[Air-l] The 3rd Living Knowledge conference

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

The 3rd Living Knowledge conference

'COmmunities building knowledge: innovation through citizens' science  
and
university engagement'

will take place in Paris from 30 August 30 till 1 September 2007.
The conference will provide a forum where information on community based
research, carried out in both community and academic settings, on new  
forms
of partnerships between research and civil society and on new modes of
innovation, can be shared and developed. It aims at disseminating and
exchanging information on community based and participatory research, on
citizens' science and cooperative innovation.

Registration for the conference is open now!
<http://www.livingknowledge.org/lk3> www.livingknowledge.org/lk3.

You can also submit a proposal for a contribution (workshop or  
presentation)
within on of the five conference theme's. At the conference website  
you will
find an overview of topics that can be addressed in the theme's. The
(extended) deadline to submit a proposal is April 30.
Proposals can be submitted online at the conference website
<http://www.livingknowledge.org/lk3> www.livingknowledge.org/lk3.

Conference themes:
*         University engagement with communities
*         Citizens' science and social movements
*         Research policy - from local to global
*         Innovation and citizens - added values for communities
*         Participatory processes in science and technology

For additional information about the conference you can contact
  <mailto:citizens-research-LK3 at sciencescitoyennes.org>
citizens-research-LK3 at sciencescitoyennes.org

I kindly request you to forward this announcement to your colleagues  
and in
your networks.

The conference organisation committee and the Living Knowledge  
Network hope
to meet you in Paris this summer.

Caspar de Bok

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3rd Living Knowledge conference

Communities building knowledge:
innovation through citizens' science and university engagement

Paris (Fr): August 30 - September 1, 2007

website:  <http://www.livingknowledge.org/lk3>
http://www.livingknowledge.org/lk3
email:  <mailto:citizens-research-LK3 at sciencescitoyennes.org>
citizens-research-LK3 at sciencescitoyennes.org


The 3rd Living Knowledge conference


Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron