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)

Participants
Catherine Nyaki Adeya

Catherine Nyaki Adeya joins the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication as a visiting scholar during the Fall 2005.

She is an Information Scientist with knowledge and skills in information development issues, which include social, political and economic impacts and potential of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) particularly in Africa but in the developing world in general. She worked as a Research Fellow for the United Nations University/Institute of New Technologies (UNU/INTECH) in Maastricht (Holland) until June 2002. Currently, she is an Independent Consultant — on ‘ICTs and Development’— based in Africa. She has consulted with international organizations (such as the International Development Research Centre – IDRC), governments (such as Kenya) and universities & research institutions (including the University of Nairobi, Napier University in Edinburgh, UK, Fort Hare University in South Africa, Africa Centre for Economic Growth – ACEG). She serves on the Editorial Board of Perspectives On Global Development & Technology (Brill Academic Publishers). Some of the results of her work have already been disseminated in various fora including conferences and meetings. Catherine received a BSc in Information Sciences from Kenya and MPhil/PhD degrees in ‘Information and Development’ from Edinburgh, Scotland.