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OVERVIEW  PARIS  BANGALORE  SERBIA  AMSTERDAM  VIENNA  BRUSSELS2000  OTHER EVENTS ARCHIVE | BROWSE BY PARTICIPANTS Artists Speakers All EVENTS Exhibitions Conferences Support Activities	VIENNA World-Information Forum Technical Museum Vienna 24 November, 2000, from 14 00 until 20 00 SCHEDULE 13 00 - 13 15 INTRODUCTION Konrad Becker (AT) Director World-Information.Org / Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 13 15 - 13 30 INTRODUCTION Barbara Trionfi (AT) International Press Institute 13 30 - 14 30 LECTURE Dr. Ben Bagdikian (US) Graduate School of Journalism, University of California The Digital World and Democracy 14 30 - 15 30 LECTURE Dr. Steve Wright (UK) OMEGA Foundation Technologies of Universal Surveillance & Control 15 45 - 16 45 LECTURE Kunda Dixit (NP) Publisher Nepali Times, Director Panos Institute South Asia and Co-publisher of Himal magazine Why Leap the Digital Divide? 17 00 - 18 30 PANEL Civil Participation in the Infosphere Hito Steyerl (DE) Filmmaker and Author The Hierarchy of Surveillance - Is Big Brother Really Watching? Alice Dvorská (CZ) INPEG - Initiative Against Economic Globalization INPEG – Initiative Against Economic Globalization Marion Hamm (UK) Indymedia Open Access and Global Tools for Communication Honor Harger (UK/AU) Tate Modern London, r a d i o q u a l i a  The Relation between the Internet and Broadcast Media MODERATION Pauline van Mourik Broekmann (UK) Mute Magazine  MEDIA FILES  Kunda Dixit: Why Leap the Digital Divide?  INTRO  The WORLD-INFORMATION FORUM was the counterpart of the WORLD-INFORMATION EXHIBITION and online information system and has been held at Vienna's Technical Museum on November 24, 2000, from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. At the WORLD-INFORMATION FORUM, the overall effects of the new information and communication technologies on society were discussed. Views on the continuing development of these technologies were given, and the political and economic aspects and influences were analyzed by experts from science and politics. Invited speakers were Ben Bagdikian from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California (USA), Kunda Dixit, director of Panos South Asia and publisher of the Nepal Times (Nepal), Steve Wright, director of the OMEGA foundation (UK). Further contributions were provided by representatives of online media and by media activists, including Hito Steyerl, publicist and filmmaker (Germany), Alice Dvorska Initiative Against Economic Globalisation (INPEG), (Czech Republic), Marion Hamm, IndyMedia (UK), and Honor Harger from Tate Modern London, r a d i o q u a l i a (UK/AUS).

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