Ricardo Rosas

In Johnny Mnemonic, William Gibson writes about an obscure group of people, the Lo-Teks. Lo-Teks are people who live at the margins of a high tech society in the near future. Those people, as one can tell by reading the story, have their own peculiar weapons, even if they're made of discarded tech-residua of the overdeveloped society of their time.
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http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Autolabs-Critiquing-Utopia
mute / February, 2005
ByDavid Garcia

If government and corporate media are increasingly ‘tactical’ and ‘devolved’,
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OSI Supported Call for Papers – IJCLP ISSUE on Access to Knowledge

The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP) and the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce a special call for papers supported through a grant from the Open Society Institute (OSI), in conjunction with the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference taking place on April 21-23, 2006 at Yale Law School.

The OSI has kindly agreed to support the IJCLP to attract contributions for its Special Fall 2006 Issue on A2K, from those countries listed as developing and transition countries. The complete list of countries included in this call is available at http://www.soros.org/openaccess/grants-available.shtml#countries . We invite authors resident in any of these countries to submit papers to the journal in response to our latest call for papers and writing competition on A2K (see http://www.ijclp.org ). Any paper selected for publication will receive financial support from our OSI grant. Such support shall include a small stipend to each author in addition to free editorial processing by the Journal. Please note that authors who submit papers for this call are also eligible for the writing competition awards.
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International Conference on
CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'06)

**Submission deadline extended: 27 February 2006**

28 June - 1 July 2006
University of Tartu, Estonia
http://www.catacconference.org

Conference theme:
Neither Global Village nor Homogenizing Commodification:
Diverse Cultural, Ethnic, Gender and Economic Environments

The biennial CATaC conference series continues to provide an
international forum for the presentation and discussion of current
research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and
use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The
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A chamada de trabalhos para o Workshop de Software Livre 2006 está aberta. O Workshop está estruturado em três trilhas: Nacional, Internacional e Software Livre nas Universaidades.
O WSL é um evento científico, apoiado pela Sociedade Brasileira de Computação – SBC, que tem como objetivo reunir professores, pesquisadores, estudantes e profissionais para apresentação de trabalhos de pesquisa e desenvolvimento relacionados a Software Livre.
O WSL ocorrerá durante o 7º Fórum Internacional Software Livre – fisl7.0, que será realizado de 19 a 22 de abril, no Centro de Eventos FIERGS, em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
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