WORKSHOP 1
The Information Society in the Euro-Mediterranean context: Research and Information Technologies
Sophia-Antipolis, 1-2 April 1996Papers
Introduction
- Discours d'Introduction, de Jean-Michel Chassériaux - ERCIM
- Discours de Mr. le Sénateur Pierre Laffitte
The political context
- M. D. Khalil, Minister of Research, Morocco:
- Discours de L. Kott - INRIA (France)
- STOA: The European Parliaments Technology Assesment Unit by D. Holdsworth - European Parliament
Regional cooperation - rapport du groupe
- A. Nazif - RITSEC (Egypt)
- Le Programme international pour l'informatique (PII) de l'UNESCO de M. Kameleddine Chamakhi - UNESCO
- Regional Cooperation by S. Trumpy - CNR (Italy)
- Middle East and North Africa Water Resources Consortium and Technology Exchange Network by D . Ouazar - EMI (Morocco)
- The INTERMED Network by A. Serra - UPC (Spain)
Demonstration and pilot projects
1. Applications for enterprises
- GMD's TechnoPark - A Window to Technlolgy and SME - by K. Schunk - GMD (Germany)
- CYTED: An Example of Cooperation in RTD Activities by A. Alique - Plan Nacional de I&D (Spain)
2. Natural resources management - rapport du groupe
- Un Système Pour l'Exploitation des Zones Côtières en Méditerranée by C. Nikolau - FORTH (Greece)
- Remote Sensing Observation for a Coastal Zone Management System in the Mediterranean Sea by I. Herlin - INRIA (France)
- Ressources Naturelles, Prévision et Prévention des Risques au Maroc de D. Ben Sari - EMI (Morocco)
- L'Ecole Nationale Polytechnique et les technologies de l'information de S. Benhadid - ENP (Algeria)
3.Cultural and scientific information
- Interactive Multimedia On-line Services: The Digital Library Paradigm by C. Thanos - CNR (Italy)
- AQUARELLE: Le Réseau d'Information sur le Patrimoine Culturel de A. Michard - INRIA (France)
- Bibliotheca Universalis by S. Zillhardt - BNF (France)
- L'Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, un pôle d'excellence sur les rives de la Méditerranée de T. Hadhri - EPT (Tunisia)
4. Telemedecine - Group Report
- Integrated Regional, National, and Transnational Telemedicine Networks by S. Orphanoudakis - FORTH (Greece)
- Towards a WWW-accessible knowledge base on breast cancer prognosis and therapy by R. Dieng - INRIA (France) and C. Ruggiero - University of Genova (Italy)
- Medical training, help, and telecommunication using interactive 3D graphics as visual explanations by G. Grunst - GMD (Germany)
- Installation d'un réseau local de M. Bouziane - INSMO (Algeria)
5. Tourism - Group Report
- IT to promote tourism between Europe and the Mediterranean countries by M. Wilson - RAL (UK)
- The importance of Multimedia and Geographical Information System Technologies in the Tourism Industry by S. Benabdallah and K. Bounemra - IRSIT (Tunisia)
- Méditerranée On-Line - Place de Marché Electronique de B. Vitrey - Méditerranée On-Line (France)
Session A : networking and protocols - Rapport
du groupe
A.a. Standards
- Applications multimédia sur l'Internet de W. Dabbous - INRIA (France)
- Internet for the region by K. Birkenbihl - GMD (Germany)
A.b. W3C
- The World Wide Web Consortium presented by B. Hopgood - RAL (UK) and S. Pemberton - CWI (The Netherlands)
Session B: databases, multilinguality - Group
report
B.a. databases
- Database Technology by K. Jeffery - RAL (UK)
- Integrated Geographical Information Systems by P. Prastakos - FORTH (Greece)
- Research Activities at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus, by A. Kakas - University of Cyprus (Cyprus)
B.b. multilinguality
- Guaranteeing Multilinguality in the Information Society by C. Peters - CNR (Italy)
- Multilingual Electronic Commerce by A. Lehtola - VTT (Finland)
- L'appariement : quels problèmes? et Synthèse lexico-syntagmatique assistée de l'arabe voyellé by F. Debili - CNRS (France)
Session C: Development of national networks - rapport du groupe
- Rapport sur l'état des résaux de télécommunications au Liban de S. Catafago - ESIB (Lebanon)
- Open Distance Learning by P. Constanta - FORTH (Greece)
- ISIS - Information Signal and Images by M. Najim - ENSERB (France)
- Presentation de Renater II de S. Jaume - GIP Renater (France)
- Ways in which Developping Countries could benefit from Internet, by P. Renaud - Unitar-Geneva (Switzerland)
- The Palestinian Academic Network by Marwan Tarazi, presented by S.G. Zoughbi (Palestinain Council for Higher Education)
- L'informatique au Maroc : Formation et Recherche by A. Bennani - ENSIAS (Morocco)
- Establishing a National Information System for Jordan by Yousef Nusseir - National Information Centre (Jordan)
Conclusion
- Conclusion de Michel Carpentier Directeur Général et Conseiller spécial de la Commission Européenne
The Information Society in the Euro-Mediterranean
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