ICT

This presentation is a critique of the concept of "free society" and its technology of propaganda. This presentation is therefore also a critique of ICT, information and communications technology, the technology underlying the free and open-source movement.

This text is an edited and more organized version of the brief 5-minute "kick-off" presentation that I made for the session on "Cultural Industries" at the CopySouth Workshop in Kerala, India. As a kick-off presentation, this text was intended to launch debates and discussion around the topic of copyright and creativity. Two other presenters were Shishir J. Kha (India) and Tatiana Carsen (Argentina).

Thanks to all the CopySouth members for the dialogues and the opportunity to sharpen the arguments set forth in this text, especially to Rustom Bharucha, Lawrence Liang, Carolina Botero, and CopySouth observers Trevor Batten and Gargi Sen. I look forward to continuing the dialogues.

Death by ICT. A Critical Look at the Information Society.
by Fatima Lasay

This document is based on a short presentation/discussion I facilitated several days ago at ISIS International-Manila. Entitled "Death by ICT. A Critical Look at the Information Society", the presentation/discussion was intended to stimulate critical thinking about communication and technology concepts and how these concepts relate to and affect daily tasks, decisions and issues seemingly unrelated to ICT.