<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 12pt;
font-family:Calibri
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>This is something that has been very frustrating for some years now when you really want access some piece of marvelously written information like this one but you are unable to do so. Like Deirdre said something we from Global South need to make a fuss about. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Arzak </div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: williams.deirdre@gmail.com<br>Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:47:53 -0400<br>To: willi.uebelherr@gmail.com<br>CC: governance@lists.igcaucus.org; bestbits@lists.bestbits.net<br>Subject: Re: [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of Internet Freedom<br><br><div dir="ltr">Information is sadly only really free if you live in the first world.<div>Certainly not in Saint Lucia where I live, and apparently not in Bolivia either.</div><div>But there are still many lucky people associated with northern institutions who have access - the heads up was for them.</div><div>I was disappointed too.</div><div>Perhaps "Access for us too" is something we should begin to make a fuss about?</div><div>Best wishes</div><div>Deirdre</div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On 26 March 2015 at 12:29, willi uebelherr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:willi.uebelherr@gmail.com" target="_blank">willi.uebelherr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
Dear Deirdre, Becky and all<br>
<br>
> Might be of interest to some…<br>
<br>
But this lists are not marketplaces for selling any things. If you don't have a link for a free download, it is not really useful.<br>
<br>
many greetings, willi<br>
La Paz, Bolivia<br>
<br>
<br>
Am 26/03/2015 um 09:15 a.m. schrieb Deirdre Williams:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
For your information.<br>
Deirdre<br>
<br>
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: Becky Lentz <<a href="mailto:roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca" target="_blank">roberta.lentz@mcgill.ca</a>><br>
Date: 26 March 2015 at 08:25<br>
Subject: [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of Internet<br>
Freedom - How the freedom-to-connect movement aids Western hegemony<br>
To: <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Might be of interest to some…<br>
<br>
*<a href="http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw</a> <<a href="http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw</a>>*<br>
<br>
Discussions surrounding the role of the internet in society are dominated<br>
by terms such as *internet freedom*, *surveillance*, *cybersecurity,* and,<br>
most prolifically, *cyber war*. But behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an<br>
ongoing state-centered battle for control of information resources. Shawn<br>
Powers and Michael Jablonski conceptualize this *real* cyber war as the<br>
utilization of digital networks for geopolitical purposes, including covert<br>
attacks against another state’s electronic systems, but also, and more<br>
importantly, the variety of ways the internet is used to further a state’s<br>
economic and military agendas.<br>
<br>
Moving beyond debates on the democratic value of new and emerging<br>
information technologies, *The Real Cyber War* focuses on political,<br>
economic, and geopolitical factors driving internet freedom policies, in<br>
particular the U.S. State Department's emerging doctrine in support of a<br>
universal freedom to connect. They argue that efforts to create a universal<br>
internet built upon Western legal, political, and social preferences is<br>
driven by economic and geopolitical motivations rather than the<br>
humanitarian and democratic ideals that typically accompany related policy<br>
discourse. In fact, the freedom-to-connect movement is intertwined with<br>
broader efforts to structure global society in ways that favor American and<br>
Western cultures, economies, and governments….<br>
<br>
______________________________<u></u>______________________________<br>
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>
<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>.<br>
To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<br>
<a href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits" target="_blank">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/<u></u>info/bestbits</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
______________________________<u></u>______________________________<br>
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>
<a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>
To be removed from the list, visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/<u></u>unsubscribing</a><br>
<br>
For all other list information and functions, see:<br>
<a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/<u></u>info/governance</a><br>
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br>
<a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br>
<br>
Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/<u></u>translate_t</a><br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>____________________________________________________________<br>
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>
<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>.<br>
To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<br>
<a href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits" target="_blank">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="ecxgmail_signature">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
</div>
<br>____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
bestbits@lists.bestbits.net.
To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:
http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</div> </div></body>
</html>