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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup

” International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is inviting CSOs and corporations, entrepreneurs, and the general public to submit questions, ideas, and stories in the run up to ITU Telecom World 2011 in October. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. Not convinced yet?

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

It's a question whose answer eluded me from the day I registered eight months ago through the first few days of the conference this week. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. What is the Science Center World Congress ? How are we addressing this woman?

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. The question you have to ask is: who are the people who have issues with what they are doing? It’s a very good question. Do you have to be a director to do it?

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

We have been seeing an increased attention that women's rights groups have been bringing to this whole question of globalization and migration, and how women workers are being affected by this. She made it almost impossible for me not to look at those questions. I think my comment in The Nation was really more about that.

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