The "ICT and Creativity" Conference, to be held in conjunction with the World Summit on Information Society Second Phase Tunisia 2005, is hosted by the Government of Austria in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO.  The Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Ko?hiro Matsuura, as one of the event뭩 Honorary Patrons, is also addressing the Conference뭩 participants at the opening.

Within the expert workshop ?/FONT>eCulture, Creative Content and DigiArts? the following panellists will be actively intervening with their presentations and discussions on how different cultural actors such as media artists and designers, as well as media performers, may contribute to the creation of an e-culture, with its own aesthetical characteristics, promoting creative content and cultural diversity:

• Mark Federman (McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto) - Touching Culture?
  
• Ricardo Mbarak (New Media Artist and University Professor, Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts) 
  Art and New Media. Strategies for an eMulticulturalism
  
• Mark Amerika (Professor of Digital Art, University of Colorado)  - Connection between ICT + Creativity + Collaboration + Content + Value
  
• Carlos Cabral Nunes (Artist/Director, Colectivo Multimedia Perve, Portugal)
  

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