[Fis] call for vienna 14

[Dr. Shu-Kun Lin]

"Sustainable information society" is a very interesting topic. MDPI will
organize a sustainability conference in Basel. FIS may have a symposium
on "sustainable information society" in Basel, to be held in September
2015 as part of our conference  "World Sustainability Forum". We already
ran several times online since 2011:
1st World Sustainability Forum http://sciforum.net/conference/wsf/
2nd World Sustainability Forum http://sciforum.net/conference/wsf2/
3rd World Sustainability Forum http://sciforum.net/conference/wsf3/
4th World Sustainability Forum http://sciforum.net/conference/wsf-4/
Now we will run a realy physical conferences in Basel with several
thematic symposium.

On 24.07.2014 11:47, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote:
> Dear Wolfgang,
>
>
> Regarding the call for Vienna 2014, I think that the present text
> forms a consistent unity, and that a slight rewording on the "focus"
> paragraph may be enough:
>
> "Thus the focus needs to be twofold:
>
> – on the impact of the sciences of information: how can we improve
> the design and implementation of applications such that they allow
> for more social autonomous usages and for the advancement of a viable
> and sustainable information society?
>
> – on the foundations of the sciences of information: how can we
> improve the concepts we use for the study of information, at all
> levels (from the physical and computational to the biological and
> social), such that we open new vistas on the analysis of contemporary
> problems?"
>
> best wishes
>
> --Pedro
>