Enabling Openness: The Future of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
Montevideo; Ottawa: Comunica;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2013), 200 pp.
ISBN 978-1-55250-579-3
CC BY
Other editions: also published in Spanish
INTRODUCTION
Imagining the internet: Open, closed or in between / Robin Mansell
I. OPEN INTERNET
The internet will remain free, public and open over the next 10 years in LAC / Hernán Galperín
Free internet? / Pablo Bello
Risks and challenges for freedom of expression on the internet / Eleonora Rabinovich
II. NEW COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS MODELS
Defining the sharing economy for development / Fernando Perini
What will new forms of collaborative business mean for the bottom of the pyramid? / Geoff Schwarten
Accelerating the collaborative economy / Albert Cañigueral
Catarse and crowdfunding in Brazil / Rodrigo Maia
III. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP: FROM REPRESENTATIVE TO INTERACTIVE DEMOCRACY
Citizen participation in the age of the information society / Valeria Betancourt
How we can deliver on the promise of open, direct, realtime democracy in response to current demands for citizen digital inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean? / Sandro Jiménez Ocampo
Social activism and participatory democracy: New opportunities with new technologies? / Hubert Linders
Smart data, digital inclusion and interactive democracy: Reflections on the use of ICTs to enhance citizen security in Latin America / Gustavo Macedo Diniz
IV. COPYRIGHT LAWS AND THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
Copyright laws and the creative economy: How can science and education in the digital age flourish in LAC? / Ronaldo Lemos
International regulatory threats and institutional challenges for access to digital content in Latin America / Joana Varon
Copyright laws and educational contents in Jamaica / Georgia Gibson-Henlin
Scientific articles in Latina America and the Caribbean: Is it possible to think of approaches that emphasise access? / Carolina Botero
Reflections on the digital world and the challenges ahead / Cosette Castro
V. PRIVACY
Is privacy dead? Proposals for a critical reflection on privacy protection in the age of internet / Claudio Ruiz
Is privacy dead? Some reflections by way of an answer / Carlos Gregorio
Online Spying in Latin America / Katitza Rodríguez
Privacy and the exaggerated reports of its death / Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte
The lives of others / Beatriz Busaniche
VI. CONNECTING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
ICT for development milestones and approaches in Latin America and the Caribbean / Valeria Betancourt
Connecting ICT4D experience in LAC to the new Open Development Environment / Manuel Acevedo
CONCLUSION
Openness and Development / Robin Mansell, Fernando Perini and Bruce Girard
Imagining the internet: Open, closed or in between / Robin Mansell
I. OPEN INTERNET
The internet will remain free, public and open over the next 10 years in LAC / Hernán Galperín
Free internet? / Pablo Bello
Risks and challenges for freedom of expression on the internet / Eleonora Rabinovich
II. NEW COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS MODELS
Defining the sharing economy for development / Fernando Perini
What will new forms of collaborative business mean for the bottom of the pyramid? / Geoff Schwarten
Accelerating the collaborative economy / Albert Cañigueral
Catarse and crowdfunding in Brazil / Rodrigo Maia
III. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP: FROM REPRESENTATIVE TO INTERACTIVE DEMOCRACY
Citizen participation in the age of the information society / Valeria Betancourt
How we can deliver on the promise of open, direct, realtime democracy in response to current demands for citizen digital inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean? / Sandro Jiménez Ocampo
Social activism and participatory democracy: New opportunities with new technologies? / Hubert Linders
Smart data, digital inclusion and interactive democracy: Reflections on the use of ICTs to enhance citizen security in Latin America / Gustavo Macedo Diniz
IV. COPYRIGHT LAWS AND THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
Copyright laws and the creative economy: How can science and education in the digital age flourish in LAC? / Ronaldo Lemos
International regulatory threats and institutional challenges for access to digital content in Latin America / Joana Varon
Copyright laws and educational contents in Jamaica / Georgia Gibson-Henlin
Scientific articles in Latina America and the Caribbean: Is it possible to think of approaches that emphasise access? / Carolina Botero
Reflections on the digital world and the challenges ahead / Cosette Castro
V. PRIVACY
Is privacy dead? Proposals for a critical reflection on privacy protection in the age of internet / Claudio Ruiz
Is privacy dead? Some reflections by way of an answer / Carlos Gregorio
Online Spying in Latin America / Katitza Rodríguez
Privacy and the exaggerated reports of its death / Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte
The lives of others / Beatriz Busaniche
VI. CONNECTING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
ICT for development milestones and approaches in Latin America and the Caribbean / Valeria Betancourt
Connecting ICT4D experience in LAC to the new Open Development Environment / Manuel Acevedo
CONCLUSION
Openness and Development / Robin Mansell, Fernando Perini and Bruce Girard
