English below.

Español, resúmen: la revista holandesa Greenpepper (Pimienta Verde) está
solicitando contribuciones escritas o visuales para un número especial sobre
la información a ser distribuido simultaneamente con la Cumbre Mundial de la
Sociedad de la Información. Las contribuciones pueden ser sobre temas como
control y autonomía de la información, medios
participativos/comunitarios/piratas, des-información y relaciones públicas,
propiedad intelectual, regimenes de vigilancia y estrategias para
contrarestarlos.  La información enviada no especifica el idioma en que
deben ser escritas las contribuciones pero seguramente les interesan textos
de América Latina y tal vez los editores pueden traducir textos en español.
Para más información escribir a [log in to unmask] o ver
http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper.  La fecha límite para contribuciones es
octubre 30.

English:

please distribute :: please distribute

:: Greenpepper Magazine :: Information Issue :: Call for Contributors ::

GREENPEPPER is an Amsterdam-based environmental and social justice magazine 
focusing on direct and autonomist action.

To co-incide with the World Summit on the Information Society to be held in 
Switzerland in December 2003, the theme of the next issue of the magazine is

INFORMATION.

GREENPEPPER is currently looking for contributions for the INFORMATION
issue.  
Topics to be explored include (but are not limited to) information control
and 
autonomy, participatory / community / pirate media, wireless and opensource 
media tools, disinformation and public relations, regimes of biotechnology,

intellectual property and surveilance and the tactics of resistance against 
them.  For more ideas on possible contributions, see the draft structure 
included below. 

Contributions can be written text (800 - 1800 wds) or other visual/print
media 
and must be sent to us by 31 October 2003.  More importantly, contributions 
should be critical, generative of different ways of thinking about these 
issues, and relevant to those engaged in political and cultural struggles 
around information and social justice.

For more information or to send contributions contact [log in to unmask] If 
you'd like to send us a contribution, please email a brief (50 - 100w) 
description or synopsis to us by 14 October 2003.  To find out more about 
GREENPEPPER go to http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper 

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:: draft structure for greenpepper information issue :: ideas for possible 
contributions ::

1.  EMPIRE 

- introductory overview of wsis : neo-liberal trade agenda / countersummit /

communication rights

- piracy : specific articles/interviews/case studies about information 
piracy /  reasons for piracy / response by state or regulatory bodies. 

- informational autonomy : what it means / what types of information
practices 
it includes / how and why this approach to information goes beyond the 
discourse of  'communication rights' and 'civil society' / importance of 
informational autonomy as sites of cultural/political struggle.

- community/micro media resistance : self-organised community experiments in

media practice / specific examples exploring how informational autonomy
might 
work.

BIOSPHERE

- biotech and infotech : connections between the parallel development of 
biotechnology and information technology / why contesting science and
creating 
resistant practices in this area is important for information activism.

- biopiracy and bioinformatics : what are they / international networks of 
biotrade / enclosure of the genetic commons / current and future
developments 
in this field / possibilities for resistance.

- biotech and intellectual property : international developments in genecode

patenting and intellectual property regimes.

MEDIASCAPE

- institutional disinformation : case study on recent war on iraq / role of 
international intelligence in disinfo / scope for alternative information 
channels 

- radio : the importance of the medium / specific pirate / self-organised / 
internet radio experiments / methods of circumventing legal regimes /
practical
d.i.y information about small scale transmitting

- public relations and the production of knowledge : how PR works / the ways

activists can identify and expose pR practices in their struggles.

- structures of participation : specific experiments that challenge and
broaden
the scope of participatory media / ways of making different fields (organic,

financial, scientific etc) readable as information by different groups of 
people. 

- wireless networks : developments in wireless networking / why wireless is 
important / practical 'how to' information for groups on how to set wireless

networks up and use them.

- opensource tools : free opensource media tools that can be used by
different 
groups for political practice / appropriation of opensource by infotech 
corporations / 

DATA CONTROL

- data bodies : the concept of electronic bodies / importance of data bodies
as
a means of altering debates in this area way from the usual liberal
discourse 
of privacy / relevance of this approach to understand contemporary
surveillance
and/or border control systems / control of data as means of controlling 
movement of people.   

- overview of s.11 surveillance systems and expansion of state power (new 
laws) : role of the U.S government in co-ordinating extreme international 
response / specific examples or contributions from groups being profiled and

targeted    

- digital profiling and social sorting  : the concept and practice of
digital 
profiling / specific ways surveillance works by profiling and sorting people

into differing groups of dangerousness / specific examples of how
surveillance 
reproduces racism in targeting black/arab people and communities.   

-  biometrics : a specific analysis of the U.S led worldwide push to
introduce 
biometric identification systems in airports / role of International Civil 
Aviation Organization and other international regulatory bodies / how 
biometrics work / who it effects and why / likely developments and
consequences
of biometric surveillance.  

OURMedia/NuestrosMedios
a global network of activists, academics, and practitioners
working toward stronger alternative, community, and citizens' media.

Una red global de activistas y academic@s apoyando
los medios alternativos, ciudadanos y comunitarios

Contact: Clemencia Rodriguez
University of Oklahoma
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