TED 06
Towards e-Democracy:
Participation, Deliberation, Communities
Mantova,
Italy
24 -
26 October, 2006
The invited speakers are:
Liam J. Bannon is
Professor of Computer Science in the Dept. of Computer
Science and Information Systems and Director of the Interaction Design
Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has held appointments in
several Universities in Canada, the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France,
Italy and The Netherlands. His research is in conceptual foundations of
human-centred design, with a focus on collaborative practices,
participatory design, and evaluation issues, and has published in the HCI,
CSCW, Interaction Design and Information Systems research fields. He is
involved in several EU funded research projects. He is a founding editor
of the CSCW Journal, and is serving, or has served, on the editorial
boards of several other Journals, including: Cognition, Technology & Work;
Computer-Assisted Learning, Requirements Engineering, Co-Design, Behaviour
& information Technology, Universal Access in the Information Society,
and Web Based Communities. He is the co-editor of several books,
including, with Zenon Pylyshyn, Perspectives on the Computer Revolution
(Ablex, 1989).
Todd Davies is
Associate Director and Lecturer in the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford
University.
He joined the staff of Symbolic Systems as program coordinator in 1994,
while he was a graduate student in Psychology, ending his first stint in
1996, and returning in 2000. He is now the associate director under Ivan
Sag, who is the director of Symbolic Systems. He taught psychology at Koc
University in Istanbul (1996-'99) and did a year of full-time global
justice activism (1999-2000). He teaches and does research on the psychological
and technical aspects of social decisions. His earlier background was in
statistics (B.S./M.S., Stanford, 1985), artificial intelligence (SRI AI
Center, 1985-'91) and psychology (Ph.D., Stanford, 1995)
Simon French is
Professor of Information and Decision Sciences at
Manchester Business School, UK. Simon has had a varied academic career
working at different times in Departments of Decision Theory, Statistics,
Operational Research and Information Systems, and, a long time ago,
molecular biophysics. Throughout his interest has been in supporting
judgement, inference and decision. He is author of several books on
decision theory and analysis, was founding editor of the Journal of
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. He has worked closely with the nuclear
industry on the use of multi-criteria decision analysis and safety
decisions; and was a member of the International Chernobyl Project, leading
the team which looked at the issues driving decision making in the
aftermath of the accident, running five decision conferences within the
Soviet Union. It was his experience on the Chernobyl Project that led him
to realise the paramount importance of including good information
management and communication as an integral part of risk management.
Recently he has been working in the areas of public risk communication.
e-democracy and societal risk governance.
Gregory E. Kersten is a professor
of decision and negotiation systems at the John Molson School of Business and the
Director of the InterNeg Research Centre at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
He is a Vice-Chairperson of the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation College and a departmental
editor of the Group Decision and Negotiation Journal. Gregory’s research in¬terests include
decision-making, negotiations, artificial intelligence, and decision support and simulation.
He has co-authored and edited three books and has published over a hundred articles in refereed journals.
He developed and co-developed four systems to support and simulate decision-making
and negotiations: NEGO (developed in 1981) has been used for several years in executive courses,
an expert system shell Nego¬plan used for hostage-taking and medical simulations,
a web-based e-negotiation system Inspire and most recently Invite, an e-negotiation
software platform used to generate various systems and conduct comparative studies.
David Newman is
a Lecturer in Information Systems in the School of
Management at Queen's University Belfast. He used to work on Appropriate
Technology for the Third World, in Nairobi and Maputo, but decided to
work somewhere safe for a change. So he went to Belfast before the
trouble ended. His research in Belfast has been on appropriate ICTs for
community informatics, e-consultation, e-government and constructivist
e-learning.