Dean, School of Information, University of TexasEurope's first
This year marked the 6th highly successful Information Architecture Summit in North America. There were terrific presentations and lots of opportunities to make new friends.
Now we're giving European information architects an opportunity to get to know one another and share their experiences at the very first European IA Summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 15-16, 2005.
Why do we need a European Summit?
For starters, if you live over here, it's a lot easier to get to Belgium than the U.S. or Canada. Second, when we deal with multi-language applications, we really mean it - there are over 20 national languages within the EU alone. Third, we are doing amazing things with alternative interfaces - phones and pocket computers, for example. Most important of all, we are European, not North American - and we see the world a little differently.
Building our community
"Building our community" is the theme of this inaugural European Summit. No, we are not talking about the EU. We are talking about our professional community - information architects and other people involved in structuring information for electronic media. And we want to see YOU!
- I don't know what you mean by "information architecture" and "IA"
- Tell me more about the Summit programme
- I want to submit a presentation
- I want to promote the Summit by becoming a Country Ambassador
"Building our community" is sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology.