Re: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving A Semantic Web

2004-10-15 Thread Layton Montgomery
Reading through these exchanges and through the Technology Review article was my first attempt to understand what the Semantic Web really is. Personally, I can see clear value in this, both from the view of refining searches to a much higher degree than is currently possible; and from the view

[DDN] 10th anniversary of EdWeb and my Waste of Bandwidth!

2004-10-15 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, This week marks the 10-year anniversary of my educational website, EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform, and my personal website/blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth. http://www.edwebproject.org/ http://www.edwebproject.org/andy/blog/ For those of you who weren't online t

[DDN] Re: [WWWEDU] 10th anniversary of EdWeb and my Waste of Bandwidth!

2004-10-15 Thread BBracey
I remember when Andy started his project EdWeb, it was a very timely addition to the few people , projects and ideas that were being slated to teacher, educators, and the learning community. He was a facilitator, and a guide. I am ever grateful to him for all of the support that he gave to us.

[DDN] E-rate and UPDATE ON FUNDING FREEZE AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

2004-10-15 Thread BBracey
BENTON'S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for OCTOBER 15, 2004 Today, the Progress & Freedom Foundation is hosting a discussion at Congress on "reinventing" the FCC. This weekend, CPSR meets in Washington, DC. (From Benton) UPDATE ON FUNDING FREEZE AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS What are the possible

[DDN] Database of African community radio stations

2004-10-15 Thread Donald Z. Osborn
FYI, a request for information (seen in Pambazuka news #178, 14 Oct. 2004)... Don Osborn Bisharat.net AFRICA: DATABASE OF COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS The University of Guelph is conducting a research project to collect information to develop a database of community radio stations in Africa. To be i

digitaldivide@mailman.edc.org

2004-10-15 Thread Thomas A Webb
We've been building opensource "bread and Butter" as a matter of course here for several years. (Bread and Butter workstations are the standard systems that go in homes, CTCs and school labs; Internet/Office apps. etc.) We are putting the wraps on a workstation for school/CTC media labs that pr

[DDN] FCC Clears Internet Access by Power Lines (fwd)

2004-10-15 Thread Andy Carvin
From the NY Times... -ac F.C.C. Clears Internet Access by Power Lines Clearing the way for homes and businesses to receive high-speed Internet services through their electrical outlets, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules on Thursday that would enable the utility companies to off

Re: [DDN] ICT infrastructure and knowledge creation

2004-10-15 Thread Layton Montgomery
Dear Antonio, I agree that Will's work would be worth a look. I am a bit unclear, though, on who it is that you are considering. Do you want to look at effective use of ICTs by government offices? By national-level NGOs? Small CBO's? Larger businesses in urban areas? Small businesses in r

[DDN] Invitation to Video-seminar/Live Webcast: Mainstreaming e-Development: Implementing National ICT Strategies - Oct 18th (9am-11:30am-EST) & Oct 20th(8am-10:30am-EST)

2004-10-15 Thread opetrov
E-DEVELOPMENT SERVICES THEMATIC GROUP invites you to take part in a video-seminar as a part of the e-Development Dialogues Series ?Mainstreaming e-Development: Implementing National ICT Strategies?