The International Working Conference on Restructuring Strategies for Information Industry - Advances in Technology, Emerging Markets and Investment Opportunities

Co-Sponsored by:                  Co-operation with:
AMP (USA)                         CERES-GKN
GRID - UNEP                       IEEE(under approval)
UNESCO (under approval)

Liberalization and Globalization of the world economy concurrently with rapid advances in Electronics and Information Technology pose new challenges and great oppornunities. Some of the assumptions underlying developments of industry, their locations, sourcing of raw materials, marketing of the products etc. may need to be reviewed in view of the emerging markets and new investment opportunities. The recent world trade agreements focus on the trade of goods, although the service sector will soon be affected. Moreover service industry is inherently transnational in its nature, and characterized by a significant components of electronics and information technologies. The increased productivity propelled by the advances in Information Technology and in associated areas have direct implications on the international division of labor and capital. Communications facilities can attract industry to locations with relatively lower labor costs especially when the exportable products can be transmitted by a low cost communication channels. The excellent example is the software industry. The Export Processing Zones, set up by many developing countries during the last few decades may have a new role under the changing economic and technological scenario of the world. Also in the same context one can anticipate the changing role of Science and Technology Parks. These developments add new dimensions to education and human resources development, as well as to the transfer of technology. The sweeping advances in communications and networking, in the form of concepts such as "Information highways" along with "Information Free Ways", the "Information Toll Ways" and issues such as "Information Oversupply", "Knowledge Discovery", "Information Conflicts", offer enormous opportunities and challenges to the way we may look at education, and technology transfer, and the Environment. The Environment Information threatens to grow to enormous size and complexity. It is essential to come to terms with these for our sustainable future.

The working conference aims to bring together the academics, technocrats, investors, and decision makers on a common platform and provide brain storming opportunities to create and to exchange ideas and information. The three day conference will have special sessions where investors and hosts (such as special export processing zones, Science Parks, Technology Parks, representatives of governments seeking foreign investment as well as investors in Electronics and Information sectors) meet. There will be special sessions focussing attention on newly emerging economies of Asia and the Eastern Europe. The conference is especially intended to be interdisciplinary.

The conference seeks position papers on various aspects of restructuring strategies. An objective of the conference is to foster an integrated view of the advances in technology, emerging markets and investment opportunities by encouraging scholarly papers and informed discussions. Besides these papers are invited in the following (but not limited to) areas: Information Highways, Multimedia Information Systems, Re-Engineering Software, Digital Libraries and Specific Experiences with Emergent Information Technologies. The proceedings will be published and will be made available extensively. During this occasion a number of state of the art workshops will be conducted by a number of internationally established professionals. We have so far received proposals on Multimedia Communication, Information Highways, Business Re-engineering and Environmental Implications. The conference will be held at the AIT Center Hotel and state of the art conference facilities will be available.

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Advisory Committee