interacts, offer new modes of interaction for government, revolutionise existing
business processes or create new business paradigms. The early involvement of the
user community is vital if new technologies are to be integrated successfully into
technical solutions, products and processes. The Digital Economy Programme will
bring together the underpinning technologies, with all the elements required to
deliver transformation. This workshop will focus on the impacts of the digital economy
on business and the associated research challenges. It is hoped that the majority
of attendees with be from the business community. Outputs of the workshop will be
used to inform a sandpit workshop in December, and workshop attendees will be able
to apply to attend the sandpit from the date of the workshop. More details will
be available at the workshop.
Applicants are encouraged from a wide range of disciplines, as challenges in
the Digital Economy will require multi-disciplinary input across a broad spectrum
of subjects including researchers from the arts and humanities, economic and social
scientists, medical sciences, in addition to engineering and physical sciences.
In the event of over subscription attendees will be selected so as to achieve
as wide a selection of disciplines as possible, and also based on the relevance
of their expected contributions.
More Information
For details on how to register, please contact Sue Carter. Tel 01793 444025.
For more details on the workshop focus, please contact
Richard
Bailey. Tel 01793 4444423.
Deadline for applying is 10/09/08. Successful applications will be notified by
17/09/08
Venue: London - to be confirmed
Event date: 24/09/08
Start time: 10:00
End time: 16:30