| Future mobile information
society: Social Aspects |
| This page covers the following issues
related to the mobile information society: consumer protection
(anonymity and privacy,
Mobile SPAM,
health considerations), the youth market, social considerations, the
new mobile etiquette.
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ITU
Background Paper: Social and Human Considerations for a More
Mobile World (February 2004) 
Don't forget to check out our page on trends in mobile
messaging!
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| Related ITU Activities |
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 (SPU) SPU
NEWSLOG on "Mobile"
and "Wireless
Networks" and "Ubiquitous
Networks"
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 (SPU) ITU Internet
Report "The
Portable Internet," September 2004
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| (SPU) ITU Internet Report "Internet
for a Mobile Generation", September 2002" |
| (SPU) Research project on "Mobile
overtakes fixed" (2003) |
| (ITU-T)
Workshop
on "Next-Generation Networks: What, When and How |
| (ITU-T)
Seminar
on IMT-2000 and Systems Beyond (Ottawa, May 2002) |
| (ITU)
ITU
Handbook on Deployment of IMT-2000 Systems |
| (ITU-R)
Working
Party 8F on IMT-2000 and Systems Beyond IMT-2000 |
| (ITU-T)
IMT-2000
Network Aspects |
| (ITU-T)
Special
Study Group IMT-2000 and Beyond
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| Other Workshops and Conferences |
 Presentation
entitled "Riding
the Mobile Omnibus: Social and Cultural Impacts of Mobile
Technologies", given by Lara Srivastava, 11 December 2003
at the World
Summit on the Information Society - Glocom Side Event,
Geneva, Switzerland
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| Presentation
entitled "Shaping
the Road to Ubiquity" ,
given by Lara Srivastava, 13 October 2003 at Forum
Session "Ubiquitous Communications" at ITU Telecom
World 2003, Geneva, Switzerland
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| Baker
and McKenzie - Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, Conference on
"Surveillance
and Privacy 2003: Terrorists and Watchdogs", 8-9 September
2003
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| Children,
Mobile Phones and the Internet Experts' Meeting, Tokyo, Japan,
6-7 March 2003
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| Digital
personae and privacy: the business, technological and social
implications, Sophia Antipolis, France, April 4, 2003
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Mobile
communication and the renegotiation of the social sphere, Grimstad,
Norway, 22 – 24 June 2003
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| Public Sector, Academic and Research Material |
| ITU
Background Paper: Social and Human Considerations for a More Mobile
World, (ITU, March 2004)
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| Mobile
phones and youth: A look at the U.S. student market
(ITU, February 2004)
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| People
versus information: the evolution of mobile technology ,
(Richard Harper, Digital World Research Centre, 2004
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| The
Moral Order of Text .
Richard Harper and Phil Gosset, March 2004
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| Position
Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products endorsed by a
number of consumer, privacy and civil liberties organizations, 14
November 2003
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| Smart
ID and Privacy in Japan: Legal Issues of Tracking Using Radio
Frequency Identification ,
T. Natsui, Meiji University of Tokyo, September 2003
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| Wireless
Location Privacy: Law and Policy in the US, EU and Japan, an
Internet Society Member Briefing, November 2003
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| Digital
Europe - research project funded by the EU's Information Society
Technologies Programme
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| European
Commission, Directive
2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the
protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
(Directive on privacy and electronic communications), 31 July 2002
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| European
Commission, Caller
location in telecommunication networks in view of enhancing 112
emergency services ,
Helios Technology Ltd.
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| OFTEL
(UK),
Consumers’
use of mobile telephony,
February 2002
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| ODTR
(Ireland), Users
Rights to Communications Services (Protecting Users in a
Developing Communications Market), July 2003
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| Radio
Frequency Safety, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC
(United States)
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| Smart
mobs- the next social revolution, a book by Howard Rheingold
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| The
social juxtaposition of mobile telephone conversations and public
places , Rich Ling, July 2002 |
| Mobile
telephony, mobility, and the coordination of everyday life , Rich
Ling and Leslie Haddon, 2001 |
| AEI-Brookings Joint
Center, The
Disconnect Between Law and Policy Analysis: A Case Study of Drivers
and Cell Phones , Robert W. Hahn, Patrick M. Dudley, May 2002
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Intimacy
Among Strangers: On mobile telephone calls in public places,
Anders Persson, Sociology Dept -Lund University (Sweden), 2001
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On-line
publications on "sociology
of the mobile phone", from Sociology in Switzerland
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Going
Wireless: Behavior & Practice of New Mobile Phone Users,
L. Palen, M. Salzmann, E. Youngs, University
of Colorado, 2001
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| The
Blocker Tag: Selective Blocking of RFID Tags for Consumer Privacy,
A. Juels, R.L. Rivest, and M. Szydlo (RSA Labs and MIT)
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| Consumers
Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN)
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| Other Material |
| On
the mobile the effects of mobile telephones on social and individual
life, Dr. Sadie Plant ,
Motorola
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| Demos
Report Mobilisation:
The growing public interest in mobile technology, June 2003
(in conjunction with mm02) |
| Pole
Star: Human Rights in the Information Society, Deborah Hurley,
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development,
September 2003 |
| Study
of mobile phone usage among teenagers and youth in Mumbai (India),
Macro, April-May 2004 |
| Mobile
Youth.org, provider of news and market intelligence relating to
the youth market for mobiles |
| GSM
Association Press Release "GSM
Association sets its sights on ‘spamming’ globally", 23
July 2003 |
| GSM
Association Health
and environmental issues, and
Etiquette |
| The
Work Foundation, iSociety, Mobile
UK: Mobile Phones and Everyday Life ,
March 2003 |
| IST Advisory Group,
Trust,
dependability, security and privacy for IST in FP6, July 2002 |
Mobile
virtual communities, Article from the Feature, Howard Rheingold
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