ICTlogy
Ismael Peña-López, lecturer and researcher.
Information Society, Digital Divide, ICT4D
I am Ismael Peña-López.
I am professor at the School of Law and Political Science of the Open University of Catalonia, and researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute and the eLearn Center of that university.
My main research interests are the impact of ICTs in society (e-Readiness, the digital divide), especially in development (e-inclusion, ICT4D), and educational (e-Learning, digital competence) and political (e-participation, e-democracy) institutions.
15/05/2012
On 14 May 2012 I imparted a seminar at the Magister Lvcentinvs on Intellectual Property at the University of Alicante, Spain, kindly invited by Aureio López-Tarruella, expert and professor on Intellectual Property.
The purpose of my session was to provide a frame to explain while Law is nowadays having more trouble than usual in trying to solve many of today's problems. In other words, the goal was not to enter in specific issues that Law can difficultly fix, but to reflect on how the foundations of our industrial society are being challenged by digitization and Information and Communication Technologies ...
11/05/2012
Hace un par de semanas, durante el evento Nethinking 2012, Antón Reixa, el recién elegido presidente de la SGAE, cargaba no contra quienes hacen un determinado uso de Internet, sino contra la tecnologÃa en sà misma. Afirmaba, literalmente, que tú no necesitas banda ancha para el uso más convencional que puedas hacer de internet
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La afirmación va más allá de lo sorprendente y entra en el terreno de lo pasmoso. Todo el planeta (todo el planeta) se debate en estos momentos en cómo incrementar la cobertura de la banda ancha a la ...
01/05/2012 CiudadanÃa y ONG: Foro de Debate
28/04/2012 El 15M desde la participación ciudadana
Nous Horitzons — the review of the Fundació Nous Horitzons — has released issue #204 with the quite explicit title of Democratizing communication, communicating democracy (original title: Democratitzar la comunicació, comunicar la democrà cia).
I was asked to write a piece where to reflect about what can be done and what cannot be done on the Internet
, in the sense of what is allowed, what is not, where are the boundaries of our civic rights, where do ...
![Logo of the [SIC] conference series](/img/postssr/0000000486.jpg "[sic]*: Conference series on trends in the Information and Knowledge Society")
(crossposted from Debates sobre tendencias de la Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento).
With the goal to analyse and propose a debate on the nature and depth of this new framework of social relationships, the challenges it entails, for example, from the point of view of social inclusion, or opportunities from the perspective of health systems, social participation and education
a series of conferences has been planned in Seville ...
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