We just received the announcement of the book presentation in which we had coauthored a chapter with Roger Baig from guifi.net.

Baig, R. & Bona, Y.(2009). El derecho a un canal de comunicación simétrico de acceso y alcance universales. In Vinyamata, E. (Coord.) Derechos Humanos, Nuevas Realidades. Ediciones del Campus per la Pau, EdiUOC: Barcelona. pp.159-172. ISBN: 978-84-9788-805-9.

See previous post here.

I wish we could have enough time (and space) to discuss further issues concerning law, policy and norm regarding telecommunication uses (and misuses). We did not address the controversies surrounding licenses and the radioelectric spectrum and we did not raise questions about digital citizenship rights which could have been fruitful. However, as we licensed our chapter under a GPL, we can still rework it expecting forthcoming publications

Ah. The anouncement (I almost forgot…):

Spanish (English below):

“Les confirmamos la publicación del libro sobre nuevos derechos  humanos emergentes, titulado “Derechos Humanos: Nuevas   Realidades.”  Del cual han sido colaboradores. El acto de presentación será el día 15 de abril a las 18.30 en la  sede de la UOC de Rambla de Catalunya, 6, 3ª planta.”

English:

“Human Rights: New Realities”. April, 15th, 18:30 at UOC facility located in Rambla de Catalunya, 6. 3rd Floor.”

Roger will be there with other authors to talk and discuss about the book. I would have liked to be there as well but I am not gifted with co-presence yet !

RAX!

For a couple of weeks I have been working with Roger Baig from guifi.net in a forthcoming book chapter about Open Networks and Human Rights. It will be entitled as “El dret a un canal de comunicació simètric” – “the right to a simetric comunication channel”(translated for non-catalan speakers).

/Post Script 28-04-2009/ actually, the final version (which is a spanish translation of the original) is to be found as;

Baig, R. & Bona, Y.(2009). El derecho a un canal de comunicación simétrico de acceso y alcance universales. In Vinyamata, E. (Coord.) Derechos Humanos, Nuevas Realidades. Ediciones del Campus per la Pau, EdiUOC: Barcelona. pp.159-172. ISBN: 978-84-9788-805-9.

/End of PS/

There is always a strange period of mutual adjustment to the style and arguments of others. This has been a great opportunity to balance some arguments form social sciences and those coming from computer sciences. It is not always that easy to find common notions or agreements upon what has to be stated, what has to be left aside. Indeed, it is not easy even alone

But It is worth it for it opens some space of reflexion and affects the way we went over writings without an apparent problematisation of terms, concepts, figures we are so used to write down in our respective fields. Somehow, as Michel Serres notes, people will be grateful if you respect their own vocabulary and do not supplant their terminology with yours. Even if it is a rather specialised field, in some cases, it is preferable to make some people get a dictionary and find out what a word means rather than neglect a whole set of common vocabulary coming from a specific, and sometimes, ignored field. Serres, in so saying – and as far as I understand, is arguing for a sort of “respect” for those who we write about manifested, literally, in our writing. Which is a good point.