--------------------------------------------------------------------- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Conference on ICT Solutions for Justice (ICT4JUSTICE '09) September 24th, 2009 Skopje, FYR of Macedonia http://www.ict4justice.org/2009 ict4justice09@easychair.org Institute for Strategic Research and Education - ISIE http://www.isie.org.mk/ Center for Intellectual Property Education - CIPE Faculty of Law, Ss.Cyril and Methodius University http://www.cipe.ukim.edu.mk/ Sponsored by J-WeB http://www.jweb-net.com Supported by JUMAS http://www.milanoricerche.it/jumas/new/home.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: EXTENDED - July 19, 2009 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: July 30, 2009 CAMERA READY PAPERS: August 30, 2009 FINAL PROGRAMME: September 13, 2009 CONFERENCE: September 24, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------- GOAL -------------------------------------------------------------------- National e-justice systems are an important power for national economy and civil society. The globalization of the economy, social trends and other factors present new demands on judiciaries internationally, while at the same time technological and communicational advances offer opportunities to judicial policy makers to make justice more accessible, transparent and effective. International terrorism, illegal immigration, rise in violent crimes, and the "globalisation" of organized crime are significant examples of the new challenges for criminal justice, while the increasing number of civil cases and criminal cases in the national judicial systems constitutes a major challenge for the judicial organisations. ICT deployment in European civil and criminal judicial systems is a key element to face these challenges and to improve significantly the administration of justice. The rapid development of technologies opens new opportunities, both during criminal investigations and trials and in civil litigations, Justice of Peace, labour, bankruptcy, thanks to the increased capabilities to exchange and use data, documents and information within and between judicial operators, police forces, public prosecutors offices and courts. The ICT4JUSTICE conference aims to foster the experience exchange in establishing and enhancing the national e-justice systems, especially to share different experiences at portals, integration, applications, and examples of good practices, to present world’s latest trends in e-justice sector, and the future oriented services in justice sector. The conference will make possible to: * Share experience in increasing the efficiency of national judicial systems and corresponding trends in the world, * Explore the possibilities for integration of e-justice services and systems at the EU level, * Present the most advanced ICT-supported legal services to citizens, the public sector and business, and share experience in managing legal information (e-law), * Analyse issues such as privacy, information security, non repudiation, and long term archiving of legal documents. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------- The major topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Cross-border communication between parties to judicial proceedings and integration of registers and records at the EU level * Systems supporting lawyers, in legal reasoning, document drafting, negotiation * Systems supporting prosecutor offices, judicial police, and judicial cooperation * Video-conference in trials and investigations: legal and technological perspectives * Introduction of IT in courts and consequent changes in business processes * Improvement in communications between courts, citizens and organizations * Long term archiving of legal documents * E-submission and E-service * ICT for civil justice applications (litigation,Justice of the peace, bankruptcy, labour, family, statistics etc.) * Interoperability of judicial services in EU * Interoperability in Civil Justice * Copyright and the Internet * Disputes in registers/registars relationships and Domains and Top Level Domains (TLD)s attribution. * Cybercrime * E-commerce, Cryptography and Electronic Signatures -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: The official language of the conference is English. PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full paper (maximum 8 pages) through EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ict4justice09 FORMAT: Authors should follow Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science format for Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes. Templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX as well as instruction for authors are available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 PROCEEDINGS: Accepted papers will be published in online proceedings and indexed by CEUR-WS.org. You can see last year's conference online proceedings at: http://ftp1.de.freebsd.org/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-463/ REGISTRATION: Registration is free but you are encouraged to register in advance by completing online the form in the conference web site. -------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMITTEES -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRMEN: * Dr. George Eleftherakis (Computer Science Department, City College – Greece) * Dr. Goce Naumovski (Faculty of Law, Cyril and Methodius University – Macedonia) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Mr. Miso Dokmanovic (CHAIRMAN) (Faculty of Law, Cyril and Methodius University – Macedonia) * Mr. Konstantinos Rousis (South East European Research Centre (SEERC) - Greece) * Ms. Marija Nikolovska (Ministry for Information Society – Macedonia) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: # Prof. Tom van Engers (CHAIRMAN) (Leibniz Center for Law, University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands) * Prof. Francesco Archetti (Faculty of Computer Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca – Italy) * Ms. Irena Bojadzievska (Head of Department for IT and Media, Secretariat for European Affairs - Government of the Republic of Macedonia) * Dr. Alexia Briassouli (CERTH-ITI, Thessaloniki – Greece) * Dr. Mauro Cislaghi (Project Automation S.p.A. – Italy) * Dr. Mauro Draoli (CNIPA – Italy) * Prof. Enrico Francesconi (ITTIG – CNR, Florence – Italy) * Dr. Diego Giuliani (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento – Italy) * Mr. Zoran Hristovski (Secretary, Institute for Strategic Research and Education [ ISIE] - Macedonia) * Dr. Ioannis Iglezakis (Faculty of Law, Aristotle University – Greece) * Prof. Nikolaos Intzesiloglou (Faculty of Law, Aristotle University – Greece) * Dr. Virgil Ivan-Cucu (Head of Unit for Justice, Regional Cooperation Centre – Bosnia Herzegovina) * Dr. Marco Lorenzoni (ICANN Bruxelles – Belgium) * Dr. Bassem Malaeb (United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia – The Netherlands) * Dr. Roberto Mazzilli (Project Automation S.p.A. – Italy) * Dr. Mauro Miranda (European Commission, DG Justice Freedom Security – Belgium) * Prof. Monica Palmirani (CIRSFID - Faculty of Law, University of Bologna – Italy) * Dr. Domenico Pellegrini (Magistrate – ICT for Criminal Justice Area, Italian Ministry of Justice – Italy) * Dr. Mirjana Polenak - Akimovska (Faculty of law, Cyril and Methodius University – Macedonia) * Dr. Dariusz Sielicki (Judge at the Circuit Court of Wroclaw – Poland) * Prof. Volker Steinbiss (RWTH University of Aachen – Germany) * Dr. Vuksan Vuksanovic (Montenegrin Ministry of Justice, Podgorica – Montenegro) * Dr. Hans Peter Zorn (Euro Media Laboratories GmbH – Germany) CONTACT PERSON: KONSTANTINOS ROUSIS CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.ict4justice.org/2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------