Rich, good timing! I just bought your new book this afternoon and am reading it at the NYU library. Kudos! This is a concise, thougthful work that everyone should read. It's going to shape my thinking about these topics for the next decade, I can tell already.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:03 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > > It is a while since I have posted here. Sorry for the absence. I will try > to be a bit more prolific with messages. Thanks to my colleague Per > Helmersen, I came across the following video of Jan Chip Chase at the Lift > conference. > > > > > http://www.liftconference.com/video-nine-trends-shaping-future-social-interactions > > > > There will be an interesting conference in Karlstad Sweden on Thursday and > Friday. It is the first international M4D conference . > > > > http://m4d.humanit.org/ > > > > 1st International Conference on "M4D": > > Mobile communication technology For Development > > 11-12 December, 2008, Centre for HumanIT > > Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden > > > > We strive to have an event where all types of actors are included. There > will be a research stream with a traditional conference design and a > practitioner's stream where industry, NGOs, and public bodies can > disseminate their knowledge. For each of these two major focuses there will > be an internationally renowned keynote speaker plus an additional workshop > keynote; se the Program page (preliminary schedule). > > > > For each focus we invite contributions to "poster" sessions (including any > kind of demonstration) to make it easy for smaller companies and other > organizations to put on display their activities even if they have no > material for regular conference presentations. It also makes it possible for > graduate students to make presentations of work in progress at the > scientific part of the conference. > > > > We have received presentations within all "m" areas: m-government, > m-health, m-banking, m-policy, etc. All are relevant to M4D. While the "m" > in this context often implies low tech it is also noteworthy that wireless > connections have promises for the development of broadband networks: there > will be a special workshop on "Wireless Broadband Networks for developing > regions". > > > > Deadline for submission is is now closed. We are presently reviewing > proposals for presentations and posters. Companies, authorities, NGOs that > are interesting of a putting up a poster can still make proposal as can also > sponsors; see further information by clicking on "Participation". > > > > Rich L. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
