IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award

IFIP-WG9.2 NAMUR AWARD

PURPOSE

The Namur Award is a biennial award to be accorded for an outstanding contribution with international impact to the awareness of social implications of information technology. The purpose is to draw attention to the need for an holistic approach in the use of information technology in which the social implications have been taken into account. The Namur Award consists of a commemorative plate and a certificate.

ELIGIBILITY

The contribution can be in the form of a publication, design, lecture, or any other project. The Namur Award may also be granted for a special action, accomplishment or achievement of any other kind within the scope of the Namur Award. The Namur Award will be granted to a person, group or association. Serving members of WG9.2. are not eligible.

The Namur Award will be assigned by IFIP-WG9.2. The general criterion is that of an outstanding contribution with international impact in the field of social implications of information technology.

PROCEDURE

Nominations for the Namur Award can be accepted from any person other than members of the Namur Award Committee (NAC). Those proposing a nomination are requested to check with their proposed nominee before submitting their proposal that:
(a) s/he is willing in principle for the nomination to be submitted,
(b) if successful the nominee will accept the award.
The Namur Award Committee (consisting of three persons and a Chair, chosen by and from members of WG9.2) will scrutinise, prioritise, shortlist and recommend the candidates to WG9.2 by way of a short written report. The winning nomination must be accepted by a 2/3rds majority of the members of the Working Group present at that meeting.
All submissions, discussions and votes relating to the Namur Award are to be kept strictly confidential.
Before making the decision public, the Chair of WG9.2 will inform the chosen candidate, and his/her acceptance will be sought in writing. For the presentation of the Namur Award the winner will be invited for a special WG9.2 meeting in Namur, hosted by dignitaries of the city of Namur, and open to everyone interested in the Namur Award. During this presentation the chair of WG9.2 will make a public speech based on the report of the Award-Committee. The winner will be invited to give a public lecture.

NOMINATIONS

The procedure for nominations should be actively publicised, and nominations should be encouraged from all parts of the globe.

Nominations for the award are to be invited by public announcement in the IFIP Newsletter and/or by appropriate messages sent within and outside of IFIP. The individual members of WG9.2. are responsible for obtaining free publicity given to the award in the specialist journals in their own countries.

SUBMISSIONS OF NAMES

If you are interested in submitting a candidate for the 9^th IFIP-WG9.2 Namur Award (to be awarded in the year 2010) please indicate your interest and suggestions to the address below. Well-reasoned submissions for the Namur AWARD are to be made to the Namur Award Committee Chair, before December 1st, 2008:

Prof. Jacques BERLEUR
Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR
BELGIUM
Phone.: +32 81 72 49 64
Fax: +32 81 72 49 67
Email : jberleur@info.fundp.ac.be
http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~jbl

FORMER PRIZE WINNERS

• January 1991: Professor Joseph WEIZENBAUM, MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets (USA).
  1st Namur Award Lecture: Information: Explosion - Implosion?
• May 1993: Dr. Riccardo PETRELLA, Head of the Forecasting and Assessment of Science and Technology (FAST) Programme at the Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
  2nd Namur Award Lecture: Information and Communication Technology: Achievements and prospects
• January 1996: Dr. Carlos-Alberto AFONSO (IBASE, Brazil), as the representative of the community of people and the group of persons forming AlterNex.
  3rd Namur Award Lecture: AlterNex 1994-1995: A brief presentation
• January 1998: Professor Gunilla BRADLEY, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista , Sweden.
  4th Namur Award Lecture: Humans in the Information and Communication Society. How We Will Live, Learn and Work.
• January 2000: Professor Simon Rogerson, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (CCSR) of the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
  5th Namur Award Lecture: Internet ethics are not optional at business or at home.
• August 2002: Dr Deborah Hurley, Director of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. USA.
  6th Namur Award Lecture: Challenging Humanity
• January 2004: Prof. Ian H. Witten, Director of the New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Waikato, New Zealand
  7th Namur Award Lecture: Democratizing information: Digital libraries, developing countries, and information for all (text html), Video-Conference
• January 2006: Nigel Williams, Founder of Childnet International and Northern Ireland Commissioner for children and young people
  8th Namur Award Lecture: A Parallel Universe – Children and Young People’s Love Affair with the Internet
  Unfortunately, Nigel passed away on March 29, 2006. He was suffering a cancer.
• January 2008: Dr Daniel Pimienta, Founder and President of FUNREDES (Fundación Redes y Desarrollo), Santo Domino
  9th Namur Award Lecture: Digital Divide, Social Divide, Paradigmartic Divide: the case of FUNREDES and MISTICA Projects

Namur Award Nomination Form

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