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
Dr. Walter Baer (ARNIC Visiting Fellow)

Current Research
Dr. Baer's research centers on the future evolution of the Internet, and how information technologies affect both commercial and public sector organizations and activities. His work also focuses on aligning public and private sector incentives to improve economic and social outcomes in regulated industry sectors such as telecommunications, transportation and energy.

Current Position
Dr. Baer is professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an advisor to the RAND Corporation, as well as chair of the external advisory board of the UCLA Center on Embedded Network Sensing. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former chair of the AAAS Industrial Science and Technology Section. He is also Trustee and former chair of the KCRW Public Radio Foundation.

Background
Before joining RAND, Dr. Baer was Director of Advanced Technology at the Times Mirror Company, worked on the staff of the White House Office of Science and Technology, and was a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. He was a White House Fellow in 1966-67, the second year of the program. He chaired the TPRC Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy; and has served on the Electric Power Research Institute advisory council, the Governor's Council on Information Technology for the State of California, and the technical advisory council of Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs). He was a visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication in 1998-99.

Education
Dr. Baer holds a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin, where he received a special award for excellence in teaching.

Publications
Dr. Baer has published widely in the fields of media, communications, information technology, energy, and science and technology policy. Recent publications include:

   "Private Sector Incentives for Managing IT Security," Contemporary Security Policy, Special Issue on Security in the Information Age, 190-208, April 2003.

   "Competition and Collaboration in Online Distance Learning," in William H. Dutton and Brian D. Loader, eds, Digital Academe, London: Routledge, 2002.

   "Signing Initiative Petitions Online: Possibilities, Problems and Prospects," in L.F. Cranor and S. Greenstein, eds, Communications Policy and Information Technology, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.

   Electricity Requirements for a Digital Society, RAND, MR-1617-DOE, 2002.

   The Internet's Coming of Age, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 2001.