[DDN] Emma Bowen Foundation for Minority Interest in Media

Emma L. Bowen Foundation PAID summer internships We are recruiting minority high school students (rising juniors, seniors) and rising college freshman for PAID summer internships and matching scholarships (for college expenses) at several media (television, cable, radio) companies throu

[DDN] Using ICTs to Reach Human Development Goals

The first full day of the fifth Baramati Conference in Baramati, India opened this morning with a speech delivered by India's ICT minister, Shri Dayanidhi Maran. "ICT as a catalyst for development is a focus of my ministry," Minister Maran explained. "I firmly believe ICT can deliver on the promis

[DDN] Another Wi-Fi Article addressing the Texas Telecom Bill

Here is a URL for those of your collecting articles addressing proposed Wireless legislation across the nation. Check out this story regarding Section 54.202 of Texas House Bill 789 published in the Houston Chronicle this morning. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3065992 Will

[DDN] universal literacy, universal ICTs

Shri Suresh Dada Jain, Mararashtra's Higher Education Minister, spoke during the morning session of the Baramati conference in Baramati, India. He talked about the need for spreading literacy "to the total masses of society." However, literacy is only part of the process of achieving greater devel

RE: [DDN] Verizon and DSL

Hi Bill, I live in Vermont and have had Verizon DSL for a few years now. I really like their service. Verizon has committed to providing service to 90% of Vermont in the next 2 years and are aggressively working on it. Not a day goes by where I don't hear someone commenting on Verizon coming to t

[DDN] Time to Retool the FCC for the Public's Interest

TIME TO RETOOL THE FCC FOR THE PUBLIC'S INTERESTS [Commentary] Millions will be watching closely as a post-Powell FCC once again takes up the hot potato of media-ownership regulation, alongside a bevy of other issues affecting cable, telephone, satellite and wireless Internet, as well as tradition

[DDN] Dirty Water, Poor Sanitation Kill Thousands Daily

A larger part for us in the GCAP would be a good start. The Global Call to Action Against Poverty: http://alaet.blogspot.com/2005/02/global-call-to-action-against-poverty.html --Kathleen. = On 28 Feb 2005 at 12:43, Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan wrote: > I wonder how the digita

[DDN] Community-based information & Communication Technologies Training Centre in Cameroon

Hi Friends, This is my first cpontribution. I tried in the past but was not successful. I will like to share with you our Community-based information & Communication Technologies Training Centre in Cameroon (http://www.hint.interconnection.org/comict.htm). We try to use computer to train you

[DDN] Verizon and DSL

Andy Carvin suggested I send my question and problem to this list I am asking a question about getting a phone company to tell me if they will ever have DSL in my area. I live in a rural area between Ithaca,NY and Cortland, NY. We are not served by any cable companies. I have been trying for clo

Re: [DDN] Research on Community Technology needs - request for links to articles

Dan/Toby, Yes the document (Bridging the Organizational Divide: Toward a Comprehensive Approach to the Digital Divide) appears to be currently available. It is listed in the archive section: http://www.policylink.org/publicationsArchives.html Steve -- Steve Mitchell, MA Ed. UP Operations & Cont

[DDN] first full day at Baramati

Hi everyone, it's Friday morning here in India, and we're just about to begin the first full day of sessions at the annual Baramati conference. This year's theme is education technology; in the next hour we'll hear from India's ICT Minister and the Agriculture Minister. Unfortunately, there isn't

Re: [DDN] Parisian Wi-Fi Lessons

Hi Bonnie and Andy In Geneva, I did a little survey of access prices 4 years ago. Intercontinental Hotel - the joint where US and other presidents stay for peace conferences and that kind of things - took the cake with $5 for 15 minutes on a crummy connectionm. I wonder how much they charge now.

Re: [DDN] A newbie is speaking...

Perhaps you and the rest of the Digital Divide Community would be interested in and stimulated by the short eight-minute video available at the web site below. It paints an interesting picture of what might be the situation you describe in 2014. http://oak.psych.gatech.edu/~epic/ Regards,

Re: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

Declan McCullagh writes In other words, it's a bit silly to talk about the "digital divide" without also addressing the underlying problems of broken court systems, military rule, confiscatory government policies, and so on that these nations have yet to address. Solving those problems would g

Re: [DDN] Dark Horse for bridging the divide

One online course that is $59 or so is at www.ed2go.com. I've been impressed with their online courses in general. Katy Pearce PAX-FLEX Cluster Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.flexvermont.org Quoting Steve Eskow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A suggestion to Andy Carvin in the form of a question: > >

RE: [DDN] CIPESA: What is international ICT policy? Who are African stakehold...

Hi! I am Salman Ansari from Pakistan. I have spent 3 years in the government (in real life I am a consultant in Telecom and IT) as the Senior Advisor to the Minster of IT and Telecoms, creating the IT and Telecom Polices and spearheading their implementation in different areas including e-Gove

[DDN] Use rates in Ghana

Colleagues - I'm writing up research on Ghanaian adolescents' use of the Internet, especially for online health information. I would like the most current stats, if possible on the general popoulations' use of the Internet, from Ghana and in Accra, specifically. Anyone have suggestions on a goo

Re: [DDN] Re: The digital divide and the idea of "public computing"

Taran, <> Probably more people in Africa die each month from AIDS than died in the tsunami: and apparently computers can help with a tsunami. If computer communication can't help with the great tragedy of our time, I, for one, lose interest in it quickly. But of course it can. Doing something

Re: [DDN] Dark Horse for bridging the divide

A suggestion to Andy Carvin in the form of a question: Is there now available online a good course on computer service and repair that woould make it possible for those in the poorer countries to keep their computers running? Whether a computer in a poor community costs $100 or $1000, the odds

Re: [DDN] [Fwd: [Politech] World Bank report questions size of "digital divide" [econ]]

Cindy Lemcke-Hoong wrote: >I never seems to be able to post to DDN ... I am going to give it one more try >... > >reading the analysis by Taran and others, I have to agree there are TOO MANY >DIVIDES and not just digital. > >Read the email from Declan, one can just understand why this world h

Fw: [DDN] Research on Community Technology needs - request for links toarticles

Hi Toby, America Connects is hosting an online panel on Bridging Research and Practice in CTCs that extends from March 7 to 25. Perhaps you can raise this question to our panel of 8 CTC researchers, research-practitioners, and practitioners. To enroll in the panels list, please send a mess

RE: [DDN] Verizon and DSL

> As I understand it, since they are not a monopoly like old > AT&T, they are > not obligated to offer any given service to any particular > area. That has > been one of the downsides of breaking up AT&T. Old AT&T had > to provide > service regardless of the cost to the area and could only

[DDN] The Journal of Community Informatics: The"Sustainability of Community ICTs" Issue

(apologies in advance for any duplication) The second issue of the on-line peer reviewed Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net is now available. This issue takes as its theme the "Sustainability of Community ICTs".

[DDN] Participating in Communities

One of the great features of being a member of the Digital Divide Network is to participate in communities. There are now 61 communities on DDN. You can join a community by searching the communities at http://www.digitaldivide.net/comm/. One advantage of joining a community is to let other

[DDN] Selected Sources Regarding Learning Styles Impact on Information Literacy

Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 06:13:52 -0500 (EST) From: David P. Dillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Net-Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Temple Gold Discussion Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Temple University Net-Gold Archive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Media

[DDN] Dark Horse for bridging the divide

On another list with concerns about the digital divide, and the talks about the $100 computer, Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> makes some very, very interesting observations, as follows: Sam Lanfranco writes : GKD has had an interesting and instructive round of discussion about the $100 comput