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MISTICA: CMSI: papers

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 08:37:36 AST

>From: Steve Ciser <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [gcnp] WSIS papers
>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 06:52:15 -0700
>
>Quite a few groups are assembling readers/newspapers/booklets to cover
>issues they feel are important.
>Geneva 03 collective has Make Worlds 3
>World Information.org is going to have one on intellectual property issues
>and this Dutch group is calling for contributions (see appended text).
>Too bad community networkers don't have one--or do they? Reading this
>prospectus it looks like they might have a place for Garth's writing.
>
>Steve
>
>
>:: Greenpepper Magazine :: Information Issue :: Call for
>Contributors ::
>
>GREENPEPPER is an Amsterdam-based environmental and social
>justice magazine focusing on direct and autonomist action.
>
>To co-incide with the World Summit on the Information Society to
>be held in Switzerland in December 2003, the theme of the next
>issue of the magazine is INFORMATION.
>
>GREENPEPPER is currently looking for contributions for the
>INFORMATION issue.
>Topics to be explored include (but are not limited to) information
>control and autonomy, participatory / community / pirate media,
>wireless and opensource media tools, disinformation and public
>relations, regimes of biotechnology, intellectual property and
>surveilance and the tactics of resistance against them. For more
>ideas on possible contributions, see the draft structure included
>below.
>
>Contributions can be written text (800 - 1800 wds) or other
>visual/print media and must be sent to us by 31 October 2003.
>More importantly, contributions should be critical, generative of
>different ways of thinking about these issues, and relevant to those
>engaged in political and cultural struggles around information and
>social justice.
>
>For more information or to send contributions contact
>[email protected]. If you=92d like to send us a contribution, please
>email a brief (50 =AD 100w) description or synopsis to us by 14
>October 2003. To find out more about GREENPEPPER go to
>http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper
>
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>
>:: draft structure for greenpepper information issue :: ideas for
>possible contributions ::
>
>EMPIRE
>
>- introductory overview of wsis : neo-liberal trade agenda /
>countersummit / communication rights
>
>- piracy : specific articles/interviews/case studies about information
>piracy / reasons for piracy / response by state or regulatory
>bodies.
>- informational autonomy : what it means / what types of information
>practices it includes / how and why this approach to information
>goes beyond the discourse of 'communication rights' and =91civil
>society' / importance of informational autonomy as sites of
>cultural/political struggle.
>
>- community/micro media resistance : self-organised community
>experiments in media practice / specific examples exploring how
>informational autonomy might
>work.
>
>BIOSPHERE
>
>- biotech and infotech : connections between the parallel
>development of biotechnology and information technology / why
>contesting science and creating resistant practices in this area is
>important for information activism.
>
>- biopiracy and bioinformatics : what are they / international
>networks of biotrade / enclosure of the genetic commons / current
>and future developments in this field / possibilities for resistance.
>
>- biotech and intellectual property : international developments in
>genecode patenting and intellectual property regimes.
>
>MEDIASCAPE
>
>- institutional disinformation : case study on recent war on iraq /
>role of international intelligence in disinfo / scope for alternative
>information channels
>
>- radio : the importance of the medium / specific pirate / self-
>organised / internet radio experiments / methods of circumventing
>legal regimes / practical d.i.y information about small scale
>transmitting
>
>- public relations and the production of knowledge : how PR works /
>the ways activists can identify and expose pR practices in their
>struggles.
>
>- structures of participation : specific experiments that challenge
>and broaden the scope of participatory media / ways of making
>different fields (organic, financial, scientific etc) readable as
>information by different groups of people.
>
>- wireless networks : developments in wireless networking / why
>wireless is important / practical 'how to' information for groups on
>how to set wireless networks up and use them.
>
>- opensource tools : free opensource media tools that can be used
>by different groups for political practice / appropriation of
>opensource by infotech corporations /
>
>DATA CONTROL
>
>- data bodies : the concept of electronic bodies / importance of data
>bodies as a means of altering debates in this area way from the
>usual liberal discourse of privacy / relevance of this approach to
>understand contemporary surveillance and/or border control
>systems / control of data as means of controlling movement of
>people.
>
>- overview of s.11 surveillance systems and expansion of state
>power (new laws) : role of the U.S government in co-ordinating
>extreme international response / specific examples or contributions
>from groups being profiled and targeted
>
>- digital profiling and social sorting : the concept and practice of
>digital profiling / specific ways surveillance works by profiling and
>sorting people into differing groups of dangerousness / specific
>examples of how surveillance reproduces racism in targeting
>black/arab people and communities.
>
>- biometrics : a specific analysis of the U.S led worldwide push to
>introduce biometric identification systems in airports / role of
>International Civil Aviation Organization and other international
>regulatory bodies / how biometrics work / who it effects and why /
>likely developments and consequences of biometric surveillance.

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