Announcements

ARNIC Speakers: On October 14, 2008, at 11am, Jonathan Taplin will speak on “Rebooting after the economic crash: IT, ET and America 3.0.” The financial crisis will leave the next president with the task of rebuilding a shattered American economy. Professor Taplin will describe the potential roles of information technology and energy technology in America 3.0.. [more info]

New 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
Michael Kleeman: Emergency Communications and the Impact of Hurricane Katrina

Tuesday September 13th, 2:00-3:30pm
at the Annenberg Center (NOT the Annenberg School)

As National Chair of Strategy for the American Red Cross, Michael Kleeman is currently involved in technological planning to assist the Gulf Coast relief effort. He will discuss emergency communications and the impact of Hurricane Katrina. His presentation will describe the Red Cross perspective and the use of wireless that has been both proposed (Wide Area Networks) and implemented (Local Area Networks.)

Michael Kleeman is currently at UCSD working with the School of International Relations and the California Institute of Telecommunications and Internet Technology (CALIT 2) on communications policy especially in large distributed networks. He is also an independent consultant working with major global customer and network equipment manufacturers (HW and SW) and global carriers. This work is focused on end to end user experience and commercial opportunities. Formerly a Vice President at The Boston Consulting Group, Director at Arthur D. Little, and executive at Sprint, Mr. Kleeman has been involved with numerous technology companies in North America as advisor and executive. He has most recently served as the Co-founder, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Cometa Networks, a nationwide 802.11 firm, and before that Aerie Networks, a US nationwide long distance fiber optic carrier and was also the founding CTO of Global Telesystems Group.

He holds an MA from the Claremont Graduate School , an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University , He serves as the National Chair of Strategy for the American Red Cross and on the Boards of Equal Access, a not-for-profit providing digital satellite radio services to developing nations and the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito . Previously he was a visiting fellow at University of California Berkeley (BRIE) and a fellow of the BIOS Institute, a firm specializing in Complex Adaptive Systems and served on the Board of Science Foundation Ireland