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Today's Topics:
1. FW: Alternative Perspective Newsletter (Jeebesh Bagchi)
2. Invitation for dyd02 (Monica Narula)
3. Poetry Workshop (Dr. Reyhan Chaudhuri)
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Message: 1
From: Jeebesh Bagchi <jeebesh at sarai.net>
To: announcements at sarai.net
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:50:28 +0530
Subject: [Announcements] FW: Alternative Perspective Newsletter
-----Original Message-----
From: Madhukar Shukla [mailto:madhukar at xlri.ac.in]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:37 AM
To: madhukar at xlri.ac.in
Subject: Alternative Perspective Newsletter
Hello
I am sending you the first issue of a newsletter "Alernative
Perspective" which I have started. The frequency of the newsletter would
be weekly/fortnightly (not decided).
If you find it interesting, you can subscribe by sending a blank mail
to:
AlternativePerspective-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
If you know of someone, who would find this interesting, please also
pass on this to him/her - thanks
ciao
madhukar
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Alternative Perspective
Issue 1, September 23rd, 2002
Compiled byMadhukar Shukla
Introduction: Alternative Perspective is an attempt to widen our
awareness about issues related to business, environment, role and
influence of media, geo-politics, religion & culture, etc. It aims to
share, on a regular basis, some of those pieces of news and information,
which do not find place in the mainstream media.
In This Issue:
Backing Globalisation with Miltary Might
In a 1999 New York Times article Thomas Friedman advocated: ""For
globalism to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty
superpower that it is....The hidden hand of the market will never work
without a hidden fist..." This article describes how Economic
Globalisation was always backed by military power, and how war is
actually a part of doing business.
http://www.covertaction.org/full_text_68_03a.htm
The Enron Fact Files
Enron made history from the time it won the "laughable bid" for the
Argentinian pipeline in 1989 to Dec 4, 2001, when it filed for
bankruptcy. This site - and the links - describe in details Enron's
history, its relationship with government and World Bank, how it won the
business from Bolivia to energy deregulation in Texas. Very
Comprehensive and interesting!!!
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PII.jsp?topicid=145
Role of Religion in the Palestinian Conflict
Much of what we (I??) know about Israel-Palestinian conflict looks
political (Jewish lobby in US, American oil interests in Middle East,
etc. etc.), or at a best, a dispute around a piece of land. If at all,
there is a mention of religious motivation, it is attributed to the
Islamic Palestinians. There is hardly any analysis of the role of Temple
Mount/haram-al-Ashraf or Dome of Rock in this potential armaggadoon...
or even a mention of the Red Heifa or the Masada Complex. In context of
the next article, this is a perpective which is worth appreciating.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/middle_east/2000/holy_p
laces/
Clash of Civilization
Samuel Huntington's classic article in 1993, which later he elaborated
in the form a book of the same title. Huntington's hypothesis that the
future wars are less likely to be between nations or ideologies, but
that the fault lines lie between civilizations, was provoking and was
criticised. Yet, in many ways it also helps explaining many things
happening right now in the world.
http://www.lander.edu/atannenbaum/Tannenbaum%20courses%20folder/POLS%201
03%20World%20Politics/103_huntington_clash_of_civilizations_full_text.ht
m
Our World: Some Astonishing Facts
Well, these are astonishing..... - and unsettling - facts!!!
http://members.tripod.com/goklassen/websectors/facts/factast.htm
Click to subscribe to AlternativePerspective
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:16:01 +0530
To: announcements at sarai.net
From: Monica Narula <monica at sarai.net>
Subject: [Announcements] Invitation for dyd02
On behalf of the organizing committee, we invite your participation
in the 2nd International "Development by Design" conference in
Bangalore, India on December 1-2, 2002. This conference is in
continuation of the successful conference held at MIT Media Labs in
August 2001, and seeks to establish critical dialogue towards open
collaboration in sustainable and appropriate technology, design and
development. We invite diverse perspectives from academia, nonprofit
organisations, industry, and independent innovators.
The conference is sponsored by Media Lab Asia, Infosys Technologies
and MIT Alliance for Global Sustainability, in cooperation with MIT
Media Lab, ThinkCycle, Srishti School of Art Design & Technology,
Indian Institute of Science, Digital Nations, ACM SIGCHI and Concept
Labs.
Please look up link [1] below for more details (revised from earlier
announcements).
There are many ways to get involved.
* In order to participate you must submit any one of the following:
- a 2 page position paper
- a 5 to 10 page technical paper
- a poster or video abstract of your work or project (10-15 minutes)
Student projects are also invited which will be shown in a design
exhibition at the conference.
Papers are to be submitted online (if you have bandwidth or technical
constraints in uploading your paper, you may also email it to us at
<mailto:dyd02-submit at media.mit.edu>dyd02-submit at media.mit.edu and we
will load it on to the dyd02
website). For more details see paper submission guidelines [2] on
the dyd02 website.
* Along with reviews by the program committee, we encourage open peer
review of all papers submitted (although authors can indicate
"private review" if desired). Subscribe to receive email alerts [3]
on new papers and conference updates.
* Main Conference Dates:
- Pre-conference Workshops: Nov 30th, 2002 (Saturday)
- Conference sessions: Dec 1-2, 2002 (Sunday & Monday)
* Revised conference deadlines:
- Full length technical papers: Oct 7th
- 2 page position papers: Oct 25th
- Posters/videos: Oct 25th
- Student posters/videos: Oct 25th
- Acceptance of full papers: Oct 28th
- Acceptance of position papers/videos/posters: Nov 8th
- Final papers due: Nov 11th
* This year you have the opportunity to set up Pre-Conference
Workshops on selected topics of interest with small groups of
participants. To organise a workshop submit a short proposal by
*October 7th*. See workshop submission guidelines [4]. Accepted
workshops will be listed on the dyd02 website by October 15th. Short
position papers from participants in workshops are due by November
4th. Notification of acceptance to participants will be sent by
November 8th.
* Please forward this mail to anyone you know who could provide a
positive contribution to this event. We look forward to your
participation in dyd02.
Program Co-chairsPoonam Kasturi, Vijay Chandru and Nitin Sawhney
Contact: <mailto:dyd02 at media.mit.edu>dyd02 at media.mit.edu
[1] <http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02>http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02
[2]
<http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/dydPubRules.htm>http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/dydPubRules.htm
[3]
<http://www.thinkcycle.org/tc-bboard/forum?forum_id=33861>http://www.thinkcycle.org/tc-bboard/forum?forum_id=33861
[4]
<http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/dydWorkshopCall.htm>http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/dydWorkshopCall.htm
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Monica Narula
Sarai:The New Media Initiative
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net
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Message: 3
From: "Dr. Reyhan Chaudhuri" <reyhanchaudhuri at eth.net>
To: <announcements at sarai.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:23:15 +0530
Subject: [Announcements] Poetry Workshop
South Delhi Polytechnic for Women is hosting a Poetry Workshop for the
academic staff .This is being held within it's own campus from 7th.October
to 11th.October,2002. Guest Poets participating include:Ashok Chakradhar,
Prayag Shukla, Shama Futehally and Shaili Kwatra.
For more details please contact organizer/Incharge :R.Chaudhuri at:
polytech at nda.vsnl.net.in
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