Contrary to writings that herald the internet as a great liberator or see the information age as a dystopia requiring permanent surveillance, this book argues that we need to understand the changes that are taking place around us before we draw conclusions. "The e-Connected World" should be of interest to students, policy-makers and citizens seeking to look beyond the digital hype. The contributors include Richard Allan, member of the UK Parliament for Sheffield Hallam and former chairman of the Information select committee ...
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Contrary to writings that herald the internet as a great liberator or see the information age as a dystopia requiring permanent surveillance, this book argues that we need to understand the changes that are taking place around us before we draw conclusions. "The e-Connected World" should be of interest to students, policy-makers and citizens seeking to look beyond the digital hype. The contributors include Richard Allan, member of the UK Parliament for Sheffield Hallam and former chairman of the Information select committee; Tom Calvert, professor and vice president for Research and External Affairs at the Technical University of British Columbia; Kevin Carey, director of HumanITy, as well as a long- standing member of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and vice-chairman of the Royal National Institute for the Blind. It also includes Stephen Coleman, professor of e-Democracy at the University of Oxford and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; Ronald J. Deibert, assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto; Stephen Murgatroyd, president of Lifeskills International Ltd and vice-president of the Axia Corporation; Stephanie Perrin, chief privacy officer at Zer-Knowledge Systems, Montreal, Quebec; Raymond J. Protti, president and CEO of the Canadian Bankers Association; Paul Stacey, member of the management team for the E-Learning Innovation Centre at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia; and Chris Yapp, director of the Internet Society of England and an associate of the UK think tank Demos.
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