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		<title>Announcement of the 2011 ASIS&amp;T SIG-III International Paper Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science &#38; Technology (ASIS&#38;T) is pleased to announce its eleventh competition for papers to be submitted for the 2011 Annual Meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 7-12, 2011. ( http://www.asis.org/asist2011/am11cfp.html ) Building from the overall conference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=164&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming conferences relating to international information</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Goodimages, used under the Creative Commons license. I&#8217;d like to take a moment to alert our community about some upcoming conferences related to the field of international information. SIG-III Mentorship Coordinator Nasser Saleh sent me the information regarding the eiFl.net conference: eIFl.net opens Call for Proposals public libraries in developing and transition countries. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=157&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the SIG-III Blog&#8217;s new location!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings everyone, I would like to announce a change to the SIG-III Blog: it has moved.  The new address is http://sigiii.wordpress.com/ Due to server hosting changes at NEASIST, the SIG-III Blog has moved to its new location.  Please update your links and RSS feeds.  (Also, thanks to NEASIST for hosting the SIG-III Blog since 2006!) This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=152&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SIG-III wins SIG-of-the-Year award!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Lulu_witch, used under the Creative Commons license. I&#8217;m with the hamsters &#8212; we have reason to celebrate! I&#8217;m glad to announce that SIG-III has won the SIG of the year award for 2008-2009. The following is from yesterday&#8217;s official announcement from ASIS&#38;T: The 2009 SIG of the Year is SIG International Information Issues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=148&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICTs and Development: March 11-12, 2010 in New Delhi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, &#38; Policy. 11-12 March 2010 &#124; New Delhi. _______________________ Unpublished, original empirical papers are invited for the forthcoming international workshop on ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, &#38; Policy to be conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India, during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=143&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Reception Announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Josh Bancroft, used under the Creative Commons license. This year’s International Reception will be held on Monday, November 9, 2009, at 8pm. At the reception you will be able to meet and congratulate this year’s International Paper Contest winner and mix with colleagues from all over the world. This year’s contest winner is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=141&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New SIG-III Newsletter published!</title>
		<link>http://sigiii.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/new-sig-iii-newsletter-published/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Adrianne Lacy, used under the Creative Commons license. The SIG-III Officers are pleased to announce the publication of the July, 2009 edition of the SIG-III Newsletter. The Newsletter is our formal record of the activities in which the SIG partakes, and the new edition represents the latest chapter in the chronicle of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=135&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent</title>
		<link>http://sigiii.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/mapping-the-arabic-blogosphere-politics-culture-and-dissent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a little over a month old, but I&#8217;ve not yet posted about the following report by Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Rob Faris, and John Palfrey, so I will do so now. It is titled Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent, and is published by Harvard&#8217;s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=123&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the news this week:  the Question Box</title>
		<link>http://sigiii.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/in-the-news-this-week-the-question-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by SlinkyDragon, used under the Creative Commons license. Ken Banks at IT World writes about the Question Box &#8212; a service allowing a person to ask a question through a telecom box placed in a village, and then receive a response from someone on the other end of the line who has a computer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=120&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>August message from the SIG-III Chair in July</title>
		<link>http://sigiii.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/august-message-from-the-sig-iii-chair-in-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone, Yes, I realize I&#8217;m very early with this message, but enough has been going on over the past week that I want to share it with you all now. The most important piece of news is that we have three winners for the International Paper Contest. Please congratulate Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Arif, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sigiii.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11553590&amp;post=139&amp;subd=sigiii&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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