I am organizing a 4S session that would be of interest to many AOIR members. This year 4S (the Society for Social Studies of Science) is meeting in Cleveland on November 2-5, 2011. (See http://www.4sonline.org/meeting for details.) This session is organized in collaboration with the Latin American Network of 4S but submissions involving other regions in the south are also very much welcome. If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of a paper (minimum 250 words, maximum of 400 words) to yuri.takhteyev@utoronto.ca by March 7, 2011. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Session Title: The Global South and the Global Cyberspace Fifteen years ago an American poet living in California proclaimed the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, a world “both everywhere and nowhere,” foretelling the coming obsolescence of the “Governments of the Industrial World” from China to the United States, thanks to the rise of the new digital information and communication technologies. In the following years, those technologies have played a key role in the visions of the coming globalized world. At the same time, the Cyberspace has for the most part been a “northern” domain. This panel will explore the place of the Global South in the Global Cyberspace, as well as more broadly the relationship between ICTs and globalization in southern contexts. We welcome papers looking at how ICTs are used by different actors as tools in their own globalization projects, as well as papers looking at the increasing globalization of the development of ICTs. The latter could include the more recent outsourcing of what used to be considered “northern” high-tech work to the south, the increased role of the distributed communities of software developers (including those working on free / open source software), as the well as the more mundane importation of “northern” ICTs into the southern contexts. The papers should focus on the Global South, including in particular Latin America, considering either the south-north ties or the lateral ties between southern regions. Historical perspectives on the relationship between ICT and globalization would be highly welcome, including those looking back to the days before the 1990s. Yuri Takhteyev --- http://takhteyev.org/