Workshop: augmented city, surveillance and spatial control

A 2-day workshop will take place at PUCPR in Curitiba, sponsored by Fundação Araucária and the Postgraduate Programme in Urban Management, on the 28th and 29th October 2008. Here is the programme of the event (click on the image to see an enlarged figure of the promotional poster, in Portuguese):

“If you wanna know what we know of what is known about you, and what kind of consequences this has upon urban space”...

... take part of the WORKSHOP augmented city, infiltrating technologies: surveillance and control in contemporary society, with the presence of scholars and researchers from UFRJ, UNICAMP, FIC, PUCPR and a representative of the High Command of the Militar Police in the state of Paraná.
On the 28th e 29th October in the Montessori conference room, 1st floor of the Humanities Building (CTCH). Free entrance!

28 de outubro
9h00-9h30: Opening
9h40-10h40: "Distributed surveillance, cartography and the city" - Fernanda Bruno (UFRJ)
10h50-11h50: "Space, technology and the constitution of the augumented city" - Rodrigo Firmino (PPGTU-PUCPR)
12h00-14h00: Lunch
14h00-15h30: "Crime prevention through urban design" - Cel PM Roberson Luiz Bondaruk (High Command of the Militar Police in the state of Paraná)
15h40-16h40: "Freedom, security and violence by the classics in political theory" - Samira Kauchakje (PPGTU-PUCPR)

29 de outubro
9h00-10h00: "The infiltrating city: the configuration of the contemporary territory" - Fábio Duarte (PPGTU-PUCPR)
10h10-11h10: "CCTV: discourses, practices and productions" - Marta Kanashiro (UNICAMP)
11h20-12h20: "Networks, security and community" - Sérgio Czajkowski (FIC, UP, FDB)

Surveilling the internet in Brazil?

The Brazilian Senator, Eduardo Azeredo, has submitted to the chamber a bill that puts serious restrictions to internet freedom in Brazil. This bill (supposedly created to stop cybercrimes) intends to impose identity registrations associated to IP numbers and ISPs. Basically, this will oblige ISPs to inform the identity of all associated internet users (through a ever increasing database of registered users).
Among other restrictions, this will challenge the use of P2P and free access to public wireless networks all over the country. In the words of another blogger (void life): "They want to prohibit the collaborative networks and virtually prevent the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge through the Internet".
Some Brazilian scholars and activists are heading a protest and an online petition to stop this and other similar bills to be voted by the Congress and the Senate. I will leave a link to the petition on the main page of this blog.

The petition can be signed here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/veto2008/petition.html

More on this...

(in English):
http://www.nardol.org/2008/7/18/the-new-brazilian-internet-surveillance

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/11/11/holding-the-line-for-internet-freedoms-in-brazilian-cyberspace/

(in Portuguese):
http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/por-que-o-projeto-sobre-crimes-na.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/projeto-de-lei-de-crimes-na-internet-um.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/leia-o-absurdo-artigo-do-senador.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/07/lei-de-crimes-na-internet-perguntas.html

http://samadeu.blogspot.com/2008/08/senador-azeredo-no-responde-pergunta.html

CALL FOR PAPERS - Brazilian Journal of Urban Management

And here is the call for paper for URBE's first two issues. More information (in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French) available at www.pucpr.br/cursos/programas/ppgtu/urbe_e.php

"The editors of urbe (Brazilian Journal of Urban Management), a journal by the Postgraduate Programme in Urban Management from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), would like to invite contributors to submit original papers to be considered for publication in the journal’s two first issues, to be launched in 2009. Urbe will consider papers with a preferential focus on the following thematic areas: Urban and regional development; Urban economy; Urban epistemology; Natural resources management; Public management; Governance and urban networks; Electronic governance; Urban mobility; Urban planning; Municipal strategic planning; Public policy; Information systems; Urban and regional sustainability; Urban law; Urban sociology; Urban geography; Perception and urban landscape; Urban design.

We would like to invite contributors to send their original scientific work, respecting the editorial norms (www.pucpr.br/cursos/programas/ppgtu/urbe_e.php) in the following formats: theoretical study, essay, critical review, report of an experiment or report of a research. Papers will be accepted in four languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish or French.

The deadline for papers considered for issues 01 and 02 (to be launched in 2009) is the 15th December 2008. Submissions can be done to the editors via e-mail, urbe@pucpr.br, and respecting the journal’s editorial norms (which can be found in Portuguese and English)."