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LOCKE'S TWO TREATISES WAS AN IMMEDIATE SUCCESS NEITHER IN PARTY POLITICAL TERMS NOR IN TERMS OF AN ACADEMIC AUDIENCE. ITS ARGUMENT WAS TOO GENERAL TO SATISFY THE CONTEMPORARY DEMAND FOR A LEGALISTIC JUSTIFICATION OF THE REVOLUTION. THE WORK APPEARED TO SANCTION RADICAL CHANGES IN THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTION.

Technological neutrality in law is, roughly, the idea that law should not pick technological winners and losers, that law should neither help nor hinder particular types of technological artefacts. It has become a pervasive idea in technology law and politics in the West and now forces itself upon the World Trade Organization as a means of preventing China from regulating its territorial Internet. This paper examines the idea of technological neutrality for both its internal coherence and its relationship with the dominant politico-philosophical traditions of our time – the liberal and the Confucian. In doing so, the paper points at how liberalism itself has been transformed in contemporary societies, the role that information and communication technologies play in this transformation and shows how technological neutrality threatens at the same time the developments of contemporary liberalism and liberalism's reconciliation with the Confucian value system. The paper invites us to question technological neutrality through its relations with political neutrality, a doctrine that has lost significant grounds in contemporary liberal philosophy post-communitarian critique and which is fundamentally opposed to the ethico-political traditions of Chinese societies. On an applied level, the paper invites us to abandon ideas of neutrality in technology law and politics in general and, in particular, provides a hopefully compelling argument for China to resist attempts to neutralize its value-system and nation-building project through the system of international trade. ; postprint

IS IT WRONG TO ALLOW IDEOLOGY to pervade political decisions on software procurement, or is it inevitable that governments profess a particular conception of the good with respect to every aspect of societal life? This article advances a normative framework, based upon a broad conception of the democratic principle, to advocate that Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) be adopted and have its development encouraged and carried out by democratic governments. More than an aspiration, formal and substantial reasons ground the understanding advocated in this article that striving towards comprehensive FLOSS policies is a duty of every state that purports to be a democratic one. After a brief introduction of my propositions in Part 1, and a conceptualization of FLOSS in Part 2, Part 3 describes different governmental FLOSS policies around the world. These policies, I show, are often based upon normative values that, beyond stereotypes, would be better assessed within a thorough conception of the democratic principle. Part 4 portrays the Brazilian government's particular history of expressly linking FLOSS policies to the democratic principle. Part 5 analyzes different dimensions of the democratic principle in the information age. Part 5 begins by conceptualizing the democratic principle in light of its relation with technology, in general, and FLOSS, in particular, and then evaluates the importance of FLOSS for the fulfillment of cultural, ethical, political, and economic dimensions of the democratic principle. In Part 6, the article concludes with a particular understanding of the commitment assumed in the Tunis round of the World Summit on the Information Society and reinforces this vision of the deontological character of governmental policies towards FLOSS. ; published_or_final_version

Table des Matières List of Contents -- Première séance (plénière) -- Discours de M. Saukkonen -- Discours de M. Hosia -- 1. Discours d'ouverture du Président de la Fédération -- 2. Rapport du Secrétaire général -- 3. Rapport financier du Trésorier ad. int. -- 4. UNESCO's Division of Libraries -- 5. Report of F.I.D. -- Deuxième séance plénière -- Les aspects internationaux et linguistiques du service des bibliothèques, I -- 6. Propositions pour l'amélioration du bilinguisme et du biculturalisme au Canada -- 7. Problems of bilingualism in connection with a union catalogue of Judaïca and Hebraïca -- 8. Report on the use of languages in catalogues and bibliographies in Switzerland -- 9. The Swiss Union Catalogue and linguistic problems -- Troisième séance plénière -- Les aspects internationaux et linguistiques du service des bibliothèques, II -- 10. Report of the Committee on Uniform cataloguing rules -- 11. ISO's activities in bibliography and documentation -- Discussion -- 12. The international activities of library associations -- Discussion -- Quatrième séance plénière -- 13. Communications et résolutions des sections et commissions -- 14. Communications du Bureau exécutif -- 15. Le Prix Sevensma -- 16. Sessions futures du Conseil général -- 17. Discours de clôture du Président -- Annexes -- Rapports Annuels des Associations-Membres Annual Reports of Member-Associations -- UDC (100): Associations internationales -- I. Association of Libraries of Judaïca & Hebraïca in Europe, 1963/1964 and 1964/1965 -- II. IAALD (International Association of Agricultural Librarians & Documentalists), Working committees, 1960/1965 -- III. IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries), 1964/1965 -- IV. Association of International Libraries -- Assemblée générale, le 18 août 1965 -- Membres nationaux/National members UDC (4) Europe -- Allemagne -- Bundesrepublik: Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare, 1964/1965 -- Verein Deutscher Volksbibliothekare, 1964/1965 -- Verein der Diplom-Bibliothekare an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken, 1964/1965 -- Deutscher Büchereiverband, 1964/1965 -- Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Spezialbibliotheken, 1964/1965 -- D.D.R.: Deutscher Bibliotheksverband, 1964/1965 -- Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, 1964 -- Deutsche Bücherei, Leipzig, 1964/1965 -- Autriche: Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekare, 1964/ 1965 -- Belgique: (4 associations) 1964/1965 -- Bulgarie: Libraries in Bulgaria, 1964/1965 -- Danemark: Libraries in Denmark, 1964/1965 -- Finlande: Finnish Library Association, 1964/1965 -- Research libraries in Finland in 1964 -- France: Association des bibliothécaires français, 1964/1965 -- Grande-Bretagne: The Library Association, 1964 -- Hollande: Libraries in the Netherlands in 1964 -- Hongrie: Association of Hungarian Librarians, 1964 -- Italie: Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, 1964/1965 -- Norvège: (Report every 2 years only) -- Pologne: Association des bibliothécaires polonais, 1964/1965 -- Suède: Swedish libraries, 1964/1965 -- Suisse: Association des bibliothécaires suisses, 1964/1965 -- Tchécoslovaquie: Conseil central des bibliothèques, ?SSR, 1964/1965 -- URSS: The activities of Soviet libraries, July 1964–July 1965 -- Yougoslavie: Union des associations des bibliothécaires de la Yougoslavie, 1964/1965 -- (5) Asie -- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Library Association, 1964 & 1965 -- Inde: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC), 1964 & 1965 -- Israel: Israel Library Association, 1964/1965 -- Japon: Japan Library Association, 1964/1965 -- (6) Afrique -- Afrique du Sud: The South African libraries, 1964/1965 -- (7) Amérique du Nord -- Canada: Canadian Library Association 1964/1965 -- Québec. Service des bibliothèques publiques, 1964 -- Etats-Unis d'Amérique: American Library Association, 1964/1965 -- Special Libraries Association, 1964/1965 -- Association of Research Libraries, 1964/1965 -- (8) Amérique latine -- Argentine: Asociación de Bibliotecarios Graduados, 1964/1965 -- Uruguay: Asociación de Bibliotecarios del Uruguay, 1965 -- (9) Australasie -- Nouvelle-Zélande: New Zealand Library Association, 1964.

AbstractDuring the last decade, Southern Water has designed, constructed, commissioned and operated a number of large sewage‐treatment works and sludge‐treatment centres. Also, over the last two years, Southern Water Project Delivery has been working closely with Southern Water Operations, to identify and resolve a number of design and operational issues which have arisen at two strategic sludge‐treatment centres, i.e. Canterbury and Goddards Green. The resolution of these issues has been both interesting and technically challenging. The purpose of this paper is to share some of these issues and their resolution.