Technology provides humanity with completely new dimensions of understanding. However, in the present meta-industrial era, technological progress creates the need for a new value system. The Biopolitics International Organisation and the International University for the Bio-Environment have, as the main goal, to promote a bio-assessment of technology, by placing the respects and appreciation of the bio-environment at the core of all human endeavors.
With this vision in mind, the Fifth Biopolitics International Organisation International Conference was realized in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 1992. It is hoped that the new horizons opened during this conference will contribute to the effort to assess technological progress through the prism of bios in the next millennium, a unifying vision leading to a new era of bio-culture and bio diplomacy.
Grateful acknowledgment os made to Professor Necdet Serin, President of the University of Ankara who proposed to hos the Fifth B.I.O. International Conference in Istanbul.
This Conference has been realized thanks to the support of the following authorities from Turkey: Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Environment, Governor of Istanbul, Mayor of Istanbul, University of Ankara; and the 1992 B.I.O. sponsors from Greece: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, A.G. Leventis Foundation, DUNI AB Sweden, Benroubi S.A., EKO S.A., Bank of Greece, Phoenix General Insurance S.A..
The publication of this volume has become possible thanks to the following B.I.O. sponsors for the year 1993: INTRACOM A.E., I.F. Kostopoulos Foundation, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Gerasimos Vasilopoulos, MAVIKO S.A., H. Benroubi & Son S.A., Hellenic Industrial Development Bank S.A., ELAIS S.A., EKO S.A., Friesland Hellas S.A.., INFOWARE.
Dr. Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis
Professor Rusen Keles
