Namur (Belgium), May 19-20, 2001. The attendance was pretty high: 25 members.
This meeting was also the opportunity of celebrating the TC9 XXVth anniversary. At this occasion, a brochure has been produced: ’Some milestones of the History of Technical Committee 9 Relationships between Computers and Societies’, with contributions of Heinz Zemanek, Hal Sackman, Kenneth Owen, Pertti Järvinen, …
The meeting was preceded by a two hours Round Table with an audience of external people, chaired by Ch. Avgerou (TC9 Vice Chair), and animated by TC9 panellists Peter Mambrey, Jonathan Miller, JAN Lee, and John Weckert. The theme was: Information Society in public discourse and government policies in our countries

Next meeting is scheduled before/after WCC 2002 in Montreal.

The current chair has been reelected (from January 2002); no change in the other officers.

Prof. Wolfgang Coy, Humboldt University Berlin
His membership has been presented under provision c) of art. 4.3.2 of the IFIP By-Laws.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Informatik, coy@informatik.hu-berlin.de

New Switzerland representative (to be approved by our cognizant trustee)
Prof. Dr. Lorenz M. Hilty, Programme Manager "Sustainability in the Information Society" Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) CH-9014 St.Gallen, mailto:lorenz.hilty@empa.ch (OR mailto:lorenz.hilty@fhso.ch )

New Hungarian representative (to be approved by our cognizant trustee)
John von Neumann Computer Society appointed Laszlo Z. KARVALICS as representative to IFIP TC-9. His e-mail address is mailto:zkl@itm.bme.hu

• Andrew Freeman has requested to cease as TC9 Australian representative from as early as possible in 2001; no new member is appointed until now: John Weckert has been ’provisionally’ appointed.
• Henrik.Dvergsdal, Finnish Representative has also resigned.

• TC9 will be present in stream 6 of the next WCC, and have its HCC-6 'Human Choice and Computers: Issues of Choice and Quality of Life in the Information Society'.
• TC9 has also decided to have a common activity in order to avoid TC9 meetings being just business meetings. Therefore we decided to work on a textbook Critical perspectives on the Information Society where all the WG9.x will contribute as well as national representatives. The structure and contribution have been discussed in TC9 meetings 1999, 2000 and 2001. A workshop with authors is planned in January 2002 in Namur (in conjunction with SIG9.2.2 and WG9.2 meetings). Part I will be mainly a state of the art contribution by each working group according to its speciality and Part II Cases studies at national, regional and local level.
• TC9 agreed to co-sponsor the "International on Informatics for Environmental Protection - Sustainability in the Information Society" to be held at ETH in Zurich, 2001/10/10-12

Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization, Leif Bloch Rasmussen, Colin Beardon and Silvio Munari, Eds., Proceedings of the 5^th IFIP-HCC (Human Choice and Computers) International Conference, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

The full list of TC9 publications, since 1974, is available at http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP_tc9/index.html

See at the end of Part I this report.

The business meeting 2000 took place in New York, NY, USA, December 1 in the Graduate Center of the City University NY. We reviewed the PDC 2000 and agreed upon that it was a great success.
The business meeting 2001 will be in conjunction with the ECSCW in Bonn, Germany, September 16, 2001.

Several members were removed from the list because of inactivity.

The Participatory Design Conference (PDC 2000) New York, USA, was held Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2000. WG9.1 is a co-sponsor of the biannual PDC along with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). Several members of the WG played an active part. Peter Mambrey was co-chair of the program committee and Randy Trigg was member of the program committee. The URL of the event is: http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000/

SIG 9.1.1 web-site: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~oechteri/IFIP

After 20 years of activity as a SIG, SIG9.1.1, in agreement with WG9.1, has asked TC9 to become a full WG (WG9.8 ’Women and Women and Information Technology’). The question was pending for several years. They had successfully organized 7 conferences and published all the Proceedings.
TC9 has fully approved the transformation of SIG9.1.1 in WG9.8.

Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future, Ellen Balka & Richard Smith, Eds., IFIP TC9/WG9.1 7^th International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization , Vancouver, June 8-11, British Columbia, Canada. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7923-7864-4

Aims and Scope (see part II) have been approved by TC9.

Chair: Veronika Oechtering (Germany),
Regional Chairs:
Annemieke Craig (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia),
Frances Grundy (University of Keele, United Kingdom),
Sharda Singh Khati (Nepal),
Susan Smith (IBM Watson Research Center, USA), and
H. Abimbola Soriyan (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)

Alison Adam, University of Salford, UK
Cecile Creutzen, Open University, The Netherlands
Eileen Green, University of Teeside, UK
Tove Hapnes, SINTEF Industrial Management, Norway
Liisa von Hellens, Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
Steffie Janssen, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
Greg Michaelson, Heriot-Watt University Scotland, UK
Sue Myburgh, University of South Australia, Adelaide, AUS
Ellen C. J. van Oost, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Margit Pohl, Technical University Wien, Austria
Paula Roberts, University of South Australia
Toni Robertson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Britta Schinzel, University of Freiburg, Germany
Angela Scollarly, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Heidi Schelhowe, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Eva Turner, University of East London, UK
Marja Vehviläinen, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

The next WWC-conference will probably be held in Australia in summer 2003. Decisions are still ongoing.

A first regional workshop of the SIG 9.1.1 has been held on December, 1st, 2000, at the Open University of Heerlen with the title "Interaction, a world of differences" (http://www.ou.nl/info-alg-ntw/differences/ ).

• The WG9.2 had his regular meeting on January 13-14 2001 in Namur. 15 persons attended the meeting, 17 have sent their apologies.
• 7th-8th July 2001: WG meeting in Linköping (Sweden)

The next activities are:  

• January 19-20, 2002, Namur (Belgium)
• May/June 2002 Bergen aan Zee (The Netherlands)
• 24-25 Aug 2002 (tent.), Montreal, Canada
• January 2003, Namur (Belgium)
• August 2003, Karlstad (Sweden)

Von SCHÉELE Fabian, Stockholm University/DSV, Sweden, Email: fabian@dsv.su.se

WG9.2 has started the process of updating its famous 1990 textbook Landscape for an Information Society, printed by Springer Verlag - Captus University Press. It was considered at the time as the European equivalent to the US Kling-Dunlop’s Computers and Controversies. WG9.2 will not duplicate the work of TC9, because it has not by itself the capacity of meeting the multifaceted scope of the TC9 WGs.

• May/June 2002: Conference for the authors of the papers of the new "Landscape" Textbook
• A joint Summer School (one week) is planned in cooperation with WG9.6 and WG9.8 in August 2003 at Karlstad University (Sweden). Theme: Social, political, ethical and legal aspects of eCommunication (Internet, mobile, eCommerce, …)

SIG9.2.1 will be attempting to combine activities with WG13.3 in order to maximize the membership resources, which are limited.

Mailto:geoff.busby@marconi.com

• Meetings held and scheduled: January 12-14, 2001 Meeting Namur; February 16, 2001 Meeting Gt Baddow, Chelmsford, England.

• Changes in Membership and Officers: None

• Working group activities: SIG9.2.1 Plans to give talk-ins at WG9.2 meetings leading to Conference in Montreal GA 2002 and a chapter in the update of the Landscapes Handbook.

• Events: Conference of Montreal

January 12, 2001 (Namur, Belgium)
July 6, 2001 (Linköping, Sweden)

Chris Zielinski (already member of WG9.2) applies for membership. He will be officially a member when attending his second meeting. Chris is also working in the ethics group of ISTF (Internet Society Task Force) of ISOC (Internet Society). See: http://www.istf.org/wg.html

SIG9.2.2 goes on with its work on the Internet Governance and is analyzing new national and international codes or self-regulation documents. 40 codes have been now analyzed. A tentative synthesis has been presented in the last SIG9.2.2 meeting, and we shall now try to derive which are the components of real ethical nature, try to propose topics that we think would have to be included in a code, and make recommendations for the process of writing.

SIG9.2.2 will participate in the Montreal WCC 2002 and will present the first results of its in-depth analysis. A first presentation as been done at the CREIS Conference (March 2001, Paris, France) and at INET 2001 (June 2001, Stockholm). We are also willing to participate in the planned handbook of WG9.2 as well as of TC9.

SIG9.2.2 does not think it has as SIG to reduplicate conferences, which are organized on a regular basis by ETHICOMP, CEPE, and INSEIT (the recently created international organization: International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). It considers that its genuine work is to provide IFIP members with proposals to be discussed within the IFIP community and other international audiences.

SIG9.2.2 Chair has been invited by the UNESCO sub-commission on ’Ethics of the Information Society’ to a two-days (June 17-18, 2001) experts meeting. He was invited to make a contribution on Risks and Vulnerabilities of Democracy in Information Societies.

Jacques Berleur, Penny Duquenoy, Marie d'Udekem-Gevers, Tanguy Ewbank de Wespin, Matt Jones and Diane Whitehouse, Self-Regulation Instruments – Classification – A Preliminary Inventory, (HCC-5, Geneva 1998; SIG9.2.2 January 2000; SIG9.2.2 June 2000; IFIP-WCC-SEC2000), © IFIP-SIG9.2.2 (already available under SIG922 copyright at http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl/IFIP/sig922/selfreg.html )

Jacques Berleur, Ethics and the Governance of the Internet, Recommendations of IFIP-SIG9.2.2, in: Leif Bloch Rasmussen, Colin Beardon and Silvio Munari, Eds., Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization, Proceedings of the 5^th IFIP-HCC International Conference, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 141-154.

Penny Duquenoy and Diane Whitehouse, The Process of Ethics, in: Leif Bloch Rasmussen, Colin Beardon and Silvio Munari, Eds., Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization, op.cit., pp. 361-379.

Jacques Berleur and Jean-Marc Dinant, Will Self-Regulation Improve the Internet Security? In: IFIP/SEC2000: Information Security. Information Security for Global Information Infrastructures, Sihan Qing & Jan H.P. Eloff, Eds., Proceedings of the IFIP- 16^th World Computer Congress, SEC2000 Conference, Beijing, International Academic Publishers, Beijing 2000, pp. 306-309.

Jacques Berleur, Selfregulation: Content, Legitimacy and Efficiency - Governance and Ethics, in: Proceedings of the INET 2001 (Internet Society) International Conference, June 5-8, 2001, Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/01/CD_proceedings/G06/Berleur.htm

WG9.3 meeting held on March 11th at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
WG9.3, 28-30 Apr 2002, Irvine, USA

Ulf Keijer (SE), Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School of Architecture
Tony Proctor (UK), Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Wolverhampton
Alladi Venkatesh (USA), Professor of Management and Computer Science and Associate Director, CRITO (Center for Research on Information Technology & Organizations), U.C. Irvine.
Lynne Baillie from Edinburgh (Scotland), lynne@dcs.napier.ac.uk

A workshop is planned for April 2002, and already approved and included in the IFIP calendar of events (OIKOS 2002, University of California, Irvine, USA; Local Org. Prof. Alladi Venkatesh) and a working conference in Summer 2003.

Home Informatics and Telematics - Information, Technology and Society, Andy Sloane and Felix van Rijn, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7923-7867-9

Home Informatics and Telematics - Information, Technology and Society,HOIT2000 Proceedings, Volume 2, Andy Sloane and Felix van Rijn, Eds., IFIP Press, 2000, 110 pages, ISBN 3-901882-12-X.

Work is progressing on a HOIT journal

No change

Our main activity last year was the international conference in Cape Town in May 2000.
We are now working on the preparation of the following major international conference of our WG in Bangalore (India), May 29-31, 2002. Title: ICTs and Development: Opportunities, Perspectives and Challenges. Co-chairs: S. Krishna (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India) and Sh. Madon (London School of Economics, UK). The call for papers is available at http://is.lse.ac.uk/ifipwg94/Conference2002/first_call.htm

Apart from these, our mailing list is quite active, with many members circulating relevant information and occasionally engaging in debates. For example, one of the issues discussed was the diffusion of the Internet in Africa, the extent to which existing data re reliable, and how it should be interpreted. Also, our newsletter continues to be published quarterly and is improving in quality of content.

A selection of papers presented at the Bangkok conference, in February 1998 was published by Ashgate. We are now working on the publication of a selection of papers from the Cape Town conference in various international journals. Specifically, we are preparing a special issue of The Information Society Journal, we have forwarded several papers in The journal IT for Development, and several others to the Electronic Journal of Information Systems for Development.

Nevertheless, our publication strategy is subject to revision. Our experience of publishing journal articles rather than edited book volumes may give some visibility of our work to a wider information systems community, but many members and friends regret the discontinuing of production of volumes which include the collective efforts of our group. Besides, the publication of articles requires considerable re-working of conference papers and entails very long delays.

We have had difficulty in finding hosts for the organization of regional conferences. Our members in all three regions lacked confidence to volunteer for the organization of events. The chair and vice chairs will have to collaborate to identify institutions willing to make the effort and take the risk.

We are in the process of discussing the organization of a joint conference with WG8.2 in 2003 in Athens. The two Groups share cognitive and epistemological groups and it is believed that the joint event will be of mutual benefit.

The last WG meeting was held during WG9.5 workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, May 2000. The participants of the workshop (60) were informed about Aims and Scopes of WG9.5.
Next WG9.5 member meeting scheduled for Malmö, October/November 2001.

Membership and Officers were confirmed by TA Beijing 2000. Elections are planned during WG9.5 meeting in Malmö, October/November 2001.

a) The WG9.5 workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, May 2000 stimulated the discussion on VR applications for Development. A VR-application is meanwhile produced on water sanitation in cooperation with UNESCO, Naledi 3D Factory (SA) and a rural Telecentre in Uganda.

b) The journal 'Digital Creativity' invites on behalf of WG9.5 contributions to a special issue on Applications and Social Implications of Virtual Worlds.
Notes for Contributors can be found on the journal’s website http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/dc1.html . The issue will be published in late 2001 or early 2002.

a) Workshop planned August/September 2001 in cooperation with Naledi 3D Factory in Johannesburg. Organisation: Dave Lookwood, Member WG9.5, Johannesburg
Virtual Worlds and 3D Visualisation for Development Water Sanitation:
VR Application at Multipurpose Community Telecentre Nakasake, Uganda

• Visualization of problems with Landmines in Namibia/Angola
• VR, Animation, Simulation for games in Education and Science
• Awareness on HIV/AIDS

b) Workshop planned October/November 2001 in cooperation with VR research group in Malmö. Organisation: Lone Malmborg, Secretary WG9.5, Malmö University College (Sweden)
Applications and Social Implications of Virtual Worlds

• VR in Education and Science
• Design for VR in Arts
• Experiences in Medicine and Psychology
• VR and Ethics

The papers of Cape Town May 2000 workshop are posted on WG9.5 Website http://www.lrv.ufsc.br/IFIP-WG-9.5

a) WG9.5 organised workshops in Latin America (Florianopolis 1997, Fortaleza 1999) and Africa (CapeTown 2000), and is planning the next in Europe. Cooperation with countries in Asia has to be strengthened.

b) Co-operation with TC3 Education should be intensified in the area of VR/animation/simulation in education and especially science education.

Participation in face-to-face meetings of WG-members has to be improved. Travel costs are the main constraints.

TC9 comment:

TC9 has asked WG9.5 to evaluate their activity and to give more focus on social issues; the impression is that too diffused activity doesn’t give the best visibility.

• 17-18 June 2000 in Paris (10 participants, 15 apologies)
• 11. November 2000 in Vienna (13 participants, 8 apologies)
• 17. June 2001 in Bratislava (11 participants, 3 guests)
• 23-24 Nov 2001, London, UK at LSE. Robert Willison will be the local organiser.
• 1 June 2002, Prague, Czech Rep. (after the "Information Security Summit", 29-30 May 2002 in Prague). Dagmar Brechlerova will be the local organiser.

Chair - Simone Fischer-Hübner
Co-Chair - Kai Rannenberg
Vice-Chair - Robert Willison
Secretary - Gunnar Wenngren

Olujoke Akindemowo, Law School, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Dagmar Brechlerova, Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Department of Information Technologies
Arslan Brömme, Hamburg University, Department for Informatics
Daniel Olejar, Department of Computer Science, Comenius University, Bratislava
Jorge Davila, Spain
Giovanni Iachello, Italy
Beat Lehmann, Switzerland
Riad Fawzi, Switzerland

WG9.6/11.7 SCITS-II (Security and Control of IT in Society) working conference (in Bratislava/Slovakia, June 15-16, 2001) was successful. It was the first joint WG9.6/11.7 event. The conference programme included 15 submitted and accepted papers (out of 24) and two invited papers from 11 different countries. Comenius University in Bratislava was active and supported by the Slovak Society for Computer Science. The local organising committee represented by Daniel Olejar, Jozef Vyskoc made an excellent job. They created the conference homepage (http://www.conference.sk/ifip/), which will be kept for future access. Technical and general aspects of the SCITS-II conference and proceedings were discussed and reviewed. An online access to all papers and presentation slides of the conference is planned. Authors will therefore be asked to grant permission for IFIP WG9.6/11.7 to publish papers and slides electronically. A report to summarise the contributions of the SCITS-II conference will be written by Jozef Vyskoc, Daniel Olejar, and Arslan Brömme.

• A joint Summer School (one week) is planned in cooperation with WG9.2 and WG9.8 in August 2003 at Karlstad University. Local organiser: Simone Fischer-Hübner. Theme: Social, political, ethical and legal aspects of eCommunication (Internet, mobile, eCommerce, …)
• Contribution of WG9.6/11.7 for the "Human Choice & Computers" Conference (HCC-6) as part of the IFIP World Computer Congress 2002 (http://www.wcc2002.org/en/index.html)
• The SEC´2003 is planned as a joint conference of different IFIP WG conferences. WG9.6/11.7 favours the idea of several proceedings with several editors, e.g. one per WG subconference as well as a low budget conference.
• A workshop at the London School of Economics is planned for November 2002. Local organiser: Robert Willison).

TC11 has approached WG9.6 in November 1999 with the idea to unfreeze and re-establish WG11.7 aiming at establishing a joint Working Group 9.6/11.7. WG9.6 welcomed this proposal under the condition that the responsible TC for a joint WG9.6/11.7 should be/stay TC9. WG9.6 had discussed and worked out revisions of its aims and scopes with TC11 representatives to serve as aims and scopes of a joint WG.

WG9.6 was informed that the IFIP-TA and GA at their last meeting approved the decision of TC9 and TC11 to create a joint working group 9.6/11.7 "Information Technology Misuse and the Law" under the administrative responsibility of TC9 (By-law 4.3.8).

This WG was set up provisionally until the "Aims and Scope" are accepted by the respective TCs and approved by TA.

At its May 2001 meeting, TC9 congratulated the joint working group 9.6/11.7 for its work, and especially for the success of SCITS-II, and approved the Aims and Scope (see Part II). TC11 approved also the Aims and Scope.

An agreement between the two chairs has also been stated.

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Daniel Olejar, Kai Rannenberg (Eds.), Proceedings of the IFIP WG9.6/11.7 working conference Security & Control of IT in Society –II! (SCITS-II), 15-16 June 2001, Bratislava / Slovakia, ISBN 3-901882-13-8 (to appear)

WG9.6 uses an email-distribution list ( ifip-wg-9.6@cs.kau.se ) for internal discussions and information exchange. WG9.6 web-pages are available at: http://www.cs.kau.se/~simone/ifip-wg-9.6/wg96.htm

The major activity of WG9.7 since the last TC-9 meeting has been the Pioneer Day in Beijing at the IFIP World Computer Congress. The meeting was organized by the Chinese Computer Society and was well attended. Unfortunately the venue was away from the main conference and thus many prospective attendees simply did not find it!
The meeting featured several speakers who emphasized China's contributions in the areas of communications, software and micro-electronics. A small luncheon followed the meeting where several Chinese pioneers were in attendance. Work has already started on the encouragement of the Canadian Information Processing Society to organize a pioneer day in Montreal in 2002.
New WG9.7 Chair: after written consultation, WG9.7 members and past chair John AN Lee submit the nomination of John Impagliazzo from Hofstra University (see http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/HCLAS/CSC/csc_cscjzi.cfm )
John chaired the group who wrote the IFIP Report: History in the Computing Curriculum (may found as well as other material at http://CompHist.org)
Next meeting: 25-26 August 2002 (tentative) in Montreal, Canada
TC9 approved the appointment of John Impagliazzo and thanked JAN Lee for having done history of computing a preoccupation for TC9.

TC9 Meetings Attendance (TC9 Chair on May 2001)

* Resigned from TC — + representative attended — a apologies — r represented— o observer

Version 2000-07-20 (approved by TC9 and TC11)

AIMS

• To foster co-operation between the "Computers and Society" and "Information Security" communities on issues of "IT misuse and the law".
• To develop an understanding in IFIP committees and national bodies of:

• threats associated with IT systems and the related legal concerns.
• risks to people and organisations arising from these threats.
• responsibilities of people and organisations arising from legal and other provisions for information security.
• risks arising from incoherency between legal, technical and managerial provisions.
• the impact of IT systems on the current law, e.g. (criminal and civil law) and potential problems.

• To propose and/or evaluate legal and other prescriptions to combat these threats and their associated risks.
• To engender information exchange on threats, their origins, and possible consequences.
• To propose and/or evaluate legal and other appropriate courses of action.

SCOPE

• Analysis of existing and emerging threats to IT systems security, and the associated risks to people, organisations and society.
• Analysis of security principles.
• Aspects of the law where the use or introduction of IT on a global scale has rendered the current law (and/or its interpretations) obsolete or obsolescent or made it unenforcable.
• Analysis of potential means of countering and mitigating threats, e.g. legal frameworks, ethical standards, managerial procedures, and other social factors applicable to behaviour and responsibilities in the context of IT systems.
• Possible solutions.
• New legal, social and organisational consequences of the development and use of IT systems.

(Version July 2001)

This WG is dedicated to research and action how different areas of society being transformed by computer technology with particular emphasis on changes in women’s work and life and how these have come about. It is based on the integration of gender studies and computer science. Membership is open to both women and men.

In this context the WG aims

• to serve as an international, interdisciplinary communication forum and to hold discussions in workshops and conferences,
• to exchange women’s experiences as scholars and professionals in information technology,
• to integrate feminist perspectives into computer science,
• to develop an understanding in the IFIP communities and national bodies of the gendered aspects in design, realisation, and implementation of information systems,
• to propose and/or evaluate appropriate courses of action.

The topics cover the transitions from women’s traditional work to work based on modern technology, from communication within personal communities to virtual communities, from traditional gendered life to new gendered perspectives. Computerisation is understood in the narrow sense of computing systems as well as in the broader sense which includes the organisational, ethical, and social context of design and usage.

Discourses are linked to

• the analysis of the effects of computer technology on women’s status as citizens,
• the analysis of opportunities and risks of computerised technologies for women’s work in the paid labour force and in domestic spheres,
• the analysis of gender perspectives in the formative and constructive processes of computers and information systems,
• the analysis of gender in computing education and educational strategies for girls and women.

WG’s web site: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~oechteri/IFIP

WG’s mailing list: ifip-women@majordomo.zfn.uni-bremen.de (provisional; must be checked with mailto:oechteri@Informatik.uni-bremen.de )