The Information Society: Innovation, Legitimacy, Ethics and Democracy In Honor of Professor Jacques Berleur s.j. Proceedings of the Conference "Information Society: Governance, Ethics and Social Consequences", University of Namur, Belgium, 22-23 May 2006

Chrisanthi Avgerou TC9 chair Professor of Information Systems London School of Economics c.avgerou@lse.ac.uk A conference to honour the professional life of Jacques Berleur has inevitably been a platform for debate on the most fundamental issues that pre-occupy the working groups of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 (TC9) on the 'Relationship between Computers and Society'. Jacques Berleur has of course been one of those few ICT experts who, since the 1970s, has tirelessly worked within the IFIP community to expose the nature of the ethical dilemmas of a society increasingly relying on the complex ICT infrastructures, to raise awareness of the social challenges this poses, and to influence action compatible with the ethical values of western democracy. And while Jacques, in the wake of his retirement from his university post is accelerating the pace of building his oeuvre, we can take the opportunity of this event to reflect on the critical stance towards the Information Society he has contributed to form within the TC9, which he chaired for many years.

Technology and Democracy: Views on The is.- to part I.- Democracy, Technology, and Information Societies.- Democracy, innovation, and the information society.- The Information/Knowledge society as Risk Society : Assessing and Enforcing IT safety and security standards for IT systems : about responsibility of experts and governments.- Ethics and Democracy Into The ICT.- to part II.- From the Ethics of Technology to the Ethics of Knowledge Assessment.- Deliberative democracy : from Rational Discourse to Public Debate.- ICT and Value Sensitive Design.- Governance of is: From Economic Regulation To A New Social Contract.- to part III.- Social Consequence of Information and Communication, Technologies and the European Union : Policy Links.- Economy, Industry, Innovation and Technical Democracy.- When Economics meets Ethics : the Governance of Economic Activities in the Information Society.- The Institutional Dynamics of Sharing Biological Information : Towards Reflexive Governance of the Information Society.- The Internet: New principles of political right, new social contract.- Applied issues: health, profession and education.- to part IV.- Which Major Legal Concerns in future e-Health?.- Embedding Professional Issues within University Degree Courses.- IT, Ethics and Education : Teaching the Teachers (and their Pupils).- For an ethical and democratic governance of the is: lessons from WSIS.- to part V.- Internet Governance : Some Thoughts after the two WSIS.- Governance Challenges: First Lessons from the WSIS — An Ethical and Social Perspective.- General Conclusion.- The Information Society : What Next?.