A2K4 Panel II: Technologies of Dissent: Information and Expression in a Digital World

This panel explores A2K issues relevant to classic civil and political rights, particularly freedom of expression.
Political expression and dissent are increasingly exercised online, through technologies ranging from social networking tools, blogs, email, and cell phones to more concealed and complex technical approaches such as the use of distributed denial of service attacks to disrupt [...]

A2K4 Workshop: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for an African Information Ethics

Organized by the UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies
As our contemporary information society continues to take hold on the African continent, there is a pressing need to recognize and formalize an “African information ethics”, that is, understanding and applying principles of information ethics (access to knowledge, intellectual property, information literacy, intellectual freedom, privacy) within the [...]