Preliminary Program for Info 2010

International Workshop on Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management in the Enterprise
Coordinator:  MSc Eduardo Orozco Silva, Director,
BIOMUNDI Consulting- IDICT, orozco@biomundi.inf.cu
BIOMUNDI IDICT, Cuba

•    Special presentation of the book Competitive Intelligence: What and How?
Meeting with the collective authors of the book, under the coordination of MSc Eduardo Orozco Silva of BIOMUNDI Consulting– IDICT

Main Topics to be dealt with:

•    Information management in modern organizations
•    Competitive intelligence and counterintelligence
•    Integrating information management, knowledge management and  competitive intelligence
•    Technological innovation and surveillance
•    The human factor and competitive intelligence
•    Foresight and competitive intelligence
•    Information culture in competitive intelligence in small- and medium-sized enterprises

“Gilberto Sotolongo Aguilar” 5th International Seminar on Quantitative and Qualitative Studies on Science and Technology
General Coordinator: ScD César A. Macías Chapula , chapula@data.net.mx
Coordinators: MID. Isidro Aguillo Caño, CINDOC-CSIC, Madrid (Spain). isidro@cindoc.csic.es,  ScD. Jane M. Russell, CUIB, UNAM, Mexico, irussell@servidor.unam.mx, MSc. María V. Guzmán Sánchez, Finlay Institute, Cuba. mvguzman@finlay.edu.cu


The preliminary program for this fifth seminar will be comprised of the four following sessions:

1.    Qualitative and quantitative studies on national and institutional applications of the scientific output;
2.    Studies on science communication;
3.    Studies related to designing databases, software and websites; and
4.    Web-metric / cybermetric studies.

The topics considered relevant to the 5th seminar are the following:

•    Scientific communication model (system approaches, mathematical models, etc.)
•    Communication patterns, cooperation, information flow in science and technology, migration (quotation analysis, journal impact factors, international and national flows, etc.)
•    Scientific output (disciplines, genre studies, institutional research departments, countries, etc.)
•    Dynamics of literature (history, growth, obsolescence, dispersion, science-technology relationship, etc.)
•    Support indicators for decision making concerned with scientific policy (economy, organization and administration, information and communication technologies, resource management, forecasts, impact, assessment)
•    Displaying and arranging information for bibliometry, scientometrics, and web metrics / cybermetrics
•    Theoretical aspects of quantitative and qualitative studies on science and technology
•    Software analysis, design and application.


Forum on Open Access to Information
Coordinator: MSc. Ricardo Casate, Director of BNCT, IDICT 
casate@idict.cu 

•    Principles and strategies of Open Access. State of the art in Latin-America
•    Copyright in Open Access
•    Policies for Open Access
•    Advantages of Open Access and its impact on scientific communication
•    Functions, organization and implementation of open-access digital repositories. Experiences in developing digital repositories. Federated repositories
•    Preserving contents in digital repositories
•    Open Access Journals. Models and prospects for development
•    Open Access Journals in Ibero-America. The cases of SciELO and Redalyc
•    Service suppliers
•    Technological platforms to develop data suppliers and service suppliers. Methodologies for their evaluation
•    Regional and national science collectors
•    Open Access and Libraries

Forum on Social Networks
Coordinators:  MSc Eduardo Orozco Silva, Director of BIOMUNDI Consulting-IDICT,  orozco@biomundi.inf.cu   BIOMUNDI IDICT and  
ScD Lilliam, Alvarez, lilliam@citma.cu CITMA,   Cuba

•    Social networks: State of the art
•    Scientific networks and their contribution to management, dissemination, integration and social appropriation of knowledge
•    Knowledge networks
•    Networks and their role in capacity building
•    Networks as generators of new projects
•    The role of networks in science appropriation and dissemination
•    Technological platform for networking
•    Networks of indicators
•    CYTED network
•    REDALYC network

Participants:    
- Network coordinators in Cuba and other countries of the region.
- Representatives of CYTED, REDALYC and ALCA
 

3rd Round Table of Proyectoweb , “A Web for Everyone”
Coordinators: Mr. Orlando Romero Fernández, co@proyectoweb.org , 
Ms. Mirta Valdés Morris, CITMNATEL CITMA, Cuba
ProyectoWeb Community of “José Martí” Institute for International Journalism and Cubasí Portal are pleased to invite you to participate in the 3rd Edition of the Round Table “A Web for Everyone”
The Round Table will be in session under the slogan “The user as part of the multidisciplinary team for Web development and use”, below are the topics on which those interested can present their papers:

• User: communication and technology
• Development and treatment of contents
• Information architecture
• Usability, design and interaction
• Web standards
• Accessibility
• E-commerce and user-focused design
• Experience of teamwork and interrelation with other disciplines
• Semantic Web
• Web 2.0, Intranet
• Interoperability.

The Scientific Commission of the Round Table will evaluate the quality of all presented papers and recommend approval to the Organizing Committee. Professional Program Official Page: http://.www.proyectoweb.org/unawebaratodos     
Email: unawebparatodos@proyectoweb.org
 

Panel on Information Literacy and Culture
Coordinators:  Mr. José Miguel Borroto,  Director of CIGET IDICT Matanzas, jborroto@cigetmtz.atenas.inf.cu  and Mr. Roberto Zayas , Infomed, robertox@infomed.sld.cu, Cuba

•    ALFIN project
•    Information literacy in libraries
•    Information literacy in the knowledge society
•    Documental education
•    Technological literacy
 
Round Table: “Libraries and Information Services in a Digital Environment”
Coordinators: MSc Ricardo Casate, Director of BNCT IDICT casate@idict.cu
ScD Pedro Urra González – Director of Infomed,  Cuba, urra1@infomed.sld.cu 

•    Technological trends in the development of library and
          information services
•    Integrated Library Management Systems
•    Library Portals and Virtual Resource Centers
•    Managing e-resources in libraries
•    ICTs as innovating agents in library and information services
•    Link technologies and meta search engines
•    Libraries and librarians 2.0
•    Social Networks and libraries
 

Second Workshop “Archives and new spaces in the Knowledge Society”
Coordinators: MSc Martha Marina Ferriol Marchena. Director General. National Archive of the Republic of Cuba. direccion@arnac.cu, MSc Marisol Mesa León. Director for  the Care of the National Archive System. marisol@arnac.cu, ScD Sofía Borrego Alonso. Research and Conservation Director. , MSc Edison Yamir Toledo Díaz. Coordinator Center for Training and Postgraduate Courses in Archive Science. National Archive of the Republic of Cuba.  edison@arnac.cu, Mr. Yorlis Delgado López. Legal Advisor. National Archive of the Republic of Cuba.
 
You can send an email to:  dirección@arnac.cu, arnac@ceniai.inf.cu

Topics:
    Current trends
    Information and knowledge management in archives
    New state-of-the-art experiences and information applications for document and archive management
    Access to archives and information, online services and archive networks in search of quality

Workshop on ICTs and free software
Coordinators: ScD Caridad Anias Calderón. ISPJAE,
Ismael Hernández   Ismael@idict.cu,  IDICT, Cuba

•    Free software in digital libraries
•    Migrating to free software
•    Availability of free software

Panel on the national information policy and information ethics
Coordinators: BSc  Modesto Zaldivar Collazo, IDICT, modestoz@idict.cu, MSc Eduardo Orozco, BIOMUNDI -- IDICT orozco@biomundi.inf.cu and MSc Ubaldo Socarras, IDICT, ubaldo@idict.cu

•    National information policies. Implementation
•    InfoEthics in information and reference services
•    Synergies in national information and computing policies
•    Information policies and strategic planning in libraries and information units
•    National information policies faced with the economic crisis
 

Round Table, “Quality for innovation. An equation to be worked out in the knowledge society”

Coordinators: Ms. Maria Luisa Sené, IDICT,  Cuba  sene@idict.cu and Professor María de Lourdes Feria, Colima University, Mexico, lferia@ucol.mx , ScD Daniel Moreno , moreno@servidor.unam.mx , UNAM México

•    Evaluating processes and products
•    Quality and innovation. How can we generate added value for our services/processes?
•    Evaluate to innovate. New products and services for the 21st century
•    Quality and users. How can we get non-users closer to libraries?

Round Table:  Impact of Postgraduate Education in face of the challenges posed by the Knowledge Society

Coordinators: ScD Gloria Ponjuán Dante of the Communications Faculty of the University of Havana,  gponjuan@infomed.sld.cu,  BSc Pedro Urra González, Director of INFOMED, Cuba urra1@infomed.sld.cu, and BSc Modesto Zaldívar Collazo – Specialist of the IDICT’s Organizational Development Directorate, (Cuba)  modestoz@idict.cu

•    Postgraduate courses
•    Diplomate courses
•    Master’s degree courses
•    Doctor’s degree courses