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
Janet Kaaya : Adopting E-Government Strategies in East Africa: Prospects and Challenges

Thursday Mar. 31st, 4:00pm-6:00pm, in
Room ASC-328 (Annenberg School for Communication, USC)

Making use of the coercive, mimetic and normative elements of the institutional theories, this talk examines empirically, the factors motivating the adoption of e-government strategies in East Africa. The talk further posits the challenges the African countries face to achieve a sustainable provision of e-government services and the study’s broader implications to related developing country regions.

Janet Kaaya is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California , Los Angeles . She specializes in information policy, especially the national and international information equity issues, and the influence of information and associated communications technologies on development/social change. Her dissertation research focuses on the adoption, implementation and institutionalization of e-government services in East Africa . She is a graduate of the City University , London (MSc-Information Science) and the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (BSc-Biology) and has about two decades of experience as an information specialist in the national agricultural research system of Tanzania .