Digital Cities Project


Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities
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Symposium Program: September 16, 1999  
10:00-10:20 Opening Messages
10:20-11:00 An Overview of Digital City Activities
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
11:00-12:00 Designing the Digital City
William J. Mitchell (MIT, USA)
12:00-12:40 The Information Society in the City of Antwerp: a Political View
Bruno Peeters (Vice Mayer of Antwerp, Belgium)
12:40-13:40Lunch Break
13:40-14:20 Community Networks between Rhetoric and Realities: The Example of the Amsterdam Digital City
Peter van den Besselaar (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
14:20-15:00 Creating a Virtual Twin for Helsinki and Enabling the Citizens
Risto Linturi (Helsinki Telecom, Finland)
15:00-15:40 Digital City Kyoto
Jun-Ichi Akahani (NTT, Japan)
15:40-16:00Afternoon Break
16:00-17:00 Supporting Digital Community Networks in the Prairie
Noshir Contractor (University of Illinois, USA)
17:00-19:00 Demonstrations

The symposium is free.
You can register online.

Workshop Program, September 17-18