Dr. Sassen is one of the speakers on the first panel. "Developing a knowledge commons" at the forthcoming conference. In a 2004 interview with Bad Subjects she makes a statement which should be considered during each part of the conference:
"We have technology to travel throughout the world but we're unable to provide water, food, vaccines, or jobs for more than three billion people. It's not a consequence of some scientific inability, but of economic and political projects that don't pursue common well-being."
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