IFIN seeks to open a multidisciplinary dialogue on how we could use the Internet to promote financial awareness and capability among citizens. Towards this goal, IFIN workshop will consist of two parts: presentation of related work and roundtable interactive discussions with participants.
Under the first part, it will present key ideas from the recently initiated EU-funded project called PROFIT: Promoting Financial Awareness and Stability, including a keynote speech from an expert in the area. Moreover, scientific contributions in the area are also welcomed to be presented upon acceptance through an open call for papers.
Under the second part, it will enable interactive discussions with the audience in a roundtable fashion being led by experts. The audience will be encouraged to discuss their ideas and views on the purposes, services and functionalities an online financial awareness platform should have.
Program
Monday, 12 September 2016
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
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| 13:00 – 13:30 | Registration | |
Main Program |
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| 13:30 – 13:50 | Welcome, short introduction of the PROFIT project and IFIN workshop | Anna Satsiou (CERTH) |
| 13:50 – 14:40 | Keynote Speech "The Web and the Challenge of Financial Literacy" | Steve Schifferes (City University London) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | What do people expect from a financial awareness platform? Analysis of the online survey results | Aikaterini Katmada (CERTH) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | A reputation-based incentive mechanism for a crowdsourcing platform for financial awareness | Anna Satsiou (CERTH) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | On the prediction of the direction of Eurostoxx | Ioannis Praggidis (DUTH) |
| 15:40– 16:00 | Advanced Analysis of Financial News Corpora | Artem Revenko (SWC) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Interviews with experts from FEBEA member organizations regarding the benefits of a financial awareness platform – Analysis of the results |
Georgios Panos (Univ. of Glasgow) |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Divergence of sentiment and stock market trading | Antonios Siganos (Univ. of Glasgow) |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | Financial literacy and attitudes to redistribution | Mirko Moro (Univ. of Stirling) |
| 17:30 – 17:50 | Financial literacy and attitudes to devolution | Robert Wright (Univ. of Strahclyde) |
Roundtable Discussions Session |
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| 17:50 – 18:50 | Interactive Roundtable Discussions with workshop participants | All - Moderator: Georgios Panos (Univ. of Glasgow) |
| 18:50 – 19:00 | Closing | Anna Satsiou (CERTH) |
Download the program as pdf file from here.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Steve Schifferes
Professor of Financial Journalism
City University London
Professor Schifferes, Director of the Financial Journalism MA at City, has a wide-ranging background in business and finance journalism, both for television and online. Professor Schifferes was economics correspondent for BBC News Online, co-ordinating coverage of the credit crunch, the Asian financial crisis, the Enron scandal, and the launch of the euro. He reported from the USA during the sub-prime crisis, the Iraq war and the Obama election and from Bangalore, Shanghai and Detroit on globalisation and its discontents. Previously he was a television producer for programmes including On the Record and the Money Programme (BBC) and Weekend World (LWT) as well as a documentary film maker (Breadline Britain, Fortune, and The Making of Modern London for LWT).
Professor Schifferes has lectured around the world on the role of the media in the financial crisis, including Tsinghua and Fudan Universities (China); Mumbai University (India); Columbia and North Carolina (USA); Helsinki (Finland) and Cologne (Germany). He has also done training and consultancy for the International Labour Organisation in Turin, for BBC News, and for the Oxford Internet Institute summer school at Harvard. Professor Schifferes was a BBC Reuters Fellow at Oxford University in 2006, and a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia School of Journalism in 1993-4. He was educated at Harvard and Warwick Universities, where he was a National Merit Scholar and a National Science Foundation Fellow.
Keynote Address Abstract: "The Web and the Challenge of Financial Literacy"
Registrations are open! Although participation in the workshop is free, early registration is recommended. Please register following this link.
IFIN 2016 - 1st International Workshop on the Internet for Financial Collective Awareness & Intelligence in conjuction with the 3rd International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2016)
September 12, 2016, 13.00- 19.00
University of Florence, Florence, Italy
For more information, please visit ifin-workshop.iti.gr or send your inquiries at [email protected]
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