Intellas Members Don Anderson and Adel Elmaghraby spoke at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Engineering sponsored by the AICE Foundation at the Novotel, London ExCel in London, United Kingdom from September 6 - 8, 2007. Mr.Anderson is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the AICE Foundation.

The first keynote address, "Technology, Intelligence, Global Perspectives and Future Directions," was presented by the Hon.Benjamin Aggrey-Ntim, Minister of Communications and Technology for the Republic of Ghana in West Africa.

First presentation:

Dr. Elmaghraby as the second keynote speaker, presented the paper, "Digital Archives: Using the Past to Leap to the Future," written jointly by Mr.Anderson and himself. The abstract of this paper follows:

Abstract:

The digital divide between advanced and developing economies is one of the greatest threats to world peace today. Closing this gap between the information haves and the information have nots should be given the highest priority by institutions around the globe. Making information readily available to people in developing economies and enabling them to live in a digital world is the key to closing this gap.

Digital archives and internet libraries provide an opportunity to mediate the dialog between advanced and developing cultures. Digital technology provides the ability to have a vast library of information available on demand throughout the world. This provides a two way street to enable information to be disseminated in developing economies from advanced economies while providing the means to record and document unique cultural attributes of the developing economies. This approach results in enhancing the sum of world knowledge and in providing the preservation of unique cultural attributes.

This paper examines existing and potential initiatives to make digital archives a practical reality for an accelerated and balanced development throughout the world. It highlights efforts demonstrating the ability to print books on demand in underserved locations, as well as explores the leveraging of digital archives by using the richness of the past to leap into the digital future.

Second presentation:

Mr.Anderson delivered his talk and paper, "Training with Flair: A Major Role for Serious Games into the Future," as an invited paper. This presentation was originally delivered as a keynote address at the 10th International Conference on Computer Games, in Louisville, KY in July 2007. The abstract of the paper also follows:

Abstract:

Computer games have already surpassed the movie studios within the entertainment industry in both the creation of revenue as well as an established, loyal and growing user base. The significance and importance of computer games in society as a whole is in the process of being established and will continue to expand into the future. Although currently under funded by both public and private sources, the use and importance of computer games in a wide variety of training situations is becoming increasingly evident.

Adding games and game concepts to training and training applications can enhance and broaden the learning experience by making the training or educational exercise more enjoyable and memorable for the end user. Rather than the standard boring lessons to be learned by rote memory, the use of computer games can add flair to the training experience. The application for the use of computer games provides a broad horizon or varied degrees and forms of approach to the subject matter to which these concepts are applied. In the course of this paper this will be illustrated by examples of usage in several different training scenarios including a concept developed for the United States Air Force.