[DDN] FW: TILC2007 - Call for papers
TILC2007 T2 : Transformations and Technology 30 November - 1 December 2007 Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus Perth, Western Australia Call for papers TILC 2007, T2 : Transformations and Technology addresses the transformative potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) across business, education and government. To facilitate the organisation of topics and events at the conference, submissions will be grouped into four major tracks: * Business transformation (Value IT) * Knowledge and information service transformation * Learning transformation * Government transformation The conference will include a significant focus on ICT transformation of Western Australian government, education and enterprise for the era of the knowledge economy. Topics provided below are for guidance only, and are indicative rather than exhaustive. * Communications and technology for business * Knowledge services for the 21st century citizen (transforming our libraries and information services) * eLearning * T-Government (information technology transformation of government processes, organisation and people) * Transforming information culture in organisations Papers Refereed Papers will be double blind, peer-reviewed and proceedings published in the conference proceedings. Virtual papers will also be peer reviewed and accepted for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Workplace Practice papers will be edited and included in the conference proceedings. Register your abstract online at the Conference web site http://conferences.scis.ecu.edu.au/ocs2/index.php/TILC/TILC2007 Key Dates Papers due: 10 September 2007 Acceptance notification: 15 October 2007 Cameras ready paper: 29 October 2007 Conference Chair: Dr Karen Anderson Enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barbara Combes Vice President, Advocacy Promotion, IASL: http://www.iasl-slo.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/portals/LIS/index.php Convenor for the Transforming Information and Learning Conference http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/TILC Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia Ph: (08) 9370 6072 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] MP3
SOFTWARE: FILE EDITORS : ELECTRONICS: MP3 PLAYERS: ID3-TagIT - THE ID3-Tag-Editor ID3-TagIT - THE ID3-Tag-Editor http://www.id3-tagit.de/english/index.htm Version 3.3.0 is online: The new version comes along with some interface changes to the main and editing dialogs and a couple of bugfixes. More information on the changes and the download can be found here. A complete history of changes can be found here. In general: ID3-TagIT is a programm for editing, adding, or deleting ID3 TAGs in MP3 files. Single file and batch editing are both supported. Edit one, ten or all your MP3 files at once! ID3-TagIT has many functions to help you achieve your goal as quickly as possible. ID3-TagIT is - in contrast to many other editors - able to read information from the directory structure and put it into the TAG, organize files into folders, handle several comments and genres in the ID3V2 TAG, and every function is available for ID3v1 and ID3v2. For detailed information go to the features descriptions. You will also find a FreeDB Connection, some analyse functions, libaries for your genres and artist and some transfer and copy functions for the TAGs. Compressed and Unicode encoded ID3V2 TAGs are supported to version 2.4 (TAGs of version 2.2 can only be removed). Website Table of Contents Welcome | Features | Screenshots | Download | Contact | Forum | Donate | ID3-Info | Impressum Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en http://net-gold.jiglu.com/ General Internet Print Resources http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne Educator-Gold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/ K12ADMINLIFE http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/ ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] $165 laptop
$100 laptops is a business strategy dressed as charity and help. Having said this, suppose 200 million young (for example, african) children buy each a $100 dollar laptop, where is this $20 billion dollars going to come from and where is it going to? The so-called $100 dollar laptop initiative is a business strategy which has very little benefit to the continent of africa for example - why? The sales proceeds are sucked out of the continent which is already hard pressed for funds and foreign currency. If they must help third world children to have access, what they need first is a decent education and ability to fund that education. Then you have all the other add ons of being able to have at least two meals a day, access to clean water and much more. Arthur Pamela McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Claude I just read your email - belatedly - while trawling through messages that came while I was away. I thought it was interesting both to me and and also to members of learningfromeachother. We have recently been discussing issues around the $100 laptop there. I wondered about forwarding your email to them - and thought that as it was to a list and not private it would be okay to do so. Of course as soon as I had pressed the send button doubts crept in - so I'm writing retrospectively to let you know, ask your permission (and to apologise if I have done the wrong thing), and to ask the general question What is the netiquette of copying between lists? Pam Claude Almansi wrote: Hi All I got a new laptop at CHF 200.- ( $165) yesterday - well, new in the sense of another. Second-hand actually, a Digital HiNote ultra 2000 (1). Sure, the model has been around for almost a decade, I won't go cavorting around Second Life or super-special-beta-testing any secret super-special-new-fangled internet TV software with it - But what the heck? the owner used it very little,it's light, it's fast, it doesn't overheat, and the battery has good staying power. I've chucked most programs and temporarily installed firefox, which gives me access to google docs for text editing and spreadsheets (2). And I have asked on the forum of the local Linux Users' Group if someone would show me how to replace the dubious Windows Me that came on it with some version of Linux, and at what price. Then *maybe* I'll add some other programs than firefox to it. This is not a dig at the $100 laptop. There arent enough folks who underuse their laptops and then sell them off to get a new model, to cover the needs, probably. But why not have both possibilities? Best Claude ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. - Switch to Yahoo!7 Mail: Transfer all your contacts and emails from Hotmail and other providers to Yahoo!7 Mail. Switch now ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One Laptop Per Child / X0-1 Project
On the surface it the so-called OLPC has been dressed as beneficial to third world children and families, but have the proponents of the initiative spared a thought for the following: a) that the children being targeted for the initiative are mostly going to be unable to pay school fees and hence do not and cannot gain education. why would a sensible family spend $100 for a laptop instead of using the funds to pay school fees and educate the child? b) Suppose 200 million african children could be provided with these laptops. Who coughs up this $20 billion for the laptops? The african continent cannot sustain $20 billion being etracted out of the continent since none of the laptops are built in the continent to provide employment. Indeed this amount represents hard earned foreign currency which is being sucked out of the continent. The economic disadvantages of buying the laptops makes them grossly unsuitable for a poor continent like africa. c) Who is going to be responsible for maintaining the laptops? How much will the bill for spare parts or replacements amount to? In my view from the African perspective, what the african child needs first is ability to be educated normally like every other child in the West. They need those who can pay their school fees and $100 will support this for more than a couple of years. I think the OLPC is a business strategy and a new front for globalisation - aimed at increasing the sale of computers, software, network devices and foreign content to third world countries and at the same time impoverishing them beyond where they are now. How will the proponents of the OLPC initiative address these issues? Arthur Deborah Elizabeth Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Digital Divide Network Colleagues, The Ethos Roundtable (of which I am a co-convener) is hosting a presentation on the One Laptop Per Child project on May 15th. More details can be found here: One Laptop Per Child: How is this going to work? As you will see from my blog article, I'm collecting questions about the project from members of the nonprofit technology community, which I will then bring to the Ethos Roundtable discussion. You are welcome to add your questions by posting them as comments to the blog article. Many thanks and best regards from Deborah P.S. If you'd like to know more about the Ethos Roundtable, please go to . Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cyber-yenta.org Recommended reading: Universal Declaration of Human Rights ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. - Switch to Yahoo!7 Mail: Transfer all your contacts and emails from Hotmail and other providers to Yahoo!7 Mail. Switch now ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One Laptop Per Child / X0-1 Project
Arthur, I run a tiny non-profit www.project-educate.org and having been born and raised in Africa, I could not agree with you more Arthur. I find it hard to believe that people are pushing for this. In Zambia where I come from, the average family survives on less than a dollar a day. Now I know we hear this everyday and tend to deal with it in abstract but what this means is on a daily basis families have to make the decision whether to buy food or medication for one, whether to send a child to school or provide basic necessities this is the harsh reality of life not just in Zambia but the entire African continent. The idea that families or governments will have the resources to invest in this is beyond me. The one way I see this happening is if African governments are bullied into agreements that will force them to spend resources on this for the benefit of venture capitalists. Another thing, even if we were to get this equipment into the hands of our children, I am yet to hear of training for educators. Which is critical to the successful implementation of any project. It is almost as if it is being taken for granted that the technical skill on the continent is as advanced as it is in the Western world. Consider this, not too long ago we sent computers to Zambia and out of 6 schools with about 200 teachers not a single one of them had ever used a computer.(mind you this was in an urban area) Point being made is before we can talk of ICT's in education or whatever, serious thought and resources must be poured into training the educators. (I get a kick out of envisioning African children running around with these things) Then there is the issue of infrastructure, where will these things be housed? Are children taking them home or leaving them at school? If so, are these people willing to invest in building and/ strengthening infrastructure?(most unlikely from my experience) Mbao. On May 11, 2007, at 11:18 PM, arthur richards wrote: On the surface it the so-called OLPC has been dressed as beneficial to third world children and families, but have the proponents of the initiative spared a thought for the following: a) that the children being targeted for the initiative are mostly going to be unable to pay school fees and hence do not and cannot gain education. why would a sensible family spend $100 for a laptop instead of using the funds to pay school fees and educate the child? b) Suppose 200 million african children could be provided with these laptops. Who coughs up this $20 billion for the laptops? The african continent cannot sustain $20 billion being etracted out of the continent since none of the laptops are built in the continent to provide employment. Indeed this amount represents hard earned foreign currency which is being sucked out of the continent. The economic disadvantages of buying the laptops makes them grossly unsuitable for a poor continent like africa. c) Who is going to be responsible for maintaining the laptops? How much will the bill for spare parts or replacements amount to? In my view from the African perspective, what the african child needs first is ability to be educated normally like every other child in the West. They need those who can pay their school fees and $100 will support this for more than a couple of years. I think the OLPC is a business strategy and a new front for globalisation - aimed at increasing the sale of computers, software, network devices and foreign content to third world countries and at the same time impoverishing them beyond where they are now. How will the proponents of the OLPC initiative address these issues? Arthur Deborah Elizabeth Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Digital Divide Network Colleagues, The Ethos Roundtable (of which I am a co-convener) is hosting a presentation on the One Laptop Per Child project on May 15th. More details can be found here: One Laptop Per Child: How is this going to work? As you will see from my blog article, I'm collecting questions about the project from members of the nonprofit technology community, which I will then bring to the Ethos Roundtable discussion. You are welcome to add your questions by posting them as comments to the blog article. Many thanks and best regards from Deborah P.S. If you'd like to know more about the Ethos Roundtable, please go to . Deborah Elizabeth Finn Boston, Massachusetts, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cyber-yenta.org Recommended reading: Universal Declaration of Human Rights ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide- [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. - Switch
Re: [DDN] Questions about the Hundred Dollar Laptop / One Laptop Per Child / X0-1 Project
It would seem that ProjectEducate could educate us all with the outcome of this (which seems in contradiction to the post below?) http://www.project-educate.org/test/?q=blog/1 ProjectEducate is the recipient of 400 computers from the Montgomery County Public School District through Teachers Without Borders. What happened to the 400 computers? What were the benchmarks for goal achievement? Were they achieved? Me? I like what my friend Tom Abeles had to say, though he failed to mention a favorite subject of mine -- use of conventional radio in the classroom. It seems to me that the combination of low cost broadcasting equipment, cybercafe's, telecenters, and community involvement by way of community radio -- that resources committed there would yield more than $100. laptops. John Hibbs http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs At 10:00 AM -0400 5/14/07, ProjectEDUCATE wrote: Arthur, I run a tiny non-profit www.project-educate.org and having been born and raised in Africa, I could not agree with you more Arthur. I find it hard to believe that people are pushing for this. In Zambia where I come from, the average family survives on less than a dollar a day. Now I know we hear this everyday and tend to deal with it in abstract but what this means is on a daily basis families have to make the decision whether to buy food or medication for one, whether to send a child to school or provide basic necessities this is the harsh reality of life not just in Zambia but the entire African continent. The idea that families or governments will have the resources to invest in this is beyond me. The one way I see this happening is if African governments are bullied into agreements that will force them to spend resources on this for the benefit of venture capitalists. Another thing, even if we were to get this equipment into the hands of our children, I am yet to hear of training for educators. Which is critical to the successful implementation of any project. It is almost as if it is being taken for granted that the technical skill on the continent is as advanced as it is in the Western world. Consider this, not too long ago we sent computers to Zambia and out of 6 schools with about 200 teachers not a single one of them had ever used a computer.(mind you this was in an urban area) Point being made is before we can talk of ICT's in education or whatever, serious thought and resources must be poured into training the educators. (I get a kick out of envisioning African children running around with these things) Then there is the issue of infrastructure, where will these things be housed? Are children taking them home or leaving them at school? If so, are these people willing to invest in building and/ strengthening infrastructure?(most unlikely from my experience) Mbao. On May 11, 2007, at 11:18 PM, arthur richards wrote: On the surface it the so-called OLPC has been dressed as beneficial to third world children and families, but have the proponents of the initiative spared a thought for the following: a) that the children being targeted for the initiative are mostly going to be unable to pay school fees and hence do not and cannot gain education. why would a sensible family spend $100 for a laptop instead of using the funds to pay school fees and educate the child? b) Suppose 200 million african children could be provided with these laptops. Who coughs up this $20 billion for the laptops? The african continent cannot sustain $20 billion being etracted out of the continent since none of the laptops are built in the continent to provide employment. Indeed this amount represents hard earned foreign currency which is being sucked out of the continent. The economic disadvantages of buying the laptops makes them grossly unsuitable for a poor continent like africa. c) Who is going to be responsible for maintaining the laptops? How much will the bill for spare parts or replacements amount to? In my view from the African perspective, what the african child needs first is ability to be educated normally like every other child in the West. They need those who can pay their school fees and $100 will support this for more than a couple of years. I think the OLPC is a business strategy and a new front for globalisation - aimed at increasing the sale of computers, software, network devices and foreign content to third world countries and at the same time impoverishing them beyond where they are now. How will the proponents of the OLPC initiative address these issues? Arthur Deborah Elizabeth Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Digital Divide Network Colleagues, The Ethos Roundtable (of which I am a co-convener) is hosting a presentation on the One Laptop Per Child project on May 15th. More details can be found here: One Laptop Per Child: How is this going to work?
