[DDN] Independent Sector Leadership Award
Independent Sector Invites Nominations for Leadership IS Award Deadline: February 18, 2005 Independent Sector established the Leadership IS Award in 1999 to recognize organizations that value and develop a culture of investing in the people of the independent sector as they work to build community. The Leadership IS Award supports this principle by acknowledging an organization that incorporates the development of future leaders in its policies and daily operations. The recipient of the award receives a statuette and a gift of $10,000. The recipient organization will have demonstrated its commitment to internal and external leadership develop- ment by embodying and promoting an inclusive and diverse community, including youth and emerging leaders; holding principles of leadership development central to the way the organization functions as reflected in its mission, programs, and activities; possessing and incorporating concrete strategies and systems that encourage and provide opportunities for staff and volunteer leadership develop- ment in the organization and the community; and having in place and exercising strategies that advance the vision, mission, and values central to the work of the organiza- tion and its desired outcomes. Anyone may nominate an organization to receive the award. To be eligible, an organization must be a nonprofit but need not be an Independent Sector member. See the Independent Sector Web site for program guide- lines, information about past winners, and an online nomination form. RFP Link: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/167/rfp Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402-280-4156/800-338-7657 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nnlm.gov/mcr/ (NN/LM MCR Web Site) http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ (Web Log) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell (Digital Divide Network Profile) ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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] broadband strategies for developing countries: civil societyviews?
This is great news that they are considering rolling out broadband in your country. It is also to their credit that civil society organizations are being consulted; too often these things are populated by business and government exclusively. When this is allowed to occur, the programs take on the smell of technology subsidy at best and corporate welfare at worst. Don't get me wrong; the connection is important, but after the connection is made, then the sustainability questions kick-in. One report I read which was commissioned by Canada's Broadband Task-Force was called Access to What? First Mile Issues and it advocated for community economic development to sustain the demand for the connectivity. The report is kind of long, but the gist of it is that there needs to be a simultaneous push to develop the community to take advantage of the Internet connection at the same time it is rolled out. For example, after a connection is made local artisans can try selling their wares on eBay or some other artisan web site; however, educating the artisans on how to do this is where corporate driven connectivity plans fail. The push to develop community capacity should be made at the same time or before the connection is installed. The report used to be available online, but I think that Industry Canada was unhappy with it and removed it. It is only available via the Internet Wayback Machine; the link is provided below. Reference Civille, R., Gurstein, M. and Pigg, K. Access to What? First Mile Issues for Rural Broadband. Industry Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 2001. Available at: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://broadband.gc.ca/english/resources/ac cess_to_what.pdf TinyURL version of the link: http://tinyurl.com/5agl5 Kelvin Wong Department of Computer Science University of Victoria Personal Blog: http://nativetech.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Alegre Sent: January 17, 2005 1:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gkd@phoenix.edc.org Cc: commrights-asia list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] broadband strategies for developing countries: civil societyviews? ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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] IT and disaster relief
As I read your post, I see to related requests, a request for information regarding the application of information technology to relief efforts of the South Asian earthquake and tsunami and a request for information more generally regarding the interaction of information technology and disaster relief. Here are some more pieces to the picture of information technology and the current tsunami disaster relief. CEMEX Announces Aid to Tsunami Relief Efforts 07/01/2005 http://www.aggregateresearch.com/aggregate/article.asp?id=5540 In addition to monetary contributions, CEMEX has undertaken several additional initiatives to aid the relief efforts in Aceh and South Sumatera. First, CEMEX Indonesia has designed and built the website, www.acehcare.com, which provides updated information on news, information, donation distribution reports and lists humanitarian organizations receiving and distributing aid for the victims in Aceh and South Sumatera. CEMEX updates the website regularly in coordination with the National Coordinating Agency for Natural Disaster and refugees Relief and relevant ministries. Information and Communication Technologies for Development Asian Tsunami: Can ICTs Deliver? Michael Gurstein http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict ODR News Blog The UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution http://www.odr.info/index.php Daily News - January 10, 2005 - Monday Healthcare IT firms part of tsunami recovery efforts Author: Bernie Monegain, News/online editor Healthcare IT News http://www.healthcareitnews.com/NewsArticleView.aspx?ContentID=2257 Yahoo! News Search Results for india information technology http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=india+information+technology A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/c2u4 Indonesia Technology http://archive.wn.com/2005/01/01/1400/indonesiatechnology/ Notice to Asia Tsunami Relief Agencies Posted on Saturday, January 01 @ 08:54:48 CST by xtv Free Internet Services Available to Non-Governmental Organizations from Speedera Networks to Manage High Traffic from Donors and Others http://press.xtvworld.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=3750 Full Coverage: South Asia One World.net http://www.oneworld.net/article/country/967/ Japan Today Asia Asia considers tsunami warning system Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 07:45 JST http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=newscat=7id=323263 What can the Tsunami disaster and relief effort tell us about IT? MIS for the Information Age http://exonous.typepad.com/mis/2005/01/what_can_the_ts.html Below are some resources that are more generally concerning the relationship of information technology and disaster relief. Disaster recovery: redefining disaster recovery as 24x7 - Storage Networking - Industry Overview Computer Technology Review, Nov, 2002 by Steven Robinson http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is_11_22/ai_98977138 European Space Agency 24.06.2004 Satellites aiding disaster relief http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/ information_technology/report-30565.html A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/c2ue Communications of the ACM Volume 44, Number 5 (2001), Pages 82-85 The promise of digital libraries in developing countries Ian H. Witten, Michel Loots, Maria F. Trujillo, David Bainbridge Table of Contents: Introduction The Technological Infrastructure Information Collections End-User Collection Creation Conclusion References Authors Figures Tables http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/38/374357/p82-witten.html? key1=374357key2=2923895011coll=GUIDEdl= ACMCFID=36117395CFTOKEN=68028448 A shorter URL for the above link: http://snipurl.com/c2uh J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1999 JanFeb; 6(1): 2637. Copyright 1999, American Medical Informatics Association Applications of Telemedicine and Telecommunications to Disaster Medicine Historical and Future Perspectives Victoria Garshnek, MS, PhD. and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACEP Tripler Army Medical Center, Tripler, Hawaii http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=61342 A Framework for Designing a Global Information Network for Multinational Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief Tung Bui University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sungwon Cho University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Siva Sankaran California State University, Northridge, CA 91330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Sovereign Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Systems Frontiers A Journal of Research and Innovation Information Systems Frontiers 1 (4): 427-442, April 2000 http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=258709PDF=1 Communications of the ACM Volume 46, Number 1 (2003), Pages 95-98 Organic data memory using the DNA approach Pak Chung Wong, Kwong-kwok Wong, Harlan Foote Table of Contents Lead-in Introduction Challenges Experimental Design Enormous Potential Capacity DNA Memory Applications Conclusion References
Re: [DDN] blog: when mobile podcasting leads to mobcasting
I also forwarded it. Andy, you take the prize for being truly innovative! At 12:23 AM +0100 1/17/05, Claude Almansi wrote: I'e an old-fashioned cell that only phones and sends SMS, so I wont be able to avail myself of your precious indications. But I forwarded your e-mail to our local indymedia group. With the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, your theoretical example of a demonstration with police violence might become reality, unfortunately. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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] Thank you
Many thanks to those of you who responded to my request for online sources regarding IT and the tsunami disaster. What you have sent is very helpful and much appreciated. Yours truly, Tanya Priber Upper School Technology Integrator Marymount School, NY, NY, USA ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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] Tutorial: How to Create Your Own Mobcast
Hi everyone, This weekend, I wrote an essay about the concept of mobcasting -- using mobile phones and blogging tools as a way for large groups of people (smart mobs) to create audio podcasts on the same website. Ethan Zuckerman and I exchanged some ideas about it on the Global Voices blog, and I spent part of the afternoon tinkering with a variety of tools to see if I could come up with a relatively easy way to do this. The result: a new experimental blog, http://mobcasting.blogspot.com. It's a free Blogger website that I've set up with an RSS feed that supports enclosure tags -- the key to publishing podcasts on the Internet. Now, I have the ability to give anyone posting privileges on the site, which in turn would allow them to use Blogger's free Audioblogger.com tool. Audioblogger lets Blogger users call a phone number and post an audio blog to their blog. But since I've set up the blog with a podcast-friendly RSS feed, I've turned Audioblogger into a simple telephone-based podcasting tool. If anyone would like to test it out, send me an email and I can set them up with an account. I could see this method being used by groups of people attending any event, whether it's a conference, a protest or any other public gathering. Any situation in which you'd want to give a number of people the ability to podcast on the same website would apply. So I've written a quick tutorial on how to set up your own mobcast, giving a group of people to post their own podcasts on the same website. It's really easy, and it's basically free - you just have to pay for the telephone call each time you record a podcast. I've posted the tutorial on my blog; you can find it here: http://www.andycarvin.com/ permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/000713.html thanks, ac -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.tsunami-info.org Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
