Special Track on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9 - 12, 2013

We would like to invite you to participate in the Special Track on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2013 (www.2013iiisconferences.org/pista) of The 7th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2013 (www.2013iiisconferences.org/imsci) to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 9-12, 2013, jointly with The 11th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2013 (www.2013iiisconferences.org/eista).

 

The deadline of papers/abstracts submissions and invited session proposals (for this 2nd CFP) is *February 19th, 2013*. The deadlines for notification to authors and camera ready upload can be found at the conference web site.

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Deadlines for the collocated (same venue and time) conferences and symposia can be found at http://www.2013iiisconferences.org/current-deadlines.asp (Check the web site for possible extension of the submission deadline).

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Submissions for Face-to-Face or for Virtual Participation are both accepted. Both kinds of submissions 1) will have the same reviewing process, 2) the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings, and 3) authors of the best 20%-25% papers will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics with no additional costs, i.e. the respective Article Processing Charge will be waived for them.

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The following are among the areas of this special track:

•   e-Government. e-Administration. e-Public Services

•   Informatics, Voting and Political Parties

•   Informatics and Society

•   e-Politics. Informatics and Political Campaigns

•   Knowledge Society

•   Ethics and Informatics

•   Collective Decision Support Systems. Cyber-Democracies

•   Informatics and Political Campaigns

•   Societal and Political Impact of Mobile Communications

•   Internet as a Tool for Collective Action

•   e-Reality and e-Economy

•   Citizens and Governance in an Open Knowledge-Based Society

•   Security and Cyberspace

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With the purpose of fostering *Inter-disciplinary Communications* participants registered at any conference or symposia can attend sessions of any session of any of the collocated events. Registered participants will also receive a CD containing the proceedings of all collocated events, and will have a password to access any virtual session of the collocated events, so they can comment any paper presented at any of the collocated events.

 

Best regards,

 

IMSCI/PISTA 2013 Organizing Committee