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ICT for Development Seminar Series

The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems

Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions.
ICT for Development Seminar Series

ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories

A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa. Despite weak or non-existent government institutions, innovation has flourished with local solutions to local challenges.
ICT for Development Seminar Series

Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event

An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign.
ICT for Development Seminar Series

Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks

In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency.
ICT for Development Seminar Series

Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013

Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field.
Alumni Weekend

The Arrogance of Power: Senator Fulbright's Concept and Today's World

Sir Adam Roberts, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2013.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Development 2.0 and beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013

Dr Thompson addresses some of the opportunities and contradictions presented by ICT4D and considers some emerging ways in which ICT4D researchers may contribute to the field.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Disjunctures and Connections: Case Studies of How Techno-politics Make and Cut Networks

In a development context, the ways in which new media objects (eg ICTs) are defined in relation to other objects, people and institutions map out new figurations of power and connection, that revalue and recombine political agency.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Humanitarian campaigns in social media: network architectures and Kony 2012 as a polymedia event

An assessment of the optimism surrounding the opportunities that social media offer for humanitarian action, drawing on analysis of the phenomenally popular and controversial Kony 2012 campaign.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

ICTs, Innovation and Regulation in the Somali Territories

A seminar exploring technology and regulation in the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

The Information Society Agenda: Prospects and Problems

Discussion of dominant approaches by intergovernmental agencies to information society policy and the prospects for introducing critical perspectives that acknowledge the power relations which inform information society strategies and actions.
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Galen and the Ontology of Powers

Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Delegation of Powers and Authority in International Criminal Law

Dr Shlomit Wallerstein (Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 8th May 2012. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.
Uncertainty as part of decision-relevant information

Dealing with uncertainties in UK energy policy: Some lessons from experience

Jim Watson (Director, Sussex Energy Group) delivers a lecture as part of the 2012 Green Templeton College "Uncertainty..." lecture series.
US China Relations: An Introduction

American-Sino Relations: Competition

Second part of the three part series. This episode looks at four areas where the two most powerful nations can be in competition or in conflict; exceptionalism, contrasting political systems,power perceptions and shifts in the power relationships.
US China Relations: An Introduction

American-Sino Relations: Review

In the third and final part of this series, Rosemary Foot reviews and critiques the four factors outlined in the previous episode which could hinder good relations between the two nations.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture?

Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism.
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

Negotiation and the Global Information Economy

JP Singh discusses the role played by diplomacy and negotiations in economic globalization, exploring possibilities for transformational problem-solving through multilateral diplomacy, allowing an adjustment of positions so that mutual gains will result.

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