FM1 New Definitions: Value, Community, Space

First Monday & International Institute of Infonomics

November 4-6, 2001
Heerlen/Maastricht, the Netherlands

The impact on society of the technologies of "digitisation" is universal and ubiquitous, affecting everything. But how does this digitisation change our basic concepts about society?

FM 1 New Definitions will bring together some of the world's leading thinkers and doers in various fields-from anthropology to law, economics to information technology-to ask: What, if anything, is new about the way we redefine our understanding of these concepts?

This conference is uniquely designed to contrast opinions from different disciplines in sessions linked by common themes: Value, Community, Space. A special Crosstalk session each day brings together participants from the different themes in debate, to elicit a broader understanding of the issues that face us.

The conference will be held in the historic region of Heerlen/Maastricht in the Netherlands.

FM 1 New Definitions is being organised by First Monday - the peer-reviewed journal of the Internet, and the International Institute of Infonomics, a new venture of the University of Maastricht and Hogeschool Zuyd sponsored by the European Commission.

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