Announcements

New Book: ARNIC co-founder Jonathan Aronson's new book (with Peter Cowhey of UCSD and now the Senior Counselor at USTR and a contribution by former official Don Abelson) has been published by MIT Press. The book, Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation is available for free download under a Creative Commons license at :  http://www.globalinfoandtelecom.org.  The authors would welcome your comments, criticisms, and corrections.

Recent Book, Edited by Hernan Galperin and Judith Mariscal,Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, Practical Action Publishing/IDRC 2007

Recent Book, by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez - Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey: Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspertive, (MIT Press, 2006) [more info from MIT Press] Now available in Spanish

Recent Book, edited by Manuel Castells and Gustavo Cardoso: The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); also available in Portuguese as A sociedade em Rede: Do Conhecimento à Acção Política, Imprensa Nacional, Casa da Moeda, Lisboa , 2006. Includes chapters by Jonathan Taplin, Jeffrey Cole, Hernán Galperin and François Bar. (free download in both languages)

Recent Book, edited by Hernán Galperin and Judith Mariscal: Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
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Research Notes:
Tsunami Field Notes – Phi Phi Island, Thailand
Seungyoon Lee, 23rd July – 28th July, 2005
Mobile Phones for Disaster Preparedness
Arul Chib & Seungyoon Lee, September 2005

Reviews
William Davies, of the Institute for Policy Research, reviews Hernán Galperin's New Television, Old Politics in New Media & Society 7(2)

Annenberg Research Seminar on International Communication
(Co-sponsored with the "Networked Publics" program at the Annenberg Center for Communication)
Pierre de Vries : When Dirt and Digits Collide: Lessons from the Intersection of Content, Communications and Computing

Thursday September 29th, 2:00-3:30pm
Annenberg School for Communication (ASC) - Room 230

Abstract:
Digital technology sloughs off the husk of ”stuff” in which information has always been wrapped. We are being forced to rethink how knowledge is created, transferred and valued in the absence of a convenient tangible carrier. Communications policy provides useful test cases for the questions that arise when the values of the digital world (knowledge) collide with those of the dirt world (stuff). I will explore some of them by analyzing four policy areas that I dealt with as a technologist working for a software business.

Bio:
Pierre de Vries is an independent researcher with a background in science, art, and the software business. After earning a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford, he worked in London for Korda & Co, a seed capital fund and technology consultancy. He left Korda to study sculpture at Kingston University, dropping out in his final year when he was recruited by Microsoft, where he worked for twelve years in a variety of emerging technology businesses. His career there culminated as Sr. Director for Advanced Technology and Policy reporting to the CTO, responsible for managing incubation projects in the US and Europe, and driving the company’s world-wide “connected computing” technology policy agenda. He left Microsoft in June 2005.
www.pierredevries.com