The 1st edition of the e-Society International Conference (ES) was hosted in Lisbon, Portugal, during 3 to 6 June, 2003.

This first edition started a series of conferences that aimed to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference tried to cover both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. The main tracks for submissions were e-Commerce, e-Learning and e-Government.

The e-Society 2003 Conference had about 280 submissions from more than 35 different countries. Each submission had been anonymously reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, to ensure the final high standard of the accepted submissions. Out of the papers submitted, 72 got blind referee ratings that published them as full papers, while some others were published as short papers and posters. The best papers were selected to be published as extended versions in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet and other selected journals.

Further to the presentation of full papers, short papers, posters and doctoral consortium presentations, the conference also offered three keynote presentations by Professor Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands; Professor José Dias Coelho, New University of Lisbon, Portugal and Professor Ulf Essler, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. In addition, the participants had the opportunity to listen to a special talk presented by Professor Dr. Masao Johannes Matsumoto, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan.

The e-Society Conference 2003 proceedings were published both in Book (ISBN: 972-98947-0-1) and CD-ROM.

Program Committee Members: Derrick L. Cogburn , The University of Michigan, USA A Min Tjoa, Vienna Technical University, Austria Dirk Deschoolmeester, University Gent, Belgium Abbe Mowshowitz, The City College of New York, USA Donald McCubbrey, University of Denver, USA Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Ottawa University, Canada Dorothy E. Denning, Georgetown University, USA Adam Grzech, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland Ellen Walker, Hiram College, USA Åke Gronlund, Umeå University, Sweden Emrah Orhun, Troy State University Montgomery, USA Akihiro Kashihara, Osaka University, Japan Enrique Bonsón, Universidad de Huelva, Spain Aksenti Grnarov, University St.Kiril and Metodij, Macedonia Erkki Sutinen, University of Joensuu, Finland Alankar Karol, University of Technology Sydney, Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA Australia Frank Bongers Dialogic, The Netherlands Alexander Roehm, University of Essen, Germany Frank Wang, London Metropolitan University, UK Alexander Solovov, Samara State Aerospace Fons Wijnhoven, University of Twente, The Netherlands University, Russia Gordon Davies, Open University, UK Alexandra I. Cristea, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Grainne Conole, University of Southampton, UK Alfred Bork, University of California, Irvine, USA Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Amit Basu, Southern Methodist University, USA Gunnar E. Christensen, The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway Ana Ramalho Correia, ISEGI – New University of Lisbon, Portugal Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany Andrew Ravenscroft, London Metropolitan University, Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University of Economics and UK BA, Austria António Serrano, University of Évora, Portugal Hanne Albrechtsen, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece Hannes Werthner, University of Trento and ITC- irst, Arthur Tatnall, Victoria University, Australia Italy Ashok Patel, De Montfort University, UK Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Germany Turkey Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, University of St. Gallen, Bernhard Nett, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Switzerland Bob Travica, University of Manitoba, USA Harald Mahrer, Legend Research Consulting, Austria Brent Muirhead, University of Phoenix Online, USA Hari Narayanan, Auburn University, USA Brian Smith, Pennsylvania State University, USA Helen Ashman, University of Nottingham, UK Charles Owen, Michigan State University, USA Henrietta Wilson, University of South Africa, South Africa Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University, USA Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Christer Carlsson, Abo Akademi University, Finland Ho Geun Lee, Yonsei University, Korea Christine Bruff, University of Newcastle, Australia Howard Rosenbaum, Indiana University, USA Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Ivan Tomek, Acadia University, Canada Chuck Kacmar, Florida State University, USA J. Felix Hampe, University of Koblenz, Germany Chul-Hwan Lee, Inchon National University of James McCarthy, Instructional Systems, Sonalysts, Education, South Korea USA Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Ludwig-Maximilian University Jan de Bruin, Tilburg University, The Netherlands of Munich (LMU), Germany Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China Danielle Fowler, University of Baltimore, USA Jiying Zhao, Ottawa University, Canada Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, USA Joan Cooper, University of Wollongong, Australia David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark João Álvaro Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal Demetrios G Sampson, Informatics and Telematics João Paulo Costa, University of Coimbra, Portugal Institute, Greece

Joaquina Barrulas, INETI, Portugal Olivera Marjanovic, The University of New South Wales, Australia John Eklund, Access Testing Centre and The University of Sydney, Australia Paolo Inchingolo, University of Trieste, Italy Jorge E. Caviedes, Philips Research, USA Paulo Amaral, Universidade Católica, Portugal José Dias Coelho, FE - New University of Lisbon, Patricia Ordonez de Pablos, Universidad de Oviedo, Portugal Spain José Miguel Baptista Nunes, University of Sheffield, UK Paul Brna, Northumbria University, UK José R. Llanes, University of Texas Pan-American, Paul Swatman, Deakin University, Germany USA Paula Swatman, University of Koblenz-Landau, Karen Lazenby, University of Pretoria, South Africa Germany Katherine Sinitsa, IRTC ITS, Ukraine Peter Reichl, FTW, Austria Kathrin Möeslein,Technische Universitaet Muenchen Petra Schubert, University of Applied Sciences (FHBB), (TUM), Germany Switzerland Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Kim V. Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Rainer Alt, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Denmark Richard Teare, University of Action Learning at Boulder, Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand USA Krassen Stefanov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Rob Steiner, Columbia University Teachers College, USA Lin Lin, Columbia University, USA Rodrigo Magalhães, Universidade Católica, Portugal Luis Amaral, University of Minho, Portugal Roger Debreceny, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Luminita Vasiu, Middlesex University, UK Tech. Univ., Singapore Maggie McPherson, University of Sheffield, UK Roger Hartley, Leeds University, UK Manoranjan Dash, Northwestern University, USA Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Margit Watts, University of Hawai'i, USA Rolf Wigand, University of Arkansas, USA Maria Teresa Molfino, Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche - Rosa Maria Bottino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IMA, Italy Genova, Italy Mario Caldeira, ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon, Roy Rada, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Portugal USA Marisol Garcia Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Ryszard Kowalczyk, CSIRO, Australia Spain Simeon Simoff, University of Technology Sydney, Martin Smits,Tilburg University, The Netherlands Australia Martin Wessner, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Slobodanka Djordjevic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia Mark Nichols, UCOL, Universal College of Learning, Som Naidu, University of Melbourne, Australia New Zealand Stanley J Birkin, University of South Florida, USA Mary-Anne Williams, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Stefan Zbornik, IT Consultancy, Switzerland Mikhail Morozov, Mari State Technical University, Stefano Cerri, University of Montpellier II, France Russia Stephen Burgess, Vic toria University, Australia Milos Kravcik, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Steve Smithson,University of London, UK Miltiadis Lytras, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece Sukunesan Sinnappan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Mizue Kayama, Senshu University, Japan Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Mohini Singh, RMIT University, Australia Tanya Castleman, Deakin University, Australia Muhammad Betz, University of Phoenix, USA Thomas Acton, Natio nal University of Ireland, Galway, Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Metropolitan University, Ireland UK Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Comm., Japan Nicholas C. Romano, Jr.,Oklahoma State University, USA Toshiro Terano, Tsukuba University, Japan Niels Christian Juul, Roskilde University, Denmark William Golden, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Nitya Karmakar, University of Western Sydney, Australia Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Ulf Essler, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland UniversityRochester, USA Virpi Tuunainen, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia Vladimir A. Fomichov, K. E. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University - MATI, Russia Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA Vladimir Zwass, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA Yongjian Fu, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Zahir Irani, Brunel University, UK Zita Correia, INETI, Portugal Zoran Milosevic, DSTC, Australia