WORKSHOP
Two events have been organised in the framework of the PARADISO project in order to efficiently interact with individuals and organisations from all over the world, specialised or interested in issues related to societal developments and to ICT research. A precise expected output of these events was the thorough discussion of the draft versions of the PARADISO Reference document.
The first event, held on June 12-13, 2008 at the European Commission in Brussels, was a scientific workshop attended by over 40 experts, coming from all regions of the world (the attendee list is available here as a pdf file). To be noted: during the preparation phase of this workshop, many individuals and organisations kindly expressed their support to the PARADISO project: these supporting statements can be accessed here). The workshop succeeded reaching its objectives: providing delegates an opportunity to exchange views and to discuss the draft version of the PARADISO reference document. The agenda and proceedings of this workshop can be accessed below.
The second event, the "ICT for a global sustainable future" conference was held in Brussels on January 22-23, 2009 under the aegis of the European Commission and with the support of many international organisations. It attracted over 800 delegates from 70 countries. Detailed information on this event is provided in the Conference section of this web site.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 12 |
OPENING SESSION
(moderated by Jacques Babot, PARADISO project officer, European Commission)
WELCOME ADDRESS
Mario Campolargo, Acting Director, Directorate F, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission
Strategy for Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE)
Per Blixt, Head of Unit New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities, European Commission
PARADISO objectives and activities
Roger Torrenti, PARADISO project coordinator, Sigma Orionis
EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE PARADIGM SHIFT ON GLOBAL SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENTS
(session moderated by Roger Torrenti, PARADISO project coordinator, Sigma Orionis and Roland Burger,
PARADISO project manager, Club of Rome)
Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies
Jon Hall, Leader, Global project on measuring the progress of societies, OECD
GNH Indices: Work in Progress
Phuntsho Rapten, Senior researcher, The Centre for Bhutan Studies, Bhutan
A New Economic Paradigm inspired by Gross National Happiness?
Hans Van Willenswaard, GNH3 organiser, Sathirakoses Nagapradipa Foundation, Thailand
(a paper has also been prepared by the author and is available here)
The Happy Planet Index: Creating timely, relevant, robust and reliable feedback loops
Nic Marks, Founder of the Center for well-being, The New Economics Foundation, United Kingdom
Needs for new development measures: a Japanese research project
Takayoshi Kusago, Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan
(a paper has also been prepared by the author and is available here)
Sustainable development as a paradigm and as a tool for directing the information society
Thomas Schauer, Director, the Club of Rome European Support Center, Austria
From bounded rationality to economic complexity: limits of freedom, democracy, and law
Ping Chen, Professor, Peking University, China
Sustainable growth and the distribution of income
Gennaro Zezza, Associate Professor, University of Cassino, Italy
High-Expectation Entrepreneurship - Experiments, Simulations and 'Clinical' Treatments
Piero Formica, Dean International Entrepreneurship Academy, Jonköping University, Sweden
(a paper has also been prepared by the author and is available here)
The possible global paradigm shift: Paradiso, Wickedness and Poverty
Gwin Prins, Professor, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
After Limits to the growth: the de-growth paradigm
Raoul Weiler, President of the Brussels-EU Chapter, Club of Rome
Toolkit for sustainable development
Florian Colceag, IRSCA Gifted Education, Romania
A new economic paradigm is needed very soon
Guido-Henri de Couvreur, President, Mondo vzw, Belgium
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FRIDAY, JUNE 13 |
IDENTIFYING ICT NEEDS AND RESEARCH AREAS
(session moderated by Fabrizio Sestini, project officer, European Commission and Roland Burger,
PARADISO project manager, Club of Rome)
Services and the Global Future Internet Society
Elmar Husmann, IBM Senior Managing consultant, SC member of the NESSI ETP, Germany
Climate futures: Exploring the social response to climate change
Chris Preist, Principal Scientist, HP Labs, United Kingdom
Identifying ICT needs and research areas: new cooperative infrastructures
Dimitri Papadimitriou, coordinator of the ECODE project, Alcatel Lucent, Belgium
The Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation: perspectives
Anastasius Gavras, Panlab/PII programme manager, Eurescom, Germany
Media Convergence and the future of democracies
Gaston Zongo, International consultant in ICT4D, Senegal
Transmuting Technological Materialism
Craig Warren Smith, Senior Advisor, University of Washington and Founder Digital Divide.org, USA
ICT - from Business to Happiness
Hyeoeun Lee, Director, Institute for Information Technology Advancement, South Korea
The e-infrastructure for critical applications
Moacyr Martucci, Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lessons learnt from ICT pilots in rural Haïti
Serge Miranda, Director MBDS Master, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
ICT potential in a network of science academies
Jacqueline Olang, NASAC programme officer, African Academy of Sciences, Kenya
The role of ICT for sustainable development
Catalin Vatra, ICT Senior Advisor for ARCoR, Romania
WRAP-UP SESSION
(session moderated by Jacques Babot, PARADISO project officer, European Commission)
FIRE: objectives and perspectives
Fabrizio Sestini, Project Officer, European Commission
The PARADISO reference document
Roger Torrenti, PARADISO project coordinator, Sigma Orionis
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