[NORSLIS] WELL-BEING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY - FIGHTING INEQUALITIES

[Ágústa Pálsdóttir]

Dear colleagues

 

I send here information about the WIS 2018 conference. 

 

Kind regards, Ágústa Pálsdóttir

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

University of Turku and the Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association
organize the seventh Well-Being in the Information Society (WIS) 2018
conference in Turku, Finland 27-29. August 2018. 

 

See more on WIS 2018 in  <http://www.wis.fi> www.wis.fi

 

The overreaching topic of the 2018 conference is

 

WIS 2018 – Fighting inequalities

 

SUGGESTED TOPICS

We want to focus on sustainable systemic solutions to urban health problems
and issues in this year’s conference, giving priority to multidisciplinary
contributions. Issues of interest include but are not limited to:

 

HEALTH

*	Health inequalities
*	Health system differences
*	Health and digital divide
*	Sustainable e- and m-health

WORK

*	Public-private partnerships in health
*	Safe working environment 
*	Digital workplace
*	Ubiquitous work

WEALTH

*	Social inequalities
*	Segmentation and polarization of society
*	Barriers and drivers of health and social equality

DIGITAL WORLD

*	Inclusive system design
*	Promises of digitalization for well-being
*	Digital Divide
*	Developing and maintaining health systems

 

FORMATS AND PUBLICATIONS

All accepted conference papers will be published in Springer series CCIS
(Communications in Computer and Information Science).

Take a look at the WIS 2016 proceedings:
<http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319446714>
http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783319446714

Best papers as further developed versions are published also in a special
Issue of International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices:
<http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijtmcp>
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijtmcp

 

Papers are in two forms: full papers and abstracts. Contributions in both
categories are submitted in ready form.  Please submit your paper through
the link in the conference website  <http://www.wis.fi> www.wis.fi

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission
31.03.2018

Notification of acceptance
10.05.2018

Final versions and author registration                        10.06.2018

 

ORGANIZERS

University of Turku and Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association – WHO
Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Health in the Baltic
Region in co-operation with Åbo Akademi University, Turku University of
Applied Sciences and the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare.

 

If you do have any inquiries do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Please feel free to circulate this further to potential interested
recipients.

 

Looking forward to see you in Turku in August 2018!

 

 



 

 

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Ágústa Pálsdóttir, PhD, Professor 

Head of Department of Information Science 

e-mail:  <mailto:agustap at hi.is> agustap at hi.is

phone: 525-4507

fax:  552-6806

 

Address:

University of Iceland

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Gimli v/Sæmundargötu

101 Reykjavík

Iceland

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