Incommunicado Reader
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.
Contains illustrations
"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicado network are pursueing multiple vectors of inquiry that are unlikely to converge in yet another civil society declaration or intergovernmental policy proposal but - at best - coordinate possible interventions across the imperial terrain of a global network economy, at least heighten our sense of the incommensurability of competing info-political visions. To stress the simultaneity of these efforts, and to take stock of where we think incommunicado ‘is’ at the time of this writing, the entries below are a first attempt to identify some of these vectors." (Instead of an introduction, page 3)
Incommunicado Glossary / Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle, 3
Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D / Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 11
Digital Divide: Conceptual Problems, Empirical Evidence and Policy Making Issues / Bernardo Sorj and Luís Eduardo Guedes, 30
Cisco Systems, the UN, and the Corporatization of Development / Lisa McLaughlin, 50
Knowing in your Bones that You’re Being Watched (Transcript) / Shuddha Sengupta, 64
Migration Management: Export of the IOM Model / Roy Pullens, 68
Brazil and the FLOSS process / Alexandre Freire, Ariel G. Foina, and Felipe Fonseca, 85
The University of the Future: Software Development in Revolutionary Cuba / Kim van Haaster, 92
Digital Cartogram / GovCom.org, 104
Diaspora Incommunicados - IT, Remittances and Latin American Elites / Scott S. Robinson, 106
The Biggest Interactive Event In History? / Glen Tarman, 109
Post-Development and Technological Dreams / Ravi Sundaram, 115
The mirage of South–South cooperation in ICT4D: Reflections from African Civil Society / Nnenna Nwakanma, 122
Why Civil Society is not Embracing FOSS / Loe Schout, 127
Formatting the Net: Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management to Accelerate the Proprietary Seizure / Heimo Claassen, 130
What’s the Matter with ICTs? / Steve Cisler, 146
E-Politics of Urban Land / Solomon Benjamin, 159
Cognitive justice: Cultivating the diversity of knowledge / Maja van der Velden, 164
Info-Solidarity with Iraq / Jo van der Spek and Cecile Landman, 171
Appendix with: Solaris Call, Incommunicado 05 program, PPPlist call, 178
Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D / Jan Nederveen Pieterse, 11
Digital Divide: Conceptual Problems, Empirical Evidence and Policy Making Issues / Bernardo Sorj and Luís Eduardo Guedes, 30
Cisco Systems, the UN, and the Corporatization of Development / Lisa McLaughlin, 50
Knowing in your Bones that You’re Being Watched (Transcript) / Shuddha Sengupta, 64
Migration Management: Export of the IOM Model / Roy Pullens, 68
Brazil and the FLOSS process / Alexandre Freire, Ariel G. Foina, and Felipe Fonseca, 85
The University of the Future: Software Development in Revolutionary Cuba / Kim van Haaster, 92
Digital Cartogram / GovCom.org, 104
Diaspora Incommunicados - IT, Remittances and Latin American Elites / Scott S. Robinson, 106
The Biggest Interactive Event In History? / Glen Tarman, 109
Post-Development and Technological Dreams / Ravi Sundaram, 115
The mirage of South–South cooperation in ICT4D: Reflections from African Civil Society / Nnenna Nwakanma, 122
Why Civil Society is not Embracing FOSS / Loe Schout, 127
Formatting the Net: Trusted Computing and Digital Rights Management to Accelerate the Proprietary Seizure / Heimo Claassen, 130
What’s the Matter with ICTs? / Steve Cisler, 146
E-Politics of Urban Land / Solomon Benjamin, 159
Cognitive justice: Cultivating the diversity of knowledge / Maja van der Velden, 164
Info-Solidarity with Iraq / Jo van der Spek and Cecile Landman, 171
Appendix with: Solaris Call, Incommunicado 05 program, PPPlist call, 178
