Asian Hub Conference on Triple Helix & Net-work Sciences:

We are pleased to announce the Asian Hub conference on Triple Helix & Network Sciences, scheduled to oc-cur in Daegu and Gyeongbuk(Gyeongju), South Korea from Dec. 11 th to 13th, 2014. The inaugural event last year was a great success with over 150 registered attendees including Batagelj, Diesner, Smith, Rluver, Ack-land, Tkach-Kawasaki, Phillips, Shapiro, and Barnett, (see previous Keynote Speakers: http://www.asia-triplehelix.org/DISC2013), and we hope you can join us as we seek to continue building a regional center for thought provoking, inspiring discussion about knowledge management and innovation with some of the world’ foremost scholars and practitioners in the field of network sciences.

Conference ThemeData as Social Culture: Networked Innovation and Government 3.0

Conference Chair of DISC 2014 (Daegu Gyeongbuk(Gyeongju) International Social Network Conference)

(Full) Professor, Dr. Han Woo Park (Director of Asia Triple Helix Society, Yeungnam Univ., Korea), http://www.hanpark.net

Important Dates• Abstract submission deadline: September 5th, 2014 • Notification of abstract acceptance : September 26th,

2014• Conference dates: December 11th to 13th, 2014, Daegu,

South Korea• Early submissions will receive discounts on registration

fees• Technological Forecasting and Social Change accepted a

special issue http://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-open-big-data-as-social-change-triple-helix/

DISC 2014 (Daegu Gyeongbuk(Gyeongju) International Social Network Conference)

IMC AwardOutstanding original work will be considered for special awards. The competition opens for all ranks includ-ing graduate students and faculty members. The total amount of available awards is 2 million Korean Won, and the number of selected papers and their cash prizes are subject to change depending on the quality of full papers received. The chosen papers must also be submitted to the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia for publication. To be considered for this award, send your completed paper no later than 1 October 2014 to in-fo.disc2014@gmail.com and provide your biographies. Below is the prize money structure for the IMC award.

• 1st – 1 Million Korean Won• 2nd – 500,000 Korean Won• 3rd (Two Papers) – 250,000 Korean Won per each

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workshops will be announced shortly.

A growing body of research suggests that information, knowledge, and innovation increasingly emerge at the

interstices of collaborating individuals, groups, and organizations. Theoretically, a triple helix of university-

industry-government relations exemplifies efforts to understand how institutional arrangements and commu-

nication flows induce emergent knowledge-intensive clusters and networked innovations. Practically, "Gov-

ernment 3.0" in South Korea is an attempt to support 'creative economy' by promoting the sharing of public

information and fostering collaborations among various stakeholders. Understanding how such data affects

society broadly defined is the purpose of this conference.

Wouter van AtteveldtVU Univ. AmsterdamNetherlands

Leslie M. Tkach-KawasakiUniv. of TsukubaJapan

Heeyoon ChoiKISTIKorea

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Hyejin YounOxford Martin School, University of OxfordUK

Kimmo KaskiAalto UniversityFinland

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Keynote Speakers

Peter ParycekDanube Univ. KremsAustria

Marko M. SkoricCity Univ. of Hong KongHong Kong S.A.R.

Meeyoung ChaKAISTKorea

Nasir SheikhSUNY KoreaUSA

Janghyun Kim DGISTKorea

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WorkshopsAll workshops will take place every day during conference period. Exact times and room locations to be an-nounced. Workshop fee: 50,000 Korean Won. This does not include conference registration. Workshop partic-ipants must register conference. Workshop can be cancelled if the total number of people who register is less than 20. All the participants are supposed to bring their own laptop computers.

Cultural Analytics of Big Data using Webometric 2.0 and NodeXLTime: Half Day / Location: TBA / Capacity: 50Organizers: Han Woo ParkThis workshop will provide an interactive training session on how researchers in humanities and social sci-ences can employ Weboemtrics tools to explore cultural activities on social media sphere (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)..

Analyzing Words and Networks with ConTextTime: Half Day / Location: TBA / Capacity: 50Organizers: Jana Diesner, Jinseok KimThe functioning and dynamics of real-world networks involve the continuous production, processing and flow of knowledge and information. Sources for this knowledge and information often occur in the form of un-structured, natural language text data. In this workshop, participants learn how to a) construct network data from text data and pertaining meta-data, and b) how to jointly consider text data and network data for analy-sis.

Analytic Strategies in Risk Communication and Emergency ManagementTime: 2 hours / Location: TBA / Capacity: 50Organizers: Kyujin Jung, Minsun SongThis workshop aims to present an analytic approach to diverse phenomena, which might appear before, dur-ing, and after a catastrophic event such as natural and technical disasters. The key objective of this workshop is that each participant will understand and employ diverse analytic strategies in order to investigate disaster-related research and practice.

R for Beginners and Its Applications for Academy, Industry, and GovernmentTime: 2 hours / Location: TBA / Capacity: 50Organizers: In Ho Cho

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Daegu

Gyeongju

Daegu is a city with a long history of Korean tradition and a rich cultural heritage. It is located in the south-eastern area of the Korean Peninsula with a population of two and a half million. The City of Daegu is strong in such industries as fashion and textiles, machinery and optical products. The two main industries are ICT and mechatronics & materials. Especially, ICT has been considered as the most important industry that can lead Daegu’s economy for the future. Above all, the City of Daegu is planning to be sustainable in thefuture to insure a high quality of human life by restoring and preserving its natural environment.

Gyeongju, located in southeast Korea, was the capital of the Silla Kingdom for 992 years (BC 57-935), the longest surviving kingdom in the history of Korea. Living up to its former glory as the capital of the longest-surviving kingdom in Korea, Gyeongju still shines today, more than a millennium after the kingdom’s demise.There are so many historic treasures scattered throughout the city that it is almost impossible to pinpoint them all. For this reason, the entire area of Gyeongju is registered as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage under the title 'Gyeongju Historic Areas.' The city is also commonly known as a ‘Museum without Walls.'