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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 
VIDEO 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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