Welcome to IFIP Working Group 6.11 on
"Communication Aspects of the E-World"
Plase point to "6.11" above to access WG 6.11 web pages
10th I3E Opening Ceremony, November 2010, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
8th I3E Opening Ceremony, September 2008, in Tokyo, Japan
7th I3E Opening Ceremony, October 2007, in Wuhan, China
History of WG 6.11:
Working Group 6.11 - as one of the newer working groups of IFIP TC6 - addresses application-oriented issues of open systems communication in general, and e-Business, e-Services and e-Society specifically.
Initiative to set up this working group grew out of the International IFIP conference on "Trends in Electronic Commerce" (TREC) organised by Winfried Lamersdorf in Hamburg in 1998 which started to address technical as well as economical and social aspects of e-Business applications of communication systems in a common context. A first proposal to engage in "communication aspects of e-Commerce" was made by Volker Tschammer to TC6 at its meeting 1998-1 in Ladenburg, Germany. Subsequently, a special interest group was set up which lead to the new TC6 Working Group 6.11 on "Communication Aspects on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government" as officially established in 2000 with Volker Tschammer as its first chair.
Also supported by former IFIP president Kurt Bauknecht, as member of WG 6.11, he established the WGs flagship conference series on "e-Commerce, e-Business, and e-Government" (I3E) in fall 2001 as a - still ongoing - successful series of yearly I3E events in all parts of the world. (For instance, TC6 meetings 2001-2 in Zurich and 2002-2 in Lisboa were held in close connection with respective I3E conferences.) In 2007, this conference series was renamed to "e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society" (in brief: I3E as well) in order to adapt to more recent developments in the area.
Main motivation of IFIP Working Group 6.11 is to organise and promote the exchange of information on information, communication, and security aspects of Electronic Business, Electronic Services and Electronic Society, with increased co-operation of both technical areas (like communication and co-operation) as well as related economic areas (like e-Business and information systems) and also social aspects or combinations thereof (like security) - also based on co-operation with related IFIP TCs 6, 8 and 11. The goal of the Working Group is to foster research, development, standardisation, and applications for communication and middleware platforms, service-oriented software architectures, and application frameworks, applications, and services for electronic business and other (similar) applications - including service management and organisational aspects like, e.g., virtual enterprises - as well as socials aspects of open service environments.
Since 2006, WG 6.11 is jointly co-chaired by Wojciech Cellary (for e-Business), Winfried Lamersdorf (for e-Services) and Reima Suomi (for e-Society). As accepted by the IFIP TA in 2010, the Aims & Scope of WG 6.11 were renewed in 2008 and the WG name was changed to "Communication Aspects of the e-World".
Other conferences or conference series co-sponsored by WG 6.11 include "Virtual Goods" (Europe), "Well-being in the Information Society" (Finland) or "E-Government and E-Services" (Brisbane, Australia, as part of IFIP's 50years anniversary WCC 2010).