Dear Colleague,

Thank you to all participating organizations, presenters and individual attendees who have helped make EnviroInfo-2006 a very successful and dynamic event. To document the broad range of activities, a number of online resources are now available: slides of keynote speeches, supplemental material from selected workshops, as well as a collection of photos taken during the conference. Additional copies of the proceedings can be ordered from the publisher (ISBN 3-8322-5321-1): K Tochtermann, A Scharl (Eds): Managing Environmental Knowledge - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection. Graz, 6-8 September 2006. Aachen: Shaker.

The Carbon Offset Project, initiated in conjunction with EnviroInfo-2006 and relying on the participants' donations (doubled by the Know-Center and Graz University of Technology's Knowledge Management Institute), yielded €600 that will enable the Tropical Station La Gamba to plant a total of 40 trees as part of a project to establish biological corridors in the southwestern part of Costa Rica.

EnviroInfo-2006 also turned out to be a great place to gather initial support for the "Climate Change Collaboratory", a community platform that targets scientific instituions, the commercial world, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – stakeholders often divided by differing worldviews, goals and agendas. The collaboratory is part of the IDIOM Project (Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media), which was officially launched earlier this month. One of the upcoming newsletters will present more detailed information on the platform, including an invitation to join the initiative.

With best regards,
The ECOresearch Team

UPCOMING EVENTS

Event Date: Nov 17, 2006
Conference - Technology Transfer 2006:
(Nov 17): Technology Transfer 2006 will highlight advancements in the acquisition and transfer of green, eco-friendly technology, both locally and globally, with a particular focus on renewable sources of energy, sustainable development and global leadership in clean technology. Find out more.

Conference - Geoinformatics Applications (ConGeo-2006):
(Nov 21-24): These biannual conference series is a satellite event of the biannual International Conferences on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS). While GeoS aim at providing a timely forum for the exchange of state-of-the art research results in the areas of modeling and processing of geospatial semantics, CONGEO focuses on the applications of geospatial semantics to next-generation spatial databases and geographic information systems (GIS) as well as personalized geospatial web services. Find out more.

Event - Green Awards 2006:
(Nov 29): The Awards recognise excellent creative work that illustrates and communicates the importance of CSR, sustainable development, and ethical best practice. They will be awarded to organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to these issues in a creative and effective way across different media platforms and marketing disciplines. Find out more.

Conference - Bridging the Digital Divide:
(Dec 1-3): The focus of the 4th Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC 2006) on “Bridging The Digital Divide” is to provide a forum for practitioners, researchers and end users of information technology to report successful applications. By hosting the conference in one of the developing nations in Asia, the event aims to engage both the academic and the commercial sectors in that region. Find out more.

Conference - Ecological Informatics 2006:
(Dec 4-6): The 5th International Conference on Ecological Informatics focuses on interdisciplinary research in Ecological Informatics by providing a forum for quantitative ecologists and biologists, environmental scientists and agencies, mathematicians, engineers, computer and information scientists. Find out more.