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World-Information Institute

November 14 - 20, 2005
World-Information City, Bangalore
World-Information City is a one-week programme of events addressing global issues of intellectual property and technology in conjunction with changing urban landscapes.
Program Bangalore 2005
Documentation Video

InfoPaper
for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis 2005
World-Information City special IP edition

Publication
An introductory reader on the politics and culture of information

Interview
Divide et Impera
Arundhati Roy in an interview with Konrad Becker during the World-Information City Conference in Bangalore.
An Interview with Arundhati Roy

Globalisation:
Materiality and the Limits of a Will to Power
Speaking at the World Information City Conference, Bangalore, historian and cultural critic Lata Mani challenged the widespread belief in the triumph of globalisation.
Like fortresses built on the quicksand of a culturally alien territory
Read Me
Bangalore and back: Reflections on World-Information-City, Bangalore
Torrents of Desire and the Shape of the Information Landscape
Invisibly Seeing the Invisible
Cultural intelligence and the Urban Multitudes
Free Software Commons between North and South

World-Information City Programme at Bangalore completed
World-Info Flash

Xnational Net Culture and "The Need to Know" of Information Societies. Vienna Draft Document by the Open Cultures Working Group hosted by "Towards a Culture of Open Networks".
The Vienna Document

In June 2005 a two-day international conference in Vienna had a look at current transformations of informational urban landscapes. Adopting a non-European perspective, the event brought together researchers and practitioners from India and Europe.
Networks of Imagination

Bangalore's almost mythical status as India's Silicon Valley is not the only face of this city, now aspiring to become the "Singapore of India". Read an intriguing photo essay on the city's unofficial realities, written for World-Information.Org by Lawrence Liang.
The Other Information City








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