DIRSI at LASA

DIRSI members will be active at the annual congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Rio de Janeiro 11-14 June, 2009. A DIRSI-organised panel will address the question: Are new communication technologies reducing or increasing inequalities?

During the session Hernán Galperin (Argentina) and Roxana Barrantes (Peru) will present their paper Can the poor afford mobile telephony? Evidence from Latin America and Antonio Jose Junqueira Botelho (Brazil) will discuss New communication technologies and MSME's in Latin America and the Caribbean. The session will take place on Saturday 13 June from 09:00-10:45 in Sala K118 of the Kennedy Building of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica.

At a separate session Judith Mariscal will present the paper Mobiles for Development: M-Banking in Latin America during a session on Technology/Culture/Power: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Information Technology in Latin America. The session will take place Friday 12 June 2009 from 09:00-10:45 in Sala K117, Kennedy Building.