Re: [DDN] Another Digital Divide: Women in computing

Hi Jon, The digital divide between men and women is an interesting topic. We have done a research about it in project Acessa São Paulo, here in Brazil, focusing specifically on the difference frequency to the center and the reason for this difference between the genders. Acessa São Paulo is r

Re: [DDN] H2O Playlist

People thinking along the lines of shared "playlists" might want to watch for the work that Dave Winer is doing with OPML - outline processor markup language. There is great potential for shared outlines of many kinds. Dave will release an open source OPML editor (with an extremely simple user int

Re: [DDN] Another Digital Divide: Women in computing

Hi everyone, A few months ago, I started a new community on the DDN website about the gender digital divide. If you are interested in issues related to the gender digital divide, check out the community at http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/gendergap Emily Weinberg United States DDN

Re: [DDN] H2O Playlist

Thanks for this Deborah We are trying to create a Visually Impaired Commons site established in the UK - will draw on your suggestions to give our work much needed impetus. Joseph --- Deborah Elizabeth Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (A version of this item with live links is available > at > <

RE: [DDN] a tip about the amazon.com wish list spree

I have entered my wish list in hopes of getting more media equipment for my non-profit. Even though I already have an amazon.com account I would not have paid any attention to this if Phil had not sent it to me. Thanks Phil. Candy --- Brenda Trainor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amy - I apprecia

[DDN] Village knowledge centres and Mission 2007 in India

Government of India Comes Forward to Support Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre Subbiah Arunachalam Distinguished Fellow M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Chennai 600 113, India New Delhi, 12 July 2005 India's Finance Minister, Mr Palaniappan Chidambaram, announced today th

[DDN] Google (and other) Map Hacks

After my grumble about Google Earth being Windows only, I thought I should contribute something positive. Here's an interesting collection of links to map hacks. It may give folks some ideas. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/where_20_a_coll.html And here's a page of search results on O'

[DDN] H2O Playlist

(A version of this item with live links is available at .) Dear Colleagues, On Tuesday, I attended a very lively presentation at Harvard Law School on H20 Playlist by Jonathan

[DDN] T.A.P., Univ. of Ghana, Session on Mobiles and MDGs

The Technology Assessment Project of the University of Ghana and the Technical University of Denmark is happy to announce the next session of it's Programme of action for Evidence Based Firm and Public Policy in Telematics for Ghana. The session is on The Mobile Platform and the Millennium Deve

[DDN] Functional Literacy for Women in Mauritius

Dear all, We are from the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (www.npccmauritius.com) and we have a project on Functional Literacy for Women in Mauritius. We are in the phase of developing content for this project and we are looking for scenarios or case studies where illiterate

RE: [DDN] Google Earth for Nonprofit Organizations: Let's All Try It, and See What Happens

When I was in a flashy high school last month in Marin County I showed off the last version of Google Earth (called Keyhole) to a bunch of high school kids who fobbed it off with several alternate NASA sites as much better, cheaper, and faster. Ask a kid. Joe -Original Message- From: [EM

[DDN] FW: [E-LIST] links 7/12/05

FYI - siobhan -Original Message- From: Eszter Hargittai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [E-LIST] links 7/12/05 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* This message was sent via Eszter's List.

Re: [DDN] Another Digital Divide: Women in computing

Hi, There is also Linuxchix Africa at www.africalinuxchix.org. Merci Beaucoup, Anna Badimo -- WITS University -- Original Message --- From: Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:48:51 -0400 Subject: [DDN] Anoth