[DDN] Fwd: This Week in Internet & Society [Digital Inequalities]

[Claude Almansi]

Hi All

Maybe it is a mite paradoxical to discuss digital inequalities on
SecondLife, which requires a potent computer and a fast internet
connection, but  the reading list  is interesting. So here's the
"slurl" to Berkman Island:
<http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/123/219/24/?x=400&y=400&img=http%3A//www.law.harvard.edu/programs/center_law/berkman_logo.gif&title=Welcome%20to%20Berkman%20Center%20for%20Internet%20and%20Society%20at%20Harvard%20Law%20School&msg=Berkman%20Island%20is%20the%20product%20of%20a%20collaboration%20between%20individuals%20associated%20with%20the%20real-life%20Berkman%20Center%20and%20Second%20Life%20citizens.%20Members%20of%20the%20community%20have%20helped%20landscape%2C%20enrich%2C%20and%20create%20unique%20content.%20For%20the%20purpose%20of%20the%20Beyond%20Broadcast%20conference%20%28http%3A//beyondbroadcast.net/blog/%29%2C%20we%20have%20built%20an%20inworld%20broadcasting%20center%20and%20a%203D%20replica%20of%20the%20Ames%20Courtroom%20at%20the%20Harvard%20Law%20School.>
 (with or without the period at the end - shorter one:
<http://tinyurl.com/s6tv4>).

Best

Claude

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Geoff McGovern <geoffmcg_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: This Week in Internet & Society
To: cyberone at groups.google.com



Hi all,

This week's Internet & Society class will introduce a discussion of
Digital Inequalities.  The teaser:

"Despite rapid growth and extended efforts on the part of
international organizations, development agencies, and private
investors to reach a broader audience, the vast majority of the world
does not have effective Internet access. Alternatively, mobile
telephones continue to proliferate, and already boast twice the users.
Have we made any progress, is the future mobile, and what has come of
the World Summit on the Information Society?"

Class materials can be found here:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ptc/Technology_and_Development_I:_Digital_Inequalities

Please join us on Tuesday night, 7:35-9:35 EST on Berkman Island In
Second Life.  Office Hours are Thursday, 9-10 EST.

In addition, let me encourage you to take advantage of the Audio or
Visual Production Assignment.  Details can be found here:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ptc/Individual_Assignments#Assignment_3:_Audio_or_Video_Production

If we get a good at-large involvement, we can have a listening/viewing
party in SL.  Previous classes have found this assignment particularly
helpful.  So why not try your hand at it?

See you tomorrow,

GeoffMcG Xi


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