[Nettime-bold] Call for Papers: Global CN2001 Session

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

From: "Richard Lowenberg" <rl@dcn.davis.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: Call for Papers: Global CN2001 Session

"(R)Evolution of Networked Economics"

Global CN2001
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dec. 6th, 2001

Session coordinator: Richard Lowenberg
        Executive Director, Davis Community Network;
        Board Member, Association for Community Networking, USA

Background:

        Community Networking initiatives are being incubated, are in active
social service and are growing in diverse geographic localities around the
world.   Global CN2001 follows along the path of Global CN2000, the first
international community networking conference, held late last year in
Barcelona.   Buenos Aires, the 2001 host city, will provide its southern
hemisphere summer setting for a most important sharing of ideas about the
diverse development of local and regional information societies in a
rapidly changing networked global environment.

        "The (R)Evolution of Networked Economics" session is being
organized to provide an economic context and understanding of the practical
work that lies ahead for the local sphere: government, the marketplace and
civic organizations, amid the complex reorganization of society brought
about by the new flows and valuation of material resources, human actions,
information exchanges and knowledge building.

        Papers are currently being solicited that address the complex
theoretical subject and practical applications of this conference session.

A few rhetorical questions meant to evoke possible responses include:

� What are potential major trends in economics: globally to locally?  What
are potential pro and con effects of increasingly networked economic
relationships in local geographic and social contexts?  What are some
projections for economic and social disparities, especially for the inaptly
termed 'digital divide'.

� What is the outlook for community networking amid evolving economic and
social
restructuring and values?  Will community networking become increasingly
fragile or marginalized by dominant commercial market forces and interests?
Do networked communities offer potential opportunities for added value and
vitality?

� How might e-commerce, local to global information brokerage, community
e-currency, or the ecological economic impacts of tele-technologies and
information exchange, have both ideological influence and pragmatic affect
on societies?

� Might community networking initiatives serve as 'living laboratories' and
examples for newly evolving and diverse local-global economic processes, or
are such efforts naive?

Submission Guidelines:

        Please email paper abstracts of no more than 250 words by May 31st.
Selected submissions will be asked to provide papers of up to 5000 words
by August 31st.

Abstracts:

. Abstracts for papers, digital media, and other forms of participation
should not exceed 400 words (one page). They should include: the session
title, presentation title, author's name, institution, address, telephone,
e- mail and URL. They are to describe clearly the proposed presentation,
paper or activity.

. Please use Arial 11 pt., at 1.5 space, page size A4.

. Abstracts should be e-mailed to Richard Lowenberg rl@radlab.com to be
forwarded (and/or directly to the Congress coordinators
propuestas@globalcn2001.org), indicating the author's last name in the
title of the message. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 31,
2001.

The abstracts will be evaluated by the Working Groups' Coordinators, with
the participation of selected researchers and activists in each field. The
Congress Secretariat will communicate the results of the evaluation by
August 31.

Languages:

Abstracts and papers may be written in any of the Global CN2001 Congress�
official languages: Spanish, English and French.

Timetable:

May 31: Deadline for receipt of abstracts.
August 31: Communication to authors regarding the approval of the proposed
submissions.
October 1: Deadline for the submission of papers.

Information:

For additional Congress information, write to the secretary of the Global
CN2001:
E-mail:secretariado@globalcn2001.org    URL: http://www.globalcn2001.org


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