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It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer LNCS proceedings of the Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, organized by the Open - search Society, Ngo, http://www.open-knowledge-society.org, and held in Samaria Hotel, in the beautiful city of Chania in Crete, Greece, September 16–18, 2009. The 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009) was an international scientific event devoted to promoting dialogue on the main aspects of the knowledge society towards a better world for all. The multidimensional economic and social crisis of the last couple of years has brought to the fore the need to discuss in depth new policies and strategies for a human centric developmental processes in the global context. This annual summit brings together key stakeholders involved in the worldwide development of the knowledge society, from academia, industry, and government, including policy makers and active citizens, to look at the impact and prospects of - formation technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of l- ing, working, learning, innovating, and collaborating in today’s hyper-complex world. The summit provides a distinct, unique forum for cross-disciplinary fertilization of research, favoring the dissemination of research on new scientific ideas relevant to international research agendas such as the EU (FP7), OECD, or UNESCO. We focus on the key aspects of a new sustainable deal for a bold response to the multidimensional crisis of our times.

Knowledge acquisition (Expert systems) --- Information society --- Knowledge management --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Knowledge management. --- Information society. --- Management of knowledge assets --- Computer science. --- Data mining. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- Application software. --- Education --- Computers and civilization. --- Computer Science. --- Computers and Society. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Computers and Education. --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Data processing. --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Computer uses in education --- Computers in education --- Educational computing --- Microcomputer uses in education --- Microcomputers in education --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Informatics --- Science --- Sociology --- Information superhighway --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Education. --- Social sciences --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Education—Data processing.