ICT and Globalisation (SSIT 2)

Videos, papers, presentations and photos from the second Social Study of IT workshop at LSE, 22-23 April 2002.

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The workshop addressed theoretical, strategic and policy issues of information and communication technologies (ICT) and globalisation. It was intended to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to expose and discuss current theoretical perspectives and issues of concern regarding ICT and globalisation.

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Day one - 22 April

9-9.30am

Welcome by Chrisanthi Avgerou and Claudio Ciborra

9.30-10.30am

Digitisation: a variable in the reshaping of cross-border relations, Saskia Sassen, LSE

10.30-11.30am

Electronic Trading and the Transformation of Futures Exchanges in Global Work Times, Michael Barrett, University of Cambridge and Susan Scott, LSE

11.30am-12 noon

Coffee break

12 noon-1pm

Cross-Cultural Issues in Global Software Outsourcing, Geoff Walsham, University of Cambridge

1-2.30pm

Lunch

2.30-3.30pm

E-Marketplace Services - do they support a global marketplace? Robin Mansell, LSE

3.30-4pm

Coffee break

4-5.30pm

Panel discussion on the issues raised by the presentations of the day
Chair: Chrisanthi Avgerou, LSE
Panellists: Saskia Sassen, Michael Barrett, Susan Scott, Geoff Walsham and Robin Mansell

Day two - 23 April

9.30-10am

Keynote speech, Anthony Giddens, LSE

10-11am

Got Infrastructure? How standards, categories and other aspects of global infrastructures influence communication, Susan Leigh Star, University of California, San Diego

11-11.30am

Coffee break

11.30am-12.30pm

Comparative Ethnographies of the Internet: locals in the global, Don Slater, LSE

12.30-1.30pm

Lunch

1.30-2.30pm

A Framework for Achieving Sustainable Development Through ICT Interventions, Dewald Roode, University of Pretoria

2.30-3pm

Coffee break

 

Panel discussion on the issues raised by the presentations of the day. Chair: Claudio Ciborra, LSEPanellists: Susan Leigh Star, Don Slater and Dewald Roode.

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