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Information for Social Change is an organisation/network that challenges the dominant paradigms of library and information work, and is in liaison with CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). It also produces its own ejournal and I am on the editorial board of this.

ISC WINTER 2006

The current issue of Information for Social Change is on the theme of

'Libraries & Information in World Social Forum context' (No 24, Winter 2006) - see http://www.libr.org/isc/toc.html

Whole issue is available in PDF format, (formatted for A4 paper) - see http://www.libr.org/isc/issues/ISC24/ISC24_Full.pdf (file size to download: approx 1Mb)

Individual articles are also available in PDF.

Contents

Editorial: Welcoming people power on the occasion of the World Social Forum (Shiraz Durrani)
Introduction: Waiting On The World To Change (Mikael Böök)

Articles

Politics of information: reality & vision

World Social Forum

The World According to Chico (The Right Livelihood Award 2006)
Social Movements Set to Assert Their Presence at WSF Nairobi 2007 (Oloo Onyango)
From Event to Process (Martí Olivella and Nicolas Haeringer)
Further readings on the World Social Forum

World Public Finances

The Secret Making a Joke out of Development Efforts (Emma Lochery)
New for 2007! (Advertisement)
It’s poor people’s money that makes the wealthy rich (Francine Mestrum)
Document: World Public Finances Concept Paper (Matti Kohonen)
Further readings on World Public Finances

World Public Library

Mumbai, January 2004

Document: Democratisation of Information with a focus on libraries - A report from two workshops (Mikael Böök)
Libraries: Open Spaces (Kay Raseroka)

Bamako Experiences, January-February 2006

Document: The Role of the Library in the WSF Process (Proceedings by Kingsley Oghojafor)
On The Library Situation in Mali (Mamadou Keita)
The Spirit of (West) African Libraries (Mikael Böök)

Training the Trainers Workshop, 2006

Document: Proposal for a training of trainers workshop for librarians on the WSF at Nairobi Safari Club (Esther Obachi)
Document: Day to day reports about the Training of the Trainers (Jane Sang & Fred Kachero)
The Management of the WSF Information (Esther Obachi)
How to Share Information and Ideas Worldwide Completely Free Using the New Information Wonder Called Blogs (Kingsley Oghojafor)

Preparing for Nairobi WSF, January 2007

Workshop on documenting the World Social Forum (WSF) - East African School of Library and Information Science 12th-14th December 2006 (Joan Okune)
The Khanya College Resource Centre - education and information for liberation and social change (Andi Kaiser)
On "diffusion" and making distinctions (Alan Story)
A comment on Copyrights, Author's Rights and Fair Use (Mikael Böök)
Document: Unlocking the Global Information Fortress (WSF activity info)
Document: Documenting of the WSF Information (WSF activity info)
Further Reading

Equality & Social Justice

The immigrant and "Britishness" in Britain (Ronald Elly Wanda)

ISC SUMMER 2007 (forthcoming)

The forthcomingSummer2007 issue is on the theme of

Library and information workers as political actors in times of war, civil war, military occupation, and social conflicts worldwide' -

Edited by Toni Samek and Martyn Lowe
It will address topics such as:
-- Library and information provision during times of war, civil war, military occupation, and social conflict that provide innsights and practical strategies for potential library and information projects in regions of conflict worldwide.
-- Profiles of library and information workers as participants and interventionists in conflicts, as political actors that offer some new possibilities for strategies of resistance, or that challenge networks of military or civil control worldwide.
-- Access to library and information provision and the information needs of oppressed peoples for empowerment and emancipatioon during times of war, revolution, or social conflict worldwide.
-- Dissemination of information about inside conflicts to the outside world. Here, ISC is particularly interested in exploraations of how to protect the information provider in terms of privacy; confidentiality; freedom of opinion and expression; freedom of thought, conscience and religion; peaceful assembly and association; and protection from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).

Best wishes,

Ruth

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