Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-18 Thread Kimberly King-Burns
At 12:27 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote: I have had, though, correspondence with George Gobin and Ansar Mohammed through the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society lists. I have found that Microsoft people are typically leery of entering discussion with me; I've challenged regional Microsoft employees to pu

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-18 Thread Kimberly King-Burns
At 12:27 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote: I have had, though, correspondence with George Gobin and Ansar Mohammed through the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society lists. I have found that Microsoft people are typically leery of entering discussion with me; I've challenged regional Microsoft employees to pu

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-18 Thread Taran Rampersad
Kimberly King-Burns wrote: > At 12:27 PM 5/17/2005, you wrote: > >> I have had, though, correspondence with George Gobin and Ansar Mohammed >> through the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society lists. I have found >> that Microsoft people are typically leery of entering discussion with >> me; I've c

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-17 Thread Taran Rampersad
Kimberly King-Burns wrote: > Hi, Taran: > Thanks for the informative note. Have you had any recent conversations > with either Greg Stewart (Jamaica) or Terence Phillip (Trinidad) about > Microsoft's rather engaged interest in working with the Caribbean region? Nope. I have heard of Terence Phill

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-17 Thread Kimberly King-Burns
Hi, Taran: Thanks for the informative note. Have you had any recent conversations with either Greg Stewart (Jamaica) or Terence Phillip (Trinidad) about Microsoft's rather engaged interest in working with the Caribbean region? While I am admittedly unaware of the NGO meetings to which you refer

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-17 Thread Taran Rampersad
Kimberly King-Burns wrote: >Hi, everyone: >For an example of an excellent Rotary Club-supported initiative in the >Bahamas and Caribbean, see www.wiredislandnetwork.com. > >Rotary Club East Nassau joined the Briland Modem Fund's community >technology centre outreach program (see www.brilandmodem

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide (Bahamas and Caribbean)

2005-05-16 Thread Kimberly King-Burns
Hi, everyone: For an example of an excellent Rotary Club-supported initiative in the Bahamas and Caribbean, see www.wiredislandnetwork.com. Rotary Club East Nassau joined the Briland Modem Fund's community technology centre outreach program (see www.brilandmodemfund.com) two years ago, and has s

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide

2005-05-16 Thread Pamela McLean
Dear David Abel. On behalf of CawdNet I will respond to your email on two levels. 1 - Ref - "Rotary International recently acknowledged the digital divide should be part of its focus and opened a discussion on how Rotary might help close it. " 2 - Ref - "...projects that require fund raising, im

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide

2005-05-15 Thread Timothy Anderson
- Original Message - From: "David Abel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide > I'm excited to pass on that my local Rotary Club has taken interest in > helping bridge

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide

2005-05-15 Thread Dan Bassill
I find that the most difficult work in operating a technology enabled organization is finding dollars to hire people to maintain the technology, innovate uses of the technology, and lead experiential learning that engages youth with the technology. If you can lead your Rotary Club to this understa

Re: [DDN] Rotary to help close the divide

2005-05-15 Thread David P. Dillard
>From one David to another David, I moderate that Net-Gold discussion group on Yahoo Groups and I have just checked one of my archives and have these fund raising related posts that may be useful to you in looking for ways in which your organization can make contributions of time effort resources

[DDN] Rotary to help close the divide

2005-05-13 Thread David Abel
I'm excited to pass on that my local Rotary Club has taken interest in helping bridge the digital divide. I'm currently forming a committee to decide what project we will pursue and was hoping the DDN list would be kind enough to offer suggestions. I open to ideas for projects that require fund