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March 30, 2007
Debate 8: Should ICTs be seen as a viable tool of development for developing countries?
If you search on this blog for 'ICT4' you'll come up with aome resources re ICTs and development and digital divide. Ditto for 'WSIS'. Search on "Vision Impossible' and there will be an article written by Marita Moll and I on WSIS.
There is a vast literature on this. Here are some web resources:
The Drum Beat's
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) National Policies & Case Studies.
The Global Knowledge Partnership
International Development Resource Centre (Ottawa)
How do the poor use their phones
From WSIS, ICT for Development Platform, Geneva 2003
United Nations Development Program ICT for Development
Millennium Development Goals - MDGs
UNDP Human Development Report 2001
International Telecommunications Union ICT Statistics by country and region
See:
Robin Mansell, Ambiguous connections: entitlements and responsibilities of global networking, Journal of International Development, Volume 18, Issue 6: 901-913.
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March 26, 2007
Debate 7: Should file-sharing (of music, films, etc.) be regulated?
File is a powerpoint slide on Intellectual Property - more info than you'd want to know.
Other resources include:
Courtney Love Does the Math, her 2000 defense of Napster.
Calvin Leung. Digi-drama: Internet movie piracy in Canadian Business, February 13-26, 2006.
Michael Geist. U.S. Music Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction, Toronto Star, Feb 05, 2007:04.
Laura Murray's Faircopyright.ca a great collection of resources.
CIPPIC on Copyright Reform
and more below...
Lessig's Free Culture
Free Culture-international student movement
The Free Expression Policy Project. Copyright Isues>
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March 09, 2007
Debate 6: Should Canada have a privacy rights charter?
A report below that has many many links on this topic and the general problematic of privacy and ICTs....
PRIVACY AS A COMMUNICATION RIGHT in CANADA
Leslie Regan Shade and Jen Parisi
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Draft 2.1, March 9, 2007
Outline
1. What are the Dimensions of Privacy as a Communication Right?
Why Consider Privacy as a Human Right?
Canadian Legislation
Toward a Privacy Rights Charter–Senator Finestone’s Private Bill (2000)
New Privacy Threats
Platforms for Privacy as a Communication Right
2. Theoretical Notions of Privacy
Legal Constructs of Privacy
3. Privacy and ICTs–New Challenges and Trends
Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs)
Biometric Identification
Identity Theft
Children’s Privacy–Datamining in Commercial Websites
4. Federal Privacy Legislation and Governance in Canada
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada
The Privacy Act
PIPEDA
Access to Information Act
5. Privacy Rights Post 9/11
Surveillance Threats
Anti-Terrorism Act
Lawful Access
The Arar Report
6. Trade and Privacy
Deep Integration
Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia (OIPCBC) ‘Privacy and the USA Patriot Act’
7. References
Appendices:
The Privacy Act; PIPEDA; Privacy Rights Charter (Finestone)
People’ Communication Charter; APC Internet Rights Charter
Privacy Rights Organizations
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March 07, 2007
Debate 5: What is the media’s responsibility in portraying and reporting on visible minorities and/or First Peoples in Canada?
Some resources...
Maher Arar:
Arar Commission Enquiry, Opening Statement. (2004). Submitted by Maher Arar and His Council to the Commission of Enquiry, 2004.
If link does not work check www.maherarar.ca/cms/images/uploads/Arar_opening_statementfinal.pdf
See also Maher Arar site
http://www.maherarar.ca/
Commission of Enquiries into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. (2006). Arar Commission Reports
--Report of the Events>Relating to Maher Arar: Analysis and Recommedations.
--A New Review Mechanism for the RCMP’s National Security Activities. Retrieved February 2007.
The Missing Women in BC:
Yasmin Jiwani. How We See 'Missing Women', The Tyree, June 21 2006.
The Feminist Media Project, UBC.
The Feminist Media Project was started by a group of concerned academics and journalists focused on a feminist intervention in media depictions of missing and murdered women, and the related trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 26 charges of first-degree murder in the slayings of women.
Details of the trial against Pickton, which begins in January 2007, are bound to generate the most salacious and disturbing media coverage that reinforces stereotypes about women victims of violence and their perpetrators. Recognition of these issues and subsequent change in media representations can only occur through informed public discourse.
The website, which launched in January 2007, is under the direction of Dr. Mary Lynn Young, a faculty member at the University of British Columbia School of Journalism.
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