[DDN] One World Beat 2005: Music Making a Difference for Youth in Haiti, Asia, and Africa

[Janet Feldman]

Dear Friends,
I am sending this notice to some ICTs-oriented forums because the One World
Beat music festival would not be possible without the use of ICTs, so
here's a fantastic example of the "miracle" part of technology. 

One World Beat is proud to the hosting Festival 2005, which will raise
funds for youth affected by HIV/AIDS in Uganda and India, poverty in Haiti,
and by December's Asian tsunami. We hope that you will join us--as a
musician, fan, nonprofit, volunteer, supporter--and we welcome events of
all kinds, whether to raise funds, awareness, or both. Please see the
website to sign-up and for ways you can help: http://www.oneworldbeat.org ,
and write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information. Thanks so much,
and we look forward to "Beating" HIV/AIDS and other human-development
challenges as one! Janet Feldman, OWB News Director, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Join the One World Beat Music Festival 2005: Make A Difference for Youth in
Need in Africa, Asia, and Haiti!
 
On the first weekend of spring - March 18-27 2005 - thousands of musicians
will unite to make a difference through their music. Together with
volunteers, fans, and friends around the globe, we will raise funds to help
street kids, HIV/AIDS orphans, and vulnerable children get an education in
our Give A Child A Chance project. And join our special help project, Beat
the Wave, which will provide aid to children struggling in the wake of
Asia's devastating December 2004 tsunami. See http://www.oneworldbeat.org
for details and to sign up!

You can participate as:
- musician or band
- music venue or club
- promoter
- organization or school
- sponsor or partner
- volunteer

We already have concerts in preparation in England, United States, Canada,
Australia, Thailand, Japan, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain, The
Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, Nigeria, and many more countries.
Musicians and volunteers are joining us every week. One World Beat 2004
united artists in over 180 events in 46 countries.

Latest news:
One World Beat is proud to announce a partnership with two "on the ground"
nonprofit organizations, both of whom work with underprivileged children,
providing an education, material needs, and hope. Our Give A Child A Chance
project will donate festival proceeds to Liberation Through Education,
which works in Haiti with children in extreme poverty, and Outside the
Dream, which helps to provide an education in Uganda and India for children
orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Please see http://www.liberationthrougheducation.org
and http://www.outsidethedream.org for more info about these projects.
In response to the Asia earthquake/tsunami tragedy, we are also organizing
a special relief project, Beat the Wave, for musicians who would like to
contribute their talents and proceeds from concerts to this cause
specifically. For more info and to sign up, please see
http://www.oneworldbeat.org. All proceeds from donations of gigs and funds
will go to Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org), an
international development organization which works in 44 countries to
provide relief, resources, and hope to children, families, and communities
in need.

Musicians and nonprofits in developing countries are asked to contribute
25% of any profits (if concerts are done for fundraising purposes) to One
World Beat for its designated charities (so that there is a sense of unity
and shared purpose). 75% of any profits can stay "local", to benefit people
and organizations in need in your own communities. Events for
awareness-raising only are most welcome and needed too.

Drumming Up Support: We would also like to hear from anyone interested in a
possible drumming event we might organize, where drummers (and drums of all
kinds) might join as one in a collective "roll" (or 200!) heard 'round the
world. Please contact us and see the website for updates.

We hope you will join us for the OWB Global Music Festival 2005, and we
look forward to music making a difference...never so needed, and it's never
sounded so good!
 
One World Beat Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 
 

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[DDN] Search for internet history in the "Way Back Machine"

[Ben Jacobs]

Hi Andy,
 
You may be able to find documents from the past in the Internet "Way Back 
Machine"
 
A search at the "Way Back Machine" for " www.ntia.doc.gov" provides a lot of 
insight.
 
www.archive.org
 
Ben Jacobs
www.pembrokechamber.com


Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks... I looked everywhere on the homepage except for that particular 
note. :-)

ac

Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan wrote:
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ - no conspiracy, but a hardware failure:
> 
> January 24, 2005: NTIA has experienced a hardware failure on its
> webserver. The data here is from an older backup copy of the website. We
> are attempting to recover all the data and will post it as it becomes
> available. We apologize for any inconvenience this outage has caused.
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:04 PM
> To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
> Subject: [DDN] What happened to the NTIA "A Nation Online" report?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just went to look up some stats from the most recent NTIA/Department 
> of Commerce study on the US digital divide, but was surprised to see 
> that it's vanished:
> 
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm
> 
> All I get is a dead link.
> 
> And when you look at the main page for the report series 
> (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/), it's a dead link. Meanwhile, 
> the link to the report on the NTIA homepage links to the 2002 report - 
> it's like the 2004 report never even existed.
> 
> Is this just a stupid mistake or is it redacting run amok? Either way 
> I'm rather concerned. What on earth is going on here?
> 
> ac
> 

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[DDN] Media consolidation news

[Charlie Meisch]

All:
Corporate media consolidation increasingly walks hand-in-hand with 
technological convergence and the streamlining of the systems and services 
we routinely discuss on the list.  Thus, I thought it appropriate to post 
this breaking news from the U.S.

Cheers,
Charlie Meisch
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Breaking News
Government Passes on Ownership Review
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/27/2005 3:10:00 PM
The Bush administration is not seeking Supreme Court review of the 
lower-court decision remanding its owership-deregulation rules for major 
revision, according to several sources close to the Federal Communications 
Commission.

(snip)
The FCC voted in June 2003 to loosen various ownership restrictions, but an 
appeals court in Philadelphia remanded the rules for clarification and 
rewrite.

An FCC source said the commission agreed with the Solicitor General's 
conclusion that its case for review was not strong.

Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman, who helped get the rules 
overturned,  said he did not think the Supreme Court would take the case 
absent a government petition. "That is why the major TV networks and largest 
newspaper publishers in the country aggressively lobbied the Administration 
to join in seeking Supreme Court," he said.

Those owners want to be able to own more stations in a market, plus 
cominations of stations and newspapers currently outlawed.

(snip)
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[DDN] [Fwd: Google Alert - digital divide network]

[Phil Shapiro]

hi everyone -

  i use the no-cost google alert service to keep me informed about
interesting things on the internet. i have about a dozen different
search terms that google sends me email about. one of those search
terms is "digital divide" http://www.google.com/alerts

check out what came in today's google alert. (see below.)  the
first alert is a blog entry by DDN member emily weinberg. 
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/eweinb

  so it's useful to note that if you blog on the DDN, that others
worldwide using google alerts may come across your blog entry on
the DDN site.  you might think that the DDN site is primarily a
resource for DDN members -- which it is -- but being located on
the web, it's a resource for any and all people also using the
web.

i encourage you to try google alerts.  think creatively about
a range of words that describe your interests.  i get some of
the most interesting google alerts on the topics of
"storytelling"
and "playfulness."  truth is, i don't have time to look into google alerts
stuff every day, but when i do have time, i really appreciate the
information google brings into my email inbox.

- phil

 Original Message 
Subject: Google Alert - digital divide network
From:"Google Alerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Thu, January 27, 2005 4:39 pm
To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--

LEARNING about the Digital Divide in the Classroom
Digital Divide Network - Newton,MA,USA
For the past week I have been thinking about creating a new community
called "Learning about the Digital Divide in the Classroom". ...


WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: IT Powerhouse Strikes Back
Inter Press Service (subscription) - World
... systems to break language barriers and bridge the digital divide.
(*These stories are part of a special series commissioned from the IPS
network by the ...


LOUISVILLE firm cares to share
Boulder Daily Camera - Boulder,CO,USA
To Michael Williams, the technological divide between older and ... the
elder's home sits the digital mailbox -- a ... each family a private
network, keeping outsiders ...


This once a day Google Alert is brought to you by Google...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Remove this Google Alert:
http://www.google.com/alerts/remove?s=168fa726358fdcc9&hl=en

Create another Google Alert:
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en

Sign in to manage your alerts:
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http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal)
http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work)
http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media)

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RE: [DDN] Position: Full or Part Time Graduate Student to Lead K-12 efforts to bridge the digital divide

[lpeters]

 We are a non profit global leader in the provision of distance learning
services--we are looking for a strongly motivated graduate student
(preferably in the IT/business marketing/education field) who is committed
to furthering the mission of expanding educational opportunities globally.
 
The Director of K-12 Digital Divide marketing  will involve identifying  the
IT literacy gaps in disadvantaged schools and school districts and
communicating about Cyberlearning's high quality low cost courses. We are
looking for self starters, creative and talented individuals who want to
grow with an organization with ambitious plans to make a difference both in
the US and abroad.
 
We are located in Northern Virginia. The position can be full or part time.
Please send resume and an expression of interest via email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as soon as possible and at least by February
10th.
 
Thanks
Laurence Peters
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dr Laurence C Peters
Vice President for Education
Cyberlearning, Quality Education for All
National Education Foundation
4926 C Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22304
703)823 
www.cyberlearning.org




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[DDN] 40' Van/WalMart

[John Hibbs]

The purpose of this email is two fold -
a) To most sincerely thank all those who commented on the subject of 
the "40 foot van". You provided a range of photos, advice, technical 
assistance and commentary which was - and is - extraordinary.

b)  To explore further novel ideas on how to answer the two Wal Mart 
questions that I could not:

 What perceptive value will the ordinary customer
 ascribe to the time he or she spent inside the Van?
 And can you provide a measurement of same?
 What skills will be acquired that can be
 quantifiably measured?
Again, sincerely, thanks to all who contributed to a discussion which 
continues to have an elusive outcome. You know who you are and if you 
would like updates, or wish to write off-list with additional 
comments, I would love to hear from you.

John Hibbs
http://bfranklin.edu/friend/
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[DDN] share your photos with DDN!

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,
For those of you who take digital photos in the course of your digital 
divide-related work, we've come up with a way to share those photos with 
your DDN colleagues. We've set up a free account on Flickr.com, the 
online photo album service, that can be used communally by DDN members.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldivide/
For those of you not familiar with Flickr, it's a free service that 
allows anyone to post digital photo albums. You can also tag your photos 
with keywords, allowing you and your colleagues to browse photos based 
on the keyword tag. Lots of people using Flickr purely for personal 
purposes, but it's also a tremendous way to share photos of events at 
your school, library or telecentre, or other activities related to your 
work.

So what we've done is set up an account that can be shared by all of us 
as a group. That way, we can build a collection of photos related to our 
various digital divide projects.

How to Post Photos to Flickr
There are two ways you can contribute photos to the DDN photo album. The 
easiest way is to email them directly to flickr. Simply create an email 
addressed to this address:

period25street - at - photos.flickr.com
(you'll need to replace the "- at -" with an @ symbol, like all email 
addresses.)

When you compose your email, use the email subject line as the title of 
the photo, and the body of the email as your description. Keep the title 
short, and try _not_ to include your email signature file, or that will 
get added to the description. Then attach your photo to the email and 
send it.

The second way to post photos, recommended for experienced Flickr users, 
is log onto flickr with the DDN account:

login: digital divide (but without the space between the words)
password: divide 2005 (also without the space between the words)
This will allow you to add tags to your photos, manipulate your photos 
and other handy tools.

Restrictions
Because we're using the free Flickr service, we are limited to uploading 
10 megabytes of photos per month. Large, photo-quality pictures are 
therefore not allowed; otherwise you will take up our allotment and 
prevent others from posting. Please keep the size of your photos to 
under 100k if possible. Also, we can only display 100 photos at a time, 
so please be selective in your photos - post a few of them, not dozens. 
Lastly, please do not circulate the login or email address to non list 
members; let's try to keep this photo collection for DDN members and 
spam free.

Viewing the Photo Album
The DDN photo album can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaldivide/
As you can see I've posted a photo from the 2003 WSIS summit. Hopefully 
other photos from fellow DDN members will appear soon.

There's also an RSS feed of the photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&format=rss_200
We've added the RSS feed to the ddn homepage as well. So if you go to 
www.digitaldivide.net, you'll see links to recent photos in the bottom 
right of the homepage, in the collection of "featured rss feeds."

Lastly, if you have your own website, you can display a collection of 
thumbnails from the DDN photo album by inserting this code on your website:






http://www.flickr.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&count=5&display=latest&name=1&size=thumb">


Looking forward to seeing your photos,
ac
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RE: [DDN] Free Online Computer Training - feedback please

[Mary Dragatakis]

I fully endorse the comments on GCF Global Learning it is free, it is global, 
it is efficient.
Yes, don't hesitate to sign in and follow online courses (for which they 
certify you) or simply learn through their tutorials.
 
Maria Dragatakis
Amman, Jordan

Kevin Cronin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
List: We use GCF Learn Free quite a bit here and I encourage users to get 
there own account so they can use it wherever they have access to a 
computer. The classes cover a range of areas, MS Windows and Office 
applications, as well as non-computer subjects, like financial 
literacy/savings and resume writing that many have found helpful. As the 
material is self-paced, clicking through the pages, it helps for a new user 
to already have some experience with a computer. New users are more likely 
to get overwhelmed with the detail of information and need some guidance, as 
well as get frustrated with the mouse. All in all, it's a very helpful 
tool. I don’t think it replaces having someone in the room to teach, but it 
helps users who need to refresh their skills and experienced users who can 
keep themselves going forward on new activities. I understand it was 
developed by Goodwill Industries of North Carolina.

Kevin Cronin
Magic Johnson/HP Inventor Center
4800 Broadway Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44127
www.universitysettlement.net
216.641.8948

Each year, 182,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. If detected 
early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 95%, yet 13 million U.S. women 40 
years of age or older have never had a mammogram. To help fund free 
mammograms, please click, www.thebreastcancersite.com.





Original Message Follows
From: "Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan" 
Reply-To: The Digital Divide Network discussion 
group
To: "DIGITALDIVIDE (Digital Divide)" 
Subject: [DDN] Free Online Computer Training - feedback please
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:30:51 -0600

The following item was posted on the Washington DC Mayor's Office
Funding Alert
http://opgd.dc.gov/opgd/lib/opgd/services/grant/funding_alerts/currentne
wsletter.pdf Has anyone on the list ever used the resources described
here? If so, can you tell me your experiences? Thanks ~ siobhan

GCF Global Learning offers online computer classes and tutorials in
English and Spanish, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on their new and
improved Web site. It provides material on Computer Basics, Email
Basics, Internet Basics, Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel,
Access, OpenOffice.org Writer and much more. New features include: free
tutorials to learn at your own pace; tutorial search tool to find the
material you want to learn; free online classes to learn with the help
of an online instructor; My GCF -your own personal start-page - to find
all class-related material and records; article search tool;
Organizational Member Program (OM); and Media Center. For further
information, contact Courtney Hodgson, Marketing Specialist for GCF
Global Learning, at (919) 281-9195; or go to:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/

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
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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)


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272519-Mary Dragatakis

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[DDN] online new york city journalist - sree sreenivasan

[Phil Shapiro]

hi everyone -

   this online tech journalist and columbia school of journalism
professor, sree srinivasan, is worth keeping an eye on.  
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/607.cfm

  if you're in the new york city area you (or your TIVO/VCR) can catch
him thursday mornings at 6:45 AM on ABC-7.

  - phil

here's his blog. http://www.sreetips.com/new/

  you might want to add it to your DDN profile favorites on the new
DDN web site.


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http://teachme.blogspot.com (weblog)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work)
http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media)

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Re: [DDN] Assembling a DDN jargon dictionary on our new wiki

[David P. Dillard]

Jargon has always been a difficult problem as people in different areas of
the same field often cannot communicate easily with one another as the
terminology provides a barrier.  Writing definitions is a specialized
skill and may be beyond the experience of many.  Perhaps the glossary
building and definition writing planned for the Digital Divide Network
might be supplemented or replaced with finding definitions for the terms
selected for the DDN glossary web page in already existing online
dictionaries and linking to those definitions.  Tools that could be used
for such definitions or encyclopedic coverage of these terms could include
but not be limited to the Webopedia, the Wikipedia, the Oldis Dictionary
of Library Science terms and so forth.  Online computer field dictionaries
would also be fair game for this project.  I think there would be benefits
in using what already exists in terms of time to create this resource and
the quality of the resource when completed.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]





World Business Community Advisor




On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Andy Carvin wrote:

> Hi everyone,

> The recent conversation about RSS and the subsequent questions about "What
> exactly is RSS?" got me thinking that we need to have a repository on the
> DDN website of commonly used jargon and their definitions. That way, we
> don't have to re-define certain terms on a regular basis for new DDN
> members - instead, we can point them to a definition on the DDn website.

> We've recently installed a wiki on our server
> (http://wiki.digitaldivide.net) and I think this would be a great use for
> it.  (Since we're talking jargon, a wiki is a website that anyone can visit
> and edit the text. Wikipedia.org, for example, is a wiki that allows people
> to create and edit their own encyclopedia definitions.) We could create
> definitions of terms like RSS, podcasting, blogs, ICT, etc, written
> specifically for the context of digital divide activists, plus link to
> other existing definitions on sites like Wikipedia. DDN members could even
> add their own words over time.

> For starters, I'd like to ask DDN members to email me off-list any terms
> they'd like to see defined. I can them compile a list of them, post them to
> the group, then ask for volunteers to offer definitions, as well as compile
> definitions that have been posted to the list previously. Since  we'll be
> using a wiki, anyone will be able to go to the site, add a definition or
> edit one.

> So, please send me a list of any terms you'd like to see defined, and then
> I'll post a list of them so we can find volunteers to compile definitions
> for them.

> thanks,
> ac

> -

> Andy Carvin
> Program Director
> EDC Center for Media & Community
> acarvin @ edc . org

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[DDN] * Boy Brings Encyclopaedia to Book *

[David P. Dillard]

Given the discussions of the Wikipedia in terms of its accuracy, I found
that this was an interesting development on the encyclopedia front.
George Lessard is the moderator of the MediaMentor discussion group on
Yahoo Groups and a very frequent poster to Net-Gold.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:10:37 -0700
From: George Lessard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: mediamentor@yahoogroups.com
To: L mediamentor 
Subject: [MediaMentor] * Boy brings encyclopaedia to book *


  * Boy brings encyclopaedia to book *

A schoolboy has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition
Encyclopaedia Britannica .

Full story:


"... Lucian George, 12, from north London, found five errors on two
of his favourite subjects - central Europe and wildlife - and wrote
to complain.

The book's editor wrote back thanking him for "pointing out several
errors and misleading statements". ..."

"... One evening, he discovered a reference stating that the town of
Chotyn, in which two battles between the Poles and the Ottoman Empire
were fought, lies in Moldova.

Lucian, whose mother is Polish, disagreed, saying it was in Ukraine.

He was right.

His father, Gabriel George, told BBC News: "Lucian told me he had
found a mistake. Then, a few days later, he found another. Then there
was another.

"By the time he had found five, I said to him that he should write to
the editors to complain about it."

The subjects covered in Lucian's complaint were beyond the
comprehension of most 12-year-olds.

'Major revision'

He disputed the whereabouts of the Polish part of the Belovezhskaya Forest.

According to the encyclopaedia, it lies in the Bialystok, Suwalki and
Lomza provinces.

But Suwalki and Lomza provinces have not existed since 1998.

And, even when they did, the whole Polish section of the forest -
which extends into Belarus - was in Bialystok. ..."


"... He argued successfully that it encompassed parts of Russia,
Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovakia and Belarus - not just Poland.

After Lucian had written to the encyclopaedia with his complaints,
senior editor Anita Wolff, based in the US, revealed that a geography
specialist was working on a "major revision" of its Polish coverage.
..."

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Re: [DDN] What happened to the NTIA "A Nation Online" report?

[Taran Rampersad]

"January 24, 2005: NTIA has experienced a hardware failure on its
webserver. The data here is from an older backup copy of the website. We
are attempting to recover all the data and will post it as it becomes
available. We apologize for any inconvenience this outage has caused."

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

So, please accept their apology... ;-)

Andy Carvin wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just went to look up some stats from the most recent NTIA/Department
> of Commerce study on the US digital divide, but was surprised to see
> that it's vanished:
>
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm
>
> All I get is a dead link.
>
> And when you look at the main page for the report series
> (http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/), it's a dead link. Meanwhile,
> the link to the report on the NTIA homepage links to the 2002 report -
> it's like the 2004 report never even existed.
>
> Is this just a stupid mistake or is it redacting run amok? Either way
> I'm rather concerned. What on earth is going on here?
>
> ac
>


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[DDN] For NYC members - The Gates @ Central Park: A blogging/podcasting experiment

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

As many of you know, I've been playing around with different types of
group blogs and podcasts in recent weeks, reading a news story about New
York's Central Park today made me come up with an idea.

Christo's public art project, The Gates, will be arriving in Central
Park in just a few weeks, and I thought it might be interesting to set
up a blog that would allow any visitor to send an email or call a
telephone number and have their impressions of the exhibit posted on the
blog. I could even set up a group Flickr feed based on a specific tag so
that people could post digital photos of the exhibit. (I recently did
this type of group blog at the Harvard blogging conference; you can see
the result at http://mobcasting.blogspot.com.)

This would give the public a chance to play with blogging, photo
blogging and podcasting in an simple, accessible way, all centering
around what I'm sure will be a huge topic of conversation in New York
and elsewhere.  I was also thinking it would be fun to have groups of
students in NYC post their own thoughts about the exhibit.

So I was wondering if there was anyone on the list that was planning to
do anything with their students or other groups in New York related to
the event, and if anyone might be interested in getting involved. I
could easily set up accounts for different individuals, classrooms or
schools, so they could each have their own ID when posting to the site.

This isn't an official project for work or anything - just an idea I
thought I'd explore for myself. Anyway, please let me know what you think.


Andy Carvin
acarvin @ edc . org

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Re: [DDN] What happened to the NTIA "A Nation Online" report?

[Catherine Clare Wadbrook]

Hi Andy -- is this what you're looking for?
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol2004/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm
Hi everyone,
I just went to look up some stats from the most recent 
NTIA/Department of Commerce study on the US digital divide, but was 
surprised to see that it's vanished:

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm
All I get is a dead link.
And when you look at the main page for the report series 
(http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/), it's a dead link. 
Meanwhile, the link to the report on the NTIA homepage links to the 
2002 report - it's like the 2004 report never even existed.

Is this just a stupid mistake or is it redacting run amok? Either 
way I'm rather concerned. What on earth is going on here?
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The University of Texas at Austin
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Re: [DDN] Municipal broadband efforts in the US

[gregory curtin]

I guess I'll jump in here.

MM, I may have an opportunity for the more robust research collaborative tool 
set you are thinking about.

I am the director of the new E-Governance Lab in the School of Policy, Planning 
and Development at the University of Southern California, and editor of the 
Journal of E-Government. One of our early initiatives has been to set up an 
e-government collaborative research portal and solution sharing network to 
accommodate just the kind of research collaborative you desire. A 
municipal/public sector broadband/WiFi "channel" is one of the areas we had 
been looking at to jumpstart. Others that are currently planned are 
"E-Government Taxonomy," "Public Sector Open Source/Open Solutions," and an 
open e-government bibliography. 

We are in the final stages of rolling out and testing the current 
platform--should have it operating at the next level within a month or two 
(still working out the kinks). We also have a nice foundation of international 
institutions who will be participating.

Let me know if this is something you and others might be interesting in 
pursuing/working on.

Gregory G. Curtin, Ph.D, JD
Research Professor and Director
E-Governance Lab
School of Policy, Planning and Development
University of Southern California
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> Charlie, et al., 
> 
> I'm trying to develop a mechanism in which to do so.   I am
> proposing an alternative model of collaborative action research:
> it needs to be sustained (ongoing), open, collaborative, not
> rooted in turf and ownership, and receptive to energies of
> volunteers.  For now I am describing a sort of research commons,
> and have three projects in mind.  One is the project you are
> describing.  I am experimenting with it a bit here:  
> 
> Join the State-by-State ICT Policy and Practice Project: 
> http://www.omidyar.net/group/state-by-state/
> 
> I'd want a more extensive tool set, for the open research
> collaborative, and am working on defining those.
> 
> Right now the content is not "there", but it easily could be,
> given the right framework and committed parties.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> MM
> 
> 
> --- Charlie Meisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is anyone out there tracking the various state-level
> > initiatives to either 
> > block or encourage the deployment of broadband networks by
> > local 
> > governments?  I know there are a handful of actions underway
> > in Illinois, 
> > Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota.  Is there
> > anyone 
> > monitoring these developments in a central location?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Charlie Meisch
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Re: [DDN] How to find other DDN members from your country

[Andy Carvin]

There's no simple way to browse a list of orgs; right now you'd have to go
to the Create a Community page and browse the drop-down list of
organizations. Unfortunately, the info captured about each organization is
very limited. The site is set up for a member to sign up and add their
contact information, so any info we have about a particular org is really
just the contact info for the person who added it. This is something we'd
have to improve in the future...

ac

Bob Jonas wrote:
> Andy
>
> How about a list/links of all the different organizations people work
for.
>
> Rgds
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Jonas
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> -Original Message-
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> Sent: 26 January 2005 16:20
> To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
> Subject: [DDN] How to find other DDN members from your country
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> In her DDN blog today, Ulla Hennig wondered how many DDN members were
also
> from Germany. I posted a quick reply on her blog, but I thought I would
also
> post something to the entire group as well.
>
> If you're interested in finding out how many people on DDN are from your
> country, it's really easy. Just go to http://www.digitaldivide.net and
type
> the name of your country into the search field at the top right corner of
> your screen. This will generate a list of all DDN members from your
country,
> as well as other DDN content related to the country.
>
> I just tried a few different countries and here's what I found.
>
> Canada: 30 members
> Nigeria: 11 members
> India: 27 members
> USA: 460 members
> UK: 30 members
> South Africa: 8 members
> Iraq: one member
> Indonesia: three members
>
> If you don't see your name listed, it's because you haven't updated your
DDN
> profile to list your home country. Simply log into the site (or register
if
> you haven't already) and complete your profile, including selecting your
> home country. Once you've done this, the next time you search for your
> country, you should be listed.
>
> Soon we'll be adding a new feature to DDN: DDN Friends. This means you
will
> be able to view a DDN member's profile and click a link to designate them
as
> one of your friends or colleagues. You will then be able to see a list of
> all of your DDN friends on your own member profile. I'll let everyone
know
> once this feature has been added.
>
> thanks,
> ac
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[DDN] Leapfrogging the technology gap

[Miraj Khaled]

An interesting article. But I was wondering when we
are "LeapFrogging", are we landing into a higher
plateau or stepping right into a muddy pond?! How do
we design a 'landing platform' so that all this
breakneck development does not derail the most
pressing issue of poverty alleviation and can really
be an inclusive socio-economic development for the
majority population of the world.



Leapfrogging the technology gap

Wireless, computers and other innovations are quietly
eliminating huge barriers to development in poor parts
of the world.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1105917010481&call_pageid=970599119419

ALEXANDRA SAMUEL

In Robib, Cambodia, villagers are getting medical
advice from the world's best doctors. Schoolchildren
are seeing their country's most famous landmarks for
the first time. And the village economy is taking off,
fueled by the sale of its handmade silk scarves on the
global market.

[scip]

In highly developed countries like Canada, the
information economy has emerged from long evolution —
farm economies made room for craftsmen and artisans,
who gave way to industrial production, and
manufacturing has yielded to the rise of an
information and service-based economy.

Economists and development experts wonder whether the
developing world can — or should — follow the same
path. Widespread industrial development would still
leave much of Africa, Asia or Latin America a
generation behind Europe and North America.

[scip]

Cellphones have emerged as a leading leapfrog
technology. Many developing countries have very
limited landline penetration, in part due to the
economic incentives for digging up copper wire and
selling it. These same countries are now experiencing
a cellphone explosion, due in part to the way that
cellphones become what Fuchs describes as a "common
property resource:" a resource that can be shared
among an entire community or village.

The best-known example is Bangladesh's GrameenPhone,
which has established a network of pay-per-use
cellphones throughout the country. A similar network
in South Africa has created a network of over 1,800
entrepreneurs, operating "phone shops" in over 4,400
locations across the country. Information gathered by
cellphone lets farmers in Senegal double the price
they get for their crops, and herders in Angola track
their cattle via GPS.

Source:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1105917010481&call_pageid=970599119419




=
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Re: [DDN] content management

[Gordon Strause]

> Anyone know a reliable desktop search tool - that wont breach my privacy - 
> and is free!!

http://netscape5.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?column=Net+Sense&siteid=netscape&dist=special

According to this Marketwatch piece, Yahoo's tool is probably the one you want.

- Gordon Strause

--- Life in Hackney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I need this too! (see bleow)
> 
> Was going to download Goggle desktop, but heard lots of negative comments 
> about using this.
> 
> Anyone know a reliable desktop search tool - that wont breach my privacy - 
> and is free!!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> JW
> 
> 
> >Something like a quick tick list of all the places I might look to try to 
> >find  something again - or of my current favourite keywords for a 
> >subsequent search...
> >
> >Meanwhile - Hmm - I wonder where should I file your email  so I check for 
> >progress later, and so I  remember your name, and that you are a FLOS 
> >person, and you might make this CMS thing happen... ;-)
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