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The idea of being (held) incommunicado - to be in a liminal state vis-a-vis multiple regimes of information as well as human rights - serves as point of departure for analyses, critiques, and projects beyond the standard agenda of ICT-for-Development. Currently, 'incommunicado' emphasizes five (research)</font></font></font></span> <a href="/topics"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">areas</font></font></font></span></a><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">: ICT for Development, WSIS, NGOs and Civil Society, ICT and Environment, and Futures of Development. In the spirit of a “research commons” and an open editorial process, you are welcome to comment and/or create your own weblog. Once you register and login, you can post to any of the five topic areas or submit calls and other announcements. Also see the</font></span> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">call</font></span> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000">for the first network conference in 2005.</font></span></font></font></p> </div> <div id="main"> <div class="node"> <h2 class="title">Hofmann, Internet Governance: Eine regulative Idee auf der Suche nach ihrem Gegenstand (Spring 2005)</h2><span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="user/view/3" title="View user profile.">sz</a> on Thu, 11/25/2004 - 11:40.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/1" title="For some, the UN World Summit on the Information Society is just another moment in an ongoing series of intergovernmental jamborees, glamorizing disciplinary visions of global ICT governance. For others, WSIS revives 'tricontinentalist' hopes for a New International Information and Communication Order whose emphasis on 'civil society actors' may even signal the transformation of a statist system of intergovernmental organizations. Either way, WSIS continues to encourage the articulation of agendas, positions, and stakes in a new politics of communication and information.">WSIS</a></span> <div class="content"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Hofmann, Jeanette. “Internet Governance: Eine regulative Idee auf der Suche nach ihrem Gegenstand.” in: Folke Schuppert (Hg.): Governance-Forschung – Vergewisserung über Stand und Entwicklungslinien, Band 1 der Reihe „Schriften zur Governance-Forschung“, Nomos-Verlag: Baden-Baden (Spring 2005).</font></font></p> </div> <div class="links"> » <a href="blog/3" title="Read sz's latest blog entries.">sz's blog</a> | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more </div> </div> <div class="node"> <h2 class="title">Weiss, Taking Out the Eurotrash (Nov 2004)</h2><span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="user/view/3" title="View user profile.">sz</a> on Thu, 11/25/2004 - 10:45.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/5" title="In the dot-gone era, even the 'digerati' no longer embrace the vision of an unfettered cyberliberarianism and its promise of dematerialization-through-technology. Slowy, the new sobriety acknowledges what even WIRED considers to be the 'dark side of the digital age': the tremendous environmental and social impact of IT-related resource extraction, manufacturing, use, and disposal.">ICT and Environment</a></span> <div class="content"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Weiss, Giselle. “Taking Out the Eurotrash.” IEEE</font></font> <span style="text-decoration: none"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Spectrum</font></font></span> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">(24 Nov 2004).</font></font></p> </div> <div class="links"> » <a href="blog/3" title="Read sz's latest blog entries.">sz's blog</a> | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more </div> </div> <div class="node"> <h2 class="title">Delhi: No Way Out for E-Waste Disposal (Nov 2004)</h2><span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="user/view/3" title="View user profile.">sz</a> on Thu, 11/25/2004 - 10:38.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/5" title="In the dot-gone era, even the 'digerati' no longer embrace the vision of an unfettered cyberliberarianism and its promise of dematerialization-through-technology. Slowy, the new sobriety acknowledges what even WIRED considers to be the 'dark side of the digital age': the tremendous environmental and social impact of IT-related resource extraction, manufacturing, use, and disposal.">ICT and Environment</a></span> <div class="content"> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">“<font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">No way out for e-waste disposal.” Delhi <span style="text-decoration: none">Newsline</span> (24 Nov 2004).</font></font></p> <p align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">New Delhi, November 23: The MCD today failed to bring around</font></font></p> </div> <div class="links"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">» <a href="blog/3" title="Read sz's latest blog entries.">sz's blog</a> | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"></font></font> <h2 class="title"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">The “cockroach phenomenon” - an argument against the neutrality of ICT (2)</font></font></h2><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="submitted">Submitted by maja on Thu, 11/11/2004 - 22:46.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/2" title="The most common definitions of 'ICT4Development' focus on ICT infrastructures and their governance to stress the centrality of ICT to processes of development. But beyond technocratic visions of access and connectivity, the idea of 'ICT4Development' is already transforming visions of cultural exchange, economic empowerment, political transformation, and social change.">ICT for Development</a></span></font></font> <div class="content"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">When you step on a cockroach in order to kill it, you may release its eggs and end up with even more cockroaches. This is what happened when Napster was taken of the net as a result of legal action by the recording industry. There are now more file-sharing systems and more users. And not only that, these systems are different from Napster: they are better adapted to withstand legal action.</font></font> </div> <div class="links"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">» maja's blog | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"></font></font> <h2 class="title"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Microsoft gifts: In whose interest?</font></font></h2><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="submitted">Submitted by maja on Sun, 11/07/2004 - 18:08.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/2" title="The most common definitions of 'ICT4Development' focus on ICT infrastructures and their governance to stress the centrality of ICT to processes of development. But beyond technocratic visions of access and connectivity, the idea of 'ICT4Development' is already transforming visions of cultural exchange, economic empowerment, political transformation, and social change.">ICT for Development</a></span></font></font> <div class="content"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">On 17 November UNESCO head Mr. Matsuura and Microsoft head Mr. Gates will give a press conference after the signing of a Cooperation Agreement. The agreement defines eight areas in which UNESCO and Microsoft will work together, exchanging experience, know-how and developing projects:</font></font> </div> <div class="links"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">» maja's blog | 3 comments | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"></font></font> <h2 class="title"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">BAN, Wireless Waste: The Next Hazardous Waste Challenge (Oct 2004)</font></font></h2><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="user/view/3" title="View user profile.">sz</a> on Thu, 11/04/2004 - 18:14.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/5" title="In the dot-gone era, even the 'digerati' no longer embrace the vision of an unfettered cyberliberarianism and its promise of dematerialization-through-technology. Slowy, the new sobriety acknowledges what even WIRED considers to be the 'dark side of the digital age': the tremendous environmental and social impact of IT-related resource extraction, manufacturing, use, and disposal.">ICT and Environment</a></span></font></font> <div class="content"> <font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"></font></font> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: medium"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">BAN. „</font></span></span><span style="font-weight: medium"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Wireless Waste</font></span></span><span style="font-weight: medium"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">:</font></span></span></font></font></p> </div> <div class="links"> <span style="font-weight: medium"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">» <a href="blog/3" title="Read sz's latest blog entries.">sz's blog</a> | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more</font></span> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <span style="font-weight: medium"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"></font></span> <h2 class="title"><span style="font-weight: medium"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Shankar, Bangalore chokes under tons of e-waste (Oct 2004)</font></span></h2><span style="font-weight: medium"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="user/view/3" title="View user profile.">sz</a> on Tue, 11/02/2004 - 09:11.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/5" title="In the dot-gone era, even the 'digerati' no longer embrace the vision of an unfettered cyberliberarianism and its promise of dematerialization-through-technology. Slowy, the new sobriety acknowledges what even WIRED considers to be the 'dark side of the digital age': the tremendous environmental and social impact of IT-related resource extraction, manufacturing, use, and disposal.">ICT and Environment</a></span></font></span> <div class="content"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">Shankar, Jay. „Bangalore chokes under tons of e-waste.“ <span style="text-decoration: none">Sify</span> (31 Oct 2004).</font></font></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">As IT firms continue to swamp India's technology hub of Bangalore, the</font></font></p> </div> <div class="links"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">» <a href="blog/3" title="Read sz's latest blog entries.">sz's blog</a> | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> <h2 class="title"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">NGOs and Blogging</font></font></h2><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span class="submitted">Submitted by GraemeB on Tue, 11/02/2004 - 00:59.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/3" title="Many of the social and political desires triggered by the rise of the so-called info-society are channeled through the concept and organizational vision of 'civil society', not least because of the lure of 'a seat at the table' in multi-stakeholder dialogues or at intergovernmental summits. What are the strengths and limits of 'civil society' strategies in the evolving organizational infrastructure of a politics of communication and information rights?">NGOs and Civil Society</a></span></font></font> <div class="content"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">I'd found lots of resources online for NGOs as a whole but very little for the NGO worker. It also struck me that the opportunities for the average member of civil society to share their experience are few and far between. As such, i've created via the Citizen Lab a project called the Civiblog. It currently offers free blogging space to any member of an NGO and has begun to write and collect resources.</font></font> </div> <div class="links"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">» GraemeB's blog | <a href="user/login">login</a> or <a href="user/register">register</a> to post comments | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> <h2 class="title"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">Resistance is not futile* (1)</font></font></h2><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span class="submitted">Submitted by maja on Mon, 11/01/2004 - 12:13.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/2" title="The most common definitions of 'ICT4Development' focus on ICT infrastructures and their governance to stress the centrality of ICT to processes of development. But beyond technocratic visions of access and connectivity, the idea of 'ICT4Development' is already transforming visions of cultural exchange, economic empowerment, political transformation, and social change.">ICT for Development</a></span></font></font> <div class="content"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">I just read in a report by Warren Feek of the Communication Initiative that I am one of the “ICT4D detractors” (together with Roberto Verzola, Richard Heeks, and some others). See The Current and Future Applications of Information and Communication Technologies for Developmental Health Priorities. The other categories he uses to classify papers (and their writers) are “ICT4D proponents” and “ICT4D the middle road”. Warren Feek did a great job summarising ICT4D reports and papers. I am mainly interested in this category of “ICT4D detractors".</font></font> </div> <div class="links"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">» maja's blog | 2 comments | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> <h2 class="title"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">ICT for Development - Online Discourse</font></font></h2><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span class="submitted">Submitted by Barbara Fillip on Thu, 10/28/2004 - 20:23.</span> <span class="taxonomy"><a href="taxonomy/page/or/2" title="The most common definitions of 'ICT4Development' focus on ICT infrastructures and their governance to stress the centrality of ICT to processes of development. But beyond technocratic visions of access and connectivity, the idea of 'ICT4Development' is already transforming visions of cultural exchange, economic empowerment, political transformation, and social change.">ICT for Development</a></span></font></font> <div class="content"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">I subscribe to many online discussion lists and while I hardly ever find time to read all messages (unless I happen to be responsible for drafting a summary of the discussions) and I have often wondered about the nature of these "global discussions" where there are really only a few core participants and many observers. Note that this would not be different in a face-to-face environment. There are always a few outspoken individuals and many more silent observers.</font></font> </div> <div class="links"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">» Barbara Fillip's blog | 1 comment | read more</font></font> </div> </div> <div id="pager" class="container-inline"> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> <div> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> </div> <div> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> </div> <div> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"><strong>1</strong> <a href="node?from=10">2</a> 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...</font></font> </div> <div> <a href="node?from=10"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2">next page</font></font></a> </div> <div> <font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></font> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td id="sidebar-right"> <div class="block block-block" id="block-block-1"> <h2 class="title">Mailinglist</h2> <div class="content"> INCOM-L is the mailinglist of the incommunicado network. 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