[ICTs-and-Society] XIV INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, May 2013 to be held in Riga, Latvia

[Gregory Simons]

About the XIV INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE: Creating the  
Future- Communication, Education, Business in cooperation with Chamber  
of Trade and Commerce of Latvia, Latvian Association of Local and  
Regional Governments, Latvian State Chancellery. The President of  
Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia Valdis Dombrovskis will open this  
conference, Latvian State president is invited. There will be  
scientists and practitioners of communication, mass media, public  
relations, businessman, journalists.

Future is defined by today's actions. Therefore it is important to  
answer future questions already today. How far are people willing to  
go in their openness? How available are we going to be if 24/7 is  
already the standard in communication, business and education? What  
are we going to study at future universities? What new combinations  
will communications’ experts discover to gamble with our senses? How  
toys will become the new work tools? Will we be able to find a midway  
between natural resources and our greed? How to gain during the time  
of changes and crises? What will be the role of brand? Which public  
administration systems will be more viable? What will be the role of  
feminization in the future society? And - is future definable at all?  
We will look for answers to these questions during the conference.

WHEN
30th May, 2013

FEES
25 Lat for Researchers
20 Lat for students

CONFERENCE ISSUES
Please, submit papers that would reflect on the following issues:
• Communication
• Media
• Environment
• Business and society management
• Culture
• Information technologies

CONFERENCE LANGUAGES
Latvian, English

-          There will be workshops or laboratories during afternoon –  
Media, Communication, Business, Environment, Education, Science. These  
topics will be oriented on practice because people will try answer one  
question during these workshops, for example, How to create the  
dialogue with society in public governance?  The partitions will  
participate in them led by Professional moderators trying to answer  
specific question of session. After that will be one hour of  
presentations of all workshops. There will be translation.

-          There will be session for scientific reports “Science” as  
well. This will go under the cliché of usual scientific conference.

-          There will be session for students presentations (study  
papers, researches, projects) in Latvian, Russian and English. We  
organize that in cooperation with Latvian student association  
therefore you will meet here many students from different universities  
of Latvia, Ukraine, Lithuania. Presentation length for this session is  
7 minutes and 5 minutes more for questions. Doctoral students will  
participate at session of Science.

-          After the conference participants are welcome to  
participate at international public relations and communication  
student campus „Workshop of Dynamic Thoughts” countryside 100 km from  
Riga. You will meet students form all Latvia and foreign students at  
his campus, professor Dennis Wilcox form USA and president of  
International Public relations Association Christophe Ginisti  
(http://www.ginisty.com/). We organize this campus for 9 time ant is  
extremely popular among students and practitioners from the field with  
more than 200 participants. This is perfect combination of work and  
rest. The campus will be from 31 May to 2 June, Friday to Sunday. All  
of you are welcome.

I will inform about hotels about hotels at a later stage.

Andris Petersons
PR faculty dean
Turiba University
Riga, Latvia

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Dr Greg Simons
Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Uppsala University
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