[Upd-discuss] Netherlands: Conference incommunicado 05: information technology for everybody else, Amsterdam, De Balie, June 15-17, 2005

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

From: "Sabine Niederer" <sabine@networkcultures.org>
Date: May 16, 2005 16:56:41 GMT+02:00
Subject: incommunicado 05: information technology for everybody else



Incommunicado 05: Information Technology for Everybody Else
Amsterdam, De Balie, June 15-17, 2005
www.incommunicado.info/conference

Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam) together
with Waag Society (Amsterdam) and the New Media Centre Sarai (Delhi),
with support from HIVOS, IICD, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Contact: Matthijs Rutten, matthijs@networkcultures.org, +31 (0)20
5951862.

Incommunicado 05 is a two-day working conference that will attempt to
offer a critical survey of the current state of 'info-development',
most recently known by its catchy acronym 'ICT4D'.

Not too long ago, info-development seemed to be a rather technical
matter of knowledge and technology transfer from North to South. But a
more complex map of actors, networked in a global info-politics, is
emerging. New info-economies like Brazil, China, and India form
south-south alliances that challenge our sense of what 'development' is
all about. New grassroots efforts are calling into question the entire
regime of intellectual property rights (IPR) and access restrictions on
which commercial info-development is based. Commons- or
open-source-oriented organizations across the world are more likely to
receive support from southern than from northern states, and these
coalitions are already challenging northern states on their
self-serving commitment to IPR and their dominance of key
info-political organizations.

Long considered a marginal policy field dominated by technology
experts, info-development is embroiled in a full-fledged info-politics,
negotiated in terms of corporate accountability, state transformation,
and the role of an international civil society in the creation of a new
world information order.
Emerging from the 'incommunicado' internet forum, the work conference
will start mapping some of the faultlines of such a politics by
engaging media activists, policy makers, and researchers in a
collaborative exploration.

Incommunicado 05 will kick off with a public event on June 15 at De
Balie in Amsterdam. This event, including special guests from partner
organizations, introduces a broad non-specialist audience to the field
of ict for development and offers a survey of all conference workshops.

The working conference will take place at June 16 and 17 and combine
plenary sessions with workshops and open sessions. Individual workshops
will address the critique of development, the use of free and open
source software in development projects, the state of the internet
governance controversy, and updates on the ongoing World Summit on the
Information Society. A list of all workshops, additional background
information, and participant biographies are available at
www.incommunicado.info/conference.

Please use the conference website to register online.

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sabine niederer
researcher and producer
institute of network cultures
sabine@networkcultures.org
t: +31 (0)20 5951866
f: +31 (0)20 5951840
www.networkcultures.org
Incommunicado 05: Information Technology for Everybody Else

Amsterdam, De Balie, June 15-17, 2005

www.incommunicado.info/conference


Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam) together
with Waag Society (Amsterdam) and the New Media Centre Sarai (Delhi),
with support from HIVOS, IICD, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.

Contact: Matthijs Rutten, matthijs@networkcultures.org, +31 (0)20
5951862.


Incommunicado 05 is a two-day working conference that will attempt to
offer a critical survey of the current state of 'info-development',
most recently known by its catchy acronym 'ICT4D'.


Not too long ago, info-development seemed to be a rather technical
matter of knowledge and technology transfer from North to South. But a
more complex map of actors, networked in a global info-politics, is
emerging. New info-economies like Brazil, China, and India form
south-south alliances that challenge our sense of what 'development'
is all about.

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"Any man who reads a lot and uses a little his own brain
falls into lazy mental habits.” 
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"Cualquier hombre que lea demasiado y utilice poco 
su propio cerebro cae en hábitos mentales perezosos.” 
-- Albert Einstein (Thorpe, S. (2001). Como pensar como 
Einstein : How to Think like Einstein. Bogota: Norma, p. 214)


		
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