[DDN] let's keep it non-partisan, folks...

Hi everyone, I've just received a whole bunch of posts to the list that are either pro- or anti-Pat Roberston rants. This is not the place. Please keep the list focused on the digital divide and constructive things we can do to help the recovery efforts. Please take the partisan fighting elsew

[DDN] Re: Red Cross may be slow, but...

The Red Cross maybe slow... But Operation Blessings? Some readers may wish to know about the following: FEMA is directing Katrina donations to none other than the televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson (who recently called for the assassination of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez on his nationwide te

Re: [DDN] verizon's new 768kbps dsl service for $15/month

Executive Director wrote: [snip] Also, more than likely this service will provide a USB modem that is not sharable to other computers. [snip] AFAIK SBC is supplying a neat 2Wire DSL modem to all their new customers. Verizon may do the same. The 2Wire has USB, a 4 port ethernet switch, HPNA,

[DDN] Youth Policy Action Center Recruiting State and Local Organizations

Youth Policy Action Center Recruiting State and Local Organizations APPLY BY SEPTEMBER 15TH Gain access to the most sophisticated advocacy technology available while encouraging youth and youth advocates to shape public policy in your community. Learn more about this opportunity and how to a

Re: [DDN] Question about audio blogging

Andy Carvin wrote: Probably doesn't exist yet. Similar to what we hope to develop with an open source mobcasting tool. Will concentrate on that another day ac It's probably simpler than the mobcasting system. I think all Lars wants is for people to be able to enter text and numbers via

[DDN] CSU University System OPENS DOORS to Katrina Students

With thousands of students affected by Hurricane Katrina forced to improvise on their fall-semester plans, many are inquiring about taking classes elsewhere. CSU Monterey Bay, located on California's Central Coast 2 hours south of San Francisco, is ready to assist those students. "Our campus is

[DDN] Supplies for Katrina Victims

There is something you can do today to help people streaming out of New Orleans. I called one of the churches that is taking in refugees. They need lots of supplies. You can gather together a bag of supplies (see list below). Go to the Post Office an get a Priority box - flat fee (choice of two s

Re: [DDN] Question about audio blogging

I am sure we can set this up. Please leave your name, zipcode, and phone # where you can be reached. I belive skype or gizmo can use custom greetings so it would be easier. We could then direct it to a folder and have it upload the audio right away and then follow-up with the text of the msg

Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective

Hello Taran, Good to lear another thing from you ... The Alert Retrieval Cache concept. I have been away from telco too long. It is new to me. But can this be set up in advance? What I mean is can it be something just like 911 for example. It is there and every knows it. When it is emergency the

[DDN] Instructions for photographing and documenting hurricane victims

(please circulate widely) Hi everyone, For those of you willing to volunteer and photograph evacuees or collect photos of the missing from bulletin boards and websites, here are some instructions. If you have a Flickr.com account, upload photos and tag them either as: katrinamissing for mi

RE: [DDN] verizon's new 768kbps dsl service for $15/month

More info on this subject below. Michael F. Pitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, the article that generated so many comments this week is "Verizon's so-called deal" referring to the recent $14.95 offer from everyone's favorite telco. Heated debate on whether or not it's a good deal. http://muniwire

Re: [DDN] Progressive Uses for GIS & Other Mapping Technologies

I posted a message on my blog today suggesting ways GIS could be used. We're piloting these in the Tutor/Mentor Connection. Visit the Program Locator at www.tutormentorexchange.net to see what we are doing. The important thing to recognize about using GIS in the disaster areas is that you need a t

Re: [DDN] eDemocracy/eEngagement Success Case Studies??

Adrianos, nice to receive your post. I would recommend that you take a look at Minnesota eDemocracy and some of the experiences in Scandinavian countries -- a good place to start might be in Steve Clift's "democracies online" site, http://dowire.org/wiki/Main_Page Also, the National Science Found

Subject: RE: [DDN] Examples of digital inclusion projects in Latin and CentralAmeric

You may be interested in two articles that I wrote for the American Canadian Association Newsletter in Peru about government transparency efforts in Peru with some links to background papers from international organizations. The links are: Government Transparency: A Key to Strengthening Democ

Re: [DDN] Question about audio blogging

Probably doesn't exist yet. Similar to what we hope to develop with an open source mobcasting tool. Will concentrate on that another day ac Lars Hasselblad Torres wrote: I am a little naïve when it comes to phone blogging, so forgive the ignorance in my question -- efforts to improve comm

[DDN] katrina donation button for your blog or website

More info here: http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005/09/after_you_donat.html Rebecca -- Rebecca MacKinnon Research Fellow, Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Society www.GlobalVoicesOnline.org "The world is talking. Are you listening?" Weblog: www.RConversation.com North Korea zone: w

[DDN] FW: New Orleans Public Library blogspot for postings

Please help the librarians of NOPL reconnect. Their webserver and mailserver are not working. Share widely. Karen -Original Message- NOPL Contact List: post-Katrina http://nopl.blogspot.com Tony Barnes reports, "Kim Tran staffer moved my old files there and is continuing [to update th

[DDN] AP access to satellite image of New Orleans

Hi The AP has made a satellite image available that shows a great deal of New Orleans. You can navigate the image and compare it with a map of landmarks. Here's the URL http://hosted.ap.org/specials/neworleanssatellite/index.html Carla Lane, Ed.D. Executive Director TEC/CCELC 31 Segovia

[DDN] eMachineshop CAD software - constructivist learning opportunity

hi everyone - wired magazine has a fascinating article about a new jersey company that will manufacture whatever inventions you design with their free windows CAD (computer assisted design) software. http://www.emachineshop.com/ the wired article can be found at http://www.wired.com/w

[DDN] [Fwd: [RIDERS-TALK] Legal Services Corporation needs disaster recovery advice]

See below for a request for help from Joyce Raby, Legal Services Corporation. Original Message Subject: [RIDERS-TALK] Legal Services Corporation needs disaster recovery advice Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:12:01 -0400 From: Joe Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAI

[DDN] Question about audio blogging

I am a little naïve when it comes to phone blogging, so forgive the ignorance in my question -- efforts to improve communications post-Katrina, and to help put missing persons in touch with family have got me thinking about different opportunities. So my question is: are technologies out there tha

RE: [DDN] eDemocracy/eEngagement Success Case Studies??

You can look up the Development Gateway's e-government portal. There's a key issues (left column) on e-democracy: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/egovernment Hope this helps Nadia Afrin Content Coordinator Development Gateway Phone: 202 572 9258 ICT for Development http://topics.developmen

Re: [DDN] Hurricane Katrina mobcast launched

I think the general public does not realize how ineffective the Red Cross has proved to be unfortunately during this disaster. The news media indicated they saw the first Red Cross truck on Thur, yesterday in Mississippi. If you have tried to call them you will find out that it is very diffic

RE: [DDN] Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in Houston - CTC plannedfor the Astrodome

Andy, Thanks for the note. A little brainstorming from the list regarding unique curriculum resources, tools and creative programming ideas would be helpful. These will be CTC clients with heavy burdens. We need to prepare our volunteers appropriately with the resources they need to be most helpf

[DDN] Craigslist > New Orleans > Housing

These Net-Gold posts may be of interest to readers of this list. From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Sep 2, 2005 6:45 am Subject: HURRICANES: HURICANE: KATRINA : Craigslist > New Orleans > Housing || Wikipedia Article About Katrina

[DDN] CTC for Katrina Victims Update - Please Forward

As of late last night, the Astrodome was full and evacuees were being diverted to other sites. We have an internal TFA meeting this morning to update everyone working on the Astrodome Community Technology Center (CTC) project. The minor change in plans is that we now expect to be working on the de

RE: [DDN] Red Cross missing persons database - eight names and counting

Andy, There is also the Survivor/Connector list at http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/ Yesterday, there were over 8000 on the list. Today there are over 22000. This is but one example of why we are putting computers in the Astrodome and other refugee sites. Will -Original Message- From:

Re: Re: [DDN] Hurricane Katrina mobcast launched

>From: Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu Sep 01 14:25:42 CDT 2005 >To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [DDN] Hurricane Katrina mobcast launched Just a comment to add: I am a retired Army signal Corps type, and I have been looking for rep

re: [DDN] I need three volunteers to set up a Flickr account

hi everyone, thanks for the quick response - over 150 offers so far. There's no need to send in more offers. I'll be in touch with a few of you soon. For everyone else, I may not have time to contact you to thank you. I'm taking vacation time to do this and I'm just swamped. But please don't t

Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective

Andy Carvin wrote: > Rose Vines of New Orleans just posted this to Omidyar.net. She's given > me permission to disseminate her messages online, and I wanted to > share this one in particular because she addresses how SMS text > messaging has made all the difference in reaching people. -andy The A

Re: [DDN] Hurricane Katrina mobcast launched

I think that the Red Cross and other organizations have been unwilling to accept anything but financial contributions - I went through this with the ARC project - and I am somewhat disillusioned with this disconnect which seems like hubris from the cheap seats. The Red Cross does have a lot of expe

[DDN] eDemocracy/eEngagement Success Case Studies??

Dear All, I am currently interested to know if any of you is aware of any success story(ies) where local communities used eDemocracy/eEngagement tools/frameworks/etc to improve their way of living? Are there any such case studies available online or in journals/proceedings? Thank you very muc

[DDN] I need three volunteers to set up a Flickr account

Hi everyone, Lars Torres just reminded me that we can use camerphones to email pics to Flickr. To do this right, I will need three people to set up accounts on Flickr. Flickr lets you set up one account per email address, and I've run out of addresses. You won't have to do anything except dona

[DDN] Urgent call to photograph Katrina victims, upload data on Flickr.com

(please circulate widely) Hi everyone, Many people have been asking me how they can use their Internet skills to help out with hurricane victims. I've been asking bloggers to blog. Now I'd like to ask photographers to photograph -- and help reunite victims with their families. I'd like to

[DDN] Today: Blog for Disaster Relief!

Hi everyone, Blogging for International Disaster Relief Day is up and running; bloggers have started to post disaster relief-related resources all over the Internet. How to see what's being posted: I'm aggregating participating blogs in a digest on this page: http://katrina05.blogspot.com/2