GUST Management Attend 15th IFIP Business, e-Services, and e-Society Conference in the UK
Kuwait City – September 27, 2016: Gulf University for Science and Technology’s Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Salah Al-Sharhan, and the Dean of the College of Business Administration, Professor Antonis Simintiras attended the 15th IFIP WG 6.11 e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E) Conference held at the Swansea University School of Management, UK. The conference carried the theme: ‘Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’, and was held from 13th September to 15th September.
The conference attracted a large number of submissions and delegates from more than 25 countries across the world attended and presented their papers on topics ranging from Digital Marketing Strategy & Adoption of Social Media toUsing Facebook to Find Missing Persons. All accepted papers were published by Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.
Dr. Al-Sharhan and Professor Simintiras served as conference committee members, program co-chairs, and co-editors of conference proceedings. Moreover, they submitted an application bid to host the 17Th IFIP WG6.11 e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E) conference at GUST in 2018. The application was well received and the university is confident that the application will be successful.
At the event, GUST was an official sponsor of the Best Paper Awards and key note speeches. Dr. Al-Sharhan presented the best paper awards to the winners of the 15th IFIP WG6.11 Conference, including: “Breaking Anonymity of Social Network Accounts” by Hashimoto et al. from Japan; “Business Intelligence from User Generated Content” by Karan Setiya et al. from the Netherlands; “Technology Acceptance, Personality, Civic Engagement and Social Capital” by Vishnupriya Raghavan et al. from India; “Sharing Political Contents in Social Media: The Moderating Effect of Collective Opinion” by Mohammad Hossain et al. from Australia; “Influences and Benefits of Role Models on Social Media” by Lyndsey Jenkins et al. from the UK and Germany; and “Using Facebook to find Missing Persons” by Hattingh and Matthee from South Africa.
The key note speakers were Professor H. Raghav Rao from the University of Texas at San Antonio on “ICT Mediated Rumor Beliefs and Resulting User Behaviors during a Community Crisis”, Professor Ben Light from theUniversity of Salford on “The Inter of Us: Increasing Convergence Amongst Digital and Physical Actors”, and the Professor Viswanath Venkatesh from the University of Arkansas on “Pursuing the United Nations’ Millennium Developmental Goals: Lessons Learned from a Project in Villages in India”.
The university currently has an agreement with Swansea University to promote student, scholars and academic exchange programs, and other joint activities such as seminars, workshops, and collaborative research in areas of mutual interest.
