Conference on Economic and Social Implications of Information Technology held at University of Maryland, College Park in June 2001

该奖项是为了表彰美国国家科学基金会对首届全国信息技术(IT)社会和经济影响会议的赞助。为期两天的会议将汇集学术研究人员、商业研究和咨询公司以及政策界，以回顾有助于对与IT相关的社会和经济变化的广泛和背景理解的研究。它将激发关于研究战略、政策影响和未来研究议程的辩论，并将为这一研究领域提供一个原型年度会议。这次会议将反映主席信息技术咨询委员会(PITAC)的关切，即我们对与信息技术有关的社会技术变革的实际范围和轨迹的科学了解不足，我们需要建立国家基础设施来支持这一领域的研究。

This award is for NSF sponsorship of the first national conference on the Social and Economic Implications of Information Technology (IT). The two-day conference will bring together academic researchers, commercial research and consulting firms and the policy community to review research that contributes to a broad and contextual understanding of social and economic change, as it relates to IT. It will stimulate debate on research strategies, policy implications and a future research agenda, and it will offer a prototype annual conference for this area of research. The conference will reflect the concerns of the Presidents Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) that we have insufficient scientific understanding of the actual scope and trajectory of the socio-technical transformations related to IT and that we need to build a national infrastructure to support this area of research.