Cambridge Fellowship for Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) Parishioner Valentine de Souza, Editor of the Express Computer weekly newsmagazine, and a parishioner of Sacred Heart (Santa Cruz) has been awarded the prestigious Wolfson College Press Fellowship for 2004-05. He will shortly be leaving for Cambridge, UK, where he will pursue a research project on the “Role of the Media in Bridging the Digital Divide”. The Fellowship was awarded under the Chevening Scholarship scheme of the British Council.
The term Digital Divide refers to the gap that exists between people who can afford and are capable of using modern information technology (including computers and the Internet), and those who are unable to do so because they lack sufficient finance and/or education. The field of Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) studies this phenomenon, and millions of dollars are spent every year on projects attempting to bridge the digital divide and bring the benefits of the information technology revolution to the “have-nots”. Through his research, Valentine de Souza is endeavouring to prepare a blueprint for a website or journal or nodal agency that will serve as a central repository for information on all ICT4D projects worldwide and track their progress. Mr de Souza had earlier been awarded the Madhu Valluri Memorial Foundation ‘IT Journalist of the Year’ award for 2002. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--W-E-B--S-I-T-E--=-=-=-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from Saligaonet | http://www.goacom.com/saligao_tinto/ ============================================================================ * Send e=mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOT saligaonet@goacom.com) * Leave SUBJECT blank <--- Commom Mistake !! * On first line of the BODY of your message, type: subscribe saligaonet YOUR.EMAIL OR unsubscribe saligaonet YOUR.EMAIL Questions/Problems? Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]