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• Forum on the Information Society – Internet Governance - 01/07/2010
  

  On July 8, 2010, from 9:00 to 17:30, the Forum on the Information Society – Internet Governance will take place at ISCTE-IUL, Edifício II, Auditório B203, Av. das Forças Armadas, Lisboa, (see the Forum program with links to presentations). This Forum is open to all interested participants.

  The purpose of this forum, organized back-to-back with the public session of the World Internet Project (July 7, also at ISCTE-IUL, Edifício II, Auditório B203) by the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) in collaboration with the Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN) and the Lisbon Internet and Networks Institute (LINI), is to discuss some of the main aspects of Internet Governance.

• Forum for the Information Society - Future Internet  - 10/05/2010
  

  On May 10, 2010, at the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre, Rua da Junqueira 30, Lisbon, between 9:00 and 17:45, the Forum for the Information Society – Internet of the Future will take place (see Forum Program (in Portuguese)). The Forum is open to all interested parties.

  The main objective of this Forum, organized by the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) with the support of Profs. Joao de Barros (Carnegie Mellon – Portugal Program, IT and FEUP) and Rui Aguiar (IT, U. Aveiro), is to get together expertise in strategic areas for the development of Future Internet, a subject on which there has been since 2006 a special national support, in particular within the international partnership programs of Portugal with some of the world leading institutions but also within other programs, to discuss the opportunities opening up in Future Internet technologies, applications and services.

• Harvard Medical School – Portugal - 23/03/2010
  
  • Contents of Harvard Medical School – Portugal in Portuguese >>
• Graphs and Tables - e-Science - 22/03/2010
  
• Other Publications - Emerging Technologies - 12/03/2010
  
  •  A public-private partnership on the Future Internet (68.73 KB), Communication of the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Council, and the Committee of the Regions, COM(2009) 479 final, European Commission, 28.10.2009.
  •  Addressing the challenge of energy efficiency through Information and Communication Technologies (59.93 KB) ,Communication from the European Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee, and the Committee of the Regions, COM(2008) 241 final, European Commission, 13.05.2008.
• MIT – Portugal - 10/03/2010
  

  The MIT – Portugal Program is centred on Engineering Systems, namely those concerning Design and Advanced Industrial Production Systems Engineering, Energy Systems, Transport Systems and Bio-engineering Systems.

• Carnegie Mellon – Portugal - 10/03/2010
  

  The Carnegie Mellon – Portugal Program focuses on Internet of the Future Technologies, namely New Generation Networks (NGN) for high quality reliable services, cyber-physical systems for ambient intelligence, human-centric computation, technological change in ICT analysis and public policy.

• UTexas Austin – Portugal - 10/03/2010
  

  The UTexas Austin – Portugal Program focuses on advanced digital media, intensive graphical and interactive technologies, adavnced development of content, in particular in cinema and videos, and in the establishment of a network to stimulate commercialization activities of Science and Technology.

• Harvard Medical School – Portugal - 10/03/2010
  

  The Harvard Medical School – Portugal Program focuses on translational medical research, and on the production and open dissemination through the Internet of medical and biomedical research content in Portuguese, with validated quality and destined to medical students, healthcare practitioners and the general public.

• Fraunhofer – Portugal - 10/03/2010
  

  The Fraunhofer – Portugal Program focuses on the creation in Portugal of a Fraunhofer Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions, planned to evolve to be the 1st Fraunhofer Institute outside Germany.