THE CREACTIVE NETWORK: A PLACE TO SHARE AND CREATE NEW KNOWLEDGE GARR CoNfERENCE, 30 NovEmbER – 2 DECEmbER WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The GARR User Conference gathers the National Research and Education Network users and technical operators, with the aim to share experiences and ideas about the use of the network as a cross-disciplinary and cross-context tool for research, education and culture.
WHAT IS ON THE AGENDA? Thanks to the network, today different communities can: meet and establish truly interdisciplinary collaborations; find and share services and data; use new methods and ideas (originated in other fields) in their discipline; and find the most diverse applications such as scientific experiments, virtual exhibitions or live performances. Within such an enriching and stimulating open space, new competencies are developed and contribute to overcome the many-fold digital divide that is still existing in Italy and elsewhere. Thus, the conference will give space to the presentation of success stories and the discussion on interesting ongoing technical issues. Also, the event will be the occasion to offer an insight on successful strategies to transform research initiatives into innovation that can make a tangible contribution to the development the country.
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CONTRIBUTE TO THIS EVENT: THE CALL FOR PAPERS IS OPEN! The Programme Working Group invites you to submit contributions on the following topics (as well as others related to the conference): • •
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Open Educational Resource Commons (OER), competencies and learning Archiving, retrieving, using and reusing: Open Data; Long-term Preservation, Data Stewardship, Big Data, Research Infrastructures, accessibility Things, places, people... Everything is connected: Smart Cities and the Internet of Things Services and user needs: collaborative environments, Cloud and more Intangible/Immaterial Digital Cultural Heritage: Digital Culture, immaterial and intangible creation, Augmented Reality, Immersive Reality Network Cultures: Open Source, Software Culture, computational thinking, Social and Creative Media Technology transfer: from research to innovation, from real development to the benefits for the society Rules of the network, in the network and for the network: ethics and intellectual property rights
Contributions, in the form of extended abstract in Italian or English, shall be between 1 to 3 pages long (i.e. 2.5009.000 characters including spaces), plus, optionally, multimedia attachments. The Programme Committee will evaluate the submitted contributions and authors will be notified of the results. In the case of acceptance, authors will be requested to send their presentation in advance. In order to submit your proposal, and for more information, please visit http://www.garr.it/conf-2016-en.