The Information Society in the Euro-Mediterranean context: Research and Information Technologies

Papers

Introduction

• Discours d'Introduction, de Jean-Michel Chassériaux - ERCIM
• Discours de Mr. le Sénateur Pierre Laffitte

The political context

• M. D. Khalil, Minister of Research, Morocco:
• Discours de L. Kott - INRIA (France)
• STOA: The European Parliaments Technology Assesment Unit by D. Holdsworth - European Parliament

Regional cooperation - rapport du groupe

• A. Nazif - RITSEC (Egypt)
• Le Programme international pour l'informatique (PII) de l'UNESCO de M. Kameleddine Chamakhi - UNESCO
• Regional Cooperation by S. Trumpy - CNR (Italy)
• Middle East and North Africa Water Resources Consortium and Technology Exchange Network by D . Ouazar - EMI (Morocco)
• The INTERMED Network by A. Serra - UPC (Spain)

Demonstration and pilot projects

1. Applications for enterprises

• GMD's TechnoPark - A Window to Technlolgy and SME - by K. Schunk - GMD (Germany)
• CYTED: An Example of Cooperation in RTD Activities by A. Alique - Plan Nacional de I&D (Spain)

2. Natural resources management - rapport du groupe

• Un Système Pour l'Exploitation des Zones Côtières en Méditerranée by C. Nikolau - FORTH (Greece)
• Remote Sensing Observation for a Coastal Zone Management System in the Mediterranean Sea by I. Herlin - INRIA (France)
• Ressources Naturelles, Prévision et Prévention des Risques au Maroc de D. Ben Sari - EMI (Morocco)
• L'Ecole Nationale Polytechnique et les technologies de l'information de S. Benhadid - ENP (Algeria)

3.Cultural and scientific information

• Interactive Multimedia On-line Services: The Digital Library Paradigm by C. Thanos - CNR (Italy)
• AQUARELLE: Le Réseau d'Information sur le Patrimoine Culturel de A. Michard - INRIA (France)
• Bibliotheca Universalis by S. Zillhardt - BNF (France)
• L'Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, un pôle d'excellence sur les rives de la Méditerranée de T. Hadhri - EPT (Tunisia)

4. Telemedecine - Group Report

• Integrated Regional, National, and Transnational Telemedicine Networks by S. Orphanoudakis - FORTH (Greece)
• Towards a WWW-accessible knowledge base on breast cancer prognosis and therapy by R. Dieng - INRIA (France) and C. Ruggiero - University of Genova (Italy)
• Medical training, help, and telecommunication using interactive 3D graphics as visual explanations by G. Grunst - GMD (Germany)
• Installation d'un réseau local de M. Bouziane - INSMO (Algeria)

5. Tourism - Group Report

• IT to promote tourism between Europe and the Mediterranean countries by M. Wilson - RAL (UK)
• The importance of Multimedia and Geographical Information System Technologies in the Tourism Industry by S. Benabdallah and K. Bounemra - IRSIT (Tunisia)
• Méditerranée On-Line - Place de Marché Electronique de B. Vitrey - Méditerranée On-Line (France)

Session A : networking and protocols - Rapport du groupe

A.a. Standards

• Applications multimédia sur l'Internet de W. Dabbous - INRIA (France)
• Internet for the region by K. Birkenbihl - GMD (Germany)

A.b. W3C

• The World Wide Web Consortium presented by B. Hopgood - RAL (UK) and S. Pemberton - CWI (The Netherlands)

Session B: databases, multilinguality - Group report
B.a. databases

• Database Technology by K. Jeffery - RAL (UK)
• Integrated Geographical Information Systems by P. Prastakos - FORTH (Greece)
• Research Activities at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus, by A. Kakas - University of Cyprus (Cyprus)

B.b. multilinguality

• Guaranteeing Multilinguality in the Information Society by C. Peters - CNR (Italy)
• Multilingual Electronic Commerce by A. Lehtola - VTT (Finland)
• L'appariement : quels problèmes? et Synthèse lexico-syntagmatique assistée de l'arabe voyellé by F. Debili - CNRS (France)

Session C: Development of national networks - rapport du groupe

• Rapport sur l'état des résaux de télécommunications au Liban de S. Catafago - ESIB (Lebanon)
• Open Distance Learning by P. Constanta - FORTH (Greece)
• ISIS - Information Signal and Images by M. Najim - ENSERB (France)
• Presentation de Renater II de S. Jaume - GIP Renater (France)
• Ways in which Developping Countries could benefit from Internet, by P. Renaud - Unitar-Geneva (Switzerland)
• The Palestinian Academic Network by Marwan Tarazi, presented by S.G. Zoughbi (Palestinain Council for Higher Education)
• L'informatique au Maroc : Formation et Recherche by A. Bennani - ENSIAS (Morocco)
• Establishing a National Information System for Jordan by Yousef Nusseir - National Information Centre (Jordan)

Conclusion

• Conclusion de Michel Carpentier Directeur Général et Conseiller spécial de la Commission Européenne

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