Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

[Barbara COMBES]

Rather than use a wiki which can be clumsy, why not ry a ning - separate
communities and multiple duscussions can occur - can also be invite
only.
www.ning.com

:)
BC 


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Almansi
Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2008 5:44 PM
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Hi All,

I am answering on the mailing-list (with Bcc to Adam Clare and Taran
Rampersad) rather than on the wiki because today I have a problem with
logging in at the wiki (1).

About:

"...To make the site easier to manage we propose the removal of the
communities functionality and discussion boards of DDN and replacing the
categorization system with tagging.
DDN's strength lies in the active mailing list and TIG realizes that the
mailing list isn't perfect. In an ideal setup the mailing list will also
be accessed online and have greater stability.
Online communities encourage discussions between users in more than one
place, right now that discussion happens on the mailing list for DDN and
less so on the website. To encourage more discussions we would like to
implement commenting on most DDN content. ..."
(in )

- Removal ot the communities and discussion boards: I agree; at first,
each community had its own discussion board, but this stopped (around
2005?), which meant that there could be no diaogue within the
communities. Anyway, even with that first set-up, there was little
dialogue in community discussion boards and in discussion boards in
general.

- Mailing list: the archive is actually accessible online, but I'm not
sure it's really necessary to be able to post to it from the web.
However, until August 2006,  the mailing-list archive had an RSS feed
through which the last messages were automatically shown bottom right of
the site in the "Featured RSS feeds"  (2). That was a useful
feature: would it be possible to have it again? For instance by using a
yahoo or a google discussion list that have RSS feeds?

- Making content taggable and discussable: great idea but in this case,
would it not be simpler and cheaper to move rather than revamp?
I'm thinking of Ning.com, where Steve Hargadon set up
. And then he convinced the Ning
administrators to make a special, ad-less, free offer for educators and
provide a network for them, http://education.ning.com/ . One problem
might be back-ups, though.


Re Taran Rampersad's addition to
 :
"The Membership level is certainly worthwhile and is one that shows
promise, since DDN membership probably would be tax deductible, though
that needs to be clarified. While that is sufficient given enough buy-in
from the community, I'd also suggest continued monetization of content
through Google Ads (such as those found on email list
archives) and Amazon advertising. Further comments for funding would
probably require a prerequisite of what TIG has already tried to do such
that we can avoid repeating things"
I agree. Moreover, how could the payments be made? Some members may not
have a credit card.

Best

Claude Almansi


(1) Yesterday evening I was automatically logged in at the
http://wiki.digitaldivide.net wiki, presumably because I was logged in
at the www.digitaldivide.net main site, and even able to add some things
on the resource page of the wiki.  Today I am logged in at the main
site, but not at the wiki.
The URL of the log-in link at the top right of the wiki pages is

which a) is on the main site where I am already logged in; b) has a
message that says: "Error, you must login to access this page. "; c)
nevertheless also has  login ID and password boxes, but they don't work.
If I try to edit a page, say by opening
http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit,
the page says "Login required to edit", wit

Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC

[Barbara COMBES]

Hi All, 
A major aspect missing in the elearning environment that cannot be
simulated is the teacher-learner dynamic. For some subjects especially
highly technical ones such as computer programming - this is a real
issue - Yuwanuch Gulatee's DIT research is on this topic. What needs to
be a major component of this discussion is the recognition that
elearning is a completely new paradigm, not the same as face-to-face and
not an alternative. When this happens we will be able to move forward
and introduce new learning frameworks and structures that cater for
students in the different environment. Currently, we are trying to
re-invent the old model. This about-face also means new ways of
assessing learning, different learning resource formats and delivery
modes. It also means some research into Human Computer Interaction, the
types of skills required to interrogate learning materials on the screen
and an individual's emotional response to learning in what is a very
isolating environment - largely unexplored in any great detail. An
observation from my own PhD research in this area - students use the
cursor as a line of sight guide to read text on screen and everyone is
still printing. 

Are we there yet? No - I don't think so.
:)
BC

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Hi Tom

I agree that the "sage on the stage in the brick space structure" is an
outdated model of education that perhaps has more to do with maintaining
power and control than teaching and learningHowever, there are
nonetheless real challenges working within our new paradigm.  For
instance, how do we value knowledge?  How do we teach 'instrumental'
skills such as literacy and numeracy effectively and how do we know they
are learned?  How do we recognise scholarly achievement?  How do we
'transmit' cultural values? Are these questions really still about
hegemony and fear of losing control or do we need to have some way of
controlling education if we are to further our human development and not
find ourselves wallowing in a sea of pseudo?

Catherine Arden


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From: "tom abeles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" 

Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC


>
> this conversation in several variances is being considered currently 
> elsewhere on the net, particularly around the issue of virtual worlds
>
> Steve's example is right on target. academics hold the center stage 
> because they control the grades/certification which provide for
student 
> advancement.
> That is the one unique product that universities, in click or brick
space 
> have to offer. And it is the one reason in the dominant US model that 
> get's student attention for the sage on the stage
>
> What business has found out, as have many others, is that social
networks 
> (those articles that Steve cites as examples) allow knowledge to be
gained 
> in entirely different and collaborative fashion, a fashion that
academics 
> might call cheating or disrespectful of the sage. While, Mark is
right, 
> that these technologies will find a place in The Academy, they are,
almost 
> more importantly, a mirror for the educational system which passively 
> makes the point that Steve so eloquently made. The brick space
structure 
> with the sage is a vestigial manifestation of the good old days, going

> back to pre-print where knowledge was transmitted by those who had the

> information stored in their heads or had access to the very few 
> collections of knowledge such as the libraries of Alexandria.
>
> Even pre-internet, social networking provided ways for gaining
critical 
> information. What ICT's show us is that we now have many more and much

> more to access, perhaps more than a single sage on the stage can
offer, 
> except where it has been packaged for delivery in nice 3-credit 
> experiences and vetted by a mid-term and a fi

Re: [DDN] Digital divide in emergent countries

[Hilton Garcia Fernandes]

Hello ! 

I'm from Brazil and i'm working with bridging the digital divide -- that's
called here digital inclusion.

I'm doing field work now, building citywide wi-fi networks, but i do have
some information about our digital divide. 

So, i'm more than willing to know what you already have, and to help you
fill the gaps will also help me understand the problem.

The comparison with Nigeria is also interesting. 

If you prefer, please write me privately.

All the best,
hilton 

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008, wright sade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Hello,
> 
> I am doing a research on the above named topic and I am required to do a case 
> study between Nigeria and Brazil. 
> I will like to ask if anyone has any kind of data, statistics or any 
> information that may be of a huge help on the topic. I have searched the 
> Internet, but I am not satisfied with the things I found. 
> 
> Can anyone be of help please?
> 
> Thanks.
> Sade.
>  
> 
> 
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Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

[George Roberts]

Sadly the wiki has been hacked by porn purveyors. It must be addressed  
immediately. Who to contact?

I cannot see the reason for a wiki as a focus for DDN discussion.  
Maybe that was not the intention. Wikis are for collaborative  
development of documents.

Email is a much more accessible channel for discussion than web-based  
services. I suggest that TIG has an interest in driving discussion to  
the (its) website, that is not solely about improving discussion.

Yes, archive of mail lists should be on the website. Yes there should  
be discussion on the website, but email is powerful, accessible,  
active. The site will be weakened, in my opinion, if the community  
structure is lost. If the community structure is replaced by a tagging  
system, people will not know where to contribute. Keep communities.  
Add tagging for cross referencing and serendiptous discovery. Make  
sure there is a digest of on-site discussion that is sent by email to  
list subscribers.

George

On 11 Oct 2008, at 10:43, Claude Almansi wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am answering on the mailing-list (with Bcc to Adam Clare and Taran
> Rampersad) rather than on the wiki because today I have a problem with
> logging in at the wiki (1).
>
> About:
>
> "...To make the site easier to manage we propose the removal of the
> communities functionality and discussion boards of DDN and replacing
> the categorization system with tagging.
> DDN's strength lies in the active mailing list and TIG realizes that
> the mailing list isn't perfect. In an ideal setup the mailing list
> will also be accessed online and have greater stability.
> Online communities encourage discussions between users in more than
> one place, right now that discussion happens on the mailing list for
> DDN and less so on the website. To encourage more discussions we would
> like to implement commenting on most DDN content. ..."
> (in )
>
> - Removal ot the communities and discussion boards: I agree; at first,
> each community had its own discussion board, but this stopped (around
> 2005?), which meant that there could be no diaogue within the
> communities. Anyway, even with that first set-up, there was little
> dialogue in community discussion boards and in discussion boards in
> general.
>
> - Mailing list: the archive is actually accessible online, but I'm not
> sure it's really necessary to be able to post to it from the web.
> However, until August 2006,  the mailing-list archive had an RSS feed
> through which the last messages were automatically shown bottom right
> of the site in the "Featured RSS feeds"  (2). That was a useful
> feature: would it be possible to have it again? For instance by using
> a yahoo or a google discussion list that have RSS feeds?
>
> - Making content taggable and discussable: great idea but in this
> case, would it not be simpler and cheaper to move rather than revamp?
> I'm thinking of Ning.com, where Steve Hargadon set up
> . And then he convinced the Ning
> administrators to make a special, ad-less, free offer for educators
> and provide a network for them, http://education.ning.com/ . One
> problem might be back-ups, though.
>
>
> Re Taran Rampersad's addition to
>  :
> "The Membership level is certainly worthwhile and is one that shows
> promise, since DDN membership probably would be tax deductible, though
> that needs to be clarified. While that is sufficient given enough
> buy-in from the community, I'd also suggest continued monetization of
> content through Google Ads (such as those found on email list
> archives) and Amazon advertising. Further comments for funding would
> probably require a prerequisite of what TIG has already tried to do
> such that we can avoid repeating things"
> I agree. Moreover, how could the payments be made? Some members may
> not have a credit card.
>
> Best
>
> Claude Almansi
>
>
> (1) Yesterday evening I was automatically logged in at the
> http://wiki.digitaldivide.net wiki, presumably because I was logged in
> at the www.digitaldivide.net main site, and even able to add some
> things on the resource page of the wiki.  Today I am logged in at the
> main site, but not at the wiki.
> The URL of the log-in link at the top right of the wiki pages is
>   
> >
> which a) is on the main site where I am already logged in; b) has a
> message that says: "Error, you must login to access this page. "; c)
> nevertheless also has  login ID and password boxes, but they don't
> work.
> If I try to edit a page, say by opening
> http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit,
> the page says "Login required to edit", with a link to the "Log in /
> create account"
> 

[DDN] MobileActive08 Summit Starts in Johannesburg

[David Barnard]

The MobileActive08 Summit started in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 
Monday, 13 October 2008.

The theme of the event is "Unlocking the Potential of Mobile Technology 
for Social Impact".

More than 350 participants from over 40 countries attended the first day 
of the event.

To follow the proceedings online, refer to http://www.mobileactive08.org.

-

David Barnard
Executive Director
Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT)
Tel: (011) 403-4935
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"Linking civil society through ICTs"
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Re: [DDN] Digital divide in emergent countries

[Fouad Bajwa]

You should consult http://www.globaliswatch.org/ that can give you a
very good feedback and statistics on many countries.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM, wright sade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am doing a research on the above named topic and I am required to do a case 
> study between Nigeria and Brazil.
> I will like to ask if anyone has any kind of data, statistics or any 
> information that may be of a huge help on the topic. I have searched the 
> Internet, but I am not satisfied with the things I found.
>
> Can anyone be of help please?
>
> Thanks.
> Sade.
>
>
>
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Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC

[Satish Jha]

Its a very interesting discussion that may find a definitive answer rather
elusive.. Going by some more recent experience, at least having forgotten
the warts of my own schooling the way they may have seemed then, I am glad
to share the experience of my more recent encounters with early schooling,
call it primary, secondary etc..or whatever works..

The students who are able to use the net, particularly wikipedia, find that
their teachers are living in another era in terms of expression, what they
reward and the guidelines they follow.. that creates a conflict between the
two worlds children live in and feel helpless at the hands of their teacher
who they perceive more as a tormentor.. This is more true of over-achievers
than the rest.. but the feeling seems more generalized..

The over-achieving students while doing well still find the method of
teaching a huge pain, a burden rather than an aide..

They can learn a lot better with more flexible style, curriculum etc if they
need to go for "learning learning", even more so in the context of using
OLPC, with rather suggestive monitoring rather than imposition and knowledge
being thrust upon them..

Technologies have made it possible for students to learn 100% of what they
need to rather than depending on a selective knowledge to be certified
having graduated.. We do not seem to have begun using them..

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> Hi Tom
>  --
> Satish Jha
> President &  CEO
> OLPC India
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> T: 301 841 7422
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Re: [DDN] WSA: ICT & DIGITAL CONTENT FOR DEVELOPMENT, MANTHAN AWARDS IN INDIA

[Karin Gilberd]

My sincere apologies to the organisers of the Manthan Awards. Please 
find below the correct Background Information on the Manthan Award as 
well as the Digital Empowerment Foundation:

Manthan Award (http://www.manthanaward.org)is a first of its kind 
initiative in India to recognize the best practices in e-Content and 
Creativity. It was launched on 10th October '2004, by Digital 
Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award and 
American India Foundation.

Since then it has come to define the very best in e-Content for 
development arena in India. Now, after four immensely successful years 
of holding it within India, the organisers have felt that it's about 
time it is expanded a bit and its areas of operation now is all of SAARC 
countries namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, 
Maldives, Bhutan & Afghanistan.

So nominations are welcome from all of SAARC countries. Welcome aboard 
the Local journey called Manthan. Welcome one, welcome all.

Digital Empowerment Foundation, a Delhi based not-for-profit 
organization was registered on December 2002, under the "Societies 
Registration Act XXI of 1860" to find solutions to bridge the digital 
divide. With no political affiliations, it was founded by Osama Manzar 
to uplift the downtrodden and to create economic and commercial 
viability using Information Communication and Technology as means. It 
was actively started in the year 2003 after the founder director left 
his software company to seriously pursue the aims and objectives of 
Digital Empowerment Foundation.


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Best regards,
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Event & Community Manager

World Summit Award
ICNM - International Center for New Media

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> Salzburg/New Delhi, October 8, 2008 – The Digital Empowerment Foundation 
> and the World Summit Award are organising together with the Center for 
> e-Governance the South Asia Conclave on ICT & Digital Content for 
> Development as part of efforts to strengthen the Digital Content 
> Movement in the countries of the region.
> 
> The prime objective of this initiative is to promote quality contents as 
> an essential element in the creation of a quality information society 
> and to address the widening digital divides and strategies to bridge the 
> content gap between the North and the South.
> 
> South Asian countries play a critical role in advancing the Digital 
> Content Movement thanks to the strong economic growth of the last years 
> and the high levels of technical education and creativity among 
> multimedia and internet professionals, companies and NGOs.
> 
> Yet, as the biannual global contests of the World Summit Award have 
> shown in 2003, 2005 and 2007, the potential is not fully used. Rather, 
> South Asian countries remain underrepresented among the winners of the 
> World Summit Award.
> 
> Thus, the strategic direction of WSA is to strengthen the digital 
> content industries and the creative development in the region by holding 
> national contests in all countries and partnering with leading 
> organisations such as the Digital Empowerment Foundation for conducting 
> workshops, conferences and Global Digital Content Summits.
> 
> WSA’s plan up to 2015 foresees a myriad of innovative content in fixed 
> line and mobile Internet applications.
> 
> WSA takes great pride at leading this vision thanks to the cooperation 
> with the MANTHAN Award!
> 
> 
> BACKGROUNDER
> Boilerplate:
> 
> The World Summit Award (WSA) was started in 2003 as part of the UN’s 
> World Summit on the Information Society. It is a global initiative to 
> select and promote the world’s best e-Content and innovative ICT 
> applications; to date 168 countries are actively involved. Through 
> national contests and a global jury process, WSA demonstrates the local 
> diversity and rich creativity of ICT use. WSA is a global hub for 
> everyone who values the crucial importance of local content to make 
> today’s information society more inclusive. http://www.wsis-award.org
> 
> 
> Manthan-AIF Award is a first of its kind initiative in India to 
> recognize the best practices in e-Content and Creativity. It 
> www.manthanaward.org was launched on 10th October 2004, by Digital 
> Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award and 
> American India Foundation.
> 
> The Manthan-AIF Award winners are awarded in a one day Manthan-AIF Award 
> gala cum conference on e-Content and Sustainability. The Conference cum 
> award gala is attended by people from different regions and background 
> and represented various States across the length and breadth of the country.
> 
> Emphasizing on the importance of e-Content & Creativity for and by the 
> grassroots

Re: [DDN] Digital divide in emergent countries

[Ana Maria Moraes]

Dear Wrigth Sade, 
 
I am brazilian researcher in the field of digital inclusion and I work for the 
National Reference Center of Digital Inclusion (CENRID -  Ibict - Ministry of 
Science and Technology in Brazil) . You can find information in our website 
http://inclusao.ibict.br
 
I also have a hobbie to select scientific literature in portuguese and english 
in digital format of digital inclusion in m country (scientific information, 
governamental reports and important websites and etc.). Sorry but it is in 
portuguese, but I will try to translate to English my virtual library as soon 
as possible. But if you can read in portuguese you will find a lot of material 
in the section Inclusão Digital (digital divide in portuguese). My website 
Micromundos Library is located at: http://bibliotecamicromundos.com
 
My work as digital inclusion researcher in CENRID is to select scientific 
information of digital inclusion, and informations of researchers and groups of 
research. The most important brazilian report of this year is: Survey on the 
use of information and communication technologies in Brazil 2007 from CGI at:
http://www.cetic.br/tic/2007/indicadores-cgibr-2007.pdf
There is a lot os statistic data internet conections and use of Internet by 
brazilians and they follow the international indicators. Take a look of CGI 
website at http://www.cgi.br/internacional/index.htm  You can also find the 
historical series of the CGI report at
http://www.cgi.br/publicacoes/index.htm
 
You can also take a look at National Digital Library of Master's Dissertions 
and Thesis of Brazil ( It's is the most important brazilian digital libraryl). 
BDTD is a service of Ibict and it is located at http://bdtd.ibict.br/
 
Another important scientific databases is Diretório de Grupos de Pesquisa no 
Brasil ( CNPq - Ministry of Science and Technology). You can find this 
scientific databases at http://dgp.cnpq.br/buscaoperacional/  
 
One of the jobs that I make as researcher in Ibict is to select and 
organize scientific information and find researchers and groups of research in 
the universities of Brazil in the field of digital inclusion. Just tell me the 
focus of your research in digital inclusion, that I can help you to find more 
specific informations. Feel frre to send a message to me in private, 
because that is my job.  
 
Best regards, 
Ana Maria Albuquerque. 
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De: wright sade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Assunto: [DDN] Digital divide in emergent countries
Para: DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net
Data: Terça-feira, 7 de Outubro de 2008, 13:48

Hello,

I am doing a research on the above named topic and I am required to do a case
study between Nigeria and Brazil. 
I will like to ask if anyone has any kind of data, statistics or any
information that may be of a huge help on the topic. I have searched the
Internet, but I am not satisfied with the things I found. 

Can anyone be of help please?

Thanks.
Sade.
 



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[DDN] The Impact of Open Source Software on Transforming Government - Live Webinar

[Fouad Bajwa]

Forwarded by Fouad Bajwa for your information:

Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON),  Oregon State University
and the World Bank's e-Development Thematic Group, invite you to join
via live webcast a videoconferenced Global Dialogue between Portland,
Washington DC, Moscow, Colombo, Daccar, Accra, Kigali and Brasilia on:

The Impact of Open Source Software on Transforming Government

12:00 - 3:00 pm (Washington DC time), October 20, 2008

LIVE WEBCAST: http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live

Government transformation and information and communication technology
dignitaries from around the world will convene in person and via video
conference for a Global Dialogue on ?The Impact of Open Source
Software on Transforming Government?. The discussion will include 6
countries on five continents, presenting a range of initiatives,
opportunities and experience on a range topics which are of critical
importance to governments everywhere.  This executive panel represents
an outstanding global, non-technical  view of the
impact of Open Source Software based on their direct experience. The
workshop will explore both the business case and real-world
applications for open technology to deliver the next generation of
government services. The US has valuable experience in open source
software development, at the federal, local and academic level. The
speakers assembled in Oregon will provide a very rich base for the
policy dialogue with policy makers from our client countries. This is
also a great opportunity for South-South dialogue on this important
topic for governments worldwide.

All materials will be available at:
http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment and http://goscon.org/summit

About e-Development Thematic Group

e-Development Thematic Group is a global forum and community of
professionals interested in the role of ICT in development,  open for
participation by both World Bank staff and external clients and
partners. The e-TG is hosted by Global ICT Dept in collaboration with
ISG, WBI, PREM, and other partners. Visit us at
http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment to download materials for this
and all previous e-development seminars (over 120 since 2001). Watch
some of the recent events sponsored by the e-Development Thematic
Group if you missed them (with links to videos, slides, speaker
profiles, exclusive interviews, background materials etc.)

  ICT Applications for the Public Sector http://go.worldbank.org/YLBJQROJZ0
  Government Enterprise Architecture as Enabler of Public Sector Reform
  http://go.worldbank.org/NNEZOTX020
  Next-Generation Organizational Models for e-Government
  http://go.worldbank.org/2LA3GGGEA0
  India's Emergence as a Global IT Player: The Role of NASSCOM
  http://go.worldbank.org/B6DF3R8L60
  The Potential of Global Sourcing of Services for Growth
  http://go.worldbank.org/QFF0GUTSF0

About the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON)

GOSCON targetes specifically to agency CIOs and management-level
personnel, their planning, policy and procurement staff. It is
produced by the Open Source Lab Public (OSL) Sector Communities
Program at Oregon State University. OSL offers a professional hosting
environment to the open source community, as well as software
development services to industry.  OSL hosts and supports some of the
world?s largest open source projects such as the Linux Kernel, Plone,
Drupal, Gentoo, Debian, Apache, The FOSSology Project, and OpenOffice.
Its outreach and educational programs include GOSCON, the Government
Open Source Conference.


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Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC

[Taran Rampersad]

Sorry for the late reply. My ISP lost control of it's bodily functions - 
and it was about as disgusting as that sounds... Responding inline.

Catherine Arden wrote:
> Hi Tom
>
> I agree that the "sage on the stage in the brick space structure" is an 
> outdated model of education that perhaps has more to do with maintaining 
> power and control than teaching and learningHowever, there are 
> nonetheless real challenges working within our new paradigm.  For instance, 
> how do we value knowledge? 
Value. Knowledge. Loaded words, these. Present administration does more 
to equate value to costs and potential revenue than anything else, it 
seems, which seems fair considering that metrics of value are not clear 
and, perhaps, never will be. Maybe they could be if one were to consider 
value as a form of potential energy (Physics). Consider that a book 
could be seen as having a high amount of 'potential energy', and that 
tapping that energy is really the key.

And the same applies to knowledge itself, really... But then, I believe 
that I am thinking well outside of established boxes...
>  How do we teach 'instrumental' skills such as 
> literacy and numeracy effectively and how do we know they are learned?
Well, we never truly know... I favor fuzzy logic (the concept) in this - 
if something is learned, it is learned to a degree of truth. Fuzzy Logic 
incorporates truth values to establish how true something is. 
Unfortunately, bayesian probability is more liked in the United States 
and other parts of the world due to it's simplicity in being integrated 
in software - but I really believe that Fuzzy Logic excels in questions 
like this. It isn't a true/false question - it is a matter of how true 
we believe something is based on information available.
>   How 
> do we recognise scholarly achievement?
I think that the large mass of people on the planet rarely recognize 
scholarly achievement other than little pieces of paper that are hung on 
walls - and sometimes to their own detriment (they pose a risk when they 
fall, and are typically not OSHA compliant).
>   How do we 'transmit' cultural 
> values?
And how do we 'receive' cultural values? ;-)
>  Are these questions really still about hegemony and fear of losing 
> control or do we need to have some way of controlling education if we are to 
> further our human development and not find ourselves wallowing in a sea of 
> pseudo?
>   
There has to be some control in a learning environment, but control does 
not have to wear latex and wield a bullwhip. While videos along those 
lines are inexplicably popular on the internet, I do not believe that 
there is a need for dominance/submission in education. Frankly, most of 
the things that I have learned that I am most happy I have learned have 
not come from a curriculum or a reading list provided by educational 
professionals - no offense to anyone.

I believe in discussion, and discussion requires mutual respect. Where 
mutual respect lacks, discussion is impossible (which probably explains 
93.6% of the Internet. I love making up statistics.). Where does mutual 
respect come from? Can we teach that?

And can we get educational institutions to evaluate discussions, are 
have they become too much of businesses to use metrics that are less 
than tangible? I do not know. Some people require structure in their 
educations, others do not need the structure.

Therefore comparing results boils down to comparing people's learning 
styles against educational institution knowledge transfer methodologies. 
And since no two humans are alike...

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"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - 
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Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

[Cindy Lemcke-Hoong]

Wiki is a good idea ... but I still think mailing list is a lot more VISIBLE. I 
have clean forgotten about THE Future of DDN until this mail. 

Yes. I agree DDN should look into methods of payment. 

Perhaps some thoughts on the following two items?
1) there should be perhaps free memberships for students for example. 

2) As some of us at DDN have mentioned again and again during the debate on 
$100 for a One-child-per-laptop etc. etc. ... perhaps we might want to look at 
what is $100 to some in certain part of the world?

Cindy

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From: Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [DDN] The future of DDN
To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group" 

Date: Saturday, 11 October, 2008, 11:43 AM

Hi All,

I am answering on the mailing-list (with Bcc to Adam Clare and Taran
Rampersad) rather than on the wiki because today I have a problem with
logging in at the wiki (1).

About:

"...To make the site easier to manage we propose the removal of the
communities functionality and discussion boards of DDN and replacing
the categorization system with tagging.
DDN's strength lies in the active mailing list and TIG realizes that
the mailing list isn't perfect. In an ideal setup the mailing list
will also be accessed online and have greater stability.
Online communities encourage discussions between users in more than
one place, right now that discussion happens on the mailing list for
DDN and less so on the website. To encourage more discussions we would
like to implement commenting on most DDN content. ..."
(in )

- Removal ot the communities and discussion boards: I agree; at first,
each community had its own discussion board, but this stopped (around
2005?), which meant that there could be no diaogue within the
communities. Anyway, even with that first set-up, there was little
dialogue in community discussion boards and in discussion boards in
general.

- Mailing list: the archive is actually accessible online, but I'm not
sure it's really necessary to be able to post to it from the web.
However, until August 2006,  the mailing-list archive had an RSS feed
through which the last messages were automatically shown bottom right
of the site in the "Featured RSS feeds"  (2). That was a useful
feature: would it be possible to have it again? For instance by using
a yahoo or a google discussion list that have RSS feeds?

- Making content taggable and discussable: great idea but in this
case, would it not be simpler and cheaper to move rather than revamp?
I'm thinking of Ning.com, where Steve Hargadon set up
. And then he convinced the Ning
administrators to make a special, ad-less, free offer for educators
and provide a network for them, http://education.ning.com/ . One
problem might be back-ups, though.


Re Taran Rampersad's addition to
 :
"The Membership level is certainly worthwhile and is one that shows
promise, since DDN membership probably would be tax deductible, though
that needs to be clarified. While that is sufficient given enough
buy-in from the community, I'd also suggest continued monetization of
content through Google Ads (such as those found on email list
archives) and Amazon advertising. Further comments for funding would
probably require a prerequisite of what TIG has already tried to do
such that we can avoid repeating things"
I agree. Moreover, how could the payments be made? Some members may
not have a credit card.

Best

Claude Almansi


(1) Yesterday evening I was automatically logged in at the
http://wiki.digitaldivide.net wiki, presumably because I was logged in
at the www.digitaldivide.net main site, and even able to add some
things on the resource page of the wiki.  Today I am logged in at the
main site, but not at the wiki.
The URL of the log-in link at the top right of the wiki pages is

which a) is on the main site where I am already logged in; b) has a
message that says: "Error, you must login to access this page. "; c)
nevertheless also has  login ID and password boxes, but they don't
work.
If I try to edit a page, say by opening
http://wiki.digitaldivide.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit,
the page says "Login required to edit", with a link to the "Log
in /
create account"

page, which a) doesn't have a create account option; b) refuses my
main site login data

(2) The last recorded instance (Aug. 4, 2006) of the set-up with
"Featured RSS feed"  at the Internet Archive is
).

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi DDN members!
>
>

[DDN] Impact of DD on academic performance

[namali suraweera]

Dear All,
 
I am doing a research on "Impact of Digital Divide on Academic Performance". So 
if you have any kind of information can you share with me. because it is worth 
for me for my literature review. 
 
Thank you
 
Namali Suraweera
lecturer
department of LISC
University of Kelaniya
Sri LAnka 

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I am doing a research on "Impact of Digital Divide on Academic Performance". So 
if you have any kind of information can you share with me. because it is worth 
for me for my literature review. 
 
Thank you
 
Namali Suraweera
lecturer
department of LISC
University of Kelaniya
Sri LAnka 

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[DDN] Fwd: [pakistanictpolicy] IPs being blocked again!

[Fouad Bajwa]

The following message is a recent pledge from the Pakistani IT
Industry and ICT for Development Communities about a recent step by
the national telecom regulatory authority - Pakistan
Telecommunications Authority PTA that bans use of VoIP and basic
services such as Skype etc. This is a blow to an booming industry of
developing country that has reached 2.8 Billion dollars in revenue,
including annual exports exceeding $1.4 billion, Pakistan is eyeing to
increase the size of this sector to over US$ 11 billion by 2011.
(Source: PSEB & WTO)

This is not the first time that PTA has done this but in a time of
global economic recession and struggling businesses, this sends out a
plea of how governments can affect the ICT growth of their own
citizens and businesses at large reducing their own economic growth.
Are there any examples out there where countries have done the same
crushed their own economic growth options?

Is it true that governments want to prevent the growth of their own
industries and benefit to the common man whereas the promise of the
Internet and ICTs was leap frogging social and economic benefit?
Kindly read through and share your thoughts.

For an update on the issue, kindly visit or join the Pakistan ICT
Policy Monitor at:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pakistanictpolicy
or the message thread at:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pakistanictpolicy/message/1597

Kindly read the message below:

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jehan Ara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Subject: [pakistanictpolicy] IPs being blocked again!
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Some [EMAIL PROTECTED] companies have brought to my attention that their IPs 
have
been blocked for as long as 30 minutes at a time, over the past few
days. Their ISPs have told them that the PTA has installed software
for packet sniffing of all VoIP users on their networks. They are
therefore now insisting that if any voice activity takes place over
IP, a license needs to be obtained from the PTA otherwise the
following steps will be taken.

The first step is blocking internet for 30 minutes as a warning, the
second step will be a notice, and the third a fine and then the total
blocking of their internet facility .

This is of great concern especially to companies who are engaged in
BPO and offshore development services, and for all IT and ITES
companies servicing customers internationally. As it is, getting and
retaining foreign customers is not easy for Pakistani companies and
now if we have to forfeit this line of voice communication as well,
our exports will certainly take a plunge.

The PTA had previously expressed concern over large scale VOIP
operations being run to terminate calls and offer services, but this
does not explain why a business that has a couple of lines which are
being used to stay in contact with customers or for tech support, is
being targetted. During a meeting with General Shahzada, the former
Chairman of the PTA, a few months ago, I had specifically been told
that the PTA did not have any objection to people using VoIP (eg.
Skype and Vonage) unless they were offering VoIP services without
being licensed.

In fact the PTA had circulated a determination, as far back as 2002,
which specifically stated that they had decided that Net2Phone would
no longer be blocked because it did not impact to any significant
degree on the business of PTCL.

I wrote to the PTA seeking a clarification on the VoIP policy and
asking them to advise all ISPs that using VoIP is not illegal in this
country unless one is using it for large scale call termination, and
that in such a situation, one needs to be a licensed operator.

I told them that this has caused quite a stir in the IT community. The
result? I was told that there was a simple solution - the companies
should pay Rs. 5,000 and get licensed through PSEB. Their IPs would be
registered, IP addresses provided to the PTA and from that stage on,
would not be prone to blocking.

I still don't understand why. Don't they understand that VoIP should
be free for use by individuals and companies? Are they going to block
all our IPs next because we use Skype to talk to friends and family?

Isn't it time we had a proper VoIP Policy or better still a complete
deregulation of VoIP? Or am I being naive?

Jehan Ara
President [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[DDN] The New Wave of Non-Western ICT4D Aid Donors - My Comments

[Fouad Bajwa]

I wanted to share my detailed comments with the community members made
in response to a blog posting by Dr. Richard Heeks blog titled "The
New Wave of Non-Western ICT4D Aid Donors" posted at
http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/the-new-wave-of-non-western-ict4d-aid-donors.
It can also serve as an important read for an eye into the future and
what Non-Western ICT4D Aid Donors are achieving.

My Two Cents to: "The New Wave of Non-Western ICT4D Aid Donors" @
ICT4D Blog http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/

Based upon my experience with ICT4D Donors and the various countries I
have visited as part of my ICT4D related engagements, we have to note
that developed countries which have identified ICT and Innovation to
be the key drivers of their economies and accepted the Knowledge
Economy to be the era of competition between the developed and
developing, the newly developed countries are funding ICT4D in the
form of local social entrepreneurship and enterprise as well as
development aid because it is a core process of the ICT model they
have evolved through years of experience.

ICT Production and ICT Consumption models are more viable as economic
growth indicators when the right balance has been struck between them.
Recently I visited Korea for some good amount of time where we were
trained by the United Nations as Trainer of Trainers for the "Academy
of ICT Essentials for for Government Leaders" to help change the
mindset and raise awareness that ICTs are a key component of
Governance and that e-Government and e-Governance are the key focus of
governments like Korea where they have transitioned from a One Window
Operation E-Government to Zero Window Operation and their experience
has been highly successful.

As part of our capacity building, we gained the golden opportunity to
study and receive first hand experience of Korea's digital
infrastructure as well as electronic governance frameworks in full
action. Indeed a scarce opportunity for us ICT4D advocates,
researchers and social entrepreneurs!
Secondly, in Korea's determination to lead with ICTs and Innovation in
this century, in particular, their development organization KADO -
Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion, South Korea
[https://www.kado.or.kr/koil/default.asp] has focused upon the
community population that is mostly left behind in developing world
countries. This community is mostly the rural and physically under
advantaged community and what KADO does is really amazing and a lesson
for all like us in Pakistan or South Asia.

You will be interested in understanding that for a developed or
developing world country to incorporate ICT4D production and
consumption models within its ODA frameworks usually occurs when they
have incorporated ICT4D as a key driver of their economic growth and
itself is utilizing the innovation in the field as a macro economic
indicator for its own social development. The co-relation with one's
own economy and the benefit of experience it has gains from its
development to be applicable to another country's social and economic
benefit are inter-related.

If we just look at what KADO is doing, as a specialized government
subsidiary devoted to providing comprehensive support for domestic and
international digital divide closure. Kado provides to the disabled,
elderly and farming and fishing villagers with easy and affordable
access to ICT services as means of elevating the quality of life of
their citizens as well as achieving balanced development of national
economy. The achievement of a balanced development of national economy
indicates both the successful evolution and adoption of ICT Production
and Consumption models for sustained social and economic development
as Human Capital equipped with locally evolved technical and
vocational skills is critical for the success of such a model.

Within the framework of its services KADO caters to achieve this through:

a. Information access environment creation
b. Skills and contents development aimed at bridging digital divide
c. International cooperation to narrow the global digital divide
d. Public IT education to upgrade people's IT literacy
e. Promotion of public awareness on the digital divide
f.  Encouragement of productive information use and prevention of
informatization adverse function
g. Research and development on the digital divide and its bridging strategy.

Reference:  [https://www.kado.or.kr/koil/files/kado-eng.pdf]

I would also like to point out here that KADO is not only equipped for
today, it has an eye into the future as well as is spreading its wings
into new transitional economies. In Nepal it is setting up the
governments first ICT Data Centre. It is training government leaders
for use of ICTs for better Governance. As a whole, since 2000 Korean
consultants, aid professionals and businesses have participated in a
number of Government Automation and E-Government Programs in the Asian
Region including the Financial Sector IT Reform Project at the St

Re: [DDN] The future of DDN

[adamclare]

Thanks for the responses to our idea of what to do with DDN :)

To clear somethings up:

-Tobias asked if the donation for membership is voluntary or not. We have
no intention of charging people to access DDN. What we do want to do is
identify people who are financial supporters of DDN. We don't have a
donation system set up yet because we wanted to make sure that it was a
good idea first.

-The wiki issue is being looked into. The system should be able to handle
your existing DDN login information so you don't have to create two
accounts and login to both all the time.

-Taran's idea of GoogleAds is interesting and we'll have our tech team see
how easy it is to implement. Which should be very easy. The hard part will
be finding a space for them as we don't want GoogleAds on the front page
of DDN has it may make the site look less credible. Any thoughts on that
note?

-Many people have suggested moving DDN to a new system. This is just as
hard (or even harder) than keeping our current system running. We've
though about this at TIG and were moving ahead with our system because it
is the easiest for our developers to work on.

Adam Clare
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Re: [DDN] Digital divide in emergent countries

[cleide]

Hi Sade, I can help you about Brasil. I am speck and wrote english very bad, 
but I am happing in help you.
Cleide
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:48:33 -0700 (PDT), wright sade wrote
> Hello,
> 
> I am doing a research on the above named topic and I am required to 
> do a case study between Nigeria and Brazil. I will like to ask if 
> anyone has any kind of data, statistics or any information that may 
> be of a huge help on the topic. I have searched the Internet, but I 
> am not satisfied with the things I found.
> 
> Can anyone be of help please?
> 
> Thanks.
> Sade.
> 
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[DDN] Tickets on Sale for the next DrupalCon in Washington, DC!

[Ian Ward]

Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone interested in Drupal - the web
2.0 community platform (and much more) - know that the annual North
America conference is scheduled and tickets are now on sale.  It's a
great place to meet developers, web project managers and other
enthusiasts, as well as learn about new innovations with the software
and their applications worldwide.

Tickets on Sale for the next DrupalCon in Washington, DC!
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This week Drupal announced that its official Drupal un-conference will
be in Washington, DC March 4–7, 2009 and almost 400 tickets sold out
in just the first three days. There are still a few discounted tickets
left for $175 before they go up to $200 in the next batch of tickets
sold.

DrupalCon attracts the most talented open source developers and
innovative web shops in the world and brings them together to network,
learn more about Drupal, and make decisions on the future of the
platform. It's also a great opportunity for Drupal users to learn what
they can do with Drupal, find partners for future projects, and meet
the people behind the code. You can see how the agenda is shaping up
here: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/sessions and who's planning to
attend here, http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/attendees. For those of you
who aren't developers, there will be a tracks and special events
targeted on communications folks that focus on online strategy.

The website and registration are at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org.

Hope to see you there!





Ian Ward
Development Seed Inc.
http://www.developmentseed.org
developmentseedperu(skype)
Tel. 202.250.3633
Fax. 302.347.5281
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