[AktiviX-discuss] nanotech & converging technologies

[m.reinsborough at Queens-Belfast.AC.UK]

hi Aktivix folk,
technology & politics so thought I would send this on to people.

For your information: a new email list has begun regarding for organising 
on technology and democracy issues has begun. It is expected to focus on 
nanotech and converging technologies issues.

To join this list go to

http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/techne

and click on subscribe.

############################################ The techne list has been 
created to discuss activism and facilitate organising around TECHNOLOGY and 
DEMOCRACY issues

and is a result of conversations had across the internet or during 
conferences such as People's Global Action in Belgrade, Serbia or the 
European Social Forum in London, United Kingdom during the year 2004. It is 
meant to support direct action, media strategies, education work, community 
& labor organising, corporate accountability campaigns, or even pressure 
work (for regulatory frameworks).

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), new forms of 
surveillance, genetic engineering, biotec, military weaponry, intellectual 
property debates, etc are all legitimate topics of discussion for this list 
although many of them are recognized and discussed elsewhere on the 
internet. Special emphasis might be given to nanotech and converging 
technologies or any other fields within which there is little or only 
recent presence by social and environmental justice movements.