[DDN] Digital divide and NAS report

2006-04-03 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Bonnie -- I'm confused as to your reference to the Rising Above the 
Gathering Storm report.  The NY Times article was certainly a 
disappointment - it was clear they haven't done their research.
But I've not seen anything in the Rising Above report that implied 
that we had a playing field -- in fact that report points out how far 
behind we are in danger of falling.


Thanks for clearing this up.
Ken


At 08:09 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:

Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a
Brighter Economic Future
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.html

The whole book is online free...
But you have to read it. It is not a minutes worth of 
information. It

requires understanding the reason for the report. I believe, since this is
the second report that says that we are on a level playing field and 
that there

is no digital divide that it is politically motivated by people who are not
doing their research or reading recent reports. It was done by Cosepup



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Re: [DDN] Sizing the Digital Divide...

2006-02-14 Thread Kenan Jarboe
You may want to look at the general business case for serving the 
poor as customers and entrepreneurs - as developed by CK 
Prahalad.  It is as true in the specific case of digital technology 
as it is in the general case.
Also, think of it this way: Metcalfe's law states that the value of a 
network equals approximately the square of the number of users of the 
system.  So leaving anyone off the network diminishes its value.



At 12:31 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote:
Hello to all...I'm an MBA student at Wharton conducting research on 
the digital divide...I'm looking to make a business case for why 
businesses (in particular the private sector) should invest their 
resources (time, money, human capital, etc.) in programs that bring 
those currently outside the digital revolution into the fold.  My 
focus is to develop a true value proposition that is based on 
economics vs. social responsibility / equity.


I'd like the thoughts of this group relative to existing research or 
data on this topic, if it exists, or minimally any reactions to the 
following line of thinking (and more importantly, extensions with 
points I've yet to consider):


1. For communication providers (comcasts, verizons, etc.) I believe 
the value proposition is related to a potential untapped market--by 
developing the technical / digital competency of this target 
population, you are grooming potential customers for your products / 
services (therefore the size of the divide becomes a very relevant 
variable in the economics).


2. Developing additional supply for workforce needs (my guess is 
that someone has probably done some research here---but not sure how 
persuasive this is)
I'm hopeful that there is much to this that I've missed but those 
are the initial stabs at creating the valuation proposition--which 
can be simplified into creating addtional demand for products / 
services and creating more supply to deliver these products / 
services (as may be evident in my overview above, my thoughts are 
very focused on the US and not a global perspective which may have 
to be broadened to truly capture the value proposition for these 
large organizations).


All thoughts welcomed...thanks in advance for your time and patience.

Regards,

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Re: [DDN] 'Knowledge divide' must be narrowed t hrough education – UNESCO

2005-11-04 Thread Kenan Jarboe

If you haven't found it, the report is available at
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001418/141843e.pdf



At 09:06 AM 11/4/2005, you wrote:
From the United Nations... I haven't found the 
actual report yet, though. The link in the 
press release leads to another press release, 
and the link to the report there appears to be dead.  -ac


'Knowledge divide' must be narrowed through education ­ UNESCO
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=16455Cr=informationCr1=summit

3 November 2005 ­ With 90 per cent of all 
Internet users living in developed countries, 
governments must narrow the gap between North 
and South by expanding quality education for 
all, increasing community access to information 
and communication technology, and sharing 
scientific knowledge across borders, a United 
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 
Organization (UNESCO) report released today says.


 The report, Towards Knowledge Societies, 
launched today on the eve of the World Summit 
on the Information Society (WSIS), analyses the 
increasingly important role played by knowledge 
in economic growth and advances that it can 
serve as a new springboard for development in the countries of the South.


 Those countries and communities that don't 
recognize this huge reliance on knowledge as a 
driving force will be left behind, Elizabeth 
Longworth, Director of UNESCO's Information 
Society Division, told a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York.


 She added that those countries and communities 
that recognize the importance of cognitive 
skills and make the resulting investment in 
education, lifelong learning and cultural 
facilities and in their research and innovation systems will prosper.


 Knowledge societies contribute to the 
well-being of individuals and communities, and 
encompass social, ethical and political 
dimensions while information societies are 
based on technological breakthroughs that risk 
providing little more than a mass of 
indistinct data for those who don't have the 
skills to benefit from it, according to the report.


 An example of a successful knowledge society 
is Singapore, which started out as a developing 
country of shantytowns at independence and 
achieved economic growth rates that surpass 
those of most industrialized nations in just 
four decades by promoting education and creativity.


 The work is the first in a new series of 
UNESCO reports, to be published every two 
years, focusing on subjects at the heart of the 
Organization's mission such as cultural diversity and sustainable development.

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[DDN] Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property

2005-10-14 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Many of you may already know about this, but today's Financial Times 
has the following story:  Call to restrict 'stifling' patents 
(http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3e3b14aa-3c1e-11da-94fb-0e2511c8.html)
An international group of academics, scientists and artists has 
called for strict limits on patents and copyrights, concerned that 
the spread of intellectual property protection is suppressing 
knowledge and stifling creativity.
A charter on intellectual property (IP), developed by the Royal 
Society of Arts in London, calls for an automatic presumption against 
creating new protection or extending existing rules.
It also argues that patents and copyrights should not be allowed to 
apply to computer code, business processes, scientific theories or 
abstract data.
Today's intellectual property regime was radically out of line with 
modern technological, economic and social trends, said the charter.
The story refers to the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and 
Intellectual Property released yesterday in London - available at 
http://www.ipcharter.org.   In addition to folks from the UK, the 
group includes some familiar names (some of whom are probably on this 
email list): James Boyle, Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig and Jamie Love.


Good job!



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[DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

2005-10-14 Thread Kenan Jarboe
I agree with John that the Google's and Yahoo's digitization of books 
is not a problem if the purpose is to provide access to specific 
portions only - the creation of the intellectual showroom (look what 
happened when the Border brothers encouraged people in their Ann 
Arbor bookstore to actually sit and read part of the book before they 
bought it).  In fact, digitizing the entire book is the only way to 
make this search process work - and the access would be permitted 
under the fair use provisions of copyright.  The technology is 
certainly there to limit access to just the searched portions.  But, 
if access is provided to the entire book, then a copyright issue 
comes up - which brings me back to my earlier posting about Yahoo's 
plan to tie its Internet Archive to a Bookmobile that would allow 
for on-demand printing of a book, purportedly in underdeveloped 
areas.  Such an on-demand printing activity without paying royalties 
would be a problem (as Kinko's found out a number of years ago when 
they put together on-demand university course packs from copyrighted 
materials).


The core of this debate, however, is what belongs in the public 
domain.  My real concern is the absurdly long term for copyrights 
that keeps materials out of the public domain - and goes well beyond 
any incentive to the authors.  That is why I applauded the release of 
the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property.




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[DDN] Internet or irrigation

2005-10-14 Thread Kenan Jarboe



from http://www.freepress.net/news/11806

Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say

From 
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNewsstoryID=2005-10-12T231346Z_01_DIT283610_RTRUKOC_0_US-MINERALS-Reuters, 
October 13, 2005
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) ­ Hundreds of Peruvian 
farmers living near the huge Las Bambas copper 
project plan a two-day protest on Sunday against 
a government program to spend a social fund on 
Internet connections in an area where many cannot read or write.


As part of Swiss-based Xstrata’s concession deal 
to develop the southern Andes deposit, the 
company last year paid $45.5 million to a 
government-run fund to alleviate poverty in one 
of the country’s most impoverished regions.


The government has said it plans to spend the 
money on installing computers connected to the 
Internet, soccer pitches and developing city squares in the Apurimac region.


“We’re peasants, many of us cannot read or write 
… But we don’t believe the Internet will help us 
as much as an irrigation channel will,” said 
Cristian Huilca, who went to Congress in Lima to lobby lawmakers, on Wednesday.


Huilca said farmers planned to block the entrance 
to the exploration site being developed by 
Xstrata, although it was not likely to stop exploration.


Xstrata, which aims to begin copper production at 
Las Bambas in 2011, was not immediately available for comment.


Mining is Peru’s biggest export earner and money 
is flowing into poor Andean mining regions as 
metals prices hit record highs this year.


But many poor farmers and a growing number of 
officials worry that funds are being ill-spent on 
decorative parks and buildings rather than on 
badly needed schools, drinking water plants, 
hospitals and electricity provision.




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[DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide

2005-10-04 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on 
the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age 
Have-Nots  - 
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc024.htm


It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other 
things.  It also stresses the need to go beyond the one-size-fits-all 
solution.  One of the projects I found most interesting was the 
Bookmobile part of Yahoo's Internet Archive project:
The project will do more than just give everyday Internet users full 
access to some of the world's classic works, says Internet Archive 
founder Brewster Kahle. In addition to being available online, the 
digital books will be included on all of the archive's Bookmobiles 
-- Internet-enabled trucks that print and bind books on demand for 
the poor and underprivileged.
Kahle says those trucks, which have been deployed as far away as 
Egypt and Uganda, are just the beginning. Using this print-on-demand 
technology, we want every school, and every neighborhood library to 
be a million-book library, says Kahle.
As I have tried to stress, its not about the technology - its about 
access to information and communications.  After all, we don't call 
it the Internet economy, we call it the information economy.


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Re: [DDN] Want E-Gov? Pick Up the Phone (fwd)

2005-05-08 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Andy -- thanks for posting this.  Sometimes we forget how powerful the 
old technologies  (i.e. telephones) can be.  I think the thrust of this 
report is important -- which electronic channels work best  I would even 
drop the word electronic.  Our goal is access to government information, 
services and decision-making -- through whatever means (channels) work best.

Ken


At 12:00 PM 5/6/2005, you wrote:
From GovTech.net, a UK story on achieving E-Government for All... -ac
Want E-Gov? Pick Up the Phone
In an attempt to find out which electronic channels work best for local 
governments -- and what local citizens think of the channels available for 
using e-government services -- the United Kingdom's Office of the Deputy 
Prime Minister conducted a study called the e-Citizen National Project.

One piece of good news is that Britons seem to like the idea of being 
e-citizens. Few, however, have tried it, writes Michael Cross in The Guardian.

 The report highlights two groups of potential users -- the 
progressives include male, high-income earners with access to 
technology, and the contenteds, who are happy with local government and 
comfortable with technology. But the report says these two groups need 
online government services the least, while the poor, minorities and 
other disenfranchised groups who need the services most aren't using 
them. That is partially because this segment of the population simply 
does not have access to the technology that Britain's local authorities 
want them to use when it comes to e-services. Nor do they particularly 
care to use computers to interact with government.

 Buried within the report is this fact: The most universal e channel in 
the UK is the telephone, to which 94 percent of the population has 
access. That percentage is about the same here in America.

snip
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=17id=93902
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[DDN] DD on cover of Economist

2005-03-10 Thread Kenan Jarboe
In case you haven't seen it yet, the cover of the latest issue of the 
Economist in on the digital divide:
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=3742817
Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and effective 
response to the digital divide -- not PCs!


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Re: [DDN] Dark Horse for bridging the divide

2005-03-04 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Steve -- I wouldn't characterize this as a dark horse  It is one of the 
central facets of bridging the divide -- for if, as you put it, the 
knowledge and skill not readily available in the community then the 
effort to expand the digital economy (a phrase I like better than bridging 
the digital divide) will have failed.
Ken Jarboe


At 12:52 PM 3/3/2005, you wrote:
 A suggestion to Andy Carvin in the form of a question:
Is there now available online a good course on computer service and repair
that woould make it possible for those in the poorer countries to keep their
computers running?
Whether a computer in a poor community costs $100 or $1000, the odds are
that it will soon need attention that requires knowledge and skill not
readily available in the community.
For example: I visited schools in Belize recently that had been given good
computers by one of the organizations that collects and rehabilitates
computers and ships them them to those needing them--and most of them were
covered with clothes waiting for repair that might never happen.
If our Digital Divide Network might focus on this matter of computer service
and repair, we might attack this matter of the divide from the angle of
maintenance, and this would be a great contribution to narrowing the divide.
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Re: [DDN] RSS: The Next ICT Literacy Challenge?

2005-01-22 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Let me take this discussion in a slightly different direction.  The 
conversation on narrowcasting and student apathy to information  other 
opinions has been very interesting (and I may try to fit it into my own 
blog on the Intangible Economy - www.intangibleeconomy.org)

But, to what extent is the problem aggravated (or even caused) by 
information overload?  As Taran has said RSS feeds are nice, but they also 
suck in a lot of ways. Finding what you want when you want it has actually 
become a lot more difficult.  There is so much information out there that 
it is easy (as some students do) to simply turn to your favorite news 
station for the same reason people by certain brands - they know basically 
what they are getting.  It is an information-search short cut in an overly 
information-rich environment.   One of the major appeals of blogs to me is 
their function as specialized information-broker - I read certain blogs to 
stay up on certain topics just like I subscribe to this email list to keep 
up with interesting ideas and insights.

How does this relate to the digital divide?  It does because I think we 
always need to keep in mind that there are many people who will react to 
information overload by shutting down channels of communications.  DD 
survey's have consistently shown a percentage that don't want to be 
connected 24/7.  Our goal in closing the digital divide is to make sure 
people have the option -- not that we shove their face into that firehose 
stream of information around us with they want a simple drink.

Ken Jarboe

At 12:03 PM 1/21/2005, Andy Carvin wrote:
Dan Gillmor at the Berkman blogger confab today just made the comment that 
the public will have to learn to do a little more work if they want to 
stay informed. It's not just going to show up on their doorstep the way 
it used to be, he said. It takes more effort to stay informed now, he 
noted. So what can we do to streamline the process?

Sounds like RSS feeds will be one of the next major ICT literacy 
challenges for the general public, particularly when only five percent of 
people on the Net use RSS and they tend to be white, well-off, and very 
well educated, according to the folks at Pew. It will take this particular 
technology literacy (RSS savviness) for people to achieve media literacy 
and be well-informed as more journalism and civic discourse is produced 
for the Internet rather than broadcast or print -ac

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Re: [DDN] TOP Eliminated

2004-11-23 Thread Kenan Jarboe
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb
so much for the vaulted demand-driven strategy for broadband deployment -- 
unless Congress and the Bush Administration believe that games and porno 
will be enough to drive demand.

At 04:18 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote:
The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) did not receive an
appropriation in the just completed FY 2005 Consolidated (Omnibus)
Appropriations bill.
With over a quarter-billion dollars invested since 1994, the TOP
program has successfully served as a catalyst for innovative nonprofit
organizations and public institutions to tackle pressing social
challenges using advanced information and communications technologies.
The Program has leveraged over $313 million in non-Federal resources.
During its operation, the Program made 610 grants.
Anthony G. Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Director, Technology Opportunities Program
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
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Re: [DDN] FW: Standard Measures of Digital Divide Help Needed

2004-09-30 Thread Kenan Jarboe
Yoni,
David has posted some very good references.  But let us keep in mind that a 
standard measure of the digital divide requires a standard definition of 
what is the digital divide.  And I will not repeat the numerous discussions 
and debates on that subject that have been held on this forum.  Suffice it 
to say that if you pick a definition, a measure will follow -- and there 
will be legitimate disagreement as to whether that is the right measure.

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RE: [DIGITALDIVIDE] Who benefits from the digital divide? (fwd)

2004-08-12 Thread Kenan Jarboe
But the point of the article is not who wins or loses from the existence of 
the digital divide, but who wins from having the issue raised to a high 
political level (as opposed to the health care divide or the income 
divide).   As Taran implied, the article does not overtly state who the 
losers from having the digital divide issue possibly overshadow other 
issues.  However, the conclusion of the article sums up the author's position:
those wishing to use new ICTs for the benefit of those truly at the bottom 
of the global social and economic hierarchy need to re–construct the nature 
of the digital divide as a policy issue, to frame it as more than access, 
skills, or even content, but rather as part of a challenge to the global 
order itself so that solutions to the problem consciously tilt the balance 
of benefits away from those already privileged (information capital, the 
state, and the development industry) towards those currently excluded from 
not only new information and communication technology, but the basic 
requirements of a dignified human existence.

Ken Jarboe
At 06:46 PM 8/11/2004, you wrote:
Taran raises an interesting point: who loses because there is a digital
divide. I would like to hear his answer. Here is a first attempt from
me.
The people who lose the most are the very poor in the country. Yes, even
developing countries have a poor and not so poor class. These poor have
little access to education or health care in the current situation,
things that could be improved greatly if both the hardware AND software
were available.  I believe it is possible to provide these. If you would
like to see an outline of a book explaining this, please let me know.
Alfred Bork
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
www.ics.uci.edu/~bork
book with Sigrun Gunnarsdottir
 Tutorial Distance Learning -Kluwer
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 acarvin wrote:

  From First Monday, by way of the UNDP... -ac
 
  Who benefits from the digital divide?
  New information and communication technologies are seen as a potent
  source of advancement for many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin
  America and have increasingly featured as topics of discussion in
  international fora. Who benefits from the rapid rise of this issue
on
  the international agenda? This article argues that the promotion of
  the digital divide as a policy issue benefits four major groups:
  information capital, developing country governments, the development
  industry, and global civil society.
  http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6756do=gpage
 
 
  Andy Carvin
  acarvin @ edc.org

 I've read this article... and have spent a lot of time thinking about
 it, not because of what it says - but rather, what it doesn't say.
While
 it is important to understand who profits from the Digital Divide, I
 think it is equally important who Loses from the Digital Divide.

 For every action force, there is an equal and opposite reaction
force
 - Newton

 If one reads the article carefully, there's a lot that a thinking
person
 can surmise.

 --
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