Growth of networks and huge databases changes our society. Main goals of the Department are conducting research and education of society in order to analyse society with such dynamic information, and design of social information systems. E-commerce, digital libraries, environment observation, bio-sources, prevention of natural disasters and processing of medical information are among the main fields of research. The department also works on network security and intellectual property.
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20 June 2010
Research in Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Faculty Research in Social Informatics, Penn State University, US
Social Informatics is a research field that aims to improve our knowledge on social context of technological actions and co-evolution of technologies, organisations and society, by research and modelling. Topics of the research include: inter-organisational coordination on removing effects of natural disasters, social innovations, IT adoption, IT work force, IT at home and work, global diffusion, virtual worlds and artificial environments, IT and powers of organisation, mobile technologies for developing countries and technologies for social integration.
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