[DDN] Time Line on the Digital Divide, Information Infrastructure

[BBracey]

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There is no separate URL that I can find for The Information Infrastructure: 
Reaching Society's Goals
Report on the Information Infrastructure Task Force Committee on Applications 
and technology

it is included in this report
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/annualrpt/94repasc.html#NIL 
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Re: [DDN] TIME LINE OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE? Do You Have These Included?

[A. K. Mahan]

Bonnie,
Thanks for this quote. Yes, it is available online:

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/sermons/680331.000_Remaining_Awake.html

 - akm

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"There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking
place in the world today . . . that is, a technological revolution, with the
impact of automation and cybernation . . . . Now, whenever anything new comes
into history it brings with it new challenges and new opportunities. 
. . . [T]he
geographical oneness of this age has come into being to a large 
extent through

modern man's scientific ingenuity. Modern man through his scientific genius
has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. . . . Through our
scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a 
neighborhood
and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a 
brotherhood. But

somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this."
That was Rev. Martin Luther King, March 31, 1968.


From the NIIAC


I have a copy of it may be on line, don't know.


Was a report on the Information Infrastructure Task Force , Committee on
Aplplications and Technology, NIST, US Dept of Commerce
September 1994
Special Publication 868
Nat. Inst. Stand. Techol.
Spec. Publ. 868
160 PAGES

COMMON GROUND
http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/niiacsec.txt
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/screen/13.html





THEN THERE ARE THE SPEECHES OF LARRY IRVING
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Portal Work
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Technology Applications for learning in the portal
applications.edreform.net
Technology Applications for Learning
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applications for learning.

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[DDN] protopage web service - recommended

[Phil Shapiro]

hi everyone -

i've been getting a lot of use recently from a free web service named
"protopage."  this service lets you save notes and links from websurfing
sessions -- or from anything. the saved information can be public or private.

what i like about the service is that you can easily add pages to your
protopage account.  and you can easily add and edit "panels" to each page.

   lastly, being able to add wallpaper and other photos is really nice. 

 to give you an idea of what a protopage account can look like, here is
the front page of my protopage account.

http://protopage.com/pshapiro

  the wallpaper photo is an imac running ubuntu linux.
(http://www.ubuntulinux.com)

you don't need to use a large font in your own protopages.  i
decided to do that so that my public protopage is more readable.

   - phil

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"Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates

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[DDN] Interactive Video Webcast: Ambassador Gross on Future of Internet / Post-WSIS Assessment (fwd)

[Andy Carvin]

fyi... Please contact the organizers if you have any questions -andy

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Interne t / Post-WSIS Assessment
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:10:18 -0500
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*December 13 Webcast To Explore WSIS Outcome/Future of Internet*

Ambassador David Gross, the chief U.S. negotiater at the World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS), will discuss the future of the Internet
and will be available to answer your questions during
a interactive video webcast on December 13 at 12:00 EST (1700GMT). To
view and participate in the webcast please visit
http://www.cpcwebcast.com/state at that time.
You can also send your questions in advance to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. We expect a large audience and questions
received earlier will have a better chance of being answered. Gross also
will take live questions during the presentation which will proceed much
faster than a standard webchat.

No username or password is needed for this chat so feel free to forward
this to anyone who might be interested.

Webcast Announcement:
http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2005/Dec/06-804860.html
Background Information:
http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2005/Nov/16-685260.html

Best Regards,
Tim Receveur

Website Manager/Writer-Editor
Bureau of International Information Programs
Department of State (IIP/G/EUR)
301 Fourth St., SW (SA-44 4-South)
Washington, DC 20547
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[DDN] free and nonprofit digital equity resources

[Robert T. McLaughlin]

We are involved in some digital equity initiatives that Digital Divide
listserv subscribers might find of interest.

Through a new nonprofit partnership with Computers for Schools, which leads
a national network of several hundred computer refurbishment programs, we're
offering deeply discounted fully refurbished desktop and laptop PCs bundled
with open source productivity software and extensive digital academic
content (http://refurb.nici-mc2.org).

We also host a free portal on digital equity strategies and resources at
http://digitalequity.edreform.net. From this portal's home page users can
download a free and newly updated "Digital Equity Toolkit".

Lastly, through our nonprofit international Virtual Library Co-op
(www.vlibrary.org, December 2005 demo log-in username = virtual, password =
conference), subscribers have unlimited access to Encyclopedia Britannica,
McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of science and Technology, World Almanac, Wilson
Select Full-Text's database of over a half-million full text journal and
magazine articles, Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, Oxford English Dictionary,
National Science Digital Library, and OCLC's World Card Catalog database of
bibliographic information on nearly every item ever in print worldwide along
with the location of libraries that house a given item so it may be accessed
via interlibrary loan. The Virtual Library's two purposes are to make such
"Deep Web" academic resources accessible to educators and learners
worldwide, and to lower the cost per person by offering databases from only
those providers that agree to lower the per person cost as Co-op membership
grows. The cost is US$12 per year for individuals, andUS$7/person for groups
of 20 or more. The nonprofit co-op has been endorsed by the European Council
of International Schools' Librarians Committee, the Assn. of Teacher
Educators, New England Assn. of Schools and Colleges, National Staff
Development Council and about 20 other organizations.

I hope these resources are helpful.  

Regards,

Bob McLaughlin


Robert T. McLaughlin, Ph.D. 
Executive Director
National Institute for Community Innovations
2905 North Street
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
Tel. (802) 229-1742
Cell (802) 249-1159
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RE: [DDN] Help with using South Asia Regional Network site for bridgingthe divide

[Rahman, Akm \(OCD\)]

Yes, it's a problem.  One solution could be is to create a list of
non-profits (NGOs) and public agencies and contact them initially to
disseminate information.  My own experience with non-profits is that
they are an excellent medium for outreach to target population.  

Akm. Rahman
 

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Subject: [DDN] Help with using South Asia Regional Network site for
bridgingthe divide



Hello everybody,

We at South Asia Regional Network ( SARnet ) are trying to use ICT to
further our common goals. We have developed a platform (
www.wesouthasians.org ) for this.

What I find is that the people and organisations for whom the initiative
is intended, are not aware of the potential of this resource. This is
for a number of reasons. For example :

lack of knowledge and experience of the value of the Internet

lack of skills in using the Internet

Low priority to use of ICT in their work

and so on.

Does anyone have suggestions and ideas to remedy this?

Thanx

Tushar Sampat
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> Dear Kris and all interested,
>
> Please join me in the *Respectful Interfaces* Programme of the 
> Communications Coordination Committee for the U.N.; I worked with 
> Abraham  Maslowe himself and feel you post has an affinity with 
> prioritizing of  needs. [the needs/achievement pyramids, etc., 
> starting with respect for the  absolute basics in life].
>
> Warm regards, LDMF.
> Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff.
> Internet and Prior Nets, early 1960's --
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kris Dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:51 PM
> Subject: [DDN] Don't waste time on trivialities
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> Dear friends,
>
> I find from some of the conversations, the prioroties are misplaced.
>
> Instead of trying to score a point over each other, why don't we 
> synergise our energies and try to make drinking water, food, clothing,

> shelter, etc available to the needy, probably using ICT and then teach

> them the basic health and sanitaion, using ICT?
> ... (see original post).
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[DDN] Help with using South Asia Regional Network site for bridging the divide

[tsampat]

Hello everybody,

We at South Asia Regional Network ( SARnet ) are trying to use ICT to
further our common goals. We have developed a platform (
www.wesouthasians.org ) for this.

What I find is that the people and organisations for whom the initiative
is intended, are not aware of the potential of this resource. This is
for a number of reasons. For example :

lack of knowledge and experience of the value of the Internet

lack of skills in using the Internet

Low priority to use of ICT in their work

and so on.

Does anyone have suggestions and ideas to remedy this?

Thanx

Tushar Sampat
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> Dear Kris and all interested,
>
> Please join me in the *Respectful Interfaces* Programme of the
> Communications Coordination Committee for the U.N.; I worked with
> Abraham  Maslowe himself and feel you post has an affinity with
> prioritizing of  needs. [the needs/achievement pyramids, etc.,
> starting with respect for the  absolute basics in life].
>
> Warm regards, LDMF.
> Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff.
> Internet and Prior Nets, early 1960's --
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Kris Dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:51 PM
> Subject: [DDN] Don't waste time on trivialities
>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I find from some of the conversations, the prioroties are misplaced.
>
> Instead of trying to score a point over each other, why don't we
> synergise our energies and try to make drinking water, food, clothing,
> shelter, etc available to the needy, probably using ICT and then teach
> them the basic health and sanitaion, using ICT?
> ... (see original post).
>
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[DDN] An Invitation to Serve on My Dissertation Committe (Visiting Scholar)

[Donna Sullivan]

Greetings DDN Members,

 

I would like to humbly request your service and expertise. I am seeking
a visiting scholar to serve on my dissertation committee. I am a
doctoral candidate in the School of Business at Capella University,
specializing in Information Technology. I am currently employed with the
e-NC Authority, whose primary mission is to get all North Carolinians
connected to broadband Internet access and a better quality of life. I
also teach online technology courses at the undergraduate level. From a
broad perspective, my research and dissertation will focus on how
technology is changing the way we conduct day-to-day activities, its
impact on society (i.e. individuals, families, organizations, and
communities), assumptions and beliefs about the resistance of technology
and how to change the perceptions. Additionally, I plan to research
topics that relate to bridging the digital divide and increasing the
overall awareness, use, and ownership of technology. More specifically,
I am interested in measuring the value of information technology in
small nonprofit organizations that provide human and community
development services. The research question I would like to address is
"Does the technology 'productivity paradox' still exist in small
non-profit organizations that provide human and community development
services"? And "If so, why?" This knowledge will ultimately empower
these organizations in using information technology to increase the
effectiveness of their organizations.

 

Albeit a small one, Capella University does provide a stipend for
visiting scholars. I hope you will strongly consider serving as my
mentor/committee member. If you are unable to serve on my dissertation
committee, perhaps you can recommend someone (and provide me with their
contact information) that might be interested and able to serve on my
committee. 

 

My expectation for the dissertation experience is to have the
opportunity to marry the knowledge and research skills I have gained in
my coursework, to produce a scholarly paper that will contribute to the
body of knowledge related to the aforementioned topic and relevant to
this field of study. Upon completion of my degree program, my objective
is to become a community leader of technology-based economic development
initiatives and a college professor.

 

If you are interested in serving as a visiting scholarly on my
dissertation committee, or discussing this opportunity further, I can be
reached at (910) 322-2253. I can also be reached via email at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your time and consideration. I look
forward to an opportunity to speak with you soon. 

 

Very respectfully,

Donna A. Sullivan

Doctoral Candidate

Capella University

 

Address:  5514 Crescentview Parkway

Raleigh, NC 27606

 



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[DDN] *Respectful Interfaces* (was re policy versons other concerns).

[Respectful_Interfaces]

Hi Bonnie and Colleagues,

Thanks much for your note of interest. I should have this organized in broad 
form over the next week, with some explicit points of connection. I am 
delighted to link up with you all here.

I am thinking of a Thursday earlier evening venue at the N.Y. U.N. physical 
site in N.Y. and a  prior Wednesday Night online caucus for those not 
geographically near. Perhaps in chats with graphics interfaces as well as 
textual since a lot of us are 'diagrammers' and can draw same together and save 
them online for discussion and modification.

As a comment respective to vision-ing, this work is basically service oriented, 
where you are content experts and supply the real meaningfulness.  As in 
earlier work in Expert Systems (classical age of "artificial intelligence") - 
systems merely assist, and the people are the real power and source of 
knowledge and wisdom.

Thanking you and sending very best wishes, LDMF.

Linda D. Misek-falkoff, Ph.D., J.D..
P.S. At a slant but related to "divides" and "divides bridged," a reminder that 
the 7th Ad Hoc Meetings on the human-rights based Intl. Disability Convention 
(Treaty when ratified) takes place  commencing Jan. 12, 2006 for a few weeks at 
the U.N. in New York.  Accessibility of many types including for both encoding 
and decoding "rights" in contexts of Information & Communication Technologies 
on an equal basis is a huge issue.  And one highly charged with themes of 
connectivity (by choice) for all, whether now separated out-of-network by. 
gender, economics, geography, age, or disability or ethnic origin (and more) - 
and public/private percepts of same and their  all too often compounding 
interactions.  I post this here just in case a list member wishes a Pass, in 
order to witness and actively take part in governments and civil society 
interacting with vibrancy in the area of "Respites."


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[DDN] TIME LINE OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE? Do You Have These Included?

[BBracey]

 "There can be no gainsaying of the fact that a great revolution is taking 
place in the world today . . . that is, a technological revolution, with the 
impact of automation and cybernation . . . . Now, whenever anything new comes 
into history it brings with it new challenges and new opportunities. . . . 
[T]he 
geographical oneness of this age has come into being to a large extent through 
modern man's scientific ingenuity. Modern man through his scientific genius 
has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains. . . . Through our 
scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood 
and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But 
somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this."
 That was Rev. Martin Luther King, March 31, 1968.

>From the NIIAC 

I have a copy of it may be on line, don't know.


Was a report on the Information Infrastructure Task Force , Committee on 
Aplplications and Technology, NIST, US Dept of Commerce
September 1994
Special Publication 868
Nat. Inst. Stand. Techol.
Spec. Publ. 868
160 PAGES

COMMON GROUND
http://nsi.org/Library/Compsec/niiacsec.txt
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/screen/13.html





THEN THERE ARE THE SPEECHES OF LARRY IRVING
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/speeches/urban62698.htm




Bonnie Bracey Sutton
bbracey at aol com
Outreach GLEF.org
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey
My communities
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/summitforchildren
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/gendergap
CyberEd Resources : ICT's and Education (owner)
Games and Education (owner)
Science without Frontiers STEM Initiatives K-12 (owner)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey

Portal Work
http://edreform.net/
Technology Applications for learning in the portal
applications.edreform.net
Technology Applications for Learning
The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology 
applications for learning.

http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM
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[DDN] Royal Society Fellows supporting OA

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Friends:

Here is a letter sent by many Fellows of the Royal Society who support open 
access to Lord Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society. More Fellows (FRS) 
are expected to sign. 

Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]



 


Lord Martin Rees
President
Royal Society
6-9 Carlton Terrace
London
SW1Y 5AG

7th December 2005  

Dear Lord Rees

As Fellows of the Royal Society, we would like to express our disappointment 
with the Society's recent position statement1 on open access to published 
research. The society's statement, which takes a largely negative stance on 
open access, appears to be aimed at delaying implementation of the Research 
Councils UK's proposed policy2 on access to research outputs.

As working scientists who support open access to published research, we believe 
that the Society should support RCUK's proposal, rather than oppose it. The 
proposed RCUK policy will ensure that the results of research funded by the 
Research Councils are made freely and rapidly available, maximizing their 
utility not only to the scholarly community in the United Kingdom and around 
the world, but also to practitioners (including doctors and nurses) and to the 
British public whose taxes largely support the research. The RCUK policy has 
strong backing from librarians and academics, and has received official 
support3 from Universities UK, the organization that represents UK university 
vice-chancellors and principals.

In seeking to delay or even to block the proposed RCUK policy, the Royal 
Society appears to be putting the concerns of existing publishers (including 
the Society itself) ahead of the needs of science. The position statement 
ignores considerable evidence demonstrating the viability of open access, 
instead warning ominously of 'disastrous' consequences for science publishing. 
We believe that these concerns are mistaken.

The move towards open access to research literature builds on the tradition of 
making research data openly available, a standard that is well established 
within the scientific community. For example, free availability of genetic 
data, such as the genome sequences of humans, mice, pathogens and plants, has 
greatly accelerated the pace of research in both academic and commercial 
settings

In adopting a pro-open access policy, RCUK will be joining an increasing number 
of funding agencies striving for open access to research results. In the UK, 
the Wellcome Trust has already taken a lead by requiring that articles be 
placed in an openly accessible archive. In the US, funders such as the Howard 
Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health have adopted 
policies to increase access to research. And across Europe and the rest of the 
world funding agencies are recognizing that public access to the fruits of the 
research they fund will ensure that this work is effective in fostering the 
global sharing of knowledge and the creativity that is essential to scientific 
endeavour.

As Fellows, we urge the Royal Society not to delay the proposed RCUK policy, 
but to support it so as to foster professional and public access to research 
information, and to enable British research to achieve its maximum potential. 

Sincerely,

Professor Michael Ashburner FRS, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
Professor Jonathan Ashmore FRS, University College London, UK
Professor Allan Bradley FRS, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Professor Adrian Bird FRS, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Martin Bobrow FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Mark S Bretcher FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, 
UK
Professor Jeremy Brockes FRS, University College London, UK
Professor Ian Butterworth FRS, Imperial College, London, UK
Professor George Cross FRS, Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, USA
Professor Kay E Davies FRS, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, Oxford, UK
Dr Richard Durbin FRS, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Professor Douglas T Fearon FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Mike Gale FRS, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
Dr Michel Goedert FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Professor Peter Goodfellow FRS, UK
Professor Michael B. Green FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
*Professor Brian Greenwood FRS, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 
UK 
Professor Norman N Greenwood, FRS, University of Leeds, UK
Professor Frank Grosveld FRS, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*Professor Paul Harvey FRS, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Nick Hastie FRS, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
Professor Brigid Hogan FRS, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Professor Jonathan C Howard FRS, University of Cologne, Germany
Professor Thomas Jessell FRS, Columbia University, New York, USA
Professor Marc Kirschner ForMemRS, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
Professor Donald Knuth ForMemRS, Stanford University, CA, USA
Professor Arthur Kornberg FRS and Nobel Lau