Announcing "WordMatters"

A cooperative publication coordinated by
Alain Ambrosi (WFCN and Valérie Peugeot (Vecam )with the collaboration of Daniel Pimienta (Funredes)

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            Internet Governance, Citizen _expression_, Gender,Free Software, Piracy, Accessibility, Open Source
            Intelligence, Digital Divide, Media, Virtual Communities,Knowledge Management, Cybercrime......

Word Matters, a collective work by some thirty authors from civil societies all over
the world, deciphers the central concepts of the “information society”.
Technology is never neutral: it carries social, economic and cultural consequences.
New information and communication technologies are no exception.
The words used in international negotiations or legislation are a poor
refl ection of such consequences; they propagate perceptions that are rarely
subjected to democratic debate, the fundamental requirement for any
political decision.
At this juncture, as the World Summit on the Information Society unfolds,
this book subjects the concepts of the information age to critical perspectives
from different sensibilities and cultures, thus introducing alternative
visions.
Fully multilingual, this work is a reference for anyone who aspires to
decode these key issues, and is an invitation to pursue the debate.

With Carlos Afonso, Alan Alegre, Subbiah Arunachalam, Michel Briand, Sally
Burch, Mavic Cabrera, Kemly Camacho, Dominique Cardon, Sasha Costanza-
Chock, Marcelo d’Elia Branco, Luis Angel Fernandez Hermana, Rikke Frank
Joergensen, Alain Kiyindou, Hervé Le Crosnier, Mouhamadou Lo, Raphael
Ntambue, Sean o’Siochru, Stephanie Perrin, Marc Raboy, Pascal Renaud,
Catherine Roy, Partha Pratim Sarker, Christine Schweidler, Marcelo Solevicens,
Felix Stalder, Rosa Maria Torres, Roberto Verzola.

Coordinated by Alain Ambrosi, Valérie Peugeot and Daniel Pimienta.

For more information in english see the Word Matters book. You will find the different languages at http://cfeditions.com/pdf/

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