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
Raul Roman: HOW DO WE LINK ICT4D RESEARCH TO PRACTICE?

Thursday Feb. 17th, 4:00pm-6:00pm, in
Room ASC-328 (Annenberg School for Communication, USC):

HOW DO WE LINK ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT (ICT4D) RESEARCH TO PRACTICE?
A DISCUSSION

Raul Roman
Research Associate at Center for Internet Studies,
University of Washington at Seattle

HOW DO WE LINK ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT (ICT4D) RESEARCH TO PRACTICE?
A DISCUSSION

This seminar will explore the role of social science research in ICT4D initiatives. Raul Roman will illustrate this topic with some cases studies and examples from his own work in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Participants will be asked to join the discussion around a key question: what are the conditions necessary to make social scientific research on ICT4D useful and relevant for program planning and policy making? Among other aspects, we will discuss obstacles and opportunities for universities in industrialized and developing countries to contribute to ICT4D efforts.

RAUL ROMAN'S BIO

Raul Roman is a Research Associate at Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington at Seattle, where he conducts research on the uses and effects of information and communication technology use in disadvantaged communities of the developing world. He has done research and consulted on "ICT for Development" programs in South East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. One of Raul's main current interests is assessing how developing country universities can harness ICT to contribute to poverty alleviation and development. Among other projects, he is currently working on an evaluation strategy for Microsoft-funded community informatics projects in developing countries. Raul received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Communication from Cornell University.