The deadline for submitting full papers to the EDOC 2009 Conference has
been extended till 17 March. You will find the updated call for papers
below and on the EDOC web-site hosted by Deontik, edocconference.org.

Recent developments in E-Health in the USA, Australia and many other countries have revealed a need to better understand information privacy issues, both from legal and from technical perspectives.

EDOC09 will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, 31 August to 4 September 2009. EDOC conferences address the full range of engineering technologies and methods contributing to intra- and inter-enterprise distributed application systems.

Sir Peter Gershon’s report and final recommendations on the Australian use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) within the public sector were recently released. We are pleased to see Report’s emphasis on improving efficiency through a centralised and strategic whole of government approach on ICT policies and the need for ICT to support wider policy agendas.

A recent article by Jennifer Granick, Executive Director of the Stanford Law School, highlights two recent US court cases where the terms of End User License Agreements have been overturned. This follows similar findings by European courts.
It is encouraging to see this development towards giving more power to users when facing long and complex end-user [...]

I am very pleased to see another successful EDOC conference which starts this week! This years it is held in Munich, Germany and features an excellent program.