SAT – e-Economy

Nowadays a great challenge for science and business is the emerging knowledge-oriented, electronic economy, denoted as e-Economy. e-Economy follows from unprecedented development of information and communication technologies, including the fixed and mobile Internet, which became widespread at the global scale. In the e-Economy there are dominating digital products and digital services whose economical value comes from knowledge necessary for their creation instead of the costs of resources, energy or physical workforce. The e-Economy is characterized by new features with respect to time, geographical space and costs, thus changing considerably the way business is done worldwide. One extraordinary aspect is the dynamism of e-Economy development and rapidity of its continuous transformation. All those features are a challenge for research that by necessity has to be interdisciplinary. Involvement of technical, economical and social sciences is required to understand e-Economy.

Wojciech Cellary - Committee Chair

Department of Information Technology
The Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Prof. Wojciech Cellary is a computer scientist, head of the Department of Information Technology at the Poznan University of Economics. In his professional career he worked at nine universities in Poland, France, and Italy. His research interests are currently focused on internet technologies, multimedia electronic business and information society. He is an author of 10 books and 90 scientific papers. He gives lectures on electronic business to over 700 students per year. He was a leader of many scientific and industrial projects. His newest achievement is edition of the report "Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging on" developed under auspices of United Nations Development Programme.