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See below ... Here is a good example of a virtual diaspora connected to Vietnam: http://www.vnforum.org/ Archives: http://mail.saigon.com/pipermail/vnforum/ Subscribe: http://mail.saigon.com/mailman/listinfo/vnforum Would anyone like to help build a global listing of similar forums that have established themselves as "the place" to discuss political issues related to a specific country? Anyone know of other similar forums to include: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven Clift Democracies Online From: http://www.nautilus.org/virtual-diasporas/index.shtml Virtual Diasporas and global problem solving project Global diaspora communities are an increasingly important actor in international conflict and cooperation. Today information communication technologies bind transnational diaspora communities with their homeland, facilitate new and efficient economic networks in both the host and home countries, and increase identity and belonging to a greater transnational community. Yet other observers contend that virtual diaspora networks are an emerging source of global conflict as they facilitate transnational terrorist and criminal activity, finance wars in home states, and most importantly, cultivate divisive and fragmenting nationalism throughout the online diaspora community. How are we to balance a growing need for national security and increased intelligence gathering with the need to respect the privacy, civil liberties, and freedom of non-state transnational networks? How will this first ever war against networks impact transnational diaspora communities? How can states work with these global diaspora networks to further their aims? The Nautilus Institute is beginning the process of understanding these challenges with the Virtual Diasporas and Global Problem Solving Project. The project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, examined the growing impact of global diasporas, and their use of information technologies, on international conflict and cooperation. Specifically, this effort explored a number of issues ranging from global diaspora communities as an increasing source of conflict to the positive contributions that emerging cosmopolitan diaspora organizations are making to global problem-solving. From: http://www.nautilus.org/virtual-diasporas/papers.html v i r t u a l d i a s p o r a s and global problem solving project Workshop Papers Phineas Baxandall Harvard University Good Capital, Bad Capital: Dangers and Development in Digital Diasporas (abstract) Karim H. Karim Carleton University "Diasporic Communication in the Contexts of International Conflict and Cooperation." Michel Laguerre MIT/UC Berkeley Virtual Diasporas: A New Frontier of National Security (op-ed) Vinay Lal UCLA "Terrorism, Virtual Diasporas, and the Internet" Hala Nassar UC Berkeley "Visual Diaspora: Palestinian Diaspora narrating the lost Home." Robert Smith Barnard College "Migration, Assimilation and Diaspora: Positive Sum Solutions are Possible." (op-ed) "Actual and Possible Uses of Cyberspace by and among States, Diasporas and Migrants" Shyam Tekwani Nanyang Technological University coming soon Guobin Yang University of Hawaii at Manoa "Information Technology, Virtual Chinese Diaspora, And Transnational Public Sphere" G. Pascal Zachary UC Berkeley Globalization from Below: diasporic capitalism *** Past Messages, Discussion http://e-democracy.org/do *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
