Although a lot of information is available worldwide, getting the right piece of information is challenging. In addition, integrating information from different sources is still very complicated. To make the different information systems to interoperate, it is necessary to provide common knowledge structures. Ontologies have been developed for making the semantics of a domain explicit. However,...

This paper presents an extended discussion of issues associated with the role of information privacy in IS research. This discussion was initiated in conjunction with a panel session at ICIS 2002. Following the conference, each of the panelists reworked and extended their position statements, and provided a commentary on the position statements of the other panelists. The paper is framed with h...

This paper examines the future of industrial capitalism, and more precisely the rise of the new information and knowledge society (IKS) and the development of the information network economy. We propose an interdisciplinary approach connecting economic analysis and information and communication sciences. First, we describe the euphoria over the new IKS. Then, we show that information networks l...

A research paper presents that the overall goal in public sector is better governance. The answer lies with recognition of all factors: social, economic, technology. The creation of an accurate system for measuring intangible constituents is a challenging task that cannot be entirely done by direct means. Through the course of research a multidimensional method was introduced. Peoples dimension...

2002 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture Georg F. Schultheiss, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany This will be another real lecture, only two guiding pictures, the rest for our eyes and for our ears and, after our sensors have fulfilled their function, followed by our brainwork. The idea for this lecture is "Looking at a Complex Puzzle" in n dimensions from different viewpoints including the changes brought abou...

Manuel Castells’ The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (1996, 1997 and 1998) is unrivaled in ambition: to make sense of the global social dynamics as they arise out of a myriad of changes around the world. It is a cross-cultural analysis of the major social, economic and political transformations at the end of this century. It is presented through interrelated empirical case studies...

The paper summarizes selected problems related to the fast proliferation of networked computing which is recognized as a beginning of the information era, and the corresponding future needs of Information Society. One domain of new research challenges pertaining to the needs of Information Society, namely modeling is discussed in more detail.