Re: [DDN] Intel: Poor Want 'Real' Computers (fwd)

2005-12-14 Thread BBracey

In a message dated 12/13/05 4:55:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


> 
> Of course I see your point (otherwise I would not be involved so deeply in
> digital equity/digital divide issues) but, as with the case of Barrett
> announcing that everyone needs a real computer, shouldn't the point be that
> those concerned should be making the decisions about their future? :-)
> 

I support Sandy... and the work that is going on nationally and 
internationally. We often find that we have to educate and involve everyone, 
that means our 
minority teachers and communities in the understanding of what can be with 
the use of computers. 

Community Groups
source: http://www.edutopia.org/getstarted/community.php

In the Digital Age, our best schools are tearing down the artificial boundary 
of the classroom walls, inviting -- depending on -- the community's active 
involvement in educating its children.
 Science centers, museums, hospitals, universities, business organizations, 
and parents' groups offer a diversity of vital resources and expertise to local 
schools. Beyond furthering the education of students, these school-community 
partnerships support the larger needs of children and families, thereby 
strengthening the entire community.

International groups have to come to the table and be empowered with the 
knowledge of what might work. The UN Task Force has been working with this idea 
.. 
for some time.

Bonnie Bracey Sutton
bbracey at aol com
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[DDN] Who wants a broadcast fax server? Yes, you do.

2005-12-14 Thread Dave A. Chakrabarti

Hi all,

In partnership with Chicago's wonderful Linux group (FreeGeek Chicago: 
http://www.freegeekchicago.org/), we've decided it's about time we had a 
replicable, well-documented, broadcast fax solution. The idea is to get 
together and make use of FreeGeek's linux expertise to turn an average, 
low-end, nothing-fancy desktop computer we had lying around into a fax 
server capable of automatically sending high-volume faxes to addresses / 
numbers from pre-built databases. The immediate use that comes to mind 
is in advocacy / press releases / flyer distribution etc, but I'm sure 
most nonprofits could benefit from this kind of thing. And it'll be a 
great primer on the world of open source software and Linux, and the 
possibilities inherent in your old computer boxes.


We're currently compiling a list of interested parties, and we expect to 
set a date to meet and build this thing in the near future. If there's 
enough interest from people / groups that won't be able to attend in the 
Chicago area, we can make extensive, newbie-friendly documentation 
available online soon afterwards.


Anyone who'd like to be in on this, please email me and let me know. 
Please mention if you're in the Chicago area and would be interested in 
attending the build. You'll also get a tour of the Free Geek facility 
and hands-on experience of the work they're doing.


Thanks,

  Dave.

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Re: [DDN] Intel: Poor Want 'Real' Computers (fwd)

2005-12-14 Thread Taran Rampersad
Copying to the CARDICIS list because this is an interesting thing for
that list as well.

Sandra Andrews wrote:

>Good point about sharing. Similarly, I have been hearing from an elder that,
>in the case of a cultural group that I am working with in Mexico, they'd
>also want to start with just a few laptops. Giving laptops to all the
>  
>
>children would impact the culture too much too quickly. Who knows what the
>  
>
> culture might lose before members even became aware of the value of what
> would be lost?!

I don't understand this way of thinking, and I'm interested in the
premises of it. Having just come back from a Culture and ICT conference
(http://www.cardicis.org ) last week, I know what I don't know and part
of what I don't know revolves around the fact that technology changes
culture. Managing cultural change really isn't my business, it sounds a
bit too 'Mein Kampf'ish... but understanding the cultural change is
interesting, and teaches just as it learns.

Rapid technological change, I believe, is a cultural change by
definition - because culture is not separate from people, and people
produce technology (though we do have technology being created by
technology now through evolutionary algorithms). Any rapid change in a
culture comes at a cost, and that cost is based on a value of the change
as perceived by the culture. If the value is too low for the cost,
people of a culture do not accept the change. If the value is high and
the cost is low, people accept the change. Marketing of hardware and
software revolves around changing culture with every evolution of
Moore's Law. This is not too different from Friedman's, 'The Lexus and
the Olive Tree' - in fact, it may be derivative of that and many other
things. In Mexico, the Olive Tree - or identity - is important, and the
Lexus (technology change) may not be seen as important. But the two
aren't as distinct as academic discussion can allow for. The two terms
exist so that people can think about them in an encompassing way, but
too often we talk about dominance between the two when the real trick is
balance.

So now, when we speak of technological change in a culture, we are
talking about many different kinds of changes. First, there is the
effect of the technology itself. Second, there is the technology's
original culture. Third, there are derivative changes in culture - as
time progresses, more changes occur because of previous changes.

So yes - giving laptops to everyone might have a negative cultural
impact - and it surprises me that I could come to that statement - but I
have to also redirect to the point of value and cost. If in Mexico, as
an example, the culture sees a value that outweighs the cost - the
change can still be 'good' or 'bad' depending on where one is standing
and where you are relative to a stream of light. But the changes do have
to occur as well. Good and bad are subjective. But if we are intent in
building technological bridges in a world where every country is
promising it's citizens that the specific country will be a 'developing
nation' - well, I'm sure that the real problem is not technological, but
rather seeking a culture's identity while trying to implement the
technology.

I think cultural change is inevitable. And one of the points I have been
trying to make in the $100 million laptop debate is similar - technology
change has to be managed by the culture that is implementing it, not the
culture that insists that it 'knows the right way'. India has seen an
upsurge in problems with it's technological changes. Some say some of
those those changes are good, some say that they are bad - but isn't a
culture's primary job that of regularizing the changes within the
culture itself? Do we measure progress in how many dual income families
there are? How does one measure the progress of a culture - the change?

Indeed, the only progress measurement I know of is a weird thing called
'survival'. But that doesn't mean that all aspects of the culture
survive. Greece didn't have coffee before the Ottoman empire, but how
many Greeks consider coffee a part of their culture?

Interesting thing to consider. Change can be a nasty bad thing, or it
can be a good thing. The answer, really, lies with the younger
generations because whatever changes occur to the culture of their
parents, it's their future culture we're discussing. And oddly enough,
it's not ours. What a strange world.

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Re: [DDN] Intel: Poor Want 'Real' Computers (fwd)

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Mondesire
  Thank you Cindy for the kind words...
   
  "One of the major problem is, we tend to simplify things and provide a 
ONE-size-fit-all solution. We think what works in Latin America will  work in 
Asia..."
   
  Both of which are CONTINENTS with a myriad of geographic, economic, and 
sociological environments, not to mention ethnicities, cultures, languages, 
often with multiple dialects within those.  Solutions to the problems that any 
one country faces still has to engage the millions of individuals that make up 
a given society which likely has urban, suburban, exurban, and rural 
components.  So indeed, "technology is not the problem--people is."
   
  The good thing about ICT is we can bring minds together from across the world 
to try get a handle on a given problem.  I am pretty much a Luddite terrified 
by the prosepct of even downloading music, let alone building a Blog.  There, I 
said it!  On the other hand, I am Blessed with a gift of gab and a mind that 
can cut through the nonsense and get to the core of certain issues.  This 
hasn't made me any $$ but I have been able to help some folks learn to use the 
technologies I don't understand to their advantage.  Each to their own 
abilities.  
   
  I look to people like Andy, Taran, Phil, Dr. Bork, Cindy, Claude, the 
indefatiguable Bonnie Bracey and all the rest of our DDN brethren to fill in 
the gaps. 
   
  All the Best!
   
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RE: [DDN] Intel: Poor Want 'Real' Computers (fwd)

2005-12-14 Thread Ken Callaghan
Hi Cindy

Your comments are so straightforward and incisive. We are in danger of
blaming technology, or the lack of it, for the digital divide, whereas
people seldom consider themselves as having some responsibility for
their own position. This is not to minimize the problems that exist
where access is an issue, but it's not the main issue.

As a thought, if computers were introduced into an environment, be it a
country or a community, where previously there were no computers, and
everyone had access, would there still be a digital divide? In Ireland
the town of Ennis was selected for an experiment by the Irish Government
and DELL who put a computer in every home in the town along with an
internet connection. No-one had an excuse not to use a computer and
no-one had an excuse not to get online. It would be interesting to see
how many in that town are now buying new computers to replace the
originals which are now well out-of-date. If the computer has become an
integral part of life they would be making every effort to buy their
replacement just as they would replace their washing machine. What I
would love to know is if there has been a higher than average purchase
of computers to Ennis than to any other town in Ireland. Perhaps someone
might know the answer to that.

The usual thought for the day from Ireland - Do washing machines keep
your hands soft or is it your responsibility? Likewise do computers
create the digital divide, or do people create it?

Ken

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[DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-14 Thread Andy Carvin
Here's the official press release from Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child 
initiative regarding the manufacturing partnership with Taiwan's Quanta. 
-andy


Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture $100 Laptop

December 13, 2005—Cambridge, Massachusetts—The One Laptop per Child 
(OLPC) board of directors today announced that Quanta Computer Inc. of 
Taiwan was chosen as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the $100 
laptop project. The decision was made after the board reviewed bids from 
several possible manufacturing companies.


In announcing the selection of Quanta, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte 
said, "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for 
education in the developing world has just gone away." Quanta has agreed 
to devote significant engineering resources from the Quanta Research 
Institute (QRI) in Q1 and Q2, 2006, with a target of bringing the 
product to market in Q4. The launch of 5-15 million units will be both 
in large-scale pilot projects in seven culturally diverse countries 
(China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand), with 
one million units in each of these countries, and an additional modest 
allocation of machines to seed developer communities in a number of 
other selected countries. A commercial version of the machine will be 
explored in parallel.


"Quanta would like to contribute its industry-leading laptop 
technologies to the future success of the project, in hope of affording 
children worldwide with opportunities not only to close the 'digital 
divide,' but also to bridge the 'knowledge divide.' This project 
signifies a new stage and scale for the laptop industry by including 
those children never before considered to be laptop users," said Quanta 
founder and chairman, Barry Lam.


One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a Delaware-based, non-profit organization 
created by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty members from the MIT 
Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are 
sufficiently inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to 
knowledge and modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to 
governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop 
per child. These machines will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy 
efficient that hand-cranking alone can generate sufficient power for 
operation. Mesh networking will give many machines Internet access from 
one connection. The pricing goal will start near $100 and then steadily 
decrease. The corporate members are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), 
Brightstar, Google, News Corporation, Nortel, and Red Hat.


Quanta Computer Inc. was founded in 1988 in Taiwan. With over US $10 
billion in sales, the company is a leading provider of technology 
products and solutions to Fortune 500 companies, including Dell, HP, and 
IBM. Quanta has the distinction of being the world's largest 
manufacturer of laptop PCs. The company also provides a full array of 
mobile phones, LCD TVs, and servers and storage products.


With dedication to technological innovation and education, Chairman 
Barry Lam launched a new US $200 million R&D center, Quanta R&D Complex 
(QRDC), in Taiwan. The facility, which opened in Q3 of 2005, has 2.2 
million square feet of floor space, and the capacity to house up to 
7,000 engineers.


For more information about Quanta, visit http://www.quantatw.com

To learn about the $100 Laptop, visit http://laptop.media.mit.edu

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[DDN] Taiwan's Quanta to manufacture MIT $100 laptop

2005-12-14 Thread Andy Carvin

This was just posted to Yahoo's homepage -andy

MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop

Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will 
manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte, 
the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. 
Negroponte, who is also chairman of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit 
group, has said he expects the laptops to be available to governments 
next year at a price of $100 each. A prototype of the laptop was 
unveiled at the recent U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information 
Society (WSIS) in Tunis.


Under terms of an agreement with One Laptop Per Child, Quanta will 
devote engineering resources to develop the $100 notebook design during 
the first half of the year, according to a statement issued by the 
group. At the same time, Quanta and the non-profit organization will 
explore the production of a commercial version of the laptop. One Laptop 
Per Child did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for 
additional information.




One Laptop Per Child said trials of the notebook are planned for China, 
India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand, with 1 million 
notebooks to be shipped to each of these countries. [Massachusetts has 
also placed an order - ac] In addition, the group expects "an additional 
modest allocation" of the notebooks to be shipped to developers in other 
countries.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051214/tc_pcworld/123921
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[DDN] Skilled WebHead Needed to Help Tweak Web Site for Newly formed Public Interest Group

2005-12-14 Thread Dialogue on Sustainable Community
Just curious to ask if there are any skilled WebHeads on this list who might 
  be interested in collaborating on design and CMS endeavors for a newly
  formed public interest group in Chicago devoted to promoting Sustainable 
Community.
   
  As like other groups, we have almost no budget, but are open to simple ideas,
  such as implementing Moveable Type, and other such programs, or open source 
solutions.
   
  If you or someone you know would have an interest in collaborating,
  please write to us at: 
   
  info at sustainable-community.org
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[DDN] NetSquared Community Builders

2005-12-14 Thread Malin Coleridge
We are looking for NetSquared community builders to help NPOs use
technology for social change.  We are also having a happy hour to
discuss this stuff face to face, next Tuesday.  Details are below:

__

Do you know a nonprofit using technology for social change?

 

Be a NetSquared Builder: help nonprofits use web-based technology to
create social change. 

 

Net2 is an online and offline community created by TechSoup,
www.techsoup.org, a project of CompuMentor, www.compumentor.org, an
organization that has helped nonprofits access technological assistance,
information and products for 18 years. 

 

We are looking for folks to be NetSquared Builders, people who want to
use their writing, technology and/or community building skills to help
spread Net2 and to help nonprofits use web-based tools to create social
change. 

 

As a Net2Builder you can help by: 

 

* Creating case studies of nonprofits that are successfully
using Net2 technology 

* Researching what obstacles and challenges nonprofits face
to using these tools 

* Creating toolkits for nonprofits (i.e. How to Podcast) 

* Podcasting from Net2 related events 

* Facilitating discussion forums on the Net2 site. 

* Organizing f2f events in cities across the globe 

* Providing tech support for Net2 users 

* Being site editors and writers 

* Working at/on the Net2 conference in the spring 

* Moving the Net2 movement with your ideas, inputs and
visions! 

 

If you are interested in being a Net2Builder, go to
http://www.netsquared.org/participate/be-netsquared-builder, or contact
NetSquared's Community Builder, Britt Bravo at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

Regards,

Malin Coleridge

Business Analyst

Techsoup.org

A program of Compumentor 

 

 

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[DDN] Rural Wireless Broadband on NPR

2005-12-14 Thread edward
Sorry for the late notice, but there have been several schedule changes and
I lost track of this until now.  

Barring some late-breaking news story, NPR is currently scheduled to air a
segment on "All Things Considered" this afternoon about a non-profit West
Virginia WISP bringing broadband to an underserved rural area in central
West Virginia.  I gather the piece addresses the importance of broadband and
the difficulties of extending it into rural areas.  

- Ed Ward

- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
edward @ mail . wvnet . edu


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Re: [DDN] Your Bibliography Must Have Twenty Scholarly Sources and You Can Only Use Print Publications

2005-12-14 Thread John Hibbs
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RE: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

2005-12-14 Thread Executive Director
Quanta has a good name in white book and OEM notebooks and I am sending this
from one I built myself.

Mike

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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:54 PM
To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Subject: [DDN] More info on the MIT/Quanta laptop partnership

Here's the official press release from Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child
initiative regarding the manufacturing partnership with Taiwan's Quanta. 
-andy

Quanta Computer Inc. to Manufacture $100 Laptop

December 13, 2005-Cambridge, Massachusetts-The One Laptop per Child
(OLPC) board of directors today announced that Quanta Computer Inc. of
Taiwan was chosen as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the $100
laptop project. The decision was made after the board reviewed bids from
several possible manufacturing companies.

In announcing the selection of Quanta, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte
said, "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for
education in the developing world has just gone away." Quanta has agreed to
devote significant engineering resources from the Quanta Research Institute
(QRI) in Q1 and Q2, 2006, with a target of bringing the product to market in
Q4. The launch of 5-15 million units will be both in large-scale pilot
projects in seven culturally diverse countries (China, India, Brazil,
Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand), with one million units in each of
these countries, and an additional modest allocation of machines to seed
developer communities in a number of other selected countries. A commercial
version of the machine will be explored in parallel.

"Quanta would like to contribute its industry-leading laptop technologies to
the future success of the project, in hope of affording children worldwide
with opportunities not only to close the 'digital divide,' but also to
bridge the 'knowledge divide.' This project signifies a new stage and scale
for the laptop industry by including those children never before considered
to be laptop users," said Quanta founder and chairman, Barry Lam.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a Delaware-based, non-profit organization
created by Nicholas Negroponte and other faculty members from the MIT Media
Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute laptops that are sufficiently
inexpensive to provide every child in the world access to knowledge and
modern forms of education. The laptops will be sold to governments and
issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. These
machines will be rugged, Linux-based, and so energy efficient that
hand-cranking alone can generate sufficient power for operation. Mesh
networking will give many machines Internet access from one connection. The
pricing goal will start near $100 and then steadily decrease. The corporate
members are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Brightstar, Google, News
Corporation, Nortel, and Red Hat.

Quanta Computer Inc. was founded in 1988 in Taiwan. With over US $10 billion
in sales, the company is a leading provider of technology products and
solutions to Fortune 500 companies, including Dell, HP, and IBM. Quanta has
the distinction of being the world's largest manufacturer of laptop PCs. The
company also provides a full array of mobile phones, LCD TVs, and servers
and storage products.

With dedication to technological innovation and education, Chairman Barry
Lam launched a new US $200 million R&D center, Quanta R&D Complex (QRDC), in
Taiwan. The facility, which opened in Q3 of 2005, has 2.2 million square
feet of floor space, and the capacity to house up to 7,000 engineers.

For more information about Quanta, visit http://www.quantatw.com

To learn about the $100 Laptop, visit http://laptop.media.mit.edu

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Re: [DDN] Taiwan's Quanta to manufacture MIT $100 laptop

2005-12-14 Thread Satish Jha
That clearly raises its viability to begin with..
Regardless of the differences of opinion on the meaning of $100 laptop, even
if it extends the boundary of computer's reach by another degree, it should
be welcomed.
The questions about how to use it and how to benefit more or better must go
on in parallel.


On 12/14/05, Andy Carvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This was just posted to Yahoo's homepage -andy
>
> MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop
>
> Taiwan's Quanta, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, will
> manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicholas Negroponte,
> the chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab.
> Negroponte, who is also chairman of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit
> group, has said he expects the laptops to be available to governments
> next year at a price of $100 each. A prototype of the laptop was
> unveiled at the recent U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information
> Society (WSIS) in Tunis.
>
> Under terms of an agreement with One Laptop Per Child, Quanta will
> devote engineering resources to develop the $100 notebook design during
> the first half of the year, according to a statement issued by the
> group. At the same time, Quanta and the non-profit organization will
> explore the production of a commercial version of the laptop. One Laptop
> Per Child did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for
> additional information.
>
> 
>
> One Laptop Per Child said trials of the notebook are planned for China,
> India, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Nigeria, and Thailand, with 1 million
> notebooks to be shipped to each of these countries. [Massachusetts has
> also placed an order - ac] In addition, the group expects "an additional
> modest allocation" of the notebooks to be shipped to developers in other
> countries.
>
> 
>
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