[DDN] Draft Concept Paper on a National All-Hazards Warning System for Sri Lanka

2005-02-06 Thread A. K. Mahan
In response to the catastrophe of December 26th 2004, the World Dialogue on Regulation's Asian partner, LIRNEasia, is collaborating with the Vanguard Foundation to help better prepare Sri Lanka to face disasters that may come its way. Following an expert consultation on the topic, a draft pape

Re: [DDN] Rebuilding my blog

2005-02-06 Thread Andy Carvin
Actually, I wasn't running mysql; it was a berkeley database and when my web host changed their software, my data bacame obsolete. Reloading backups didn't make a difference. :-( ac Taran Rampersad wrote: Looking good. I guess you don't back up your MySQL database yourself, but it's worth doing.

Re: [DDN] Yale "Global Flow of Information" Conference - Apr. 1-3, 2005

2005-02-06 Thread Steve Eskow
Taran Rampersad writes >But you see, people are slow to adopt things.< Perhaps this is one of those enduring fictions, helped along as it is by Ev Rogers' taxonmy of "early adopters" and the like. The speed with which people all over the world are adopting the new technologies is astounding. T

Re: [DDN] Rebuilding my blog

2005-02-06 Thread Taran Rampersad
Looking good. I guess you don't back up your MySQL database yourself, but it's worth doing... it's really pretty simple. Andy Carvin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A couple of weeks ago, my blog experienced a massive database failure > due to some upgrades that took place at my web host. It's been fro

Re: [DDN] Yale "Global Flow of Information" Conference - Apr. 1-3, 2005

2005-02-06 Thread Taran Rampersad
Steve Eskow wrote: >Steve Eskow wrote: > > >>>The "listserv" is a mode of dialog that fits the genius of the online >>>environment, and thus there are thousands of them, and they will continue >>> >>> >to > > >>>flourish and multiply.>> >>> >>> > >and Taran Rampersad replied: >

Re: [DDN] Conferencing Discussion

2005-02-06 Thread Steve Eskow
Suggestion to Stephen Snow: If one wants to think about improving "email," one would get little help by thinking about how it resembles and is different from "snail mail." Despite the "mail" designation, and the fact that both genres involve messages , at this point in time there is little that o

Re: [DDN] Yale "Global Flow of Information" Conference - Apr. 1-3, 2005

2005-02-06 Thread Steve Eskow
Steve Eskow wrote: > > >The "listserv" is a mode of dialog that fits the genius of the online > >environment, and thus there are thousands of them, and they will continue to > >flourish and multiply.>> and Taran Rampersad replied: > > > > > Listservs are self limiting because in propagation, th

Re: [DDN] Yale "Global Flow of Information" Conference - Apr.1-3, 2005

2005-02-06 Thread Kevin Rocap
Dear Andy, Tom, et al, Actually Open Source web conferencing systems that also allow interaction via e-mail are hard to find if/when they exist. Actually very few of the commercial packages do this - WebBoard is one commercial product that does - you can actually view and participate in confere

[DDN] 24th Annual Women Direct Series at Ithaca College: Reverse Engineering

2005-02-06 Thread Patricia Zimmermann
24th Annual Women Direct Series at Ithaca College Probes Reverse Engineering: Digitalities, Sensualities, Technologies The 24th Annual Women Direct series explores the connections between feminist politics, post-colonial theories and new media this Spring in a new format featuring lectures and scr

Re: [DDN] 70% of Koreans Use Internet (fwd)

2005-02-06 Thread Subbiah Arunachalam
I agree with Kathleen. Skills acquired through gaming in one's early life can flower into general computing and programming skills when one grows up. Also, we should work towards low-cost reasonable bandwidth internet access in all developing countries. Such access need not be confined to South

[DDN] Respurces comparing IS in Central America

2005-02-06 Thread Audrey Alvear
Audrey I am a costarrican, PhD studying the Digital Divide in Costa Rica, ICT, ICT applications and key sectors for the reduction of DD. I am not quite sure what are you looking for but you might want to check with CAATEC.org CAATEC is the comision for High tech in Costa Rica. INCAE is other

[DDN] Rebuilding my blog

2005-02-06 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, A couple of weeks ago, my blog experienced a massive database failure due to some upgrades that took place at my web host. It's been frozen in time for the last 14 days, but last night I managed to get it working again, upgrading the blogging software (MT 3.15) in the process. Unfo