Daily Archives: September 10, 2008

A2K3: Connectivity and Democratic Ideals

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

Also in the final A2K3 panel, The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights, Natasha Primo, National ICT policy advocacy coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications, discusses three questions that happen to be related to my current research. 1) … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Communication Rights as a Framework for Global Connectivity

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

In the last A2K3 panel, entitled The Global Public Sphere: Media and Communication Rights, Seán Ó Siochrú made some striking statements based on his experience building local communication networks in undeveloped areas of LCDs. He states that the global public … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Opening Scientific Research Requires Societal Change

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

In the A2K3 panel on Open Access to Science and Research, Eve Gray, from the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, sees the Open Access movement as a real societal change. Accordingly she shows us a picture of … Continue reading →

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Legal Barriers to Open Science: my SciFoo talk

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

I had an amazing time participating at Science Foo Camp this year. This is a unique conference: there are 200 invitees comprising some of the most innovative thinkers about science today. Most are scientists but not all – there are … Continue reading →

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A2K3 Kaltura Award

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

I am honored and humbled to win the A2K3 Kaltura prize for best paper. Peter Suber posts about it here and gives the abstract. His post also includes a link to a draft of the paper, which can also be … Continue reading →

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A2K3: Technological Standards are Public Policy

Posted on September 10, 2008 by vcs

Laura DeNardis, executive director of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, spoke during the A2K3 panel on Technologies for Access. She makes the point that many of our technological standards are being made behind closed doors and by private, largely … Continue reading →

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