Singapore will hold an inaugural international education roundtable (IER) next month to discuss the education systems worldwide. Education ministers and senior government officials from Australia (Victoria), Canada (Alberta), China, Hong Kong, Sweden and the United States will take part in the three-day roundtable beginning 6 July. Bernama.com, 24 July 2009
Archive for June, 2009
Call for papers – The First International Workshop on Living Web: Making Web Diversity a true asset
The workshop is collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2009 25 October 2009: Westfields Conference Center, Washington DC., USA. The goal of this workshop is to discuss and highlight the potentials that are inherent in diversity and that today are only marginally exploited, as well as the risk of biasing through the Web. Submissions by 11 August 2009.
Call for papers – Future Internet journal: Special Issue ‘Information behavior’
High quality research papers are sought on any aspect of modeling or technologically supporting individual or collaborative Web information behavior, including information seeking, information foraging, information sense-making, information organising, information using and Web search approaches. Submissions by 1 October 2009.
Opening of Monash University Earth Sciences Teaching laboratory
The page contains the speech of Senator the Hon Kim Carr, at the opening ceremony. Ministerial speech, 26 June 2009