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This is a list of tags/references and directly available texts.
Some of the page is in German.
Die Liste entstand in Zusammenhang mit der Themen-Ausgabe von
epd-ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK
zu "Internet und Entwicklung - Ins Netz gegangen".
(epd-EP nr. 11 [Juni] 2002)
Die beiden Texte von Robert Verzola in dieser Ausgabe von
ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK sind vom Autor autorisierte, zusammenfassende Versionen
(Übersetzung Heimo Claasen) der ersten beiden hier anfgeführten
Texte. Zusammen mit den englischen Originalfassungen finden sich hier weitere
Artikel und Essays von
Robert Verzola:
- "Towards a Political Economy of Information" (1998).
Textfile.
- "Low-Cost Strategies for ICT Development".
Textfile.
- "Cyberlords: The Rentier Class of the Information Sector".
Textfile.
- "The Internet: towards a deeper critique".
Textfile.
- "Information Monopolies and the WTO".
Textfile.
- "Value system and the nature of goods". A
paper
presented at the Philippine International Forum 1994.
This is an early attempt to outline the specifics of the "information economy"
as distinct from agrarian and industrial economies (and the traditionally
associated "service sector"), and takes up the notion of the "commons" in an
"information society".
At present (summer'02), Roberto Verzola is actively involved in a lively
discusion about the "commons", the open source movement and related issues in
the "solaris" list.
(un/sub info: solaris-request@mail.sarai.net
with the word "help" in the subject line or in the body of the message.
URL: http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/solaris/)
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Einige Absätze und Details, und schon gar die Anhänge/Kästen
meines eigenen Beitrags waren dem üblichen Platzmangel in jener
EP-Ausgabe geopfert worden; hier ist noch der ganze rohe Text,
"Techno-Rassismus - Falsche Innovation und echte Ausgrenzung"
als textfile
abgelagert.
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"The digital hype in South Asia has been around for close to a decade now and
there is no end in sight..." writes
Gaurab Raj Upadhaya in an
ESSAY
"Digital delusions in the South".
"Digital technology in its current corporate form is irrelevant to a wide
cross-section of the populace. What can be done to salvage it and orient it
towards the objectives of development ?"
Is has just been published in the
HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN journal (August 2002) and is available as a textfile here
too.
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Cees J. Hamelink:
THE RIGHT TO COMMUNICATE
Keynote at the Opening Session of the Civil Society Sector Meeting
at the Prepcom 1 for the World Summit on the Information Society,
July 1, 2002, Geneva,
is available as
textfile here.
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Here is the text of a contribution to the "incommunicado" conference of June
2005 in Amsterdam which continues on the thread of Verzola's concept of the
"intermediary" role of the cyberlords: It aims at the "tollgate" function
of formatting inherent in monopoly positions for fundamental communicative
processes:
Heimo Claasen:
"Formatting the Message- Formatting the Net: Trusted Computing and
Digital Right Management to Accelerate the Proprietary Seizure."
The rather long footnotes are in a
separate textfile.
Together with other contributions to the workshop it has been printed in:
Lovink, Geert and Soenke Zehle (eds.): "Incommunicado Reader",
accessible at the site of the Amsterdam
Institute of Network Cultures.
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