A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
XI
of Corfu, Paxoi and the Diapontia Islands Nektarios Dovas and for his support
during the conference, who offered us the venue for ICIL 2012 which we needed
so much, as ICIL run three parallel sessions every day, all day.
he fifth international conference on information law and ethics 2012 (ICIL
2012) included, except the general sessions, the following special sessions: Li-
braries and Intellectual Capital, Living in Surveillance Societies, Arts and Ethics,
Women in Academia Young Scholars’ Forum. The conference was co-organ-
ized by the Ionian University (Department of Archive and Library Sciences and
Department of Audio and Visual Arts) and the International Society for Ethics
and Information Technology (INSEIT). The help of the Head, at the time of the
Department of Archive and Library Sciences, Professor Spiros Asonitis (now sad-
ly deceased) was valuable. Also valuable was the help of the Head, at that time,
of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, now Member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Ionian University, Professor Nikolaos-Grigorios Kanellopoulos. We
also thank the Chair, then, of INSEIT, Professor Herman Tavani.
Professor Emeritus Labros Kotsiris, member of the Academy of Athens, was the
honorary Chair of ICIL 2012. We thank him for his constant love, advice and con-
tribution and support of ICIL, from the very first moment. We thank the keynote
speakers of the conference, Professor Herman Tavani, Professor Paul Sturges,
Professor Bernt Hugenholtz Professor Reto Hilty.
ICIL 2012 was morally sponsored by the Institute for Legal Informatics (IRI, Ger-
many, thank you Professor Nikolaus Forgo), the International Center for Infor-
mation Ethics (ICIE, Germany, thank you Professor Rafael Capurro) and the Nexa
Center for Internet and Society (!taly, thank you Professors Marco Ricolfi and
Juan Carlos de Marin). ICIL 2012 was also supported morally by the Greek E-
themis, thank you Dimitris Anastasopoulos, E-themis Chair, LL.M. We thank all
of you for this moral support.
We thank from our hearts Roubini Oikonomidou, researcher, political scientist,
MSc., for the perfect organization and the content management of the ICIL 2012
website. The conference would be impossible without her.
We thank the Corfiot painter George Pennas, who kindly painted Evi’s portrait
for this volume’s cover.
Thank you, so much, Professor Vassileios Chryssikopoulos, ex-Vice Rector of the
Ionian University and ex-Head of the Informatics Department, current member
of the Board of Trustees of the Ionian University, for your help and the inspira-
tion he offered us -in all ICILs, actually, since 2008, again, in Corfu.
We especially thank Alexandros Panaretos, Computer Scientist, MSc., Special-
ized Technical Scientific Staff of the Department of Informatics of the Ionian
