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PARIS STATEMENT ON INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
by Jeremy Hunsinger 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

PARIS STATEMENT ON INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT An International Conference on “Innovation for Development” was held at UNESCO, Paris, on 3-4 May 2007. The conference was co-organised by the European Association for the Transfer of Technology, Innovation and Industrial Information (TII), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The conference included sessions on technology and innovation for development, north- south university partnerships, exchanges with emerging countries, innovation support policies, services and management, knowledge transfer from the research base, corporate social responsibility and public-private partnerships. The concluding plenary session included a panel discussion and the production of a “Paris Statement on Innovation for Development”. Conference speakers and participants included both TII members - innovation specialists and managers – and representatives of UNIDO, the UNESCO delegations, The World Bank, OECD, WIPO, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank as well as national development agencies and delegates from developing countries, thereby reflecting the interest of TII, in partnership with UNESCO, to develop a network on innovation for development. PARIS STATEMENT ON INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT The European innovation community at the TII-UNESCO conference on “Innovation for Development” emphasised the importance of innovation for sustainable economic development, and highlighted various support measures, policies and programmes that have contributed to successful innovation, with particular reference to developing countries and the UN Millennium Development Goals. Innovation depends upon the development of products or services with a competitive advantage, responding to market needs and acceptance, making effective use of natural and financial resources, human and institutional capacity in research and development, in a public environment that is supportive of private sector entrepreneurs and enterprise. Innovation and the transfer of technology is particularly facilitated by the employment of young graduates familiar with current knowledge, financial support for research in key areas, effective intellectual property asset protection and management, the dissemination and commercial exploitation of research results and new technologies through licensing agreements and contract research, spin-off companies that commercialize university research, as well as legal and business support services which help entrepreneurs succeed in complex business environments. Towards an action plan In pursuit of the UN Millennium Development Goals and other issues such as climate change and the need for clean technology, the European innovation community resolves to: - Assist developing countries in promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and associated support policies, capacity building, staff exchange schemes, studentships and information exchange, in order to build comprehensive and efficient innovation support systems, - Develop strong partnerships with developing country counterparts, especially European research and cooperation partner countries, - Help increase research and innovation capacities in developing countries with support funds, including European funding facilities (such as the European Commission and the EIB), the World Bank and the EBRD, - Support, protect and disseminate research results from developing and emerging countries, through patenting and equitable contract practices, support entrepreneurship, incubation and technology transfer, financial tools and associated policies and investments. The innovation community pledges to assist governments in helping to promote innovation for development and to address the Millennium Development Goals, and calls upon UNESCO and other UN, European, national, regional and financial organisations to be partners in this process, including all stakeholders in innovation and technology transfer. The innovation community offers and invites partnership with UNESCO and related agencies in the following areas of service and activity: - Facilitating dialogue between policy makers and innovation support practitioners in developing and emerging countries to improve the uptake and application of innovation support services, - Competence building and professional skills development through seminars, workshops, summer schools, quality control, innovation management techniques and the exchange of good practice, - Increasing education capacities (create modern Master and Executive programmes) in entrepreneurship, technology commercialization and innovation in developing countries, - Consensus building support among all types of innovation support practitioner through seminars, workshops and advice, - Information, dissemination and networking activities including the development of website and associated resources, professional directory, events calendar, organisation of international, national and regional activities, monitoring and brokerage with support services and funds. Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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CFP Special Issue of the Information Society on Open Source and Public Sector
by Anna Maria Szczepanska 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of The Information Society on Open Source and Public Sector: Discourse, Politics and Practice Guest Editors: Jan Ljungberg, Magnus Bergquist and Anna Maria Szczepanska In the last ten years the Open Source (OS) and Free Software (FS) movement has come to challenge the norms and ideals, products and procedures of the dominant proprietary software industry. OS/FS represents a radically different logic within the field of software development. This logic is based on ideas that celebrate the rights of the user and informational freedoms and resist strong intellectual property laws and regulations. In addition to gaining ground in the commercial software market, the OS/FS-movement is also establishing itself as an interesting alternative for the public sector. Currently, discussions regarding OS/FS procurement and policy-making are taking place within governments and public sector organizations all over the world. The OS/FS-technologies advocates have promoted them on the basis of their potential cost-benefits, their value as “a public good,” their egalitarian and digital divide-bridging qualities and so forth. But the public sector initiatives still seem somewhat hesitant. The OS/FS in public sector discussions and policy-making processes represent a discourse still very much in the making. This special issue will provide an opportunity for researchers to present valuable insights at an early stage about a relevant topic that crosscuts the information technology and policy processes and OS/FS movement’s institutionalization processes. We hope to bring together insights from multiple areas, such as political science, sociology, economics, IS-research, media studies, policy studies and cultural studies. Discourse analysis and case studies would both be welcome analytical strategies to provide breadth to the special issue. Contributions could include the following: - Papers identifying and discussing how underlying norms, values and practices inscribed in OS/FS and proprietary software are understood and dealt with in public sector discourse. - Case studies on evolving policies and laws related to Open Source / Free Software in the public sector. - Papers analyzing the rhetoric on the pros and cons of OS/FS in the public sector. - Papers identifying and analyzing the way actors (e.g. the media, business groups, academia, consumers, NGO’s, SMO’s, transnational advocacy networks) are organizing in order to influence, support or criticize policy processes and other activities relating to the dispersal of OS/FS products and ideas in public sector. The guest editors invite abstracts by September 1, 2007, which should be sent to anmar(a)ituniv.se. Authors with the most to offer to the dialogue will be invited to contribute full papers, which will go through the normal review process of the journal. For more information on TIS guidelines, please refer to: http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/

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Internet use and relationships
by Alecea Standlee 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Hey all, I am currently begining a project using a life course approach to examine the impact that Internet use has had on relationship development and maintainence. Basically, I am looking at the formation of sexual identity, dating and partner selection in young adults as it is impacted by Intenet culture. Does anyone have any suggestions on existing research I need to make sure I include? Alecea ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/

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chicago hackmeeting
by Jeremy Hunsinger 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: jonCates <joncates(a)criticalartware.net> > Date: July 9, 2007 4:39:57 PM EDT > To: software and culture <softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com> > Subject: [Softwareandculture] FWD meet this wednesday to start > developing chicago hackmeeting 004! > Reply-To: software and culture <softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com> > > Begin forwarded message: >> please forward wildly! >> >> ======================================= >> | chicago.hackmeeting.004 open dev meeting >> | wednesday july 11 >> | 8pm >> | dai5ychain (2159 w 21st pl) >> | >> | http://hackmeeting.dai5ychain.net/ >> ======================================= >> >> come develop the next (fourth) chicago hackmeeting at this open >> planning >> meeting. the next hackmeeting will happen sometime in >> september/october, somewhere in the city of chicago. >> >> some issues we can tackle at this first meeting: >> >> + are there enough interested co-developers to make a 4th >> hackmeeting? >> + setting dates >> + spreading the word out to people in other parts of the country/ >> world >> who don't know there are any hacker-friendly (un)conferences in >> chicago >> + should chi.hackmeeting.004 happen at the flowershop again or >> somewhere >> else in the city? >> >> hope to see you there! >> >> -jake > _______________________________________________ > softwareandculture mailing list > softwareandculture(a)lists.tmttlt.com > http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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social network/ing
by Barry Wellman 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Malene has done a useful service with her 35 types of social networkING SOFTWARE perspective. Not her fault, but I do think it is important to keep social networking software distinct from the pretty different (and older) tradition of social network analysis (and theory), etc. (See the first chapter in Wellman-Berkowitz __Social Structures_ and Linton Freeman's newish book for a history of SNA. Actually, I wish the social networking folks would build better tools that use social network analysis, but so far, there has been little action. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender these days _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-l] social network migration
by 'Gail Taylor 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

I am hesitant to say 'yes' to the suggestion there should be a way to aggregate social networking sites. I think it would lead to homogenization of practices for the user, who is currently having a 'multi-cultural' experience interacting with others in various online spaces. For example, the culture of Facebook is similar, but also different, than what one might expect hanging out in MySpace or other product that enables networking with others. This approach to aggregating processes is also one that decontextualizes information that is extracted from other souces, as opposed to allowing the user to interact in an environment where the information would be contextualized. There would be advantages and drawbacks to this approach. Depending on the knowledge and expertise of the people developing the aggregator, the program could be great or not so great for the end user. /Gail --------------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, M.Ed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Human Resource Education Ph.D. Student Educational Psychology Teaching Assistant Library & Information Science Research Assistant "Technology enables man to gain control over everything except technology." -- Unknown

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35 Perspectives on Social Networks
by Conor Schaefer 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Malene Charlotte Laren, a PhD student at Aalborg University in Denmark, has defined 35 different perspectives for evaluating social networks. I don't know how groundbreaking her work is, but I thought it warranted at least a mention on this list. Article here: http://www.socialcomputingmagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=432 Malene's blog here: http://malenel.wordpress.com/ -Conor

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Fwd: Intel - Call for Interns - starting Oct 2007 - Portland, OR USA
by Jeremy Hunsinger 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Loi, Daria A" <daria.a.loi(a)INTEL.COM> > Date: July 6, 2007 8:16:42 PM EDT > To: PHD-DESIGN(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Intel - Call for Interns - starting Oct 2007 - Portland, > OR USA > Reply-To: "Loi, Daria A" <daria.a.loi(a)INTEL.COM> > > Intel Corporation's Domestic Designs and Technologies Research > Group is > calling for interns! > > As part of Domestic Designs and Technologies Research - the > ethnographic > and design research team within the Digital Home Group - you will work > within a multidisciplinary team of anthropologists, design researchers > and documentary film makers to explore and research 'love and > spirituality' and its intersection with computers and technology, > in and > around the home. > > DDTR is a driving force within the Digital Home Group (DHG): our > charter > is to develop a clear & actionable understanding of daily life all > over > the world, identify opportunities for our platforms to enable > experiences that consumers value, merge original insights with > technology, market, platform and planning intelligence to define usage > models & platform requirements, and seed future research & platform > opportunities. DHG's vision is to make Intel the trusted foundation of > your digital home. To that end, the Digital Home Group develops > computing and communications oriented platforms that anticipate and > satisfy the needs of consumers world-wide. > > We will be offering 3 month paid internships starting in October '07 > and, for graduate students in anthropology, design research or related > social sciences. Interns must re-locate to the Portland, Oregon > area to > work closely with the research team during the entire length of the > internship, and be eligible to work in the US. > > > > We are looking for individuals with experience in designing and > conducting both qualitative and/or quantitative user or design > research > studies, including analysis of the resulting data. Candidates should > prepare a concise yet thorough 3-5 page proposal to explore some > aspect > of love and spirituality and its intersection with computers and > technology in and around the home; inclusion of how the proposed > research fits with the candidate's own research interests (broadly > defined) is a plus. Exact responsibilities of the position will be > defined with the successful applicant based on the proposal you > submit. > > Please submit your proposal (3-5 pages, including bibliographic > references) describing the research you'd like to do in this area over > the course of your internship to francoise.bourdonnec(a)intel.com. > Applications (CV + proposal) must be received by July 31st for the > October start date. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > d a ri a l o i [PhD] > > > > research scientist | design researcher > > domestic designs & technologies research > > user experience group > > > > i n t e l corporation > > digital home platform > > 20270 NW amberglen ct., AG1-112 > beaverton, OR 97006 USA > > t: +1 503 456-2927 > > jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Columbine & Virtual / Real Rage
by Jerald Block, MD 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi folks: Just wanted to let you know that my paper titled, "Lessons From Columbine: Virtual and Real Rage," was just published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. It is also available on my website at www.jeraldjblock.medem.com as a pdf. It is lengthy but may be of interest to some of the listserv members. Regards, Jerald Block, MD

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online tool to present research findings
by Nicole Reinhold 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hello everybody, I do not know if some of you encounter the same problem. When conducting research I use several online tools and methods but when presenting the results I'm back offline with powerpoint or pdfs. Whereby it would be great if we could use online tools to make the research findings more interactive, multimedia embedded and so on. I was wondering if some of you have used online tools to present research findings. I was thinking of a tool with which I easily can create various templates, in which I can insert text (quotes) and images, videos and links. As anybody experience in that area or found an inspiring format of presenting research finding online? I would appreciate any idea best wishes Nicole MA. Nicole Reinhold, Senior Research Consultant Philips Design nicole.reinhold(a)philips.com, http://www.design.philips.com

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