December 16, 2004

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the 4th Janus Workshop

Knowledge Society Development Paths in Europe
(Please note change of venue)
Diamant Building
Newton room
Bd. A. Reyerslaan 80
B-1030 Brussels

The presentations of the speakers are now available as zipped powerpoint files.
Click on the link in the agenda to download.
Workshop report now available (pdf 222kb).

The last in the series of JANUS workshops took place in September 2004 in Brussels. While the earlier workshops focused on ICT related or enabled phenomena of the information society, such as eGovernment and the Digital Divide, this final workshop went beyond this ‘inside the information society’ perspective. It looked into different paths of economic development in the Knowledge Society today and in the long-run. The central idea behind the theory of alternative development paths is the possibility that regions, countries or even continents might be better off by pursuing paths of development that are not specifically based on high ICT penetration. In such an approach, policy might place less emphasis on the common Information Society pillars, such as ICT infrastructure, eBusiness and eWork.

Click here to view agenda.   
Click here to download terms of reference pdf 28kb