Re: [DDN] Google Broadband in developing countries

lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [DDN] Google Broadband in developing countries To: "Digital Divide Network" Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 5:24 AM Hi all, According to FT and other sources, Google has announced their support for a new initiative called O3B to "bring interne

[DDN] Google Broadband in developing countries

Hi all, According to FT and other sources, Google has announced their support for a new initiative called O3B to "bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected" in 2010. "They will... order

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

ts? > > tom > > tom abeles > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > > Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:11:16 -0700 > > Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > > > > What do you-all mean by "th

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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:11:16 -0700 > Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > > What do you-all mean by "the latest ICT gadget"? Do you think it is trivial > and will decline? From what

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel O. Escasa Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:30 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking Sabi ni Jacky noong Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:31:29 -0400: > I agree with the idea that m

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Sabi ni Jacky noong Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:31:29 -0400: > I agree with the idea that mobile phone is the latest ICT gadget; > however, > there is a lot that remains to be done in terms of broadband penetration. You don't need much bandwidth for SMS, and there's a lot you can do with SMS. For example,

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Chris Wilson wrote: >> That would be mobile phone - the future of computing is being discussed >> on another email list I participate on with the changed context that the >> mobile phone brings. >> >> In essence, the PC doesn't really know it's dead yet - partly because it >> isn't dead *yet* an

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Thanks for your hospitality, Taran! On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, Jacky, but the problem of broadband penetration is a matter of > cost and telecommunications regulation. This has been mentioned more > than once at the CARICOM Internet Gove

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Hi Steve, On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Steve Eskow wrote: > The "divide" is part of a larger "situation." If technology enthusiasts > haven't the patience and the skill to study and take into account the > larger situation which will surround a new technology, they can do more > harm than good. What t

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Hi Taran, On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Taran Rampersad wrote: > I'm really feeling sorry for the dead horse I've been beating, but it > seems it needs to run a few more laps. Thanks, that made me laugh a lot :-) > That would be mobile phone - the future of computing is being discussed > on another ema

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Hi Tom, Thanks for the very interesting and insightful post. I agree with most of what you wrote and will spare everyone the bandwidth of reposting that which I agree with. However, a few questions: On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, tom abeles wrote: > And, therein lies one of the problems in today's world

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

I agree, Jacky, but the problem of broadband penetration is a matter of cost and telecommunications regulation. This has been mentioned more than once at the CARICOM Internet Governance meetings, as an example - meanwhile the mobile phone subverts this by allowing voice and text communication a

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

I agree with the idea that mobile phone is the latest ICT gadget; however, there is a lot that remains to be done in terms of broadband penetration. Jacky Poteau Haiti On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Bijaya Satapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mobile phone now-a-days is the latest ICT gadgets

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Mobile phone now-a-days is the latest ICT gadgets that truly bridges the digital divide in society. The marvel of this product incorporated with IP-technology will let anyone communicate in Data, Voice, Fax, Audio, Viodeo mode Freely across the world. Thanking you, B.K.Satapathy On Tue, Sep 2,

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e" represents that mythical armamentarium > equivalent to Batman's tool belt or some pharmaceutical formulary, more a > mix of paliatives and placibos to avoid having to deal with the core > problems facing humans ever since Adam bit into the apple of knowledge. > > thou

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

I'm really feeling sorry for the dead horse I've been beating, but it seems it needs to run a few more laps. That would be mobile phone - the future of computing is being discussed on another email list I participate on with the changed context that the mobile phone brings. In essence, the PC d

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Aug 2008 09:49:35 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > > Tom and all, > > Your message suggests--to me at least--the need for discussions such as this > to go back to first princip

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Tom and all, Your message suggests--to me at least--the need for discussions such as this to go back to first principles from time to time. Are you right about the "unspoken belief" driving this discussion: that "closing a digital divide is the sine qua non leveling the economic (and hence all ot

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I am not certain that I am in agreement with Maria Laura's definition which appears to be tautological in nature. I am also not certain that engaging in an intellectual reparte makes sense in a list where the unspoken belief is that closing a digital divide is the sine qua non for leveling the

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

] www.pangaeanetwork.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:01 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > Sarah Blackmun-Es

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> Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: > > What's the difference between a development phenomenon and an economic > > "deal" or phenomenon? > > > > This is a real question, not a rhetorical one. > > S. > Dear all: I did not get all the mails on this topic since our mail server did not work during a few day

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://www.pangaeanetwork.org Sarah -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paperless Homework Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:35 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking Good. What you

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ir expectations are, relatively speaking > - I think you'll find a trend. > > S. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taran > > Rampersad > > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:32 AM

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: > What's the difference between a development phenomenon and an economic > "deal" or phenomenon? > > This is a real question, not a rhetorical one. > S. > Development would be more tangible. Economic tends to be more abstract. Development is - or should be - based

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

ssage- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taran > Rampersad > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:32 AM > To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group > Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > > Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote:

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direction? We have no resources to develop this at the moment. Regards Alan Foo www.paperlesshomework.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Sat, 8/16/08, Sarah Blackmun-Eskow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Sarah Blackmun-Eskow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - so

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

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Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

2:44 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking hi steve I think you are right- Hope is the key But bad policy and false hope is another issue. And a lot of the precious capital in the development arena has this problem cell p

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

has many, and some win out over others, and some rise to power and then decline. S. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taran Rampersad Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 7:32 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

; participation > > tom > > > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:46:51 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > > Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > > > > Perhaps, Tom, hope is the only constant we have, the

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

; problems between the enfranchised and disenfranchised (in all > dimensions) > > is > > > knowledge- > > > educate and the rising tide will equalize all boats on the seas and > raise > > > all ships equally. Hence the problem has been cast as a "digital > di

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: > There is no good metaphor to express this situation in all of its raw power > and destructiveness. Perhaps a non-metaphorical expression is needed. > Any society is the sum of it's expectations. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Eskow Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:42 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking Joe Beckmann's warning about the limits of the "first things first" axiom is well taken--and it's

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

tom > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:46:51 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > Subject: Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking > > Perhaps, Tom, hope is the only constant we have, the driver and the engine. > Remember Emily Dicinson

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the seas and raise > > all ships equally. Hence the problem has been cast as a "digital divide". > > Instead of the US political cliche, a chicken > > in every pot, it is now a smart phone in every home. > > information/knowledge/education, hopefully digitally dis

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ome. > information/knowledge/education, hopefully digitally distributed, is the > equivalent of the 6-gun in the US west, the great equalizer. It's the > liberal (or progressive) > answer to problems created by a conservative past. > > Esperaremos > > tom > > > Da

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eat equalizer. It's the > liberal (or progressive) > answer to problems created by a conservative past. > > Esperaremos > > tom > > > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:41:46 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > >

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valent of the 6-gun in the US west, the great equalizer. It's the liberal (or progressive) answer to problems created by a conservative past. Esperaremos tom > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:41:46 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net > Subject: Re:

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

. You may be > going > > to reduce illiteracy but you will have to include poverty reduction > > components such as school feeding programmes, uniform allowances, travel > > stipend, etc. > > > > Regards, > > Jaevion Nelson > > Marketing & Partnerships

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programmes, uniform allowances, travel > stipend, etc. > > Regards, > Jaevion Nelson > Marketing & Partnerships Coordinator > Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network > www.jamaicayouthadvocacynetwork.org > > Asst. Programmes Officer > Violence Prevention Alliance > www.vpa

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outh Advocacy Network www.jamaicayouthadvocacynetwork.org Asst. Programmes Officer Violence Prevention Alliance www.vpajamaica.com Jaevion Nelson (Jae) > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:36:26 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net> Subject: Re: [D

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

The intervener--all of us who want to help--studies the culture and the need before choosing a path. Before choosing a technology. Where there is a "digital divide" there are often--usually--other divides. For example: there may be no Internet in the area to be served. Or there may be Internet but

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

This post from the Trinidad and Tobago Computing list may be of interest to some. It demonstrates geographical distribution of social network use. It is a nice datapoint, I think. Richard Jobity wrote: > > Computing - General

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