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Summary of Issues (ICIW ‘09). Leigh Armistead Edith Cowan University Perth, Australia. Overview. Fourth conference in this series First event conducted internationally Over 40 participants, with 16 papers that were double-blind peer reviewed Active and integrated group of delegates
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Summary of Issues (ICIW ‘09) Leigh Armistead Edith Cowan University Perth, Australia
Overview • Fourth conference in this series • First event conducted internationally • Over 40 participants, with 16 papers that were double-blind peer reviewed • Active and integrated group of delegates • Excellent guest speakers
Five Key Themes • Management and Legal Frameworks for IO • IO Training and Education to Develop Metrics and Standards • CNA, CND and CNE • Social Networking and IO • Software and IT wrt IO
Continuing Sophistication • Lectures and papers in this conference continue to evolve with the quality and intellectual rigor continuing to rise • Their was less emphasis on semantics and more focus on advanced and sophisticated academic subjects • Their also appeared to be less dichotomy between the hard and soft IO topics • Social, management, administrative and economic topics were also highlighted • The international flavor was also beneficial as it gave additional viewpoints than the traditional US centric one
Growing Body of Academics • Eight nations represented • Recruited additional members to the ICIW Committee • Advertised additional IW conferences in Europe, Australia and the United States • Invited more papers for the Journal of Information Warfare
Additional Research Topics • Suggestions included additional research into social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. • Lots of debate on C2 issues with easy access to internet • More research was suggested for medium size nations or those in the developing world
Summary Overall this was a great conference with a tremendous amount of interaction across an international group of operational practitioners and IO academics, who came together in a great collaborative environment