Invitation to a talk on:
Info-Communication Globalization, Social Media and Digital Payments:
The Code of Digital Transactions (CO.D.TRA) and the Global Info-Cash (GIC)
Speaker: Dr. George K. Gantzias, Associate Professor, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece
Date: 22 May 2013
Time: 19:30-20:30
Venue: Classic Hotel
A Cheese & Wine Reception will follow
RSVP Maria Christofi: Email: [email protected], Tel.: 22841707
Talk Abstract: Info-Communication globalization, social media and digital payments are part of our everyday life. Social media and digital payments become a fact of life for civil society worldwide, involving many actors – politicians, activists, non-governmental organizations, info-communication firms, software providers and political parties. This raises obvious questions for the role of digital technologies, the recent cultural crisis, cloud computing, banking services and the Global Info-Cash (GIC). As the info-communication landscape gets more complex and chaotic, regular citizens/users/consumers are gaining access to digital entertainment, information and education anywhere and at anytime. Why?
Because, social media, mobile phones and digital payments are breaking traditional business structures by setting up the info-communication landscape networks in free market economy. Within this context we introduce the info-communication landscape as a global digital place for developing the Code of Digital Transactions (CODTRA) and the Global Info-Cash (GIC) in the info-communication globalization.
The Greek crisis is an opportunity, not a barrier, in that it provides the country with a platform from which distinctive solutions can emanate. Greek political and economic culture should be reformed due to recent monetary crisis in order Greece to be an active player in the info-communication globalization.
Speaker Bio-Note:
Dr. George K. Gantzias, Associate Professor, Cultural Management – New Technologies in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece. He is teaching Cultural Management, Info-Communication Landscape and Social Media, Cultural Policy, Advertising and Marketing, Cyberspace and Electronic Commerce, New Media, Communication Policy and Info-Communication Industry, Crisis Management and Info-Communication Globalization. He has published a lot of books and academic articles: Recent book chapters ‘Info-Communication Globalization and the Global Info-Cash (GIG): A Practical Way for Greece to Emerge from Crisis’ in Panagiotis Liargovas `Greece: Economic, Political and Social Issues’. Nova Publishers 2012 and The Greek Crisis & CO.D.TRA (Code of Digital Transactions): Mobile Payments and the Global Info-Cash in Elias Carayannis and George Korres (eds.) European Socio-Economic Integration: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned, Springer, New York, 2013. Web pages: www.gantzias.com
