I'm exceptionally proud that our teeny, weeny non-profit has held
eight Global Learn Day events, one each year since 1996. GLD, a non
stop 24 hour event, opens in the South Pacific and "travels" west to
Hawaii, "the long way around". We make "stops" in eight major regions
where we feature outst
The ICT Literacy Portal www.ictliteracy.info has been hosting ICT literacy
virtual conferences and meetings in collaboration with our partner Learning
Times for the past two and a half years. Many of you and your organizations
have participated. The response to this type of meeting/conference
RE: Virtual Conferences,Keeping Track of Technology Accomplishments On Line,
and funding for Homeless.
In 1998-99 MIT but together youth from 36 countries with 16 different languages
to talk about World Problems, they called it the Junior Summit. Please take a
look at the success of this pr
Just an aside to this discussion, which is interesting and to the
point of digital divide and digital elite issues:
Many people considering digital divide issues are also concerned with
energy and sustainability. Is airline travel, in which each individual
is responsible for energy consumption and
John is absolutely on target.
The original argument in the development community was bandwidth and the
exclusion of those who couldn't participate- but even fewer can participate
in a f-t-f except those who are funded to do ict4d.
Taran is on target too. Actually, there are many virtual conferenc
John, I hear you and agree with you. Visit
http://www.tutormentorconference.bigstep.com to see
how my small, understaffed non profit is trying to connect the face to face
tutor/mentor conference
we hold in Chicago each November and May with others via a variety of
econference concepts.
We've h
In response to John Gibbs comment about virtual conference members of this list
might be interested in our experiences of hosting e/merge 2004, an online
conference about educational technology in Southern Africa. We had 163
participants from 7 southern Africa countries, as well as some key people
John and All,
In 1990, about 14 years ago, I was researching for a
paper on video-conferencing. To my surprised, the
problem why video-conferencing was not popular, then,
had nothing to do with the technology, nor the
services provided by the phone companies etc. (It was
still rather expensive the
