Welcome to GIIC 2007 !

Information infrastructure brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems. The scope of GIIS covers the interrelated technical, policy, and social issues implicit in the development of national and international information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and to stimulate interdisciplinary symposium sessions and workshops to discuss, built and further the use of local, regional and global information infrastructures, with a particular focus on underserved areas.

GIIS will provide a forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions on information infrastructure issues. The symposium also aims at establishing liaisons to bodies in the global society, technical forums and international standards.

The technical issues addressed by the symposium include alternative technologies for building the information infrastructure, broadband access, convergence, interoperability at various levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide naming and addressing, and the international mobility of persons and services. The policy issues addressed by the symposium are those with a large technical element, including protection of intellectual property, privacy and security, open source software, international use of encryption technology, commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary technologies. The symposium is specifically interested in shareability, ubiquity, equal access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards, and architectural openness.

The technical program of GIIS 2007 will include keynote talks, tutorials, refereed paper presentations, workshops and multi-disciplinary panel discussions.