Keynote Speakers
 

"From Social Capital to Social Production: Implications for Individual, Organisations and Nations" by Professor Margaret Tan, Deputy Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Abstract

In recent years, the advancing interconnectivity of the fast-evolving and interactive digital technologies such as the inexpensive mobile and Internet-based devices have dramatically created a new space that is both virtual as well as physical, that is both conceptual as well as real. This new space called the new world of 'co-space' may shift the economic and social ecology of information and knowledge enterprises which in turn may have profound impact on the global economy and society. Indeed, the sophisticated social networking technologies that enable individuals and the communities to express, communicate, interact, and share their creative works and knowledge in the new 'co-space' facilitate such networks of relationships that not only constitute a valuable conduit for the conduct of social affairs but the social production of some intellectual capital. In other words, social production is becoming as critical as social capital in the new knowledge-based society. Indeed, governments and corporations alike must recognize that the new key to today's knowledge-based economy may be developing the organizational ability to harness such social production efforts and use them in the ongoing formulation of competitive actions at the individual, organization, as well as national level.     
 

Bio

Professor Margaret Tan is Deputy Director at the Singapore Internet Research Centre and an Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in
Singapore. Her research interests include the strategic deployment of information technologies, knowledge management and mobilisation, the building of electronic trust and security, electronic data protection and privacy, Internet policies and governance, e-Government and the digital societies. She has published widely in various scholarly publications including two books, "The Virtual Workplace" and "e-Payment: The Digital Exchange".  She has spoken at various international conferences and seminars as well as serving on numerous
editorial boards of international journals and publications.

"Usable Privacy and Identity Management: Challenges and Approaches" by Professor Simone Fischer Hübner, Karlstad university, Sweden

Abstract

A critical success factor for Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) will be  user-friendly and intelligible user
interfaces that convey and enhance trust. Such user interfaces have to meet challenges such as the user-friendly representation of complex PET concepts, such as "pseudonyms", "unlinkabilty" or "anonymous credentials" that are unfamiliar to many users, the provision of security against phishing or spoofing attacks, the enforcement of legal privacy principles, such as informed consent or transparency, as well as the mediation
of reliable trust to the end users. In this presentation, we will in discuss such challenges for usable and privacy-enhancing identity management and will provide some HCI guidelines for addressing those challenges.
 

Bio

Prof. Simone Fischer-Hübner has been a Full Professor at the Computer Science Department at Karlstad University since June 2000, where is the head of the PriSec group. She received a Diploma Degree in Computer Science with a minor in Law (1988), and a PhD (1992) and Habilitation (1999) Degrees in Computer Science from Hamburg University. She has been conducting research within the areas of privacy, privacy-enhancing technologies and IT security for more than 20 years. She was a research assistant and assistant professor at
Hamburg University (1988-2000) and a Guest Professor at the Copenhagen Business School (1994-1995) and at
Stockholm University/KTH (1998-1999). She is the vice chair of IFIP WG 11.6 on “Identity  Management”, former chair of IFIP WG 9.6/11.7 (IT Misuse and the Law, 1998-2005), a member of the External Advisory Board of the IBM Privacy Institute, board member of the of IEEE-Sweden – Section Computer/Software Engineering Chapter, member of the NordSec steering committee, and the coordinator of the Swedish IT Secure Network for PhD students. She is representing Karlstad University within the EU FP6 projects PRIME (Privacy and Identity Management for Europe), FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) and the EU FP7 project PrimeLife (Privacy and Identity Management for Life). Besides, she is member of the control bodies of the Swedish Tax authorities, which is responsible for Swdish E-Government Services, and of the Swedish Data Protection Authority.

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