[DDN] OURMedia 06 Conference (Sydney, April 2007) : program and schedule are now online

The OURMedia 06 International Conference, Sustainable Futures: Roles and Challenges for Community, Alternative and Citizens' Media in the 21st Century will be held in Sydney April 9-13th 2007. The full program and schedule are now online: http://www.ourmedia07.net/ The conference includes 1

Re: [DDN] exampels of Gender & ICT policies

http://realneo.org/blog/sudhir-raghupathy/four-key-ideas-to-transform-east-cleveland-and-neo J Cravens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gender and ICT Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Re-thinking ICT development through Gender http://www.genderit.org/en/index.shtml?apc=a--e95059-1&x=95059 This artic

Re: [DDN] WGBH Releases "CC for Flash" - Free Tool to Simplify Captioning for Flash

correction : 7gen.us not .org again : http://realneo.org/news/2007/02/05/project-genesis-garden-of-eden-ii thanks Sudhir Raghupathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello fellow respected DDN recipients.. We are working on Bridging the Digital Divide in East Cleveland (7gen,

Re: [DDN] WGBH Releases "CC for Flash" - Free Tool to Simplify Captioning for Flash

Hello fellow respected DDN recipients.. We are working on Bridging the Digital Divide in East Cleveland (7gen, LLC) and I have just developed an innovative opportunity that may offer a whole new utility (dual utiltiy for Fiber optic installations, dark fiber (like that which exists acro

[DDN] eGov in Developing countries & self sustinability

Paradigm of “self-sustaining eGoernance services” in rurals of developing countries. Internet is immune to – content’s location (near or remote) and is used an effective tool for remote “Knowledge Management” world over... But then this characteristic of internet has provided more fle

[DDN] Thieves and, you know, Liars

Great piece by Alison Powell here: http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2007/03/12/927.html Alison undertook a participant-research role with the Montreal Community Wireless group... Ile Sans Fils. "Alison Powell is a PhD candidate in the Communication Studies department at Concordia Univers

[DDN] Wonderful statement of Integrated Strategies for Social and Economic Justice

Here's something from San Francisco ... everyone should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaMSBiI7a4w We could be doing all of this and more if we came together behind a vision of Digital Excellence We're still struggling for a meaningful dialog in Chicago. The idea that this is mor

[DDN] Fwd: [FORUM] Fwd: OFFICIAL SUMMARY OF FCC ORDER

If you havent been following news from the FCC this week, this note offers good context and establishes what is at stake. This is a major threat to community access networks, and represents an end-run around Congress. We fended this off last year, and so the current tactic is to do this by FCC

[DDN] [Net-Gold] Sunshine Week

Date: 11 Mar 2007 10:10:33 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Net-Gold] Sunshine Week . Sunshine Week The list attached to the link below is quite comprehensive.

[DDN] Global Alliance for ICT & Development meets again

NOTE: I'm *not* associated with this initiative, so please don't write me for more information. --- Information and communications technologies (ICT) are crucial in spurring “development, dignity and peace,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a video message to a gathering of techn

[DDN] Fwd: This Week in Internet & Society [Digital Inequalities]

Hi All Maybe it is a mite paradoxical to discuss digital inequalities on SecondLife, which requires a potent computer and a fast internet connection, but the reading list is interesting. So here's the "slurl" to Berkman Island:

[DDN] WGBH Releases "CC for Flash" - Free Tool to Simplify Captioning for Flash

Hi All Thank you for this very interesting info, Mary. By coincidence, Alessio Cartocci's CC player was used for the first time publicly yesterday in http://www.webmultimediale.org/barbara/2007/03/in_my_language.html. It shares some features with the WGNH one, like the possibility to switch captio