Shrinking World, Expanding Net, annual conference of the CPSR.

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05:10:02 Shrinking World, Expanding Net, annual conference of the CPSR.
Shrinking World, Expanding Net , is the title of the annual conference organized by CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) opened on 5 October at the famous Harvard University, which seeks to draw together the threads of sustainable technological development for human rights in the sense side. Divided into two sections sees 'Expanding the Net', the presence of Iqbal Quadir, founder of GrammenPhone, a cell phone company in Bangladesh that has as its primary objective to provide services to the entire national population and contribute to the development of infrastructure in the country, and those of Calestaous Juma, Kenya founder of the African Centre for Technology Studies, Daryl Martyris, representative of the World Computer Exchange branch in South-East Asia and Diane Anuis that will give a talk on 'Wireless for the Caribbean'. In 'Shrinking the World', however, are Judy Brewer, director of the Web Accessibility Initiative, Libby Levison at MIT with the project 'Providing Web Search Capability for Low-Connectivity Communities' and Hani Shakeel with the intervention' Community Knowledge Sharing: An Internet Application to Support Literacy Communications Across Levels'. Also awarded the prize Norbert Weiner, went this year to Karl Auerbach (pictured), as a pioneer of a democratic administration of the Internet, having feared by the not suspect the dangers of centralized management of the DNS, but it is now one of the members ICANN's most critical and representative for the users.