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
Raul Roman

Raul Roman joins the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication during academic year 2005-2006.

His research focuses on the social and economic effects of information and communication technology in communities of the developing world. He has conducted research and consulted on 'information technology and international development' programs in South Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past seven years, Raul has consulted for international organizations (such as FAO and Rockefeller Foundation), governments (such as Taiwan and El Salvador), the private sector (such as Microsoft Corporation), and universities (such as the Tamil Nadu University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in India). Raul publishes widely and regularly presents his work in meetings and conferences. He serves as Regional Editor for Latin America for the journal Information Technologies and International Development (MIT Press). Raul received a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Seville, Spain, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Communication and International Development from Cornell University.