Re: [DDN] Regarding the cellphone users

[Bill Thompson]

Cindy, I agree, mobile phones are merely one piece of the communication puzzle.

In my humble opinion:

This seems like something that the mobile telephone industry may be behind to 
promote their own interests.
I believe that it is in the interest of the less advantaged that they have the 
same range of options available to those who work so hard to maintain their 
unfair advantage.  Mobile phones alone will never come near bridging the 
"Digital Divide".  PC's are far more functional, offer many more options for 
accessing information, and are much more user-friendly, particularly for 
Distance Learning, to improve literacy and participatory governance, and 
managing business, which we desperately need to foster entrepreneurship and 
wealth building around the globe.

 
William M. 'Bill' Thompson, MSM

Mentor and Practitioner Faculty Member

Graduate and Undergraduate Courses

University of Phoenix

Former UBAM Campus College Chair

Fort Lauderdale, Florida Campuses

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  - Original Message - 
  From: Cindy Lemcke-Hoong 
  To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group 
  Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [DDN] Regarding the cellphone users


  the reason why a mobile phone, I think it can be even land-line, is because a 
person can use a phone without having to learn how to write. Or read. Most can 
talk. 
   
  Language barrier is still is the most fundamental barrier of the digital 
world. 
   
  A phone is the interface between man and the digital communication network. 
Replace that with a fax-machine, one would find a different world even though, 
at the very basic, is the twisted-pair that connect them to the rest of the 
world. 
   
  The reason why I am arguing, is because IF we think just to give them a 
mobile phone, we solve their problems. Then we are short-changing them. We 
LIMIT their potential to verbal communication only. 
   
  Cindy

  Teresa Lara-Meloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  Hi all,

  I've occassionally forwarded the lists emails to family and friends who 
  aren't on the list. 
  My father, a Mexican who lives in Mexico and is an avid fighter of the 
  divide, 
  responded to the cellphone comment below, but he did so in Spanish. 
  I'm attaching, and translating for others to read. Take it as a 
  perspective outside
  of academia, or the U.S.

  teresa

  - Forwarded by Teresa Lara-Meloy/EDC on 03/11/05 01:26 PM -
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  De tu articulo
  > Plenty of evidence suggests that the mobile phone is the technology with 

  > the greatest impact on development. A new paper finds that mobile phones 

  > raise long-term growth rates, that their impact is twice as big in 
  > developing nations as in developed ones, and that an extra ten phones 
  > per 100 people in a typical developing country increases GDP growth by 
  > 0.6 percentage points.

  De mi cerebrito
  Pues una de las cosas que se desprende de esto es que, este grupo de
  gentes pobres y marginadas, estan haciendo un esfuerzo que no sabian
  que podian hacer, para encontra el dinero y pagar el costo del
  telefono y del servicio.
  Ha empoderado a los nuevos o posibles usuarios a generar mas dinero
  del que habian podido generar, despertando en ellos una parte de
  produccion de dinero y otra de responsabilidad autonoma(usando el
  telefono solo cuando tienen el dienro para pagar el tiempo aire) que
  ningun gobierno ha podido generar en el siglo pasado y este.
  JL

  TRANSLATION:
  >From my brain:
  One of the things that comes out of this is that this group of poor
  and marginal people are making a big effort that they didn't know they
  could do in order to find the money and pay the cost of the phone and
  the service. 
  It's empowered new and potential users to generate more money than
  that which they had been able to generate, awakening in them a part of
  money creation/production and an autonomous responsibility (using the
  phone only when they have money to pay for airtime) that no government
  has been able to generate in the last century or this one. 
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[DDN] [CFP] 2005 ASIST INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST

[Merlyna Lim]

Apologies for cross-postings.
-m-
***
*2005 INTERNATIONAL PAPER CONTEST*
on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology
Advances in Developing Countries
More information is available from the Paper Contest page at
http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/papercontest.htm
The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST),
International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG-III), is
pleased to announce its sixth competition for papers to be submitted for
the 2005 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Charlotte, North
Carolina, October 28-November 2, 2005.
The theme of the paper is:
"Bringing Research and Practice Together - the Developing World
Perspective."
The paper topic may address either the country or regional level issues.
Papers could discuss issues, policies and case studies on specific
aspects of this theme, such as, but not limited to, the following:
∑ Social, ethical, political, legal, and economic and cultural issues:
issues related to the role of information in society, such as
information policy, access, security, privacy, and intellectual
property, as well as the social uses and abuses of information
technologies such as the Internet and World Wide Web in bridging or
separating diverse communities.
∑ Information organization, management, access, and retrieval.
∑ Information seeking and use: the role of information in professional
and daily lives, use of various types of information technology, and
social contexts of information seeking.
∑ Information technology, social equity and development: IT and
governance, IT & and the new economy, including the future of work and
implications of technological hardware and software developments; the
role of ICTs in conflict management, etc.
The prize for each winner is a two-year individual membership in ASIST.
In the case of multiple authors, the principal author will be awarded
the ASIST membership. In addition, depending on SIG III fundraising this
year, the first place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 toward
travel, conference registration, and accommodations while attending the
ASIST Annual Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, October
28-November 2, 2005.
Publishing opportunities
Submitted papers will be considered for posting on the SIG III web site
as pre-publications. In addition, they will also be considered for
inclusion in a special issue of the International Information and
Library Review, subject to the usual peer refereeing process.
Information for authors
Only papers by a principal author who is a citizen of, and resides in a
developing country are eligible. Winners in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
or 2004 contests are not eligible. The papers should be original,
unpublished, and in English. We encourage submissions from librarians,
information and network specialists, and educators involved in the
creation, representation, maintenance, exchange, discovery, delivery,
and use of digital information.
ASIST Copyright Policy
ASIST will have the non-exclusive right to publish any of the papers
submitted on its web site or in print, with ownership and all other
rights remaining with the author.
Deadline for submission of full papers
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts, not to exceed 5000 words, by
June 30, 2005, to Duncan Omole at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Please check the SIG III website (http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) for
more information about the SIG III International Paper Contest,
including Frequently Asked Questions, past CFPs, previous winners and
winning papers, and successful stories from previous winners.
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[DDN] Â Scholarships in Support of Tapia Conference Participation

[BBracey]

  Scholarships in Support of Tapia Conference Participation



 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
Conference 2005
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, New Mexico
October 19-22, 2005
 A Diversity of Scholars - A Tapestry of Discovery


The 2005 Tapia Conference scholarships have been established to encourage and 
support participation in the conference by people from groups that are 
underrepresented in computer science and computer engineering. Scholarships to 
cover 
travel, hotel accommodations, meals, and conference registration, are being 
provided to assure the attendance of those who would otherwise be unable to 
attend and ensure diversity in conference attendance. Preference will be given 
to 
students and mentors (from academia, industry, or government) who present 
posters, papers, and panels at the conference. In addition, preference will be 
given to faculty teams who bring students. The determination of the awards will 
be based on need.
 Scholarship applications must contain:


 1. Contact Information
This should include the applicant's full name, school name and address, home 
and email addresses, and phone number(s) where the applicant can be reached 
during Summer 2005.


 2. Demonstration of Financial Need
This should include an explanation of the financial circumstances of the 
applicant.

 3.  Statement of Conference Interest
Applicants should state their interest in attending the conference, and 
describe their contribution to any activities involving underrepresented groups 
in 
science and technology.


 4. Statement of Current and Future plans.
Students:
Applicants should describe their current research work, if any, in computer 
science or engineering. They should also include a detailed description of any 
completed computer science/engineering courses or programs and any future 
plans.
Faculty:
Applicants should describe their current research as well as any relevant 
courses taught. Faculty that serve as advisors or mentors to students applying 
to 
this conference should explicitly state so.

 5.  A faculty letter of recommendation. (Students only)

Scholarship applications are available here and should be submitted via the 
website. The application deadline is Friday, May 6, 2005. Late submissions will 
be considered as funds become available.

Scholarship award recipients will be posted after July 17, 2005.
Scholarship applicants should register after the awards list has been posted.



 Forwarded by BBracey at aol com

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RE: [DDN] Lifeline/Link-Up Violations - Order Admonishing Verizon

[Wanda Jean Lord]

Kevin and Valerie,
Thank you both for sharing this info.

I don't know that it is related or not - but it made me think about the
situation in charitable giving in general as regards Native American
'issues' and inclusion.  That over the last decades - funding to support
Native American entities has never, to my knowledge, risen to even 1% of all
grants made from foundations making grants over $10,000 on an annual basis.
Reliable sources cite low averages ranging from 1/6 of 1% down to 1/20th of
1% of all foundation grants over $10,000 made annually. Even while Native
people represent 1.4% of the population and according to the 2000 US Census
24% of this population lives at or below poverty level. I wonder why the
actual charitable dollar support remains so low?

On a hopeful note, I envision a day when it will be able to be said that
average charitable grant making percentages match population percentages.

Wanda

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K Wong (UVic)
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:49 PM
To: 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group'
Subject: RE: [DDN] Lifeline/Link-Up Violations - Order Admonishing Verizon

Thank you Valerie for bringing this notice to the attention of the DDN.
It is incredible that a small telco would be fined $20,000 for not
publicizing to one reservation and yet Verizon would get "admonished"
for ignoring eleven over three years. At least Qwest took the high road,
paid $250,000, and promised to go to a few pow-wows . This
slap on the wrist looks like it will do little to help Native
communities get connected.

I don't know why it is that Aboriginal or American Indian digital divide
issues get ignored, even by experts, but I have my suspicions. I was at
a meeting the other day with a group of educational technology gurus and
assistive technology advocates. We discussed issues for about an hour
before I finally brought up the fact that nobody had invited the local
Aboriginal society for people with disabilities. This despite statistics
that show lower SES indicators across the board for Aboriginal people
and a disability rate 1.3-7.0 times the Canadian average (depending on
which study you cite - they are all higher). Everyone there genuinely
seemed surprised by those numbers. I got the feeling that had I not been
there by some grace of the Creator, nobody would have cared.

I am not convinced it is racism, perhaps benign neglect or, dare I say
in academic circles, ignorance. I suppose I will just have to "be there"
whenever I can to pipe up at opportune moments.

Kelvin Wong
Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria

My Blog on Aboriginal People and Technology
http://nativetech.blogspot.com/


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valerie
Fast Horse
Sent: March 8, 2005 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DDN] Lifeline/Link-Up Violations - Order Admonishing Verizon

In Order DA 05-525, the Commission admonished Verizon for violating
Section 214(e)(1)(B) and the rules by failing to publicize the
availability of Lifeline or Link-Up services "in a manner reasonably
designed to reach those likely to qualify" for the services. 
 
The Commission found that Verizon failed adequately to publicize
Lifeline or Link-Up to low-income residents of 11 tribes in its service
area for a period of approximately three years. 
http://www.telecomlawblog.com/fcc-daily-455-lifelinelinkup-violations-or
der-admonishing-verizon.html
 
 
FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order:
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2005/DA-05-525A1.html
 
Verizon Gets Slap on Wrist for Failing to Publicize Lifeline and
Link-Up:
http://www.bennetlaw.com/rss.php#article20
  
 
Lifeline Link-Up Outreach
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/tcd/LLUO.html
 

Valerie Fast Horse
Director, IT
Coeur d'Alene Tribe


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RE: [DDN] Regarding the cellphone users

[Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan]

The problem with the article is that it does hit on some good points - giving 
people computers and internet access is not THE answer. But providing cell 
phones is also not THE answer. How did this become a battle between cell phones 
and computers? Why is it either/or? Both are tools, both have uses and solve 
certain issues. But, the big long-term picture takes a lot of work, time, and 
money. Not just handing off of cell phones and saying "We're done" any more 
than we can hand people computers and provide internet access and walk away. 
 
Siobhan
 
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell
Community Outreach Liaison
NN/LM-MCR
Creighton University Health Sciences Library
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
402.280.4156/800.338.7657 option#1,#2, then #1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://nnlm.gov/mcr
http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ 
 
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/siobhanchamp-blackwell 
  
 

 
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Re: [DDN] Regarding the cellphone users

[A. K. Mahan]

Further to the comments on mobile, it is also important to differentiate 
the pre-paid mobile sector, which is increasingly used in developing 
countries as a stand-in for fixed-line connections.  

For Africa, the percentage of mobile users who use prepaid is 85.3%. 
Generally, the poorer the country, the higher the level of prepaid use. 
Although increased connectivity is nothing to denigrate, there is 
nonetheless a clear contrast to countries with well-developed telecom 
infrastructure, where pre-paid is a choice among various mobile, and 
indeed, overall telecommunications services.  

The point is not to argue that mobile should not be used to extend the 
network – but to argue that if mobile (or more specifically, prepaid 
mobile) is being used instead of fixed line networks, then attention to 
social regulation needs to be adjusted; and lessons from mobile market 
developments need to be considered as a more formal element of the 
intersection of regulation and development strategies.  

The ITU Africa Telecommunication Indicators 2004 report notes that the 
only African countries for which mobile has not surpassed fixed line 
connections are those that either lack a mobile network or mobile 
competition.  

--
Amy Mahan
Montevideo, Uruguay






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RE: [DDN] The real digital divide (fwd)

[Wanda Jean Lord]

"No good deed goes unpunished" or "Do good anyways" and "Bloom where you're
planted" - so people have told me in the past...when faced with the natural
tendency of people to examine or criticize good work from a variety of
important and legitimate perspectives.  I remember once learning about how
the federal budget process worked and the sharer of information said a very
wise thing. He said "Of course, it is obvious, that very intelligent people
can legitimately disagree about priorities." 

I struggle with where the balance is too - is the most effective action
policy and legislation based (to achieve a long term goal or open a market)?
Is it the 'on the ground' one on one work in communities who may not ever
directly benefit from changed legislation and market opportunities due to a
variety of factors?  Is it in the profit sector? Is it via faith based or
NGO or nonprofit efforts?  Is it with an individual (teach them to fish or
in this case give them fishing poles)? An organization that's community
based (teach them to fish together)? An institution that has far reach and
the fiscal wherewithal to sustain effort (research best fishing practices,
create models and provide resources to increase the catch for all fishermen
- regardless of a lack of existing fishing poles and the money to buy them
or put them to the best use of some fishermen)? Is sustained effort the
measure of success? Are open markets the measure of success? Are increased
communications/technology abilities the measure?

Or is the actual increased economic condition of people living in poverty
the marker(individually increased cash flow, and/or increased short & long
term assets made possible via technology that would not otherwise exist)?

And then with all these questions - there has come a new thought to my mind
of late as I have observed the interaction of IT projects within more
culturally traditional and more assimilated communities.  In forensic
science there is a concept that when a person goes to a place they leave an
impact on the place - a speck of dust, a hair, something...and the place
also leaves an impact on the person - reciprocally giving to them - a speck
of dust, a hair, something...in some interactions the reciprocity is
balanced, in others it is highly imbalanced and produces more of an impact
on one or the other.

As we focus on bridging the DD - it appears that there are cultural
exchanges that are inherent in this work, with impacts. Are there models of
completed DD projects that work specifically with the markers of retaining
and/or strengthening the intact cultures to which the technology is
introduced while bringing economic benefits to those communities? 

I wonder at the impacts technology can have that either purposefully, or
without intent, act as a 'great assimilator.' Can anyone recommend
readings/research on this topic?

I am very interested in any thoughts any of you have on this topic and
appreciate them in advance.

Thank you,
Wanda



 

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Abeles
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:39 PM
To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Subject: Re: [DDN] The real digital divide (fwd)

Hi Andy

The mobile phone and radio, as others, here, have suggested seems to 
have been spot on. What we must also realize is that the many emerging 
features of the mobile phone, including txt msgs, gps and even pda 
capabilities are being actively deployed in the developed world for a 
number of commercial uses that, in the past, would have required a pc. 
Some applications, of course, require reading skills. But for many it is 
not needed.  A colleague has been in a car where four different 
occupants were on cells in four different languages. The claim that 
phone access is not available in some remote locations is less of a 
problem than the regulatory issues within a country

As I have said elsewhere, the issues are at the institutional levels 
more than in the technology arena. It seems that eager hands/minds in 
the NGO and foundation community find it easier to embrace a village 
project and rationalize it when a combined macro effort, with the stroke 
of a pen could release more opportunity and allow those who want to work 
in the field to be much more effective.

The other issue in the DD which relates to this is where exactly to 
attack the problem. For example, working in a remote village is 
interesting: but when compared to the number of disenfranchised who are 
living on the streets of major urban areas driven out of the economc 
dearth of the remote villages to the city, then bringing the digital 
world to the urban poor seems to have leverage. Why in a remote village 
in Bangladesh when the urban poor in the streets of Dhaka mean you could 
begin right after la

Re: [DDN] Opn Access Archiving

[David P. Dillard]

While in the introducing important resources mode, please permit me to
observe that a discussion group run by Ann Okerson at Yale University that
has a resource filled home page and public discussion group archives is
the LibLicense discussion group.  This group has had substantial
discussion of open access issues.  Furthermore, since libraries are one of
the oldest resources in the battle against the information divide of which
the digital divide is one part, the issues facing libraries in electronic
resource licensing are issues of importance to the digital divide.

Liblicense


Liblicense-L List Archives


D-Lib Magazine
September 1999
Volume 5 Number 9
ISSN 1082-9873
The LIBLICENSE Project and How it Grows
Ann Okerson
Associate University Librarian
Yale University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Introduction to LibLicense


"Increasingly, university and research libraries are being inundated with
information that has been created in digital format and transmitted and
accessed via computers. As the number of collections in digital formats
increase exponentially, more and more libraries and information providers
are facing a number of unique challenges presented by this relatively new
medium.

Chief among these new challenges is crafting agreements with information
owners that adequately assure libraries will continue to provide users
with comprehensive and timely access to information in digital formats.
Because of several unique properties of digital information, agreements
that govern the acquistion and maintenance of traditional paper
collections are inadequate in the digital information context. Unlike
paper materials, digital information generally is not purchased by the
library; rather it is licensed by the library from information providers.
A license usually takes the form of a written contract or agreement
between the library and the owner of the rights to distribute digital
information."

OPEN ACCESS IN THE LIBLICENSE ARCHIVES

Search results for '(open or opened or opening or openings or openness or
opener or opens or openest or openly or openers) and (access or accessed
or accessing or accesses)'

[I just searched open access, the computer had other ideas.]

Documents 1 - 10 of 1700 matches.

A small content sample of results.

Open access and impact factors ( was: Open access and the ALA)

Looking an open access gift horse in the mouth

On the Need to Take Both Roads to Open Access

The Harvards, the Have-Nots, and Open Access

Re: STM Statement on Open Access Bill

Boston Globe Article About Open Access

PNAS Introduces Open Access Publishing Option

RE: Open Access pricing and the perceived ability of research grants to
cover publication costs

How to fund open access journals from available sources

Paying for open access

Press Release: Open Access journals proven to compete on quality

learned societies and open access

Elsevier Gives Authors Green Light for Open Access Self-Archiving

Re: Open access business models

Open Access and "Membership Costs

Open Access Publishing Funding Models

Cost of Open Access Journals: Other Observations

STM Statement on Open Access



And, oh yes, there is some attention to the digital divide from the
library licensing perspective in this list's archives

Documents 1 - 10 of 32 matches

AP/Harcourt's Third World Model

Ebook Conference 2000

Soros Seeks to Provide Quality Journals for Developing Countries


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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---

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Dave Pentecost wrote:

> Creative Commons, which is fighting for more open culture through
> copyright reform, has a similar science initiative that digital divide
> network folks should be aware of.

> http://science.creativecommons.org/

> Best
> Dave


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Re: [DDN] Tunisia digital divide data needs

[David P. Dillard]

Here are some publications to consider that should have content regarding
the digital divide and Tunisia.

AFRICA CALLS FOR MORE CYBER-RIGHTS.
Mutume, Gumisai.
Contemporary Review
October 2004  v. 285  no. 1665  p. 226


Meeting report Communication technology in the developing nations.
Lewis, R..
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
April 2004  v. 20  no. 2  p. 159


Digital Divides and Network Investment: Perspectives of the World Dialogue
on Regulation.
Melody, William H.
I-Ways
2004  v. 27  no. 1  p. 21


Journal of Asian Economics
Volume 15, Issue 2 , April 2004, Pages 267-285
Copyright  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
An assessment of relative globalization in Asia during the 1980s and
1990s*1
R. Looney and P. C. Frederiksen,
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA
Received 4 April 2003;  Revised 11 December 2003;  accepted 2 February
2004.  Available online 30 April 2004


Telecommunications Policy
Volume 27, Issues 3-4 , April-May 2003, Pages 237-252
Copyright  2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
An exploratory model of inter-country Internet diffusion
Richard Beilock, , a and Daniela V. Dimitrova, b


Habitat International
Volume 26, Issue 1 , January 2002, Pages 21-31
Copyright  2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Low-cost information technology in developing countries: current
opportunities and emerging possibilities*1
Jeffrey James,
Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 Tilburg, LE, The Netherlands
Received 1 December 2000; revised 16 March 2001; accepted 30 May 2001
Available online 7 November 2001.


Telecommunications Policy
Volume 27, Issues 1-2 , February-March 2003, Pages 21-39
Copyright  2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Tele-centres as a way of achieving universal accessthe case of Ghana
Morten Falch, , a and Amos Anyimadub


Alcatel deploys a 3G/UMTS pilot network in Tunisia
30 Jun 2004
http://www.alcatel.com


Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
Government Brands Human Rights Groups Gathering Illegal
Human Rights Watch



Policy Reform, Economic Growth, and the Digital Divide: An Econometric
Analysis



Title Africa: bridging the digital divide
Source Saramandir qantrajati [1350-0775] Abungu
yr: 2002 vol: 54 iss: 3 pg: 29


The Digital Divide: Implications For African Business Development



I hope that these are of some help to you.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Fabrizio Nasti wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> i'm a long time lurker of this great mailing-list.
> Now I have a request for the members.
> Sorry for my uncertain english.

> I'm completing my work for the degree in
> Communication Sciences five years curriculum at
> the University of Rome. The subject of the thesis
> is the so called digital divide, particularly the
> role of community place-based initiatives in
> getting technology closer to people needs
> both in developed and developing countries.
> I'm writing also about the little italian
> organization i'm a member of (Pro-digi
> www.pro-digi.org) and the one-month volunteer
> project we ran in 2003 in south Tunisia,
> North-Africa. We used refurbished PC's equipped
> with free software (GNU-Linux OS, Mozilla,
> OpenOffice and some more) to fit out two labs
> connected to the Internet, and ran some basic and
> advanced training and workshops for some 30 people
> from several communities (basic keybording,
> mousing and "filing"; word processing, e-mail use,
> web-searching and browsing, web editing, etc).
> We also got volunteer help and support from two
> tunisians Linux users and developers, who
> delivered as well a seminar in arab language on
> free software ideas, history and features.
> Of the two labs only the one that was placed in a
> rural village community center became something
> similar to a telecenter and continued to work,
> even if with some troubles.

> I don't want to bore you with the entire report -
> if interested you can find more in our website,
> included the basic web pages students created
> about their communities - so I'll go directly to
> the point:

> does someone know about some up to date data,
> reports, case studies, articles, etc. about the
> digital divide - and issues related to - in
> Tunisia?

> I guess there would be great attention on
> Tunisia ICT issues because of the forthcoming
> second phase of the WSIS. So maybe anyone in the
> world, the real one, may help me more than Google did.

> Thanks a lot
> Fabrizio
> Italy
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Re: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD & Urban ethnic displacement in Washington & elsewhere

[BBracey]

i know Anita Brown very well.   I think she too did not get her due. There 
were some wonderful things that they let her do, but when it came to the big 
funding and the support it was from other sources, not the networks in DC that 
I 
am talking about. She was fortunate enough to be funded by Mario Morino, who 
is also a friend of mine. He made suggestions to the schools and groups but I 
must say as kind and as persistent as he was in trying to help me, there is 
nothing llike a school system to pretend to be a brick wall. So no school was 
built and he worked with community.

.I was very close with Anita, as being around and in the family grouping for 
a while .And I am ont of the Black Geeks as she called us. We went to a 
conference, she with me and she asked me , where are the community folks, these 
are 
all educators. We worked some areas the same and some different. 

There is Digital Sistas ( we did a forum on Capitol Hill) Shireen Mitchell.

In learning environments where computers and other technology can be found 
those that are actively engaged in the learning experience are boys (80 to 
90%). 
In the Adult Learning environments those that are actively engaged and have a 
high participation rate are women (80 to 90%). Many are puzzled about such a 
ratio and difference in participation. Digital Sisters has discovered that 
girls are opting out of math, science and technology around the fourth grade. 
They are opting out of advance courses if they are given the option. Once they 
reach adulthood they are opting back in to get better paying jobs and to 
advance 
their education. They are catching up on the ten to fifteen years that the 
boys now as men have an advantage over them. However, these women now have 
families, full time jobs and many other distractions that make the learning 
experience challenging. Many of these women are single parents.

I am talking academic computing , schools , ctcnets and that sort of thing.
GW had the funding for CTCnets and I tried to be involved but we just had 
meetings.
When Larry Irving invited us, I did use to attend the CTCnet meetings but 
they often
confliected with the ISTE meetings. As someone told me on the list only 3 
percent of people are all that interested in the schools so, that may be my 
problem. I apologize for taking the time to talk about it. Shireen Mitchell of 
Digital Sistas has good work, and so do the people at Edgewood Terrace


EdgeNet â A Community-driven Intranet at Edgewood Terrace, Washington DC
Jessica Venegas
Community Preservation and Development Corporation

 EdgeNet at Edgewood Terrace (www.EdgeNet.org)

 is a partnership between Community Preservation and Development Corporation 
(CPDC) and the Edgewood community to develop a formal community-driven and 
community-based residential network and website that brings in-home advanced 
information technology, capability, power and communication. This network is 
proving to be a powerful tool for transforming a population that initially was 
economically, socially, and politically powerless into a more educated, 
confident, 
vibrant, cohesive, self-reliant, and active community. With the 
implementation of the proposed residential network and an attached community 
empowerment 
program, residents are more technologically savvy and have the access, 
training, 
and support they need to be successful in life and join the economic 
mainstream. Broadband access is the backbone of other CPDC efforts to help the 
community gain greater control over the decisions that affect their lives. 
CPDCâs 
Career and Skill Enhancement programs have graduated over 1000 students who 
wished to acquire or upgrade the skills they needed to succeed in the IT field. 
In 
addition, CPDCâs Youth Development programs have infused technology into 
their 
experiential, standards-driven youth programs that operate in nine 
Capitol-area communities and reach over 400 children each year. ( TOPS Funded)
Those interested in supporting TOPS please go to the site and see more 
examples of what works.

I was addressing your question in the terms in which you spoke of the 
network. Andy and others have always been supportive. George Lucas, Bob 
Metcalfe, the 
professors at MIT,The Benton Foundation as well. You asked about the brothers 
I reflect. 





Bonnie Bracey
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/digitaldivideclass
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey
Edreform.net ( my portal educational technology applications)
applications.edreform.net
Technology Applications for Learning
The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology 
applications for learning.
bbracey at aol com
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Re: [DDN] The real digital divide (fwd)

[Cindy Lemcke-Hoong]

Hello Tom, 
 
You said : 
Why in a remote village in Bangladesh when the urban poor in the streets of 
Dhaka mean you 
could begin right after landing.
 
One reason I could think of is to stop migration. Young people from villages 
tend to move to big cities to find a 'better living', or being attracted by the 
choices. I came from a small village. After high school I left and went to the 
capital and eventually went abroad 35 years ago. I am one of the lucky ones 
because I am now in the same crowd as all of you, sitting infront of a PC and 
tell the world the plight of the poor and less fortunate. Most time I just feel 
down-right guilty. 
 
Countries such as China ... constructions in cities attracted villagers. One 
reason is, as a labourer, you don't need to know too much reading. Just pure 
muscle. And miserable lives. I saw that in China, Singapore (that was in the 
80s, where foreign workers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia lived in 
deplorable conditions as compared to the local. The Malaysian faired better 
since their home is only a hop away ...), now in Malaysia ... 
 
Digital Divide, migrations, refugees, education, corruptions, tyrants etc. etc. 
etc. ... go hand-in-hand. Taking care of one without managing the others is not 
going to work. If we look at all the ills created by migrations at this present 
moment in Europe, or any where eles in this world, then I am asking is DDN 
looking at the right directions? Is DDN working with the right stakeholders and 
partners? It has to be cohesive 'managing' and not with a one track mind of 
solving just DD ... we have to solve the fundamental problems, help them to 
build a solid foundations ... 
 
These are all the work of policy-makers. But what do one see with policy 
makers? POWER hunger. POWER mongel. GREED, DOMINATION .. Starting from the most 
powerful nation on earth. IF the US would spend less time fighiting with UN and 
EU, and give more constructive support, would it not be a better use of time 
and resources? But what do we see just from one simple example ... the Tsunami 
and earth-quake disaster in Asia ??? Or Darfur ??? Or the removal of the UN 
Refugee commissioner ... why? 
 
Digital divide is at the bottom of the list. Don't just give them fish. And 
sometime I think we do more harm than good.
 
Cindy

Tom Abeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Andy

The mobile phone and radio, as others, here, have suggested seems to 
have been spot on. What we must also realize is that the many emerging 
features of the mobile phone, including txt msgs, gps and even pda 
capabilities are being actively deployed in the developed world for a 
number of commercial uses that, in the past, would have required a pc. 
Some applications, of course, require reading skills. But for many it is 
not needed. A colleague has been in a car where four different 
occupants were on cells in four different languages. The claim that 
phone access is not available in some remote locations is less of a 
problem than the regulatory issues within a country

As I have said elsewhere, the issues are at the institutional levels 
more than in the technology arena. It seems that eager hands/minds in 
the NGO and foundation community find it easier to embrace a village 
project and rationalize it when a combined macro effort, with the stroke 
of a pen could release more opportunity and allow those who want to work 
in the field to be much more effective.

The other issue in the DD which relates to this is where exactly to 
attack the problem. For example, working in a remote village is 
interesting: but when compared to the number of disenfranchised who are 
living on the streets of major urban areas driven out of the economc 
dearth of the remote villages to the city, then bringing the digital 
world to the urban poor seems to have leverage. Why in a remote village 
in Bangladesh when the urban poor in the streets of Dhaka mean you could 
begin right after landing.

thoughts?

tom abeles

Andy Carvin wrote:

> From the latest issue of The Economist -ac
>
>
> The real digital divide
>
> IT WAS an idea born in those far-off days of the internet bubble: the 
> worry that as people in the rich world embraced new computing and 
> communications technologies, people in the poor world would be left 
> stranded on the wrong side of a “digital divide”. Five years after the 
> technology bubble burst, many ideas from the time—that “eyeballs” 
> matter more than profits or that internet traffic was doubling every 
> 100 days—have been sensibly shelved. But the idea of the digital 
> divide persists. On March 14th, after years of debate, the United 
> Nations will launch a “Digital Solidarity Fund” to finance projects 
> that address “the uneven distribution and use of new information and 
> communication technologies” and “enable excluded people and countries 
> to enter the new era of the information society”. Yet the debate over 
> the digital divide is founded on a myth—that 

RE: [DDN] Lifeline/Link-Up Violations - Order Admonishing Verizon

[K Wong \(UVic\)]

Thank you Valerie for bringing this notice to the attention of the DDN.
It is incredible that a small telco would be fined $20,000 for not
publicizing to one reservation and yet Verizon would get "admonished"
for ignoring eleven over three years. At least Qwest took the high road,
paid $250,000, and promised to go to a few pow-wows . This
slap on the wrist looks like it will do little to help Native
communities get connected.

I don't know why it is that Aboriginal or American Indian digital divide
issues get ignored, even by experts, but I have my suspicions. I was at
a meeting the other day with a group of educational technology gurus and
assistive technology advocates. We discussed issues for about an hour
before I finally brought up the fact that nobody had invited the local
Aboriginal society for people with disabilities. This despite statistics
that show lower SES indicators across the board for Aboriginal people
and a disability rate 1.3-7.0 times the Canadian average (depending on
which study you cite - they are all higher). Everyone there genuinely
seemed surprised by those numbers. I got the feeling that had I not been
there by some grace of the Creator, nobody would have cared.

I am not convinced it is racism, perhaps benign neglect or, dare I say
in academic circles, ignorance. I suppose I will just have to "be there"
whenever I can to pipe up at opportune moments.

Kelvin Wong
Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria

My Blog on Aboriginal People and Technology
http://nativetech.blogspot.com/


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Fast Horse
Sent: March 8, 2005 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DDN] Lifeline/Link-Up Violations - Order Admonishing Verizon

In Order DA 05-525, the Commission admonished Verizon for violating
Section 214(e)(1)(B) and the rules by failing to publicize the
availability of Lifeline or Link-Up services "in a manner reasonably
designed to reach those likely to qualify" for the services. 
 
The Commission found that Verizon failed adequately to publicize
Lifeline or Link-Up to low-income residents of 11 tribes in its service
area for a period of approximately three years. 
http://www.telecomlawblog.com/fcc-daily-455-lifelinelinkup-violations-or
der-admonishing-verizon.html
 
 
FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order:
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2005/DA-05-525A1.html
 
Verizon Gets Slap on Wrist for Failing to Publicize Lifeline and
Link-Up:
http://www.bennetlaw.com/rss.php#article20
  
 
Lifeline Link-Up Outreach
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/tcd/LLUO.html
 

Valerie Fast Horse
Director, IT
Coeur d'Alene Tribe


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Re: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD & Urban ethnic displacement in Washington & elsewhere

[scranesun]

--
Dear Marian and others:

Please become acquainted with Anita Brown - who by the way, is very happy to 
meet new people interested in IT , especially people of color.  

http://www.girlgeeks.org/innergeek/inspiringwomen/abrown.shtml

Check out a short interview with her at the above site.  She is an activist who 
got involved in spreading the word about technology after she became a 
grandmother and she has done so much for people in the Washington DC area who 
have been left behind or underserved or just getting introduced to the world of 
technology. She is a true DD pioneer!
There is a page at her blackgeeks.net site that lists all kinds of activites 
and businesses owned by people of color around the DC area.
Hope this helps.
 REgards,
Susan 
Susan Crane-Sundell
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SUCB
 
 Marian Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> A. Carvin wrote: "... the producers of the show contacted her after I
> put out a call on DDN and WWWEDU for DC-area community bloggers. ..."
> 
> Is there a digital divide perspective on the growing displacement of
> Black Americans from some major U.S. cities such as Washington, DC? I
> am a native of Washington, DC and I would appreciate suggestions on
> finding places here in the District which offer training in
> alternative media skills.
> 
> Regarding the digital divide I'd also like to find other people in the
> DC/VA/Maryland area who are equally concerned about the drastic
> displacement of Washington, DC's Black majority population from their
> places of residence and from their city.
> 
> Though it's nature and history are almost never honestly portrayed,
> Washington, DC is a southern U.S. city. It is located well south of
> the Mason-Dixon Line which divides Maryland from southern Pennsylvania
> north of Baltimore, Maryland. During enslavement the Mason-Dixon Line
> divided Blacks who (finally) had become free in the U.S. North (which
> also had slavery early on) from those in the slaveholding South.
> 
> Washington, DC - including the U.S. Capitol building - was built on
> urban, enslaved Black labor.
> 
> Washington's famous Georgetown neighborhood once was Black, as was
> Foggy Bottom and the rest of Southwest DC.
> 
> The city still has a majority Black American population but they are
> rapidly being more and more marginalised both spatially and
> economically.
> 
> Black Washington is made up of an economic range of citizens and
> families from middle-middle, lower middle/working, and low- and
> fixed-income classes, to upper-middle class and a very, very few who
> may be wealthy, although almost none are so from inherited wealth.
> 
> Marian Douglas
> Marian's Blog 
> http://marian.typepad.com
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Re: [DDN] Blogs, Wikis Clicking on Campus (fwd)

[Debbie Podwika]

Read this article this morning & posted the link in my WebCT Discussion
Board for my students to read & discuss. 

I'm wondering what % of teachers (per level) are using blogs &/or Wikis
in their classes? Anyone have any data or general impressions?

Debbie

Deborah S. Podwika, M.A., C.S.M. 
Kankakee Community College
Psychology Department
P.O. Box 888, River Road
Kankakee, IL 60901-0888
Office: 815-802-8712  NEW!
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