knowledge society as a space originated from promotion of the (explicit/implicit) social knowledge, and information society as a space to have access to information are two societies complete each other. libraries (in a vast meaning), because of their efforts to collect and store the produced knowledge, contribute in promoting the knowledge society; and as spaces make the information access abl...

Systems based on computing technology are powerful change agents in everyday society. We need to consider not only the technological and economic issues but also the ethical and social issues when developing and implementing such systems. It is against this backdrop that the ETHICOMP conference series operates. The overall theme for ETHICOMP 2001 was "Systems of the Information Society". The co...