October 2003 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

history of im
by Barbi 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

hello: i, too am looking for the history, my question is the same as yours. did you ever get a response? barb wyskowski, lawyer & student

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transportation
by bernie.hogan＠utoronto.ca 11 Oct '03

11 Oct '03

You can find all about the transportation at www.ttc.ca check on fares and schedules. But the subway usually runs until 1:30 or so. Additionally, cabs are always floating around the main streets. Finally, you can check out toronto on yahoo maps or use: www.toronto.ca ->which gets you to: http://app.toronto.ca/lit/imapit/iMapIt.jsp?app=TOMaps&viewdefault=true BERNiE

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MEDIA-SPACE 03: Live Stream
by Benjamin Fischer 11 Oct '03

11 Oct '03

MEDIA-SPACE 03 http://www.media-space.org Media Space is a platform for artistic and social attitudes changing or developing under the influence of information technology. It will be held from 10.10 - 12.10.2003 at the Filmhaus in Stuttgart Germany. All lectures on the media-space can be watched as live video stream! http://video.lf.net:554/ramgen/encoder/ms03.rm -- Gruss / Best regards, Benjamin Fischer | benjamin[at]typedown.com | http://www.typedown.com

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AoIR Toronto: Getting to the Hilton
by Rhiannon Bury 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

We've had a few inquires about getting from the airport to the hotel. Here is the link: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/directions.jhtml?ctyhocn=TORHITW Rhiannon

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Steve Clift and Al-Jazeera
by Nancy Baym 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

Congratulations to AoIR member Steven Clift for being identified (along with Al-Jazeera, Africa Online, America Online, BBC News and other) as one of Top 25 who are "doing the most to change the world of Internet and Politics." "PoliticsOnline asked its 30,000 readers and subscribers to name the people, organizations and companies that are changing the world of Internet and politics. From these nominations, 25 world changers and five rising stars were selected." See coverage at: http://www.politicsonline.com/pol2000/specialreports/25Changing_2003/index.… Steve is described as: ...a tireless advocate for expanding the use of the Internet. in both informing the public about the political and government systems, and also in engaging citizens and policymakers in political debate. His positive, yet realistic outlook regarding the state of Internet engagement and political involvement today provides both an inspiration to those who will lead the way in the future and a sound criticism of what works, what doesn't, and how to move forward. He has become a foremost authority in E-democracy advancements, and his speaking engagements and written work are a strong testament to his commitment to the field. Congratulations Steve and keep that star rising! -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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Public Forum: ELECTRONIC VOTING and GEORGIA
by Hans Klein 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

We hope to have this event recorded and available on the IP3 web site. * * * Please Forward * * * The Internet and Public Policy Project (IP3) of the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy presents: ================================ DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY: ELECTRONIC VOTING and GEORGIA Thursday, October 16 3-4:30 PM Clary Theater (in Student Success Center) Georgia Tech www.IP3.gatech.edu ================================ When the Georgia state government adopted electronic voting, it established itself as a leader in the technology of democracy. Recently, however, questions have emerged over the Diebold voting system used across the state. Last summer, university researchers published a report claiming that the voting system is "far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts." A later Diebold analysis claimed to refute those criticisms, while a report by SAIC drew mixed conclusions. The state of Maryland recently reviewed the Diebold technology and chose to adopt it. This event offers computer scientists, public officials, and industry representatives an opportunity to present their analyses to the Georgia public. It offers a neutral, academic setting for a fact-based discussion of what has become a contentious issue. Speakers ======= ** Prof. Dan Wallach, Rice University Dept. of Computer Science, co-author of "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System" (Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Technical Report TR-2003-19) ** Prof. Douglas Jones, Examiner for Electronic Voting Systems, state of Iowa, and faculty member of the Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science. ** Moderator: Prof. Hans Klein, Director of IP3 and Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. (Speakers have also been invited from Diebold Election Systems and from the Georgia state government.) Additional Information ================= "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System" (Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Technical Report TR-2003-19) by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Avi Rubin, and Dan Wallach. July 23, 2003. http://avirubin.com/vote/ Diebold "Technical Analysis" of Johns Hopkins Report. http://www2.diebold.com/checksandbalances.pdf SAIC Analysis of Diebold AccuVote-TS voting system. http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/dbm_search/technology/toc_voting_system_report/… Doug Jones Web Site on Voting and Elections http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/ John Schwartz, The New York Times, "Computer Voting is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say," July 24, 2003, page A12. About IP3 ======= The Internet and Public Policy Project (IP3) provides a framework to coordinate Internet policy-related research in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. It promotes dialogue between researchers and policy makers within and outside the Institute, offering forums for debate and discussion. This event is part of the IP3 fall speaker series. Future events include: * Re-thinking the Patriot Act: How to Balance Liberty and Security. With Bob Barr, former US Congressman, Randy Chartash, US Dept. of Justice, and Jabari Simama, City of Atlanta. November (final date to be announced.) For more information (including directions to Clary Theater) see: www.IP3.gatech.edu ###

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Att'n Members: 2004 Program Chair
by Nancy Baym 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

The Association of Internet Researchers has begun planning for its 2004 conference (location to be announced in Toronto). At this time, the executive committees (current and incoming) are preparing to appoint an AoIR member to be the Program Chair. This message is a call for interest. In brief, the duties of the program chair include working with the local host to craft the conference theme and Call For Papers, organizing the reviewing of the conference submissions, notifying submitters of acceptance and rejection, and combining the papers into panels and scheduling them. In essense, the program chair is the 'editor' of the event. It is a big job that requires time, experience, and diplomacy. It is also a fantastic way to discover first hand the breadth and quality of current internet research. If you would like to be considered for program chair, please send me a note to that effect. Include any qualifications you would like us to consider. You should also feel free to let us know if there are others whom you think would do an outstanding job and would like us to consider. If possible, please respond by Tuesday Oct 14th. If you are interested or have a great idea but aren't able to reply by then, seek me out in Toronto or email me when you are able. Thank you! Nancy -- Nancy Baym http://www.ku.edu/home/nbaym Communication Studies, University of Kansas Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 102, Lawrence, KS 66045-7574, USA Association of Internet Researchers: http://aoir.org

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on posting people's email addresses
by Eszter Hargittai 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Hi, I thought I'd throw out a suggestion that when people refer others to someone on this list, could they please not post the email address of the person in its full form? Instead, you can easily tweak the address to say -at- or something else in the place of the @ symbol. According to a study released by the Center for Democracy & Technology last spring, one of the main sources of spam is people's email addresses on Web sites. http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml Since AoIR archives are publicly available on the Web, the addresses posted on them can be picked up by spam robots easily. The air-l list admins have kindly masked the email addresses of those sending messages to the list, however, when you post someone's email address in the body of the message it will be available for robots to harvest for spam lists. So PLEASE do take care in posting others' addresses here and any other public space on the Web. Thanks, Eszter http://www.eszter.com http://www.esztersblog.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com

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Graduate Student Fee
by andrew.herman＠comcast.net 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Friends- Many of my grad students would like to attend one day of the conference but do not have the time to attend the whole thing or the money for the $100 registration. Is there anythign we can do for them? Andrew Herman -- Visiting Professor and Research Fellow in Digital Communications and Cultural Policy Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture York University 4700 Keele St.TEL 3007 Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 (416)736-2100 x 30157

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Formation of "Community Informatics Researchers.Org"
by Michael Gurstein 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Community Informatics: Enabling Communities With Information and Communications Technologies At the Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society Colloquium http://www.ccnr.net/prato2003/ held at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy a group of participants from some 7 countries and representing a variety of universities and research networks agreed to proceed to the creation of a formal Community Informatics Research Network (.Org) (CIRN). There was an agreement by the CIRN Interim Committee of the Whole that the organization would be open to participation and membership by individuals, institutions, for profit and not for profit enterprises and networks, with an active interest and involvement in Community Informatics Research and particularly those from Developing Countries. The approach agreed to was also that this organisation would seek to build a network of the related organizations that for subject, language or other reasons feel more comfortable operating on their own. In other words it would be pro-actively facilitating the formation of a structured open network among CI research groups. An interim executive steering committee consisting of Michael Gurstein, NJIT; Peter Day, U. of Brighton; and Don Schauder, Monash U./Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U., and Larry Stillman of Monash U. as the Interim Secretary/webmaster was formed to work towards the timely incorporation of the group as a not for profit society under the Australian corporations act. In addition, an invitation was extended by Dr. Peter Day and Brighton University to host CIRN's first research conference in the spring of 2004. The Founding conference of CIRN it was agreed, would be hosted by Monash University at the Prato Centre in late September 2004. It was also agreed that the CI Researchers list http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/ciresearchers would be the e-list for the organization and that a website based on the design developed by CQU would go on line as soon as possible and hosted by Monash U. in conjunction with CQU. Michael Gurstein agreed to provide an interim linkage with the newly created CI Research Network of the Commonwealth of Independent States formed in conjunction with the St. Petersburg (BIC) conference http://communities.org.ru/conference/ Several members of the Interim Committee of the Whole agreed to liase with a variety of other CI research networks and specifically the CRACIN network in Canada and the network which is currently being created in the United States. It was further agreed that efforts would be undertaken to find resources to move forward with the continued development of the Open Archive Community Informatics Text Book building on the work of Sergei Stafeev, Mike Gurstein and Michel Menou in the publication in English and Russian of Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects, Approaches, Instruments Part 1 of a CI Text book (St. Petersburg, 2003) And the website http://www.ci-text.dr.ag/ .... A statement to be forwarded to the World Summit on the Information Society on behalf of CIRN was adopted and will be circulated in a subsequent message. Those with an interest in either affiliating with the Network or learning more about it are invited to subscribe to the Research list or to the more general Community Informatics interest list. To subscribe send a message To: sympa(a)vancouvercommunity.net Message: Subscribe CIResearchers And/or Communityinformatics Best, Peter Day, U. of Brighton Michael Gurstein, NJIT Don Schauder, Monash U./Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U. Community Informatics Researchers News: * An informal meeting in conjunction with the Information, Communications and Society Conference at the Oxford Internet Institute in the UK http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/event/conference/iCS/iCS2003_programme.pdf , agreed that efforts would be undertaken immediately to begin the development of an on-line journal with interim resource support committed as available through NJIT/NSF; CIRA in Teeside, UK; Monash U. in Australia; and the CRACIN Network in Canada. A follow-up meeting to "brainstorm" on the design and development of the journal will be held in conjunction with the AoIR meeting in Toronto in October and with an interim discussion on the CIResearchers e-list as a lead-up to that meeting. * Dr. Peter van den Besselaar, Head of the Social Sciences Department Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, (NIWI-KNAW) presented an important outline of the scope of Community Informatics Research including its links to his own work in Digital Cities and related Community Networks, in a keynote presentation at the Communities and Technology Conference in Amsterdam http://www-winfo.uni-siegen.de/wulf/CT2003/ . * Brian Loader and Leigh Keeble of CIRA/U. of Teeside with funding from the Rowntree Foundation have prepared a most valuable annotated bibliography of Community Informatics Research which they will be making available on line in the very near future. It is their intention to keep this up to date as a continuing resource for the CI Research Community. http://www.cira.org.uk * A Workshop bringing together US Community Informatic researchers and Practitioners was convened in April in Colorado Springs with the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation and organized by Richard Civille and Michael Gurstein. It was agreed at that meeting that follow-up action towards the creation of a US CI Researchers group would be undertaken as well as a number of other related follow-up initiatives. http://www.communityinformatics.org * The CQU/COIN team including Wal Taylor and Stewart Marshall have just published two books including "Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions" through the Idea Group publishers and "Closing the Digitial Divide" with Greenwood Publisher. They are pleased to invite Community Informatics researchers and practitioners to the Upcoming 5th annual ITiRA conference (IT in Regional Areas) in Caloundra, Queensland, Dec. http://itira.cqu.edu.au/2003/ * Bulletin: The CRACIN (Canadian Research Alliance For Community Innovation And Networking) proposal: PI's Andrew Clement, U. of Toronto; Michael Gurstein, NJIT; and Leslie Shade, Concordia U. has just been awarded a major 3 year grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to undertake a series of community IT/Community Informatics case studies across Canada and in conjunction with the larger CI Researchers Network. There will be a presentation on the project at the AoIR conference in Toronto Oct. 17.

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