In June the Institute of Network Cultures hosted a conference. I wrote a report following the meeting. They have a reader (print/CD) which is available online. You may also request a free hard copy though the ones I received yesterday had no CD-ROM included. There is a wide variety of topics covered: info development, open source software in Brazil, urban issues in Bangalore, piracy, international remittances. The download is 17.5 Mb as a single file. Well worth the time, but the printed version is easier to read.
Here's The Table of Contents
Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle, Incommunicado Glossary
• Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D
• Bernardo Sorj and Luís Eduardo Guedes, Digital Divide: Conceptual Problems, Empirical Evidence and Policy Making Issues
• Lisa McLaughlin, Cisco Systems, the UN, and the Corporatization of Development
• Shuddha Sengupta, Knowing in your Bones that You’re Being Watched (Transcript)
• Roy Pullens, Migration Management: Export of the IOM Model
• Alexandre Freire, Ariel G. Foina, and Felipe Fonseca, Brazil and the FLOSS process
• Kim van Haaster, The University of the Future: Software Development in Revolutionary Cuba
• GovCom.org, Digital Cartogram
• Scott S. Robinson, Diaspora Incommunicados - IT, Remittances and Latin American Elites
• Glen Tarman, The Biggest Interactive Event In History?
• Ravi Sundaram, Post-Development and Technological Dreams
• Nnenna Nwakanma, The mirage of South–South cooperation in ICT4D: Reflections from African Civil Society
• Loe Schout, Why Civil Society is not Embracing FOSS
• Heimo Claassen, Formatting the Net: Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management to Accelerate the Proprietary Seizure
• Steve Cisler, What’s the Matter with ICTs?
• Solomon Benjamin, E-Politics of Urban Land
• Maja van der Velden, Cognitive justice: Cultivating the diversity of knowledge
• Jo van der Spek and Cecile Landman, Info-Solidarity with Iraq
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