Penn State, Michigan State and Rutgers Universities and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, in cooperation with the New America Foundation, will hold an Experts Workshop, “Beyond Broadband Access: Data-Based Information Policy for a New Administration” at the Foundation’s new headquarters in Washington, D.C., September 22-24, 2009.

Information about the program can be found at: http://www.newamerica.net/events/2009/beyond_broadband_access/.

This website will shortly be updated with the initial program and participants. The Workshop is accepting submissions (Abstracts) for participation until April 30.

If you have any questions, please contact me directly at rdt4@psu.edu. This is promising to be a very interesting event. Stay tuned!

Following TPRC (TPRC paper can be downloaded here: http://www.intramis.net/TPRC_files/TPRC%2008%20Taylor-Zhang%20Final.pdf) in September, there was an Experts' Workshop in Beijing on “Measuring/Bridging the Digital Divide”, hosted by the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and featuring three “foreign experts”, i.e., myself, Prof. Heather Hudson of the University of San Francisco, and Dr. Prabir Neogi of the Government of Canada. It was organized by Prof. Zhang Bin, a professor at the BUPT.

A background paper was prepared for the meeting, in English and Chinese, which can be accessed here:
http://www.intramis.net/bupt_file/BUPT%20Background.pdf),
along with a copy of my presentation:
http://www.intramis.net/bupt_file/BUPT%20Beijing%20presentation_Taylor.p...,
and Doctor Neogi's presentation:
http://www.intramis.net/bupt_file/BUPT%20Beijing%20presentation_Neogi.pd...
the event’s program can be accessed here:

I would like to announce some changes and updates to the Intramis portal. Our founding co-organizer of Intramis, Prof. Jorge Schment, has relocated from Penn State to Rutgers University, where he is now Dean of the School of Information, Communication and Library Science. Prof. Schement has been followed as co-Director of the Penn State Institute for Information Policy by Prof. Amit Schejter of Penn State.

The Intramis portal for information metrics studies is in the process of being updated. New links have been added to papers and reports appearing online up to August 2008. The bibliography has been updated through August 2008. If you would like to propose any additions to the links or bibliography, please forward them to me.

I am new to intramis, invited by Michel Menou. I spend time these days as an editor on the Development Gateway and an office of Americans for UNESCO.

Does everyone know the Science, Technology and Economic Policy Board of the National Academy of Sciences?

They are interested in our topic, and last year published "Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy"

The Intramis website invites submissions by users regarding events, publications, research projects or other material of interest which can be shared with other users and reasonably relates to the theme of the website.

Suggestions and comments are also invited on how to make the website more useful, collegial and collaborative. It is intended to be a resource for users, and a platform for sharing among those with a common interest in understanding the information society.

Welcome to the Web home of the International Network of Researchers for Appropriate Measures of the Information Societies, or "Intramis".

This website is intended to serve as a resource for researchers and practitioners in the field of measurements of the key features of information societies. Our goal is to contribute to the on-going efforts at improving our understanding of the inner dynamics of the "information societies" with special attention to coherent and effective theories and methodologies whether quantitative or qualitative.

This site is under development. You will find an extensive bibliography on the topic, as well as links to papers and to other related websites.

We encourage you to interact with us and to contribute ideas and suggestions to make this website more useful.