FW: The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)

Interesting piece Geert and Florian... Right question/wrong answer... The problem with "Internet Research/theory" is that the ICT theory (and research) folks see ICTs as a tool rather than as a basis for a fundamental transformation including in relations of production/power. So they miss the fo

FW: The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)

The State of my networking--Mar. 4, 2004 https://www.linkedin.com/network [Skip navigation] Welcome, Michael | Sign Out Home Search Profile Address Book Network Requests Network Your Network of Trusted Professionals You are at the center of your LinkedIn Network. Your connections can help yo

Somebody Answered Mama Abacha

Bank scam trial reopens in Nigeria By Anna Borzello BBC correspondent in Abuja http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3556785.stm The trial of five people charged in connection with defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242m is due to resume in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The bank at the centre of

FW: Britain:_Blunkett_to_legislate_for_thought_crimes_and_guilt_by_association

Hmm... Six degrees of incarceration? MG -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Caroline Heatlie Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Britain:_Blunkett_to_legislate_for_thought_crimes_and_guilt_by_associati on h

A Letter Re: Canadian Policy Towards An Information Society

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garth Graham Sent: July 23, 2004 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Directors] Letter to Industry Minister re communcations policy Now that a Cabinet has been announced, I completed and forwarded that draft letter to the Mi

RE: A Letter Re: Canadian Policy Towards An Information Society

Within the Canadian Government broadly speaking ICT responsibilities are divided between the Ministry responsible for "carriage" (Industry Canada) and the Ministry responsible for "content" (Heritage Canada). The framework for Canada's positioning nationally and internationally on "Information Soc

Students Fight Copyright Hoarders...

-Original Message- From: Russell McOrmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 10, 2004 4:37 PM To: General Copyright Discussions Cc: Universal Access Canada; CANadian OPENsource Education and Research Subject: [CPI-UA] Students Fight Copyright Hoarders... (Please forward to campus ma

Southeast Asia Tsunami and the Effective Use of Community ICTs

I guess like everyone else I've been watching the tragic events unfold on television with a sense of sadness and powerlessness. Not much that one can do from so far away except at this point to make a donation and to make the kinds of noises that get governments to move away from inactivity. F

FW: [news] Fight against Internet file-swapping called hopeless

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 27, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: [news] Fight against Internet file-swapping called hopeless For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 3 Optical Internet p

FW: Towards 2003--The Year of WSIS? sigh...

Below is a very interesting piece on the World Summit on the Information Society http://www.itu.int/wsis (WSIS) written from a Swiss NGO perspective (presumably having more direct access to the Geneva summit hosts than others... (My own contacts suggest that the reality especially as it impacts on

FW: [CC] BREAKING NEWS! AOL PULLS PLUG ON DIGITALCITY- Without Telling Any one Else

-Original Message- From: jill e vaile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: January 20, 2003 11:05 AM Subject: [MediaMentor] BREAKING NEWS! AOL PULLS PLUG ON DIGITALCITY- Without Telling Anyone Else Contact: Jill E. Vaile Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOLs DIGITAL CITY TURN

The disruptive Web

Jon Udell's library experiment is here http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/03/01/06/030106apapps.xml?Templ ate=/storypages/printfriendly.html Copyright Infoworld. January 3, 2003 01:01 PM PST The disruptive Web Jon Udell I DID AN EXPERIMENT last week that nicely demonstrates the disru

Sources Looking for Motivation of Computer Virus Creators

Surely there is something quite bizarre about the whole world (well at least the billion or so Internet and related users) being vulnerable to a clever (post?) adolescent's call for attention. Since in fact, there isn't all that much we are going to be able to do to prevent similar behaviours in t

FW: Online games increasingly a place for protest, social activism

ssage- From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; community informatics; Nettime-L; Ciresearchers Net Subject: Online games increasingly a place for protest, social activism Online games increasingly a place for

I Guess You Had to Have Been There: A Reflection on Not Going to WSIS

A Reflection on Not Going to WSIS I've been following the discussions around WSIS now for more than two years. Reading and occasionally contributing to the e-lists, following the documents as they tumble one after the other into the electronic spaces, saving trees (one assumes) but overloading

Ahh... Globalization

I had the interesting experience recently of setting up a support call/account for a defective Dell hard-drive here in New York. Then I travelled to Australia where I was told the account that had been set up on the hard-drive was only in the American databases and I would have to arrange through