This theme expresses that we are living in a new era when practically all of our
information resources are organized and managed in a networked environment. Information
technology has reformed and restructured the workflows of companies
and other organizations over the past several decades, and will continue to do so
nected” state of information systems, the evolving distributed nature of information
resources and the growing volume and diversity of information. IS
development, both as a professional and academic discipline, has responded to this
challenge through methodologies, tools and theory development. Progress in ISD
comes from research as well as from practice. The aim of the Conference was to
provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences between
academia and industry, and to stimulate exploration of new solutions.
The ISD Conference evolved from the first Polish-Scandinavian Seminar on
Putting together a book of this magnitude requires the cooperation and assistance
of many professionals with much expertise. We would like to express our
August – 2 September 2006. The theme of the 2006 conference was “New
Methods and Practice for the Networked Society”.
Systems Development, ISD’2006, held in Budapest, Hungary between
well into the future. This is particularly important now, as we see the emergence of
complex networked information systems. “Being digital” by Nicholas Negroponte
was the watchword at the dawn of the information society. “Being online” is now
at the very heart of our everyday life. New postulates and requirements are stemIT
and infocommunication technologies has presented a challange for the ISD
profession in terms of accomodating mobility, interoperability, the “always conming
from this nature of society of today and tomorrow. The convergence of.