1. The new information society is already looking very different, and is not easily represented with traditional tools, e.g. cartographic. How might one represent the new information society?
   
   
2. Access is limited by issues of privacy, control, intellectual property rights, pricing, expertise, costs of acquisition, and the ability to create alternative information. Can we enumerate the full set of limitations, and study their dimensions? 
   
   
3. What new organizational structures are needed for the new information technologies, and by what processes will they emerge? What responses to new technologies can we expect from organizations? 
   
   
4. Both spatial technologies (sensu Couclelis) and geographic information technologies have the potential to modify geography. How can we study these impacts? 
   
   
5. Can digital geographic worlds accommodate casual action and movement (e.g., sketch map, user mobility)? 
   
   
6. Methods for modeling and simulating geographies are emerging in the digital world. Can we make them the object of study? What can we learn as a result? 
   
   
7. Can we redefine the concept of scale for an information society in ways that move us away from mechanistic definitions towards ones that are political and human? 
   
   
8. How does information flow withn an institution, e.g., a firm? 
   
   
9. How will global electronic and digital commerce lead to time/space convergence? 
   
   
10. We need to study the implications of telecommunications: for travel behavior, loss of face-to-face communication, loss of community, organization of work, spatial organization, socio-economic inequality. 
    
    
11. To what degree is GIS a promoter of empowerment, a vehicle for participation in governance (or the reverse)? 
    
    
12. Will information technologies be the initiators of new, 'scale-less' institutions, groups, or actors, who will use them for promotion of their interests? 
    
    
13. Daily transactions are increasingly likely to be geocoded. What are the impacts on privacy, groups, locations, politics, of living in a geocoded world? 
    
    
14. How do next-generation visualization capabilities influence information dissemination and use, e.g., in education? 
    
    
15. How can non-spatial 'geo' concepts be integrated into GIS, e.g., sense of place, safety, emotion, sound? Can spatial analysis be used on non-spatial data (spatialization)? 
    
    
16. What are the spatial and temporal patterns of information inequality and levels of literacy? Do they vary by society, region, culture, gender, class, language, discipline? 
    
    
17. What are the impacts of GI and GIS in practice: how is it used in decision-making, how does its use play out with respect to power balances, how does it work within institutions to affect the division of labor, gender and ethnicity, what are its impacts on universities? 
    
    
18. How does putting a spatial boundary on a unit transform its interactions? Can GIS data models fit non-bounded objects? 
    
    
19. Can we define a concept of information poverty, and identify its geography and other characteristics as reflected in access, use of public transport, voter information, etc.? 
    
    
20. How can new geographic information technologies be developed that support multiple views and multiple realities, and what impacts will they have on decision-making? 
    
    
21. Is the potential for integration of data about an individual or place an opportunity or a problem? Can technology interact with a free society? 
    
    
22. What are the social implications of multiple and potentially conflicting representations: representations of geographies, temporality, scale, distortion and manipulation, error and uncertainty? 
    
    
23. In a fully digital world, in which the technology is entirely pervasive, what will define the haves and have nots, what institutions will exist, how will the ability to represent phenomena be defined? 
    
    
24. Geographic and geospatial literacy define the ability of users of GI technologies to express themselves. How can we raise awareness of the limitations of such forms of expression? 

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