Logo above from the US based Save the Internet camapign.

What's happening in Canada? Bryan Zandberg has written a nice article on net neutrality for The Tyee, Canada Sleeps Through War to 'Save the Internet'.

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Paper for the National Media Reform Conference Media Research Pre-Conference, January 11, 2007, Memphis by Longford and Shade.

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The poster for the National Reform Pre-Confernece Policy meeting by SSRC, this one on the Alt.Telecommunications Policy Forum

Alternative Telecommunications Policy Forum
News Release
Oct 26, 2006

Proposed Telecom Policy Places Too Much Faith in Market Forces, Citizens’ Forum Warns

"We were looking at telecommunications policy through a social and community economic development lens rather than an industry lens,” according to Marita Moll and Leslie Shade, organizers of the Alternative Telecommunications Policy Forum held in Ottawa, October 19-21.

The Forum brought together policy experts, academics, and representatives from over a dozen community and public interest organizations across Canada to discuss the implications of telecommunications policy reforms currently being considered by Industry Minister, Hon. Maxime Bernier. The proposed reforms, which include weakening consumer protection guarantees and eliminating regulations aimed at protecting Canada’s cultural sovereignty in favour of maximizing market forces, were recommended last spring by the Liberal-appointed Telecommunications Policy Review Panel (TPRP).

Check out the various speakers' notes, blogs, webcasting, backgrounders, etc etc etc re the Alternative Telecommunications Policy Forum held in Ottawa 19-21 October.

University of the Streets Event.
Technology, Culture and Power
Moderator: Kenneth Werbin, Joint PhD in Communications, Concordia
University

May 17
7-9 pm
Presse Cafe
3501 Parc Ave

Telecom Policy Review Report not just business as usual, by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade in Straight Goods, April 4, 2006. If link does not work read below...

From: STIRRING UP THE POT? INTEGRATING GENDER INTO POLICY, PRACTICE, AND EVALUATION

Forthcoming as a CRACIN Working Paper

February 22, 2006

New Challenges
Despite the enthusiasm and progressive advocacy for gender equity in Canadian ICT policy in the 1990s, and Canada's commitment to gender equity in the World Summit on the Information Society, gender issues appear to have since been diluted in Canadian ICT policy and programs. Several arenas for research thus are suitable for interrogation within the CRACIN context:

Some updated resources for the CRACIN Annotated Bibliography.

The path in BSCW is:

CRACIN Community Informatics bibliography and reading room

Some updated resources for the CRACIN Annotated Bibliography.

These are to be added under:

Technology: Broadband, Wireless, etc.

The path in BSCW is:

CRACIN Community Informatics bibliography and reading room
Location: (BSCW) Literature Review/Technology: Broadband, Wireless, etc./author name