RIMAD Special Guest Lecture (free) - Richard Stallman Title: "A Free Digital Society"
Date: Wednesday 20 March from 18:00 to 21:00 Place: Ian Dixon Lecture theatre - room A004, Luton campus, University of Bedfordshire "A Free Digital Society" Activities directed at "including" more people in the use of digital technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by immediate practical convenience. However, if we also judge in terms of human rights, whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on what kind of digital world we are to be included in. If we wish to work towards digital inclusion as a goal, it behooves us to make sure it is the good kind. Brief biog: Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. sStallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. http://www.stallman.org Further info: Please contact Dave Miller ([email protected]) Twitter: @rimadresearch How to get here: http://www.beds.ac.uk/contactus/directions _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
