[DDN] Community Media Projects Needed for Research
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:09:20 -0600 From: George Lessard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipient List Suppressed: ; Subject: [MediaMentor] Community Media Projects Needed for Research Community Media Projects Needed for Research J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism is looking for civic groups, nonprofits, or universities that have a vision for launching a micro-local, citizen media project. J-Lab wants to know about them as part of a research project for the Knight Foundation. It is unclear from the Web form whether there is money available to these projects. To nominate a project or to receive updates on the research project, sign up at the J-Lab Web site. http://www.j-lab.org/nominate.html -- --- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Via / By / Excerpted / From / Tip from / Thanks to: You can always find the current Weekly on the home page at http://www.soundpartners.org. If someone forwarded this to you and you would like to subscribe to Sound Partners' Weekly Digest, go to http://www.soundpartners.org and click on the subscribe button. © info http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm Due to the nature of email the WWW, check ALL sources. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = GEORGE LESSARD Information Media Specialist Home E-mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: MediaMentor (video cam audio capable) ICQ: 8501081 www.Skype.com P2PNetPhone: themediamentor Home Pages / C.V. http://mediamentor.ca/ Online Activities: http://www.web.ca/~media/index.html Images: http://members.tripod.com/media002/george-lessard-photographer.html http://mediamentor.fotopages.com/ Member http://www.carcc.ca/ http://www.caj.ca You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Gandhi) We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. (Max Depree) Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do. (Yoda) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/xYTolB/TM ~- Public, keyword searchable archives @ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediamentor FEEDBACK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] POST: If subscribed, post to the list @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No attachments.. less viruses text only please No HTML and no RTF from your subscription's e-mail address only. UNSUBSCRIBE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your subscription to daily digest mode by sending a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your subscription to individual emails: by sending a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Put your email message delivery on hold for your vacation: by sending a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (c)info http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm Due to the nature of email the WWW, check ALL sources. Members who post to this list retain their copyright but grant a non-exclusive license to others to forward any message posted here. They also grant the list owner permission to maintain an archive or approve the archiving of list messages. Other use of e-mail to this list requires the permission of individual writers.. Also Mr. Yahoo! says. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediamentor/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] GSA and donations of equipment ruling - Colorado SEEDSprogram.
We have received information that GSA has issued a legal interpretation that is pretty devastating to the SEEDS program. Because SEEDS operates under the umbrella of a Community College and gives equipment to non-profits that are not K12 public schools, it's their position that we are inelligible to receive surplus from Government angencies. thomas, i'm pretty sure your situation is covered by executive order 12999, issued by president clinton, which permits and encourages the donation of surplus federal computers to schools as well as nonprofit educational organizations. http://www.computers.fed.gov/Public/12999.asp here in the washington dc area, federal agencies have been good about distributing surplus computers to educational nonprofits in accordance with this executive order. see http://innercity.org/success/donation.html i'm hoping the good people from other countries on this email list might use this info to convince their governments that surplus computers belong back in communities, not in warehouses or landfills. i'm pretty sure there are still several hundred thousand surplus government computers sitting in warehouses around the washington dc area. some journalist needs to write a story about the successes -- and non-successes of executive order 12999. i'd be only too happy to share what i know about both the successes and non-successes. - phil shapiro arlington, virginia -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog) http://guitarlessons.blogspot.com/ (guitar lessons) Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] GSA and donations of equipment ruling - Colorado SEEDSprogram.
The presidential order was the enabling event that established the SEEDS program, and we have worked hard at staying inside it's definitions. This probably wouldn't be so hard to deal with if our program champion weren't leaving congress. We have only one Senator that isn't up for re-election, and we have contacted him, but I suspect there is a window of time that everything stops between now and the election :-(. Our ware house is on a military installation and is bound up in this. This may seem off-topic for this list, but I see this sort of thing as bearing on the reasons for the divide, and the mechanics (sometimes flawed) of improving the situation. Thomas A Webb http://www.ospueblo.com - Open Source and Educational Resources http://wordwonder.com - For Readers and Thinkers Phil Shapiro wrote: thomas, i'm pretty sure your situation is covered by executive order 12999, issued by president clinton, which permits and encourages the donation of surplus federal computers to schools as well as nonprofit educational organizations. http://www.computers.fed.gov/Public/12999.asp here in the washington dc area, federal agencies have been good about distributing surplus computers to educational nonprofits in accordance with this executive order. see http://innercity.org/success/donation.html i'm hoping the good people from other countries on this email list might use this info to convince their governments that surplus computers belong back in communities, not in warehouses or landfills. i'm pretty sure there are still several hundred thousand surplus government computers sitting in warehouses around the washington dc area. some journalist needs to write a story about the successes -- and non-successes of executive order 12999. i'd be only too happy to share what i know about both the successes and non-successes. - phil shapiro arlington, virginia ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] JOB: spectrum policy program
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[DDN] Com Tech Review call for submissions
Hello all, The next issue of the Community Technology Review (Winter 2004-5) is under way. We are currently requesting articles of approximately 750 - 1500 words (1 - 2 pages) plus related images and resource links. The first step is to submit an abstract of up to 300 words summarizing the article's content by October 31, 2004. Submissions can be made online at: http://www.comtechreview.org/submit.php. If your idea is selected, the article should be completed by November 24, 2004 (Thanksgiving). The editors are particularly interested in articles covering: · Regional Development · Technology-focused National Service Programs · Community Development · Policy, Advocacy and Organizing · Program Development and Management · Research and Evaluation · Technical Assistance to Nonprofit Organizations · International Community Technology Programs · Technology Tools and Resources There will also be some new features including brief reviews of software, hardware, publications (books, journals, e-zines, web sites), and recent conferences, of particular interest to our field. If you are interested in writing a review (approximately 100 - 150 words), please send it directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thank you, Dan Schackman Assistant Editor Community Technology Review ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] GSA and donations of equipment ruling - Colorado SEEDSprogram.
This discussion is near the heart of this list's concerns, I believe. It's about a concrete program to distribute surplus equipment to those who need it which is being hampered rather than helped. We are working now to develop a program for distributing computer equipment from the school district's surplus to parents in our local community who would not otherwise be able to afford a computer. The biggest obstacle is the fear that a direct donation from school to home would incur support responsibilities for the school district, already straining to meet its internal support needs. We are hoping to triangulate the relationship with a non-profit as the direct recipient of the donation, and to help that organization find a way to develop the support program. Anyone dealing with anything similar who might have suggestions or insights? Thanks for any help you can give. Regards, Fred -- Fred Mindlin, Project Manager PVUSD Technology Curriculum Integration email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web:http://www.pvusd.net/tcip/ (831)761-6075 [office] (831)750-5311 [cell] (831)728-6947 [fax] Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do. --John Holt On Oct 14, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Thomas A Webb wrote: The presidential order was the enabling event that established the SEEDS program, This may seem off-topic for this list, but I see this sort of thing as bearing on the reasons for the divide, and the mechanics (sometimes flawed) of improving the situation. Thomas A Webb http://www.ospueblo.com - Open Source and Educational Resources http://wordwonder.com - For Readers and Thinkers ... ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] GSA and donations of equipment ruling - Colorado SEEDSprogram.
Dear Fred, et al, First off, hi Fred, how's it going? ;-) One approach to consider, that we implemented under our RTEC, is Learn-and-Earn programs, where parents earn a computer, by learning to use it. That way the distribution of computers could potentially be tied to other parent and family involvement goals, objectives and activities of a school or district. The challenge, of course, is to support a during or after-school/out-of-school adult ed computer training program. The LINCT Coalition's approach to Learn and Earn is to develop an exchange of time dollars, where people volunteer to do useful things for each other and the community and earn time dollars for that work, that can be exchanged for some help or service that they may need themselves. So folks could volunteer to teach classes, participants could earn time dollars by participating in classes, etc. This can necessitate finding a wider range of potential volunteer activities beyond computer training and computer use, to create a local, community time dollar economy. However, Learn and Earn programs have been established without attempting to implement a full time dollars approach as well. It is definitely more work than either just distributing computers, or working through a nonprofit for distribution (though the nonprofit could, of course, run a Learn and Earn program itself). Some advantages of Learn and Earn, imho, are: (1) opportunities to engage with parents/families over time during the training phase (the Learn part of Learn and Earn); (2) opportunity to make sure that parents and other adults feel capable and cmopetent in using a computer that they Earn through training; (3) opportunity over the course of the training to ensure that the computer is in good working condition before it goes home with the parent, adult or youth; and (4) fostering a positive sense of accomplishment in earning a computer by learning to use it. Just a thought. In Peace, Kevin Rocap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred Mindlin wrote: This discussion is near the heart of this list's concerns, I believe. It's about a concrete program to distribute surplus equipment to those who need it which is being hampered rather than helped. We are working now to develop a program for distributing computer equipment from the school district's surplus to parents in our local community who would not otherwise be able to afford a computer. The biggest obstacle is the fear that a direct donation from school to home would incur support responsibilities for the school district, already straining to meet its internal support needs. We are hoping to triangulate the relationship with a non-profit as the direct recipient of the donation, and to help that organization find a way to develop the support program. Anyone dealing with anything similar who might have suggestions or insights? Thanks for any help you can give. Regards, Fred -- Fred Mindlin, Project Manager PVUSD Technology Curriculum Integration email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web:http://www.pvusd.net/tcip/ (831)761-6075 [office] (831)750-5311 [cell] (831)728-6947 [fax] Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do. --John Holt On Oct 14, 2004, at 7:46 AM, Thomas A Webb wrote: The presidential order was the enabling event that established the SEEDS program, This may seem off-topic for this list, but I see this sort of thing as bearing on the reasons for the divide, and the mechanics (sometimes flawed) of improving the situation. Thomas A Webb http://www.ospueblo.com - Open Source and Educational Resources http://wordwonder.com - For Readers and Thinkers ... ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.