Dear Colleague, 

On behalf of Frank Dittmann and myself, I want to let you know that your 
paper has been included in the program for our symposium for the ICHS in 
Beijing in July 2005.

Thank you for the help you have given making it possible to develop this 
tentative program.

I will be back in contact with you as I get further information about the 
conference.

You may want to watch the conference web site for updates about the plans 
for the conference. The url is http://2005bj.ihns.ac.cn/

I am considering starting a mailing list for those participating in the 
symposium. Please let me know if it would be ok to include you if we do 
begin such a mailing list.

Also, please confirm that you have received this tentative program for the 
symposium.

Below is the tentative program.

Title of Symposium: "Computer Networks, the Internet and the Netizens: 
Their Impact on Science and Society"

Co-organizers:  Frank Dittmann (Germany), Ronda Hauben (USA)

The development of computer networks, the Internet and the emergence of 
the netizens are topics particularly relevant to the 22nd International 
Congress of History of Science, and the topic of the Congress: "Diversity 
and globalization: diffusion of science and technology throughout 
history."

This symposium will focus on the history of the development of computer 
networks, the linking of these networks via the creation of the Internet, 
and the emergence of the active participants in these networks, the 
netizens (i.e., net.citizens). Our symposium will include papers about the 
scientific development of networking technology, as well as the impact of 
the Internet on science and on society.

The Internet will continue to develop and impact society, but already the 
Internet has a history, the as yet untold history of its development as a 
science and a technology. Also, emerging with the Internet has been the 
netizen. The symposium will consider the historical organizations and 
threads which brought forth the Internet and the netizen, especially 
international and cross-ideological efforts. Included will be Eastern 
European computer networking developments.

The Internet has made it possible to link diverse networks around the 
world, and the citizens of these networks, into a global public sphere 
populated by citizens of the world, by netizens. This development is a 
product of scientific/technical research, of research in resource sharing 
and in interactive communication on both technical and social levels. It 
is also a product of the activity of the users and of the netizens. The 
emergence of netizens is one of the spectacular achievements of the 
creation and development of the Internet, an achievement that as yet has 
received little attention. The netizens movement in China is an important 
component of the international development of netizens, and it is 
especially fitting to devote a symposium to our topic as part of the ICHS 
in Beijing in July 2005.

Paper Titles for the 3 sessions

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First Session:

Introduction and Welcome to the Symposium: Frank Dittmann

Chair: Jay Hauben

  Ronda Hauben (USA) 
title: The International and Scientific Origins of the Internet and the
   Emergence of the Netizen

  Leszek Jesien (Poland) along with Krzysztof Gurba (Poland)
title: Netizens and the Internet Against the Politics and Policies
   of Integrating and Expanding Europe

  Li Xiguang (China) along with Guo Xiaoke (China) and Xu Yong (China)
title: The Impact of New Communication Technologies on Chinese Journalism

  Louis Pouzin (France - an Internet pioneer) 
title:  Netizens in the Cogwheels of WSIS: Open and Hidden Strategies for
   Progress

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Second Session

Chair: Ronda Hauben

  Frank Dittmann (Germany)
title: The Beginning of Network Technology in COMECOM

  Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (Germany)
title: The Impact of Computer Networks on the Culture of Knowledge Work and
   Scientific Work

  Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Austria)
title: Sustainable Information Society

  Jay Hauben (USA) 
title:  Across an Ideological Divide: IIASA and IIASA Net

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Third Session

Chair: Frank Dittmann

  Myung Shin Kim (Korea) 
title: The Korean Netizens Movement

   Michael Jensen (South Africa) 
title: Rowing Upstream: The development and future of the Internet 
  in Africa

  Viviane Serfaty (France) 
title: Activism and Online Networking in the USA

  Karsten Weber (Germany) 
title: Open Source and Free Software as Social Movement: Social
   Aspects of Non Proprietary Software

Summing up of Symposium:  Ronda Hauben 

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We look forward to seeing you next July.

with best wishes

Ronda
Email: rh120@columbia.edu or ronda@panix.
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/