ICT and Creativity

We expect about 200 experts – politicians, key business representatives, innovation specialists and creatives - from over 20 countries to share their insights and discuss the draft of the Vienna Declaration, which will be presented to the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in November 05.

More than 60 high-level speakers will contribute to the following topics:
- Creative Content & Community Building
- Digital Rights / Creative Commons
- e-Learning and e-Science
- e-Government and e-Democracy
- e-Broadcasting and e-Monopolisation: Creative Diversity in Mainstream Cultural Industries
- e-Culture, Creative Content and DigiArts
- Youth for Youth: Creative Web Content from Young People
- Creative Business Ideas / Incubators for Entrepreneurship
- Economic Frameworks for IT Corporations
- Disruptive Technologies, Broken Business: Winning with Creativity in the New e-Music Business

Both a vision event and a working meeting on burning issues of e-content and creative use of technologies, the Conference on “ICT and Creativity” aims to create the Vienna Declaration.

The conference is jointly organised by the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, with contributions from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Innovation, the Austrian Commission for the UNESCO and leading companies such as Telekom Austria AG, IBM, Microsoft and CISCO Systems.

More information at http://www.wsa-conference.org