Mission:
The knowledge society is often treated as a utopia, where optimistic considerations for the role of new technologies envision unrealistic value-adding services for citizens, and knowledge is purported to create dramatic economic advances.
In the last years, several scientific disciplines have initiated debates on the characteristics of the knowledge society and the required consultations towards the establishment of “managing bodies”, the crafting of strategies and policies as well as the specification of action programs.
Given the significance of the knowledge society as a new context of our era, four significant objectives formulate the justification of our book series:
1. The need to investigate the “soft” and “hard” aspects of the knowledge society, with the aim of providing organizational and cultural frameworks as well as infrastructures enabled by the evolution of information technologies.
2. The need to provide a sustainable worldwide knowledge society vision based on collaboration, knowledge and learning for all and especially for people in need.
3. The need to anchor government policies in scientific evidence concerning the characteristics of the emerging knowledge intensive economy and social environment.
4. The need to investigate the key priorities of the knowledge society in terms of critical aspects of human life (e.g. health, education, culture, science, business etc).
The titles in this book series are intended to promote the Knowledge and Learning society as the context of our leaving for the 21st century. Our titles target to the society bringing fresh ideas, technologies and novel approaches for sustainable development.
Titles Published/Scheduled/under Development:
1. Intelligent Learning Infrastructure for Knowledge Intensive Organizations: A Semantic Web Perspective, Lytras and Naeve (eds)
http://www.idea-group.com/books/details.asp?id=4925
Finished and scheduled for publication in early 2007
2. Open Source for Knowledge and Learning Management: Strategies beyond Tools, Lytras and Naeve (eds)
3. Ubiquitous and Pervasive Knowledge and Learning Management: Semantics, Social Networking and New media to their full potential, Lytras and Naeve (eds)
Scheduled for 2007:
4. Technology Enhanced Learning: Best Practices, Huang, Gasevic, Lytras (eds)
5. Knowledge Management Strategies: A Handbook of Applied Technologies, Russ, Lytras Mayer, Naeve (eds)
6. Knowledge and Networks: A social software perspective, Downes, Lytras (eds)
7. Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society, Cardoso, Lytras (eds)
Book Proposals for this Series-Info for potential contributors
Academics and Practitioners interested in editing a book in this series are kindly requested to contact Dr. Miltiadis D. Lytras (lytras@ceid.upatras.gr) with a cc: to Efstathia-Maria Pitsa, email: efstathia_p@yahoo.gr (Book Series Assistant). All the proposals will be valued according the high standards of IGP.