Previous inaugural lectures

  • 2004-2005 academic year

    ICT in Education: Possibilities and Challenges

    By Martin Carnoy (professor at the University of Stanford)

    It analyses whether ICT is suited to transmitting knowledge, particularly to students who are not already highly motivated to learn or well versed in the art of using and interpreting information.

    http://www.uoc.edu/inaugural04/eng/index.html

  • 2003-2004 academic year

    eGovernment for Europe's public services of the future

    By Erkki Liikanen (European Commissioner responsible for Enterprise and Information Society)

    eGovernment helps the public sector to cope with the conflicting demands of delivering more and better services with fewer resources. Exchange of good practice and cooperation between administrations at all levels can accelerate adoption, bring savings by re-using proven concepts and solutions, and accelerate availability of pan-European services for citizens and businesses.

    http://www.uoc.edu/inaugural03/eng/index.html

  • 2002-2003 academic year

    New technology: an opportunity for humanitarian action

    By Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro (President of the Spanish Red Cross)

    The new information and communication technologies are now an irreplaceable part of social and human development, above all because of their ability to accelerate it.

    http://www.uoc.edu/inaugural02/default_eng.htm

  • 2001-2002 academic year

    The Internet & Liberty

    By Manuel Castells (UOC)

    The Internet is a cultural creation: it reflects the principles and values of its inventors, who were also the first to use it and experience it. Moreover, being a technology for interactive communication with huge retroactive capacity, the uses of the Internet are expressed in its development as a network and in the kinds of technological applications that come along.

    http://www.uoc.edu/web/esp/launiversitat/inaugural01/index.html [In Spanish]

  • 2000-2001 academic year

    For progressive guidance on new technologies, the Internet: a technological and apolitical revolution?

    By José María Mendiluce (MEP and writer)

    The politics of the future in the transition of an individual society to this new network society.

    http://www.uoc.edu/web/esp/launiversidad/inaugural00/mendilucemain2.html [In Spanish]