Deadline Extended in $100,000 Development Gateway Award
Global Competition to Recognize Information Technology's Role in
Development
February 15, 2005 - The Development Gateway Foundation is extending the
deadline in its global competition to reward outstanding achievement in
using
I am helping spread the word about a great e-politics conference.
Check out the full agenda:
http://www.ipdi.org/politicsonline
Also, next week I'll be hosting two independent seminars with NDI on
e-democracy on Thursday morning (before the conference):
http://dowire.org/dc
International Development Research Centre has done a lot on this topic in
Africa. See (online at www.idrc.ca/books) The experience with community
telecentres (2003), edited by Florence Ebam Etta and Sheila Parvyn-Wamahiu.
IDRC has also sponsored further research on technology needs of small
Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) is seeking proposals for
sessions to be presented at the 14th Annual Community Technology Conference:
Making Connections, Strengthening Communities, June 17-19, 2005. CTCNet is
a network of more than 1,000 community-based programs that use
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 has so many
divides. When World
Taran, I disagree with almost every one of your statements below--but those
disagreements needn't prevent us from finding a way to work together.
(Even though I think ATLAS SHRUGGED is grandiose nonsense.)
Rather than debating your history, philosophy, and sociology, let me ask you
to consider a
Dina,
If you don't know about them already, I recommend chatting up the guys
over at Geekcorps.org, it's a non-profit that does a lot of work with
technology in the Accra area. I am not sure if they have what you are
looking for exactly, but i imagine if anyone would, they would. I think
it's a
Andy,
I wish you good traveling to Mumbai and Baramati conference on ICT and
e-education focus in developing countries. I note on the agenda presenters
from Tamil Nadu on the 4th, and in your panel on the 5th and Dr. Swaminathan's
summary remarks on the 6th. I wanted to note my brief
Apparently, we violently agree. I wrote in the original message (see below):
...The real problem of the Digital Divide isn't
technology as much as it is use of technology in an appropriate manner
which increases the quality of life. Giving a farmer in an obscure part
of the world an internet
Today at 5pm on channel 4, NBC news will air a story on podcasting in the
District featuring interviews from local listeners and podcasters.
Eric Gundersen, a web designer at Development Seed (http://www.developmentseed.org/) will show how you can download and
play podcasts from your computer or
Just to add a little more information about Geekcorps:
The founder, Ethan Zuckerman, has a weblog called My blog's in
Cambridge, but my heart is in Accra.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethan/
He's no longer with the organization, but he should be an invaluable
source of information regarding the
During today's morning keynote at the Baramati conference in India,
Microsoft India CEO Ravi Venkatesan offered his company's latest thinking
on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education.
India graduates two million students each year, he said, yet 60 million
children don't
Dear Colleagues,
Having lunched with the Boston Technobabes(1) on Saturday and dined
with the Boston 501 Tech Club(2) yesterday evening, I find myself more
eager than ever to attend the annual Nonprofit Technology
Conference(3) later this month.
When I think about working in this field, the
Dear Colleagues,
The bad news is that I'll miss the first official DDN Meetup in Boston
on Wednesday, Mar 23, because I'll be out of town.
The good news is that the March 23 Meetup coincides with the annual
Nonprofit Technology Conference in Chicago (Illinois, USA). This
strikes me as an ideal
Steve -- I wouldn't characterize this as a dark horse It is one of the
central facets of bridging the divide -- for if, as you put it, the
knowledge and skill not readily available in the community then the
effort to expand the digital economy (a phrase I like better than bridging
the digital
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