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The research area Computers and Society is concerned with the conditions, actions and results that computing, information technology and data processing have on society. It investigates social targets for computing research and derives design critera. The goal is to avoid unwanted side-effects of computing on society before they end up being problems.

Our research areas are:

Ethics
Women and Computing
Computing in Developing Countries
Surveillance
eGovernment
Digital Media and Society
Open Access / Open Source
Computing as Science vs. Computing as Art

The German GI "Informatik and Gesellschaft" is preparing a conference (in German) for April 2007.