http://funredes.org/mistica

MISTICA: Many Voices, Many Places

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Sun Jun 29 2003 - 13:55:08 AST

>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected],
> [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
>From: Larry Stillman <[email protected]>
>Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:11:08 +0000
>Subject: [Globalcn2000] Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling
>Communities for An
> Information Society: A Colloquium
>
>We invite your participation in --
>
>Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An
>Information Society: A Colloquium Research Results, Lessons Learned,
>Policy Recommendations
>
>Please circulate this invitation widely to colleagues.
>
>Prato, Italy 15-16 September, 2003 www.ccnr.net/prato2003/. Second Call
>for Papers and Participation
>
>...
>Many Voices, Many Places: Electronically Enabling Communities for An
>Information Society is meant as a complement to provide an opportunity for
>practitioners, researchers and policy makers from research centres,
>universities, cultural institutions, and agencies involved in governance
>to discuss and reflect on the role and opportunities for emergent
>communities as constrained by physical, distance, resource, political, and
>gender barriers for effective participation in an Information Society.
>
>The format of the session will be reflective and deliberative. Position
>papers are invited and more formal papers will be reviewed but
>presentation will be as introductions to discussion. For reasons of space
>we are constrained to no more than 40 participants as appropriate
>participation will be by invitation or by anticipated contribution. 50EU
>will be charged to cover immediate operating expenses. Please see the
>website www.ccnr.net/prato2003/ for registration & accommodation details.
>
>Mid-September 2003 sees a conjunction of several conferences where the
>role and impact of electronically-enabled communities will be discussed,
>including: Next 5 MINUTES 4, Amsterdam, 12-14 September Information,
>Communication, Society: A Research Symposium, Oxford 17th-20th September;
>and Communities and Technologies (C&T 2003), Amsterdam, 19 - 21 September.
>
>We aim to identify the structures and processes which enable collective
>memory, minority knowledge creation, and oral culture inclusive of all
>parts of societies and how these may be empowered to enhance effective
>social participation. The intersection of the discipline of community
>informatics with these dimensions of societal knowledge production (and
>the consequential empowerment and development of social capital) will also
>be explored.
>
>We are looking to provide a forum where those involved can
>discuss/summarize/theorize/and draw conclusions or lessons learned from
>some ten years of practical work and research experience in applying
>Information and Communications Technologies to enabling (and empowering)
>emergent communities (virtual and physical) framed as a contribution to
>the World Summit on the Information Society which will be held in Geneva
>in December of 2003.
>
>Some Possible Topic Areas for Discussion
>
>What are the "many voices" in the Information Society
>What are their barriers to participation and what opportunities do they
>present to themselves and to others as communities?
>How are these many voices "sustainable"?
>Many voices as communities of interest (and of place)
>Sustaining these communities
>Strategies for Innovation: What Do We Know and How Can it Be Promoted
>ICTs and Local Economic Development at the margins: What Do We Know and
>Where Do We Go From Here
>Do ICTs contribute to Poverty Alleviation and if so, how can this be
>replicated?
>What is the role of institutions of cultural memory in developed and
>developing countries?
>Oral to electronically documented -- what is the process and what are the
>ethical and other issues?
>Telecentres-best practices; cost-benefit assessment; are they a solution
>for "universal access"
>What contribution can ICTs make to building Civil Society?
>Communities, ICTs and Emergent Democracy
>What is the (appropriate) role of the private sector?
>...
>
>Larry Stillman
>Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, www.ccnr.net

Este archivo fue generado por hypermail 2.1.3 : Mon Mar 08 2004 - 12:18:16 AST