[governance] [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of Internet Freedom

[Deirdre Williams]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Further to our conversation last week - I have a contact who is a librarian
working at a small academic library here with some access to the electronic
collections of the main university library. She was unable to locate this
book, but sent me what she did find, a 29 page excerpt which includes the
table of contents and the introductory chapter. I'll share that with anyone
who is interested but it's a large pdf file (10 MB) probably because it
includes the cover which I haven't worked out yet how to remove, so please
contact me off-list.

Meanwhile, answering Arzak, yes I wish there was something we could do. The
Open Educational Resources movement is making a lot of resources available.
Authors themselves frequently share. As authors ourselves we can consider
refusing to accept the draconian copyright requirements of some publishers,
although for academics working in a "must publish" environment this could
be a very hard decision. We can help to build towards Creative Commons
<http://creativecommons.org/> as a basic standard for publishing by
supporting it.

Most of all we can continue to remind people of the inequalities that still
obtain in our "global village". It is sometimes very difficult to
comprehend what "everyday life" is, as seen through the eyes of someone
living in a different part of the world from where one lives oneself.

Please let me know (off list) if you are interested in the file and I'll
forward it to you. Better yet, explain to me how to remove the cover page
from the pdf file first :-)

Best wishes
Deirdre

On 27 March 2015 at 00:42, Arzak Khan <azrak_khan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Best,
>
> Arzak
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: williams.deirdre at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:47:53 -0400
> To: willi.uebelherr at gmail.com
> CC: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
> Subject: Re: [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of
> Internet Freedom
>
>
> Information is sadly only really free if you live in the first world.
> Certainly not in Saint Lucia where I live, and apparently not in Bolivia
> either.
> But there are still many lucky people associated with northern
> institutions who have access - the heads up was for them.
> I was disappointed too.
> Perhaps "Access for us too" is something we should begin to make a fuss
> about?
> Best wishes
> Deirdre
>
> On 26 March 2015 at 12:29, willi uebelherr <willi.uebelherr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Deirdre, Becky and all
>
> > Might be of interest to some…
>
> 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.
>
> many greetings, willi
> La Paz, Bolivia
>
>
> Am 26/03/2015 um 09:15 a.m. schrieb Deirdre Williams:
>
> For your information.
> Deirdre
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz at mcgill.ca>
> Date: 26 March 2015 at 08:25
> Subject: [bestbits] The Real Cyber War The Political Economy of Internet
> Freedom - How the freedom-to-connect movement aids Western hegemony
> To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
>
>
> Might be of interest to some…
>
> *http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw <http://tinyurl.com/psf9dsw>*
>
> Discussions surrounding the role of the internet in society are dominated
> by terms such as *internet freedom*, *surveillance*, *cybersecurity,* and,
> most prolifically, *cyber war*. But behind the rhetoric of cyber war is an
> ongoing state-centered battle for control of information resources. Shawn
> Powers and Michael Jablonski conceptualize this *real* cyber war as the
> utilization of digital networks for geopolitical purposes, including covert
> attacks against another state’s electronic systems, but also, and more
> importantly, the variety of ways the internet is used to further a state’s
> economic and military agendas.
>
> Moving beyond debates on the democratic value of new and emerging
> information technologies, *The Real Cyber War* focuses on political,
> economic, and geopolitical factors driving internet freedom policies, in
> particular the U.S. State Department's emerging doctrine in support of a
> universal freedom to connect. They argue that efforts to create a universal
> internet built upon Western legal, political, and social preferences is
> driven by economic and geopolitical motivations rather than the
> humanitarian and democratic ideals that typically accompany related policy
> discourse. In fact, the freedom-to-connect movement is intertwined with
> broader efforts to structure global society in ways that favor American and
> Western cultures, economies, and governments….
>
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