Re: [DDN] Verizon Wireless announcement re. shutting down SMTP service

2009-08-08 Thread Norbert Bollow
Christian Stalberg wrote: > Verizon Wireless has announced that it intends to cease providing SMTP > service to its broadband customers ffective August 29, 2009. For those of us > who live in rural areas, Verizon Wireless broadband service is the only ISP > service available. To lose SMTP serv

Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC

2008-09-06 Thread Norbert Bollow
to interpret "human rights" as an obligation to insist that one's (direct and indirect) trade partners should verifiably adhere to resonable standards of conduct in how they treat people. If this is done, Taran's sobering point still applies, but at least we'd no longer be gui

Re: [DDN] PhD research on OLPC

2008-09-05 Thread Norbert Bollow
h PC-like functionality becoming available, I wonder whether the question about the working conditions of the workers who produce these devices should not also be prominently raised, researched and discussed. Are their human rights being respected? Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAI

Re: [DDN] universal design (was: Web 2.0 leaves out people..)

2008-09-05 Thread Norbert Bollow
dified without being as a consequence locked out from impottant information sources, etc. Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Informatics Management and Consulting for Adaptability and Benefit/Cost Optimization in Harmony with Human Rights and Needs _

[DDN] universal design (was: Web 2.0 leaves out people..)

2008-09-04 Thread Norbert Bollow
universality of design which are not directly related to disabilities? If yes, I think I'll probably be looking into whether there'd be some mutually beneficial way in which I could join in into that "universal design" alliance... and if not, I'd be interested in discussi

Re: [DDN] Fwd: Web 2.0 leaves out people with disabilities

2008-09-04 Thread Norbert Bollow
another decade -- and hundreds of talented people -- to develop it into an International Standard. [1] http://www.sgmlsource.com/press/Losi.htm [2] http://www.sgmlsource.com/press/Floyd1.htm [3] http://www.sgmlsource.com/press/Kennedy.htm Greetings, Norbert -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL P

Re: [DDN] Fwd: Web 2.0 leaves out people with disabilities

2008-08-23 Thread Norbert Bollow
not only web development, but also of purely internal informatics systems) the question should be raised whether accessibility concerns are taken into consideration, and if not, why not. Greetings, Norbert -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Informatics Management and Consulting for Adaptab

Re: [DDN] I make no profit, therefore I suck

2007-08-02 Thread Norbert Bollow
in national interests. Or it is possible for a primarily mission-oriented organization to be subject to the constraints that it should try to be profitable as a business and also pay decent salaraies to all employees. Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [DDN] Technological initiatives for social empowerment

2007-07-14 Thread Norbert Bollow
o distant places, there is little that young people can do on their own. Unfortunately, the youth technology centers that we worked with did not seem to have the necessary infrastructure to support young people in the implementation of their projects. As a minimum, they would need either more personnel

Re: [DDN] I make no profit, therefore I suck

2007-07-13 Thread Norbert Bollow
ves (in addition to of course being significant consumers of goods and services themselves, so they have a lot of influence on the market already with their buying decisions, which I hope that at least some governments will learn to make in morally responsible ways.) Greetings, Norbert. --

Re: [DDN] [SIUG-discuss] Internet video player with switchable multilingual subtitles and inserted smaller window for Sign Language version

2007-05-03 Thread Norbert Bollow
ry cool concept!!! I wonder though what it would take to get a multimedia player of this type which avoids the proprietary lock-in to Macromedia Flash? Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group

[DDN] socially constructed knowledge (was Re: A Stand Against..)

2007-02-15 Thread Norbert Bollow
ing literature? Also, what's the status of scientific research into this topic area? Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG http://SIUG.ch

Re: [DDN] E-Learning in Africa Conference (Nairobi May 2007)

2007-01-05 Thread Norbert Bollow
mmunities eLearning happens naturally), but which are in addition designed to implement the Biblical principle that workers should be rewarded for the work they do. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG

Re: [DDN] E-Learning in Africa Conference (Nairobi May 2007)

2007-01-03 Thread Norbert Bollow
ce organizers have not yet understood that their exclusive reliance on Microsoft's proprietary formats is sending a completely wrong message which is totally the opposite of what needs to happen to truly empower and equip Africa for the information age. Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbe