Invitation

This was an invitation-only workshop to honor the contributions of the late Professor Rob Kling as founder of Social Informatics. The workshop focused on paper presentations related to Social Informatics and, in particular, to extending Dr. Kling's research on computerization movements (CM). Attendees were also invited to contribute personal memorial tributes to Professor Rob Kling. The workshop ended with a discussion of the future of social informatics.

The workshop was held at the Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine on March 11-12, 2005. It was hosted by the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University of California, Irvine. Professor Kenneth L. Kraemer, Director of CRITO, and Margaret Elliott, Research Specialist, planned and coordinated the workshop. The workshop was supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grant No. 0349404), California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)²), UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and UC Irvine's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies.

The workshop will result in publication of selected submitted papers in an edited book and/or special issues of The Information Society, of which Rob was the Editor from 1995 to 2003. It will also result in a bibliography of Professor Kling’s publications.