[DDN] Dropping Knowledge

[Miraj Khaled]

This may not be directly related to the list, still a
very interesting endeavor.

miraj khaled
http://mindexplorer.blogspot.com/
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Dropping Knowledge
http://www.droppingknowledge.com/

``Dropping Knowledge is a global audio visual resource
with the aim of preserving, expanding and sharing our
planet`s knowledge.`` 

dropping knowledge begins at a large round table of
human rights activists, artists, scientists,
educators, filmmakers, musicians, philosophers, and
writers from around the world.

Your participation is vital -- this is your
opportunity to help affect change.

Please help form the questions concerning human
rights, democracy, social and economic justice,
corporate globalization, conflict resolution,
religious and sectarian strife, art, identity,
environmental protection, freedom of expression, and
modern communications media.
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/question_add.php

Your questions will stimulate the global and
democratic dialogue through direct participation.

In the summer of 2006, dropping knowledge
will launch with a historic high profile event. 112
participants will come together as a group to respond
to 100 of today's most pressing questions-questions
that inter-connect the table of free voices and the
world. The questions will be asked one by one, and the
participants will respond simultaneously into
individual cameras. 

The responses of each participant will be recorded as
a single audio visual portrait. Together these
portraits create the base of the archive-672 hours of
recorded material. The table of free voices provides
the initial momentum and content for all the
components of dropping knowledge.
http://www.droppingknowledge.org/presentation_09.php



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Re: [DDN] Fortune Digital Divide and Global Leadership

[Pamela McLean]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<>(snip)I am very interested in learning more  ..how we can make the 
world a less unequal and destructive place to live  empower 
(people) <>to live the lives that they want and that they know makes 
them happy and is sustainable..how modern technologies could be of 
use as a creative tools to the marginalized and "underdeveloped" 
in moving everyone closer to the ideas of accomplishing the 
rediculously HUGE and inhumanly scaled
problem we--all the people in the world--are faced with currently;
Poverty. Thanks for listening. I would love to hear what you have to say
Hi Chris.
I think you might like what CawdNet is doing in rural Nigeria. To 
oversimplify the explanation - we are using ICTs to help people on both 
sides of the digital divide connect with each other and  "rub brains" 
about how issues of rural poverty can be addressed.
.
CawdNet's approach is one of small small steps and then dissemination. 
We work through Special Interest Groups. A SIG can be tiny - it can even 
be as small as one person. But if the problem is likely to be shared by 
other people in a similar situation - a farmer, a health worker, a woman 
with a problem about cooking, a teacher, a young person who cannot find 
work. - then we think in terms of "the start of a SIG"... If we can 
solve the problem for one person - then we solve it for other potential 
SIG members... .

In the past three months Cawdnet has:
# Run an innovative training course for teachers,  
http://teacherstalking.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TeachersTalkingCourse

# Taken a farmer's problem to the GKD discussion list [GKD] A Nigerian 
Farmer Using ICTs to Seek Information Archives of previous GKD messages 
can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/

# Organised a workshop on solar cooking (I have some photos - but not on 
the Internet  and I don't expect it is acceptable to send them as 
attachments with this email) 

CawdNet welcomes new people who are interested in working with us 
(especially from home using the Internet on our behalf) or supporting 
our work in any way.  Do contact me on or off list.

Pam
Pamela McLean
CawdNet convenor.
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Re: [DDN] web video of Berkman blog meeting

[John Hibbs]

A must visit. I loved the text overlay that attached the name of the 
speaker (in text) to the person on display. Andy, who did you ever 
get to be so YOUNG

At 11:29 AM -0500 2/19/05, Andy Carvin wrote:
Hi everyone,
Video blogger extraordinaire Steve Garfield has put together a 
10-minute Web video covering last Thursday's Berkman bloggers 
meeting at Harvard. A production crew from ABC's Nightline was 
filming the meeting as well, so it was a sizable crowd, not to 
mention quite lively. We discussed blogging and journalistic 
standards. Several DDN members took part in the meeting, including 
Rebecca MacKinnon, Taran Rampersad, Doc Searls, Cedar Pruitt and 
myself. The video can be found here:

http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2005/02/on_the_record_b.html
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[DDN] web video of Berkman blog meeting

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,
Video blogger extraordinaire Steve Garfield has put together a 10-minute 
Web video covering last Thursday's Berkman bloggers meeting at Harvard. 
A production crew from ABC's Nightline was filming the meeting as well, 
so it was a sizable crowd, not to mention quite lively. We discussed 
blogging and journalistic standards. Several DDN members took part in 
the meeting, including Rebecca MacKinnon, Taran Rampersad, Doc Searls, 
Cedar Pruitt and myself. The video can be found here:

http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2005/02/on_the_record_b.html
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[DDN] one to one computing

[tednellen]

greetings,

I am on a subcommittee and the steering committee for the NYC DOE that is 
considering 1:1 computing for all 6th graders, in the initial year of a 
five year project. We have compiled a list, that follows, of research on 
1:1 in other places. 

If anyone on this list has links to research we do not have, would you 
please forward that to be OFFLIST.

thanks,

tednellen

1:1 COMPUTING  USEFUL RESEARCH LINKS


1:1  computing & tech-integrated curricula

Union City, NJ
http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us/


Maine:  
http://www.state.me.us/mlte/

Henrico County, Virginia
http://www.henrico.k12.va.us/iBook/ 

Tupelo, Mississipi (2002)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/08/14/b2s.02.overview/ 

Rye, NY
http://www.rcds.rye.ny.us/rcds_laptop_program/History/Laptop_experiments.html 

Berrien County Intermediate School District (Michigan)
http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/mobile.htm 

Greater Latrobe JHS, Pittsburgh area, PA (2000)
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/2924laptops3.asp 

Beaufort County, So. Carolina
http://www.neirtec.org/laptop
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/200105/laptops.html
http://www.beaufort.k12.sc.us/district/ltopeval.html OLD EVALUATION
http://beaufort.schoolnet.com  CURRENT WEBSITE

Australian Government resources on 1:1 computing  (wealth of links and 
info up to 2005)
http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/notebooks/ 

Research on impact on Attendance
http://www.wtvi.com/wesley/onetoone/onetoone_attendance.pdf 

Jordan Middle School in Palo Alto, CA
http://www.jordan.palo-alto.ca.us/techpage/index.html  NOW (up to 2005)
http://jordan.palo-alto.ca.us/laptop/  THEN (2001)

Ocoee Middle School & Boston Microsoft Centers of Innovation
http://www.oms.ocps.net/news/index.html 

New Brunswick Dept. of Education  (Canada??)
http://www.notesys.com/Copies/NewBrunswickDedicatedNotebook6May04.pdf 

Laptop computing research:

Brown University:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/IESE/KFS/resource/edtech/laptopinitiatives.html
 
Learning with Laptops (links)
http://www.learningwithlaptops.org/   (a bit dated, maintained by the 
director of Information Technology and Computer Department Head at Rye 
Country Day School, Rye, NY)
Laptop Computers in the K-12 Classroom  
http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-1/laptop.html (up to 1999)
Laptop uses in the school (PDFs)
http://www.notesys.com/LinkSite/papers.htm 
 
Home use research
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/ed_tech/cwp/view.asp?Q=100397&A=169
Insurance:
http://www.henrico.k12.va.us/iBook/Fleet_systemsure.pdf 

Other resources for eval, assessmt, etc.

http://www.setda_peti.org 
http://www.nationaledtechplan.org 
http://www.emints.org
http://www.w-w-c.org
NYS curriculum standards matched to ISTE NETS
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/technology/nclb/crosswalk1.htm

How NYSED assesses results of integrating tech with curriculum:
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/technology/nclb/default.htm
http://www.neirtec.org/
http://www.neirtec.org/evaluation/ 



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Re: [DDN] Local Languages Demand More Space on the Internet

[Claude Almansi]

Thank you, Andy and Donald
Re:
Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
On the other hand, there have been ICT4D efforts in Africa that have consciously
ignored African languages. The reasons for this are a little complex (as are
the sociolinguistics of the region and the issues surrounding language
policies), but the matter of extended alphabets (using characters or diacritics
beyond what are provided for in the Western character set) for many languages
especially in West and Central Africa has been given as one.
and
Quoting Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Another reason the Westerners are opposed to African languages being put 
on the Web, they say is their structure with some having characters and 
sounds in their alphabet that are not recognisable in the coding system 
of the Internet.
Not only Westerners: in the pre-WSIS 1 discussions on the "Information 
Society:  Voices from the South" list, Guido Sohne (who is getting this 
in Bcc), a programmer in Accra, wrote:

<
Current topic: Indigenous Knowledge and Information for Local Needs: How 
to collect, process, deliver and use that?
Indigenous Knowledge and Information for Local Needs:
How to collect, process, deliver and use that ?

Indigenous is usually taken to mean what can be
found in a, mostly small, well-defined area. In the
context of Information Society, where one is able to
resource research, news, opinions, source code, books
and other ideas of all types regardless of their
location, I believe the value placed on information
being indigenous should be vastly reduced in favor
of eclectic and wide adoption of ideas from everywhere
based on the merits of the idea or of one's preference
for that idea.
There is also a significant amount of interest in
creating truly indigenous information such as that
in any of the many and myriad languages that are
in use today. Given that creating and disseminating
information have become relatively cheap activities,
it will not cost much to develop or encourage to be
developed such indigenous information. In the long
run, in an era where the number of people who access
and use information is the key indicator of the
utility of such information, information networks
that are inaccessible or less accessible will grow
at a slower pace and be overall less useful to those
who depend on and use it.
We have witnessed the coalescing and diverging
tendencies of language on the African continent. On
one hand, you can see how peoples who speak different
native languages consider themselves as part of a
nation and on the other, how these nations have between
them a vast divide predicated on language differences.
Developing indigenous content in this manner, splitting
knowledge and information into different areas will
erect barriers to the knowledge that is needed to be
effective and relevant in this era.
Information needs a medium in order to propagate and
the more information propagates, the stronger its
effect on events and people becomes. It has been
suggested that people use community radio and other
low tech methods of communication to increase the
information accessible to them.
Because practical communication devices, such as
the telephone, email, snail mail, instant messaging
or the plain old road, footpath or flight route, is
essentially something that enables a bidirectional
flow of information, we must immediately realize
that radio is a very poor substitute when considering
its limitations vis a vis bidirectional communication.
And as practical devices suggest, unidirectional
communication is a losing proposition. It just does
not survive in reality making it essentially unfeasible
as a solution to today's problems. As Bala Pillai is
fond of quoting,
 "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but
  in advancing toward what will be."
 -Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
So in the context of this all, what really is
indigenous knowledge ? In a connected world,
indigenous knowledge is the extent to which one
is connected to other people. Indigenous knowledge
will create itself once those who can use it and
those who can create it are connected today.
Knowledge is also a function of education and
prior access to information. Connectedness is
a state of acquiring knowledge of all kinds.
A cornerstone of any effort at becoming a
civilized, information society will be to work
hard on making universal education available
that is of. Education thrives on access to
information, bringing in the connectivity
issue once more.
 Indigenous Information =
  Bandwidth, Connectedness & Education
There is no such thing as local needs in
this argument. Local needs are a euphemism
for being short changed into accepting islands
of content in seas without connectivity populated
by people unfortunate enough to have been born
unconnected with information without the knowledge
or awareness of the events that have and are
conspiring to mire them forever in muck. Locality
of geography has no value in the world of connected
ideas.
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[DDN] Fortune Digital Divide, Global Leadership, $100 computer

[John Hibbs]

From Lee Thorn,an truly exceptional human being writes - on another 
list (forgive cross posting.)

From: Lee Thorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope this finds you well. I have been following all the various
threads on GKD with interest and wish to comment on this one. Thanks to
all of you.
The Jhai PC and communication system is prominently mentioned as are the
MIT and Via projects in the EE Times:

Our project is different from the others in seven ways:
(1) Our process includes a consumer-designed, well thought-out business
model for village implementers to use for their own self-realized and
customized development. This business model was developed by villagers
and with a local internet cafe owner and Stanford business and
engineering students. It is for villages without electricity or
telephones of any kind.
2. It was developed in response to well expressed community needs of
remote Lao villagers.
3. We have built, tested, and installed briefly our system already in
Laos, but we had to bring the system back to the US due to a political
glitch. This glitch was not related to regulatory or technical issues. I
own the glitch.
4. We are preparing for thorough proof of concept (POC) and betas using
prototypes.
5. Ours is an open source, ***open design*** project.
6. We, too, expect the price of production versions of the Jhai PC and
communication system to drop hugely, but we will not project that cost
until we have finished preliminary research. The next version of the PC
will have no moving parts. Our computers are designed for very harsh
conditions.
7. We project being in the consulting business, not the hardware or
software business. Projections are just projections. No one knows the
future.
We are preparing for a Proof of Concept (POC) on the Navajo reservation
in accord with the desires and vision of a school district there. If
everything continues to go well, we expect to be up in mid-to-late
March.
Lee Felsenstein is Jhai Foundation's chief volunteer designer and
engineer and is still deeply involved in our project. He and I have
been helped by nearly 100 volunteer engineers, IT managers, programmers,
and marketing people over 2 1/2 years. During the last two months,
thanks to Cisco Foundation's help via Teachers without Borders, and in
cooperation with Intel on the social side, we have employed four people
at non-profit rates to:
1. finish the software,
2. wrap up the hardware (under Lee Felsenstein's leadership),
3. assemble,
4. document,
5. develop training materials for,
6. and test our equipment prior to the POC.
Our hard-working, very experienced staffers, Jim Stockford, Alex Rudis,
Gerard Cerchio, and Jon Toler, join Lee Felsenstein and Stan Osborne and
other volunteers. You can follow our progress at 
I am going to China, Laos and India next week for discussions
preliminary to memorandi of understanding with prominent
non-governmental organizations in each country.  ***I will bring a Jhai
PC with me on my Asian trip.***  In China we are in discussions with the
Amity Foundation. In India we are in preliminary discussions with
Datamation Foundation Trust, which we hope will lead to an MOU. In Laos
we continue discussions with the government and other potential
partners. We expect to be lead implementers in Laos, if that works. We
are looking at various kinds of beta tests in each of these locations.
We are also in earlier stage discussions in South Africa, Congo,
Namibia, Mozambique, and several other countries. We have plans for a
consulting firm allied to or within our non-governmental organization to
facilitate the roll-out of our project. What we project is:
1. to give away our plans and software
2. and pass on our growing knowledge base on a professional basis.
We would like to have a well-established, very grounded NGO partner in
the Southern part of the Americas. Other than that, we can only open
discussions with others, now. We cannot commit to any more activity
until we believe our research substantiates our process and open source,
open design products.
I am not a techie. I am lucky to work with caring people with great
technical expertise.
I started this work because I was involved in the American bombing of
Laos many years ago and I wanted to help people there, who actually were
helping me heal by their compassion and ability to be present. Some of
these villagers decided they could use IT and communication devices as a
way to increase their income ***without losing their culture***. We are
helping poor people with similar ideas and we are helping people like us
who understand this situation, either first-hand or from deep and
continuing direct discussions with poor people themselves.
We need partners who can help us fund this development and scheme. We
have a business plan.
I hope our gift helps poor people in exactly the way they choose.  We
are not selling to poor people.  We are pa