[NORSLIS] Intl Conference on Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2012), Aug 22-24, Turku

[Gunilla Widén]

Welcome to WIS 2012

The 4th International Conference “Well-being in the Information Society 
(WIS 2012) – Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities” will take place on 
22-24 August 2012 in Turku, Finland. The conference will be organized by 
University of Turku – Turku School of Economics and Baltic Region 
Healthy Cities Association and in cooperation with Åbo Akademi 
University and Turku Univ of Applied Sciences.

The core topic of WIS 2012 is health-related inequalities in daily life. 
Among others, vision-, hearing- and movement-impaired people have 
difficulties in accessing services in the modern society, including 
information-technology enabled services.  Yet information technology 
also offers a multitude of possibilities for improving the life of 
impaired people. Most often these solutions are well in line with the 
needs and benefits of everyone. WIS 2012 will review academic 
contributions on these topics at the intersection of health, ICT and 
urban way of living, all manifested in the information society context, 
but also room for industry and third-sector contributions is found in 
the program.

A special track on Age and Information Society will be organized!

At the moment we look for contributions based on high-quality scientific 
research as well as on practical experience.
Deadline for submitting the abstracts is 15 March 2012!

For further information: www.wis.fi

-- 
Gunilla Widén
Professor
Information Studies
School of Business and Economics
Åbo Akademi University
+358-2-2154576