Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

- ICT applications and systems
  contributing to desirable goals (see
  track below)

Life environment and ICT

- Psychosocial environment
- Work environment/Work place:
- Work content – Work tasks
- Organizational structure
- Decision support systems
- Human-human communication
- Power structure-formal and informal
- Leadership
- Career patterns
- Influence/participation
- Working hours and
   salary/compensation
- Work pace/work load Physical and
   ergonomic conditions
- Learning and knowledge growth
- Home Environment
- Public Environment
- Private Environment
- Virtual Environment
- Virtual (on-line) communities
- Organisational Design and
   Management
- Psychosocial work environment

Life role and ICT

- Citizen’s role
- Professional role
- Leadership role
- Private role
- Virtual roles
- Home of the future
- Mobile life
- Role conflicts

Effects on humans

- Analyses of impact as well as
   technology contributing to desirable
   human qualities
- Psychosocial impact
- Life styles
- Human needs (meaningfulness,
  belonging, autonomy, confidence)
- Happiness and fun
- Wellbeing and health
- Dependency
- Identity
- Integrity
- Trust – security – privacy
- Addictiveness (games)
- Availability
- Motivation
- Human memory
- Cybersickness
- Stress (over- and understimulation)
- Workload
- Fatigue
- Love and Relationship
- Skills and competencies:
- Creativity
- Problem solving
- Social competence

Actions for reaching the Good Information Society

- Individual level
- Communities ( physical and virtual)
   level
- Governmental level
- International level
- Civil society and social change
   communities
- Design of societal systems -
   rethinking

Desirable goals

- Integration
- Humanization
- Reducing poverty
- Bridging the digital gap
- Freedom of expression
- Democratization
- E-cooperation
- Peace
- Sustainability
- Wellbeing Health
- Human welfare
- Quality of life
 

Perspectives

- Social and psychosocial
- Cross-cultural
- Theoretical
- Gender
- Class
- Rural – urban
- Multimodal
- Economic
- Ethical