Towards a Sane Society by Siri Hettige

Easy steps towards a sane IT policy in hospitals

We witnessed the low quality of IT solutions in Paris hospitals. The price paid to private companies for these solutions and the cost incurred from their inefficiency constitute a gross and appalling waste of public resources. We propose to bootstrap a change in IT policy by having heads of department hire IT workers ; we give advice to the central decision making body on how to incentivize the...

A Sane Struggle.

The past is not the just past, but an integral part of our present. And our present must not be only our present misfortune. We can develop new themes in our lives that defy our hardships and create context for what is to come. These themes may return years later with new twists of triumph or tragedy. They are our themes, and belong to us. Meanwhile, we can celebrate our present and future by c...

Transitions towards a Knowledge Society

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transition of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently predominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore inadvertedly leading to more Westernization of...

Towards A Secure Agent Society

We present a general view of what a \secure agent society" should be and how to develop it rather than focus on any speci c details or particular agent-based application. We believe that the main e ort to achieve security in agent societies consists of the following three aspects:1) agent authentication mechanisms that form the secure society's foundation, 2) a security architecture design with...

Towards a Global Civil Society