[DDN] Ensuring "We Media" Includes All of Us

Hi everyone, This evening I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of 120 graduate students at NYU's interactive telecommunications program. After being introduced by Red Burns, I spoke for about an hour about the the digital divide and its relationship with participatory media, or "We Media"

Re: [DDN] Bridging the Digital Divide in the US

In a message dated 10/4/05 3:21:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You can lead a horse to water... what I've found is that unless people > can solve a problem that's bugging them with technology, they really > don't care too much. If you show a computer doing word processing to > someone who ha

Re: [DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide

I recommend a glance at Larry Lessig's opinion on this. It's not so clear that Google is in the wrong. There is a case to be made for fair use. And Google would not be providing the entire texts, only excerpts. Read and see what you think: http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003140.shtml Best Dav

Re: [DDN] Gender Divide

Hi Joe, Funny that you asked about this today - just hours ago I ran across a resource on this topic from the International Finance Corporation/World Bank: Engendering ICT Toolkit You can find it at: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTGENDER/EXTICTTOOLKIT/0,,menuPK:542826~pag

[DDN] Educating the philanthropic community

Ref educating the philanthropic community (see below fromRe: [DDN] Cedar Pruitt's departure from DDN.) Social Edge is an excellent forum for discussion between philanthropists and "people who want to change the world" http://www.socialedge.org/index.html Pam Pamela McLean CAWDnet convenor [EMA

Re: [DDN] Gender Divide

For practical issues related to gender and information technology, search out works by Nancy Taggart and Nancy Hafkins. RDC Royal D. Colle International Professor Emeritus Cornell University Kennedy Hall Ithaca, New York USA 14853 Telephone 607-255-2113 Fax 607-254-1322 ___

Re: [DDN] an office suite accessible from within a web browser

Doesn't Thin Client Computing do that -- The "PC" doesn't have anything on it, it's just a box that makes an Internet connection to a server that has the software and the users files on it. There are some slides from the RTPnet conference this spring at http://www.rtpnet.org/conf/ctvo_files/v3

RE: [DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide

All of these big ideas that Google and Yahoo have about making everything available have to also follow copyright rules. Right now, what that means is a big mess. siobhan Copyright lawsuit challenges Google's vision of digital 'library' Daniel B. Wood Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Re: [DDN] Creating the $100 Laptop

I've found in my English composition classes, where I use online discussion, that anyone older than 19 or 20 is a little hesitant about using the "big pencils" of computers in class. The reason, I think, is the old attitude when a machine is broke, don't touch; call the repairman. But with com

[DDN] Gender Divide

Hello All, My name is Joe Skubis. I am a doctoral student at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, PA and I am in the preliminary stages of preparing my dissertation research proposal. The topic that interests me is the digital divide that exists between the genders. For example, in the high

[DDN] Business Week story on Digital Divide

Business Week is running a story on what tech companies are doing on the Digital Divide: Help for Info Age Have-Nots - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2005/tc2005104_6877_tc024.htm It includes a mention of the MIT $100 computer, among other things. It also stresses the nee

Re: [DDN] Creating the $100 Laptop

I've found children have an easier time with some of my devices than I do... The gameboy etc are really tiny buttons that I can't really manipulate properly - my 6 year old cousin is a whiz. He's also much faster at SMS and uses my cell to play games with a speed and dexterity I can't match. I how

Re: [DDN] Bridging the Digital Divide in the US

Kevin Cronin wrote: > List: I have given out hundreds of refurbished computers to low-income > families. I certainly wish they were in the hundreds of thousands. But > giving out computers, particularly to kids, creates new challenges > that would need to be addressed: > > 1) Without computer inst

[DDN] an office suite accessible from within a web browser

hi everyone - it sure would be nice someday having an office suite application accessible from a web browser. that day is surely coming sometime. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro (blog) http

RE: [DDN] Bridging the Digital Divide in the US

" So far, I have been unable to figure it all out." I will echo your sentiments about training, and add another one, "support". We have two 24 computer training labs and we provide one year of free support. At the end of the year they can trade up for a newer faster computer and the process conti

[DDN] audio of Negroponte's MIT speech

Hi everyone, Now that I've got my laptop back from the repair shop, I'm able to share with you an MP3 audio file of Nicholas Negroponte's speech at MIT last week about his $100 laptop initiative. Be forewarned it's a large file - 18 megs, including compression. You can find it here: http://

Re: [DDN] Rebuilding Louisiana Coalition

In a message dated 10/3/05 11:59:39 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > So many of our techies and avtivists are scattered to the wind. We are > urgently pleading for volunteers to assist Rebuilding Louisiana Coalition to > build > a website. Please contact Russell

RE: [DDN] Bridging the Digital Divide in the US

That is the reason why I think we should look at information access in a different context. (I have a smiliar 'thinking' posting in the $100 PC thread) How many computers can we give out? We always miss out somebody. But what if people can access information via the TV for example?? No matter how

[DDN] Tunisians conduct online protest

Hi everyone, Right now there's an extraordinary online protest coming out of Tunisia. The website, Yezzi.org, is a collection of photos of Tunisians holding up signs in various languages, each with a message directed to Tunisian President Ben Ali. Though the phrase they use, "Yezzi, Fock!," ma

Re: [DDN] Solar Wireless

Ronda Evans wrote: >Could anyone help me in making suggestions of what communications devises are >needed for a Disaster Preparedness Communication Kit? > Oddly enough, that's one of the reasons I'm playing with the solar wifi, among other things. > We've come along way from only needing a radio

Re: [DDN] Creating the $100 Laptop

Scott Bowling wrote: >Taran Rampersad wrote: > > >>... >>I use an USB key for a lot of this stuff... but the problem is that I >>can't depend on machines to have the software that I use, and so on. >>So I carry a laptop. But I agree. I'd much rather prefer walking >>around with my USB key. >>

RE: [DDN] Bridging the Digital Divide in the US

List: I have given out hundreds of refurbished computers to low-income families. I certainly wish they were in the hundreds of thousands. But giving out computers, particularly to kids, creates new challenges that would need to be addressed: 1) Without computer instruction, more likely to oc