The conference, chaired by Pedro Isais, aimed to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society, covering both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects. Broad areas of interest were eGovernance, eCommerce, eLearning, eHealth, Information Systems, and Information Management. The conference saw an overwhelming participation from academicians from renowned institutes such as Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.
The paper presented by Dr. Harshvardhan Halve and Mr. Kulkarni was one of the 90 entries shortlisted from among 210 research papers submitted by academicians from across the globe.
Vikrant who was the youngest presenter and the lone Indian in the conference believes that the academicians from the world best institutes are gung-ho about Indian brains. The IMTian has also been invited to participate in an E-democracy project supervised from the Euro zone.