Friends:
If you folks think what we have done in southern India is useful, and if you think w can be of some help, we are ready to share what little we know. Indeed, every year, I organise a eight-day South-South Exchange Travelling Workshop to which we invite about 20-25 development workers from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The entire group travels from village to village (where we have our knowledge centres and other development programmes) and the visitors exchange notes withthe local people and our volunteers. The visitors see for themselves how the knowledge centres function, how the people benefit, how the whole thing is participatory, and so on. The sharing of knowledge and experience at places where real action happens leads to tremenodous amount of experiential learning, far superior to what we learn from classrooms and regular conferences. For more information on our South-South Exchange Traveling Workshops, please visit the IICD webpage and look up Julie Ferguson's report "From Beedies to Ceedies" and also visit the GKP website.
Either a team from the Amrican Indian groups could visit us or a few of us could come there and help with the process.
Arun [Subbiah Arunachalam]
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Wanda,
You may want to speak with Karen Buller with the National Indian Telecommunications Institute www.niti.org
I just spoke with Karen yesterday about our efforts to bridge the divide on
Native American Indian Reservations. I'm in discussions with a few Tribes at
the moment regarding our Learning Center model on the reservations.
I hope this helps.
Chris R. Houska Instructional Systems Inc. Director, Business Partnerships Office: (614) 873-8571 Cell: (614) 218-5377 Fax: (866) 243-5743 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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attheBaramati Conference
Hi All, I am new to this list and wanted to introduce myself. My name is
Wanda and I found the article at the Frontline site very interesting. Do
any of you all have knowledge of similar models being incorporated here in
the US to address the Digital Divide that now exists for Native American
people? I know of some existing work being done both nationally and by
individual Tribal Nations - and am trying to gather as much relevant info as
possible. Thanks for any insights you can give!
Wanda Jean Lord, ThreeHoops.com
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Andy and all
For those interested in ICT4Poverty Reduction and Empowerment, there is more
from Prof. Swaminathan at http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2119/fl211900.htm
, see the articles under "Mission 2007", including an interesting interview
with Prof. Swaminathan.
These articles appeared in "Frontline", the Indian bi-weekly magazine.
Best
Charles Geiger Executive Director WSIS
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: mercredi, 9. mars 2005 21:10 To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Podcast and Photos from M. S. Swaminathan's Speech at the Baramati Conference
Hi everyone,
I've just posted a podcast of Professor M. S. Swaminathan's speech this past weekend at the Baramati conference in India:
http://www.andycarvin.com/podcasts/swaminathan.wav
Prof. Swaminathan is one of the world's leading thinkers on the role of ICTs in global development, particularly in terms of poverty alleviation in rural, agricultural communities. The speech he gave this weekend is one of the best arguments I've heard to date on the importance of bridging the digital divide in the developing world.
The file is rather large, just over 60 megs in size. I still hope to transcribe the speech, but I am not sure when I will have an opportunity to do this, so if anyone would like to volunteer, please email me. I would then post the transcript on the Digital Divide Network website.
Meanwhile, I've also posted some pictures from the presentation on my blog.
http://www.andycarvin.com
permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/03/podcast_m_s_swa.html
thanks, andy
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