[DDN] Copyright Awareness Campaign

Dear All We are NGO in Egypt, we are looking to start Awareness Campaign about copyright (software protection exactly) and we hope to find any support or fund to start a smart and effective campaign. any Ideas, tools, mechanisms or grant for this if possible. Best Regards Mohamed Hegazy www.e

[DDN] [Fwd: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief]

SALDWR = South Asian Leftists Dialoguing With Religion - All the best Claude Original Message Subject: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:15:06 -0700 (PDT) From: yogi sikand To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Fr

[DDN] ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL PRESIDENT'S TECHNOLOGY AWARD - $500 AWARD

In a message dated 10/14/05 5:36:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL PRESIDENT'S TECHNOLOGY AWARD - $500 AWARD > > NIEA is pleased to announce the First Annual NIEA President's Technology > Award, sponsored by Educational Options, Inc. This award is designed to > assist Ameri

Re: [DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of

Many happy returns, Andy! And thanks for having always shared your tech forrays with others. Selkirk/Crusoe might have been mightily p*ssed off if he'd gone back to his island after 11 years and found a Club Med resort there. Not you. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.alm

RE: [DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of

Congratulations Andy! This is indeed something to celebrate! We are thrilled to have your leadership and guidance. How great to mark your path from a grad student to now - the insights, the progress, the lessons learned. Thanks for all you do for so many others. Stay tuned, Brenda Brenda J.

Re: [DDN] Don't Let Fear Kill Muni Wi-Fi (fwd)

>Plans are afoot in Philadelphia and Huntsville, Alabama, as well as my >hometown of San Francisco, to provide residents with low-cost or free wireless >internet access. >To date, we have placed 5,325 computers in needy homes. Hello all: Need these initiatives be mutually exclusive? I a

[DDN] I-pods n' you...

Hello all, I'm looking for information on the I-Pod (both audio and the new video versions) regarding their target market, demographics, market penetration, and projections for future sales. These questions lean towards business forecast modeling but I also am especially interested in the the

[DDN] FW: New NIEA Award from NCAI

Fyi - siobhan -Original Message- From: American Indian Library Association National Indian Education Association 110 Maryland Avenue, N.E. Suite 104 Washington, D.C. 20002 P: (202) 544-7290 / F: (202) 544-7293 October 14, 2005 Broadcast # 05-047 NIEA ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL PRESIDENT'S TE

[DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of

Hi everyone, Eleven years ago today on the EDTECH and LM_NET lists, I launched my first website, EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform (www.edwebproject.org). The site was the result of a post-graduate fellowship from Northwestern University's Annenberg-Washington Program. I'd spent t

[DDN] Estonians Break Ground, Vote Online

. Election officials in the country of 1.4 million said they had received no reports of flaws in the online voting system or hacking attempts. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_hi_te/estonia_internet_voting -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center

Re: [DDN] If the world were a village of 1,000 people +

Re: [DDN] A Littl' More On Bridging the Digital Divide in the US [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I struggle with this $100 dollar initiative because I know that in many countries, onehundred US dollars is a LOT of money. There were some initiatives that were a locational resource that served whole vill

[DDN] Internet or irrigation

from http://www.freepress.net/news/11806 Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say From Reuters, October 13, 2005 LIMA, Peru (Reuters) ­ Hundreds of Peruvian

[DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

I agree with John that the Google's and Yahoo's digitization of books is not a problem if the purpose is to provide access to specific portions only - the creation of the intellectual showroom (look what happened when the Border brothers encouraged people in their Ann Arbor bookstore to actuall

[DDN] Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property

Many of you may already know about this, but today's Financial Times has the following story: Call to restrict 'stifling' patents (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3e3b14aa-3c1e-11da-94fb-0e2511c8.html) "An international group of academics, scientists and artists has called for strict limits on pat

Re: [DDN] Don't Let Fear Kill Muni Wi-Fi (fwd)

Don't Let Muni Wi-Fi - Pimp The Poor For too long in this country, we have used the excuse that "we're helping poor people" to start initiatives that only help the middle and upper class. Muni Wi-Fi totally ignores the fact that the poor don't have equipment in their homes to benefit from such

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

Sarah, thank you for your answer: I agree that former non-digital piracy does not justify digital piracy. What I had written was just aimed at not demonizing too much the piracy potential of digital tools, but it is true that it must be addressed. Same with plagiarism, btw: people have prob

Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't the writers and producers of intellectual and artistic property own their works and have the right to control how they are distributed To ge

RE: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights

Need to remember that academic publishers generally do very limited print runs and hence the price of their books will be high. We need to remember that just because it is in digital format doesn't mean that copyright may be violated. Especially now that information is often someone's livelihood

RE: [DDN] Whitepaper explores a new form of challenge grants to promotenonprofit sustainability

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