From andycarvin at yahoo.com Mon Oct 1 15:14:10 2007 From: andycarvin at yahoo.com (Andy Carvin) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DDN] fwd: Call for researchers: Public Access ICT Landscape Study Message-ID: <791086.48878.qm@web44809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Passing this along; please contact the researchers directly at ictstudy at u.washington.edu if you have any questions as I am not affiliated with the project. -andy ------- Call for ICT Researchers - Submit Expression of Interest by 8 October 2007 Public Access ICT Landscape Study Expression of Interest ? Country research teams The University of Washington Center for Internet Studies (CIS) is conducting a study of public access ICT environments in 25 countries. The research will include an examination of physical infrastructures (libraries, telecenters, kiosks, etc.), public access policies, stakeholder analyses (especially within government), and the information needs of disadvantaged communities, among others. To implement this study, CIS is seeking qualified in-country research teams to conduct interviews, surveys and local language data analyses. The expected timeframe for the engagement is November 2007 through August 2008. The final list of countries is still being determined, and one of the criteria is the availability of a local research team with the capacity to undertake this research. For details of this request and list of countries, visit: http://www.cis.washington.edu/projects/publicaccessICTlandscape/countryselection.html Interested parties should send a 1-page Expression of Interest in a Word or text file by October 8 to: ictstudy at u.washington.edu From DWX at cbsnews.com Wed Oct 3 17:59:58 2007 From: DWX at cbsnews.com (Walker, Danna) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:59:58 -0400 Subject: [DDN] open source feedback - Knight News Challenge Message-ID: To the Digital Divide Network: I have put in an application for the Knight News Challenge and I am hoping to get some constructive feedback on my idea for a media genome project. It's a bit of a hassle to comment because you have to sign up, get an e-mail, respond, etc., but if you feel you have expertise in this area I'd appreciate the time and effort. I have applied under the "open source" section, which means that anything anyone says could go into the decision on whether to grant funding. Therefore, I ask you this favor with a lot of trust in the theory of open source and in the thoughtful folks on this discussion group. I am the steward of a database of contemporary quotations and I am attempting to transfer the database and build upon it for a type of quotes "Wikipedia" on the Web. There are other "genome" projects going on out there in terms of building aggregators for large databases. I am thinking in terms of a type of quotes aggregator in which we would eventually be building a map of quotes/events that lead to each other and form oral history/news snapshots in time. Anyway, the Knight News Challenge site is located here: http://www.newschallenge.org/index_lang.html -- You would click on "comments" and search for "Knight-James B. Simpson Contemporary Quotations Media Genome" Thank you, Danna Walker p.s. By the way, anyone can apply for these grants, which are geared toward new ideas pertaining to online communities and media. The final deadline for the second round of grants is due soon, Oct. 15, but the first step of the application process is simple and easily doable by then. From andycarvin at yahoo.com Thu Oct 4 10:54:20 2007 From: andycarvin at yahoo.com (Andy Carvin) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:54:20 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DDN] today: discussing social networks on NPR's Talk of the Nation Message-ID: <469508.22205.qm@web44810.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Hi everyone, I just wanted to give you a head's up that I'll be talking about social networks on NPR's Talk of the Nation today beginning at 3pm ET. The discussion will probably focus on the value of social networks, and whether or not they can be used effectively for solving problems and tackling real-world issues, rather than just socializing. Talk of the Nation airs live in most areas that carry the show, but it varies from city to city. If you want to catch it online, public radio station sites like WBUR offer live streaming: http://www.wbur.org/listen/ Otherwise, the audio for the segment should be online a couple of hours after the show airs. Just check the Talk of the Nation blog at http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/ later in the day; there should be a link to the audio in the blog post about the segment. You can also use the blog to post questions you'd like to ask during the segment, or you can call in when the segment airs live at (800) 989-8255. thanks, andy ------------------------ Andy Carvin andycarvin at yahoo com www.andycarvin.com www.pbs.org/learningnow ------------------------ From claude.almansi at bluewin.ch Thu Oct 4 17:08:37 2007 From: claude.almansi at bluewin.ch (Claude Almansi) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:08:37 +0200 Subject: [DDN] Fwd: re New YouTube channel for non-profits Message-ID: <47055655.8000803@bluewin.ch> Hi Andy, Sorry, your message with "could you repost, came in garbled" to my first attempt to send this message got waylaid by the spam filter. I'm sending it from Thunderbird and not through gmail as in the former attempt, so it should come through OK. I leave it to your better judgment wheather to send it on to the list or not after almost a week from the original post by Kelvin. And wheather to cut or not this first paragraph. Best Claude Hi Kelvin Thanks for the information about the YouTube non profit channel and congratulations to all of you at YouthNoise for the work you do and for your videos. Yet there are things jarring in the YouTube non profit channel in general. First, from the press communique you quoted: > Organizations with 501c3 tax filing status that register for the > YouTube Non-Profit Program receive a free non-profit specific YouTube > channel where they can upload footage of their work, public service > announcements, calls to action and more. YouTube's global platform > enables non-profits to deliver their message, showcase their impact > and needs, and encourage supporters to take action. So only US-registered charities can apply. This is confirmed in : "If you're a nonprofit organization in the U.S. with 501(c)(3) tax status, apply today for the YouTube Nonprofit Program." and in : "Please note that your organization must have current 501(c)(3) status in order to be considered for this program. ". Maybe it is because of: > ? The ability to embed a Google Checkout donation button on their > channel and video watch pages that allows people to make a > contribution directly from YouTube. in the packet for accepted non profits? Yet how many "organizations with [US] 501c3 tax filing status" cannot afford a web page with a donation button anyway? How many really need this "Checkout donation button" right on on their YouTube page, because of which, for instance, the Association for Progressive Communications , TakingITGlobal , Bytes For All , the Digital Divide Network itself www.digitaldivide.net and Telecentre.org are excluded? This month, the Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor Network, part of Bytes For All, participated in an action that lead Pakistan's Ministry of IT to finally accept to consult civil society and IT trade stakeholders about its Electronic Crime Bill. Several other associations, groups or their members were involved: for instance Help-Pakistan , The Second Floor , the Pakistan Software Houses Associations P at SHA . None of which would qualify for "showcasing" in the YouTube non profit channel. The Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor Network had already been hosting the analysis of the Electronic Crime Bill sent to the Ministry of IT by barrister Zahid Jamal in January, when it had already been discussed in its mailing list. But the ministry hadn't answered. So on Sept. 7, with the Bill about to be presented in parliament, they organised a discussion on the Bill, which was presented by Zahid Jamal, at the caf?-library of The Second Floor in Karachi, and videorecorded it. Bloggers reported about it, mailing-lists discussed it. On Sept. 14, Zahid Jamal and Jehan Ara (former chairperson of P at SHA) were interviewed about it by Dawn TV in a nationwide broadcast, and all the videos were put online, in part at YouTube, in part at Google Video: see the post where they are embedded, which was taken up in the Metroblogging Karachi and Metroblogging Islamabad collective blogs, and on "Don't Block the Blog", and the discussion went on in the mailing-lists. On Sept. 19, the legal office of the Pakistan Ministry of IT issued the invitation for a discussion of the Bill's flaws on the mailing-list of the Pakistan ICT Policy Monitor Network. The videos of the presentation and discussion at The Second Floor caf?-library would certainly be an asset for YouTube's non profit channel: because of the exemplary economy and efficiency of the civil society action they were instrumental to, and because of their educational value in general: while the discussion was about the Pakistani Electronic Crime Bill, the legal concepts that were clarified and debated concern all citizens, everywhere. And as Jahid Zamil's analysis and other documents can be downloaded from and the slides of his presentation at The Second Floor caf? are at , the material about these issues is very complete. And yet the videos were actually viewed by few people (98 for the first part of Zahid Jamil's presentation, less than that for the other videos), because only 5% of the population have broadband access in Pakistan, and if you are on dial-up and can access equivalent content in text form, you do. To the end of this action, what mattered was that the videos be online. But for civil society elsewhere, it would be important to make them better known. But this action cannot be showcased on YouTube's non profit channel, because of the "501c3 tax filing status" clause. And then one cannot help wondering about the criteria used for selecting some projects whose videos *are* showcased in the non profit channell. AutismSpeaks(tm) may fit the "501c3 tax filing status" clause, but after 10 videos of walkers, paddlers, golfers, softballers saying how good they felt about their being do-gooders for the noble cause of autism awareness, and not a peep from a single autistic person, I skipped to one entitled "Autism Everyday" : it showed exhausted mothers and autistic kids having tantrums. One mother says, *with her autistic daughter in the same room*, that she had contemplated killing her and herself rather than putting her in a special ed class. This video already provoked several shocked responses from other parents of autistic children since May: "Response To Autism Everyday" , " Autism Everyday is a "Doctored Film"" are listed in the "related videos" of "Autism Everyday". But what help can it be to her daughter? In the case of an average mother, the nervousness of having a TV crew in the room might have made her forget that her daughter was in the room too. It would have been the producer's responsibility to ensure that this might not happen, by interviewing the mother alone, anyway. But this is no average mother. This is Alison Tepper Singer, Executive Vice President in charge of Communications and Awareness of AutismSpeaks(tm), who "spent 14 years at CNBC and NBC in a variety of positions, including vice president of programming in NBC's cable and business development division, producer of CNBC's MoneyWheel and MarketWrap programs, and, most recently, special projects producer at CNBC", according to her profile in . So this cannot be explained by sheer camera panic. It was deliberate. See Jemaleddin Cole's post, published after an excerpt of the video aired on ABC. And Amanda Baggs, whose "In My Language" video has done far more to make non autistic people reflect about autism (and cognitive disabilities in general) than all the AutismSpeaks(tm) videos lumped together, also responded to that part of the video in "Reply to Autism Speaks and GRASP Articles of Understanding" on October 28, 2006. I have flagged the "Autism Everyday" video on YouTube as "Other Terms Of Use violation", because YouTube doesn't have an "obscenity" option for flagging, but their Terms Of Use say: "H. You will otherwise comply with ... all applicable local, national, and international laws and regulations". And publishing on the internet a video where a recognizable mother says in front of her recognizable daughter that she contemplated killing her, a video that will remain indefinitely online, is child abuse, which seems against the US "Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act as Amended by the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003" which says "the term "child abuse and neglect" means, at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm..." (section 111 "Definitions"). So what was the rationale for selecting it for the YouTube non profit channel? Is showcasing "Autism Everyday" in it an illustration of the "Don't Do Evil" slogan of Google, which owns YouTube? Best Claude On 9/27/07, K Wong wrote: > I got some news this morning that YouthNoise was chosen as one of a > handful of non-profit 'launch partners' for a new YouTube nonprofit > channel. If any on this list have been thinking of making PSAs (DD > related or otherwise), I'd encourage you to consider YouTube as a > distribution medium for your campaigns. It has worked very well for > us. > > PS. Press release attached... > > Kelvin {at} > YouthNoise.org > > --- > > See YouthNoise featured on YouTube (http://youtube.com/nonprofits; > http://youtube.com/youthnoise ). YouthNoise is one of 13 nonprofit > organizations chosen as launch partners for YouTube's new nonprofit > program. The program, which begins today, September 27th, allows > 501(c)(3) organizations to have a special channel designated as a > nonprofit and the functionality to receive donations directly through > the YouTube site. In addition, the YouthNoise video about youth > homelessness is featured on YouTube's homepage today. Current views > are nearing 30,000!(...) -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch From jchittoor at csdms.in Thu Oct 4 11:16:40 2007 From: jchittoor at csdms.in (Jayalakshmi Chittoor) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:46:40 +0530 Subject: [DDN] today: discussing social networks on NPR's Talk of the Nation References: <469508.22205.qm@web44810.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <044601c80699$92b186d0$1f6464c8@Jaya> Hi Andy, Will be looking forward to this. Being out in the other side of the world, Internet does make it possible for us to get stuff live, and sometimes, definitely for viewing/listening to it at our own time. Keep up the good work you are doing for public service broadcasting. We in India are struggling hard to get the public service broadcasters to learn that there is something called Community Radio, and not just all of what the Incumbents let go is for the grabbing of private sector players. The advocacy of the CR movement has been slowly shaping up the policy environment and hopes for more community driven, radio and development related content should be coming on air soon, in as many diverse languages and cultures as there are in India. Jaya ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Carvin" To: "digitaldivide list" Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:24 PM Subject: [DDN] today: discussing social networks on NPR's Talk of the Nation > Hi everyone, > > I just wanted to give you a head's up that I'll be talking about social > networks on NPR's Talk of the Nation today beginning at 3pm ET. The > discussion will probably focus on the value of social networks, and > whether or not they can be used effectively for solving problems and > tackling real-world issues, rather than just socializing. > > Talk of the Nation airs live in most areas that carry the show, but it > varies from city to city. If you want to catch it online, public radio > station sites like WBUR offer live streaming: > > http://www.wbur.org/listen/ > > Otherwise, the audio for the segment should be online a couple of hours > after the show airs. Just check the Talk of the Nation blog at > http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/ later in the day; there should be a link to > the audio in the blog post about the segment. You can also use the blog to > post questions you'd like to ask during the segment, or you can call in > when the segment airs live at (800) 989-8255. > > thanks, > andy > > > > ------------------------ > Andy Carvin > andycarvin at yahoo com > www.andycarvin.com > www.pbs.org/learningnow > ------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE at digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request at mailman.edc.org > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. From mary_watkins at wgbh.org Thu Oct 4 11:07:07 2007 From: mary_watkins at wgbh.org (Mary Watkins) Date: 04 Oct 2007 11:07:07 -0400 Subject: [DDN] AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning Message-ID: <1126857178mary_watkins@wgbh.org> October 4, 2007 AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning In an effort to overcome technology and production barriers, the leading providers of Web-based video have joined with media access pioneer WGBH/Boston to develop solutions that will increase the amount of online video accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! have asked WGBH and its Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) to establish and manage the Internet Captioning Forum (ICF). The ICF will initially address the technical challenges presented by online video repurposed from broadcast or other previously captioned sources, as well as video created specifically for the Web. "More and more people are turning to the Internet to get their news, watch programs and other video,? says WGBH's Director of Media Access, Larry Goldberg. "The scarcity of captions online is due to a variety of challenges, including a proliferation of media and text formats and players, editing of programs originally distributed with captions, and lack of clear online caption production and delivery requirements. The founding members of the ICF are all companies long dedicated to making their products and services accessible to people with disabilities. They recognize that working together on this challenge is the best, fastest and most practical way to get more captioned video on the Web." The collaboration is expected to yield a range of solutions and tools, among them: ? A database for online media distributors, populated by major captioning providers, of previously captioned programs. This tool will facilitate the location and reuse of existing caption files. ? Technical and standards documents, case studies and best practices for accomplishing pervasive online video captioning. ? Demonstrations of innovative practices to preserve captions while editing and digitizing captioned videos. In addition to the global audience of people who are deaf or hard of hearing, beneficiaries of the ICF's initiative also include people who rely on translation engines to convert caption text into other languages, people using online video in noisy situations or at work, and search engines that use caption text to search and retrieve online videos. Cheryl Heppner, executive director of the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons says, "The formation of the Internet Captioning Forum will become a milestone in the history of access to media. The community of people who are deaf or hard of hearing has worked for decades to achieve the access to television captioning we have now. The partnership of AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! with WGBH promises to be a major step forward for accessible online video." ICF partners share their thoughts on the collaboration: "For several years now AOL has been working to tackle the range of challenges to facilitate timely delivery of captioned video content online: from the production and need for automated publishing of caption data to support for the display of captions in AOL?s web-based media player. Our efforts have demonstrated that collaboration between content producers and content distributors is the best way forward to achieve wide scale availability of captioned video on the web. It is our hope that the Internet Caption Forum will provide the venue for producers and distributors to come together to define the model for production and delivery of captions on the Web." - Tom Wlodkowski, Director of Accessibility, AOL "The Internet has been one of the most democratizing forces in the communications universe but it needs to accommodate the needs of all its users, including those who have need of features such as captions for audio and adaptable visual presentations. The Forum is one way in which information service providers can work together to establish reliable practices to improve access to Internet-based information." - Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google "As a leader in the online media space, we recognize our responsibility to raise the level of service we supply so that it is accessible to everyone. Microsoft is pleased to join with our industry colleagues and WGBH to create solutions that will enable the industry to effectively deliver online captioned media." - Rob Sinclair, Director, Microsoft Accessibility Business Unit "Yahoo! applauds the collaborative effort led by WGBH to create a solution for making online video content accessible to all. Because the need for online captioning will continue to grow across the Web, Yahoo! is excited to join with our colleagues to develop quality responses to this accessibility challenge. " - Victor Tsaran, Accessibility Program Manager, Yahoo! About NCAM/WGBH The WGBH-Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research, development and advocacy entity that works to make existing and emerging technologies accessible to all audiences. NCAM is part of the Media Access Group at WGBH, which also includes The Caption Center (est. 1972), and Descriptive Video Service? (est. 1990). For more information, visit access.wgbh.org. WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of fully one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is also the leading producer of online content for pbs.org, one of the most-visited dot-org sites on the Web. For more information, visit www.wgbh.org. Contacts: WGBH: Mary Watkins, 617 300-3700, mary_watkins at wgbh.org AOL: Jaymelina Esmele, 703 265-7831, jaymelina.esmele at corp.aol.com Google: Gabriel Stricker, 650 930-3555, press at google.com, Microsoft: Ellen Kampel, 425 706-3055, ellenk at microsoft.com Yahoo!: Julie Han, 408 349-7661, juliehan at yahoo-inc.com - end - From claude.almansi at bluewin.ch Fri Oct 5 15:35:38 2007 From: claude.almansi at bluewin.ch (Claude Almansi) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:35:38 +0200 Subject: [DDN] AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning In-Reply-To: <1126857178mary_watkins@wgbh.org> References: <1126857178mary_watkins@wgbh.org> Message-ID: Hi Mary, First let me express my gratitude to WGBH and NCAM for the MAGpie desktop captioning tool downloadable from , and for all the interesting info and resources that can be accessed from the same page. About: > > AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Unite to Advance Online Media Captioning Better late than never, of course. But it's a good thing several didn't just wait for these giants to decide that there was a market for Online Media Captioning, but have already developed several offers. To quote just 2 that are already widely used: Mojiti.com (that lets you caption a video hosted on one of many different platforms) and DotSub.com, where people can upload a video and then have it captioned either by the community or by captioners of their choice. Both enable the download of the captioning texts, that can then be re-used with a desktop video software, or simply copied as text in a site. Moreover, I know of an almost completed project by Alessio Cartocci that will be even more polyvalent (about Alessio Cartocci and the Webmultimediale.org project, see Kathryn Hill's "ASL & subtitles together in online media", October 4, 2007 9:20 pm ). So of course it is great that the juggernauts are showing interest too. It would be even greater if Yahoo, beyond: > "Yahoo! applauds the collaborative effort led by WGBH to create a solution for making online > video content accessible to all. Because the need for online captioning will continue to grow > across the Web, Yahoo! is excited to join with our colleagues to develop quality responses to > this accessibility challenge. " > - Victor Tsaran, Accessibility Program Manager, Yahoo! also showed its commitment to respond to accessibility challenges by first responding to the the Yahoo! Accessibility Improvement Petition at BlindWebAccess.com asking them to make available an audio alternative to their CAPTCHA. Or simply got rid of the of the obnoxious and useless thing as suggested by several of the signatories: in exactly one week as I am writing this, the comments to a single post in a podcast I manage have been targetted 536 times by a spamming bots, all spamming attempts coming in bouts with 5-7 sec between each spam, all in spite of the CAPTCHA for the comments (and all blocked - fortunately - by the antispam filter of the platform). And it would be great if Google refrained from buying existing online captioning solutions and from slowing them down with their statistics feature. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch From smcpherson at brynmawr.edu Fri Oct 5 16:42:59 2007 From: smcpherson at brynmawr.edu (smcpherson at brynmawr.edu) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:42:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [DDN] Decreasing the Digital Divide Message-ID: <2471.165.106.206.98.1191616979.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu> The World Information Society Report of May 16, 2007, exclaimed that mobile telephony holds the greatest potential to bridge the digital divide. Answer me this. Is it not only logical that the advertising-supported free mobile phone service platform be utilized to decrease the digital divide? Before you respond to that question, please be aware that the Digital Divide is a chameleon. It is frequently changing it's appearance and is located everywhere! The free ad-based mobile phone service platform shall become a pillar in the infrastructure of the bridge that crossed the digital divide As a Bryn Mawr College student, I am a social activist campaigning for the use of the ad-supported free cell phone platform to be used as a tool to decrease the digital divide. -Shannon -- ** Shannon McPherson ** BMC Class of 2009 From asif at studynook.com Sat Oct 6 15:53:31 2007 From: asif at studynook.com (asif at studynook.com) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:53:31 -0400 Subject: [DDN] FREE WEBINAR: How Did We Work? Assessing Collaborative Projects in the Class or Workplace Message-ID: <00d201c80852$929f40f0$0501a8c0@PAM> Thanks for allowing us to cross post. Limited (FREE) Registration Now Open for a Live Webinar Title: How Did We Work? Assessing Collaborative Projects in the Class or Workplace Speakers: Janet Salmons, Ph.D. and Lynn Wilson, Ph.D. Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007 Time: 11:00 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT (Arrive at 10:30 for tutorial on Elluminate) (Please go to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to confirm your time zone.) Cost: FREE - But 1st come first seated - limited seating. More Information: http://www.trainerspod.com/info/ Register: http://www.trainerspod.com/register _____ Event Background This webinar will explore assessment of progress and outcomes in collaborative projects-especially when the projects are accomplished online. It is relevant to those who teach or supervise online teams. How can we help participants achieve their best individually, while encouraging them to participate in collaborative activities? Whether in work teams or class project teams, whether in formal or informal courses, people who are working collaboratively want feedback. 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Also visit www.elluminate.com/support TRAINERSPODC - 2007 - All rights reserved 1273 Neapolitan Rd., Punta Gorda, FL USA 33983 Asif Daya USF r egister at trainerspod.com From rengab at edsamail.com.ph Fri Oct 5 22:52:35 2007 From: rengab at edsamail.com.ph (rengab at edsamail.com.ph) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:52:35 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [DDN] Decreasing the Digital Divide In-Reply-To: <2471.165.106.206.98.1191616979.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu> References: <2471.165.106.206.98.1191616979.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu> Message-ID: <1336.121.97.149.197.1191639155.squirrel@www.edsamail.com.ph> hi sharon i fully agree anything that will help in universal access should be used i think even the wii when a lot of it will be surplus can help with its builtin opera browser regards rene abad e-d, y3k foundation > The World Information Society Report of May 16, 2007, exclaimed that > mobile telephony holds the greatest potential to bridge the digital > divide. > > Answer me this. Is it not only logical that the advertising-supported free > mobile phone service platform be utilized to decrease the digital divide? > > Before you respond to that question, please be aware that the Digital > Divide is a chameleon. It is frequently changing it's appearance and is > located everywhere! > > The free ad-based mobile phone service platform shall become a pillar in > the infrastructure of the bridge that crossed the digital divide > > As a Bryn Mawr College student, I am a social activist campaigning for the > use of the ad-supported free cell phone platform to be used as a tool to > decrease the digital divide. > > -Shannon > > -- > ** Shannon McPherson ** > BMC Class of 2009 > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE at digitaldivide.net > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-request at mailman.edc.org > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > From wongo888 at gmail.com Fri Oct 5 18:26:47 2007 From: wongo888 at gmail.com (K Wong) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:26:47 -0700 Subject: [DDN] Fwd: re New YouTube channel for non-profits In-Reply-To: <47055655.8000803@bluewin.ch> References: <47055655.8000803@bluewin.ch> Message-ID: <835a41eb0710051526he6c06caq10e760135fa92f3a@mail.gmail.com> You brought up quite a few points in your note; I'll address a few of them here. First, I'll state my biases. I have been interested in DD issues for some time particularly with respect to Aboriginal Canadians; I am both Aboriginal and Canadian. I have also worked in web accessibility specifically with young learners with cognitive disabilities. My comments are also entirely my own and not those of YouthNoise. There is no question that the YouTube program is US-focused. None. I can only hope that Google/YouTube is trying this out on some low hanging fruit - the US market - before rolling out to the rest of humanity. It makes a lot of sense from an engineering perspective to do it this way. Google did this with their iGoogle roll-out. Now that being said - anybody - including non-US NPOs, can post videos to YouTube. You just can't get onto the NPO channel and as such, you will get 'long-tail' viewing rates. YN has been posting videos to YouTube for some time. We have some very, very talented videographers at YN. Our youth homelessness initiative went from a few hundred views to about 89,000 views because of our position as a channel launch partner. Now, there is likely a lot of founder effect involved in that number, but if other US-based NPOs can benefit from this and get the word out then I believe that they should use it, in spite of the limitations. There are some obvious DD aspects to streaming video not unique to YouTube. I have been told by other activists that Louisiana has some pretty poor broadband access in rural areas. For us, YouTube and video is only one of the ways that we try to get our message out. We are also experimenting with delivery over cell phones. If you need to get a message out and you have the technical capacity to use YouTube (and your target audience is on YouTube) then it makes sense to use it. I watched the Autism videos you pointed out and I think that there are some political maneuvering going on in that debate; Alison is definitely having her words taken out of context. The remixers cut off the tail end of her statement from something like "I'd rather kill both of us than attend a school like that" into "I'd rather kill us both". This is the type of BS you see in political campaigns; it is an act of desperation. The stories in the Autism Speaks video ring true to me and they are consistent with my interactions with caregivers of people affected by these types of disorders. I think that she was just being blunt and honest which is always bound to rub some people the wrong way. I have asked some others how the posting process works specifically if there is any vetting before something is posted to the channel. I have no idea; I'll write back when I hear more. PS. I also met Daren from http://www.quantumshift.tv last month at Web of Change. They have a similar NPO video project going on...check it out... K On 10/4/07, Claude Almansi wrote: > ... > So only US-registered charities can apply. This is confirmed in > : "If you're a nonprofit organization > in the U.S. with 501(c)(3) tax status, apply today for the YouTube > Nonprofit Program." and in : "Please > note that your organization must have current 501(c)(3) status in > order to be considered for this program. ". > > Yet how many "organizations with [US] 501c3 tax filing status" cannot > afford a web page with a donation button anyway? How many really need > this "Checkout donation button" right on on their YouTube page, > because of which, for instance, the Association for Progressive > Communications , TakingITGlobal > , Bytes For All > , the Digital Divide Network itself > www.digitaldivide.net and Telecentre.org are excluded? > ... > The videos of the presentation and discussion at The Second Floor > caf?-library would certainly be an asset for YouTube's non profit > channel: because of the exemplary economy and efficiency of the civil > society action they were instrumental to, and because of their > educational value in general: while the discussion was about the > Pakistani Electronic Crime Bill, the legal concepts that were > clarified and debated concern all citizens, everywhere. And as Jahid > Zamil's analysis and other documents can be downloaded from > and the slides of his presentation at The > Second Floor caf? are at > , > the material about these issues is very complete. > And yet the videos were actually viewed by few people (98 for the > first part of Zahid Jamil's presentation, less than that for the other > videos), because only 5% of the population have broadband access in > Pakistan, and if you are on dial-up and can access equivalent content > in text form, you do. To the end of this action, what mattered was > that the videos be online. But for civil society elsewhere, it would > be important to make them better known. > But this action cannot be showcased on YouTube's non profit channel, > because of the "501c3 tax filing status" clause. > > And then one cannot help wondering about the criteria used for > selecting some projects whose videos *are* showcased in the non profit > channell. AutismSpeaks(tm) may fit the "501c3 tax filing status" > clause, but after 10 videos of walkers, paddlers, golfers, softballers > saying how good they felt about their being do-gooders for the noble > cause of autism awareness, and not a peep from a single autistic > person, I skipped to one entitled "Autism Everyday" > : it showed exhausted > mothers and autistic kids having tantrums. One mother says, *with her > autistic daughter in the same room*, that she had contemplated > killing her and herself rather than putting her in a special ed class. > > This video already provoked several shocked responses from other > parents of autistic children since May: "Response To Autism Everyday" > , " Autism Everyday is a > "Doctored Film"" are > listed in the "related videos" of "Autism Everyday". But what help > can it be to her daughter? > > In the case of an average mother, the nervousness of having a TV crew > in the room might have made her forget that her daughter was in the > room too. It would have been the producer's responsibility to ensure > that this might not happen, by interviewing the mother alone, anyway. > But this is no average mother. This is Alison Tepper Singer, Executive > Vice President in charge of Communications and Awareness of > AutismSpeaks(tm), who "spent 14 years at CNBC and NBC in a variety of > positions, including vice president of programming in NBC's cable and > business development division, producer of CNBC's MoneyWheel and > MarketWrap programs, and, most recently, special projects producer at > CNBC", according to her profile in > . So this cannot be > explained by sheer camera panic. It was deliberate. > > See Jemaleddin Cole's > > post, published after an excerpt of the video aired on ABC. And Amanda > Baggs, whose "In My Language" video has done far more to make non > autistic people reflect about autism (and cognitive disabilities in > general) than all the AutismSpeaks(tm) videos lumped together, also > responded to that part of the video in "Reply to Autism Speaks and > GRASP Articles of Understanding" > on October 28, 2006. > > I have flagged the "Autism Everyday" video on YouTube as "Other Terms > Of Use violation", because YouTube doesn't have an "obscenity" option > for flagging, but their Terms Of Use say: "H. You will otherwise > comply with ... all applicable local, national, and international laws > and regulations". And publishing on the internet a video where a > recognizable mother says in front of her recognizable daughter that > she contemplated killing her, a video that will remain indefinitely > online, is child abuse, which seems against the US "Child Abuse > Prevention and Treatment Act > as Amended by the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003" > > which says "the term "child abuse and neglect" means, at a minimum, > any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, > which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm..." > (section 111 "Definitions"). > > So what was the rationale for selecting it for the YouTube non profit > channel? Is showcasing "Autism Everyday" in it an illustration of > the "Don't Do Evil" slogan of Google, which owns YouTube? > > > Best > > Claude From claude.almansi at bluewin.ch Tue Oct 9 07:26:13 2007 From: claude.almansi at bluewin.ch (Claude Almansi) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:26:13 +0200 Subject: [DDN] re New YouTube channel for non-profits In-Reply-To: References: <47055655.8000803@bluewin.ch> <835a41eb0710051526he6c06caq10e760135fa92f3a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Kelvin and All Thanks for the further information about the Non Profit Program of YouTube. Re: On 10/6/07, K Wong wrote: >(...) > > There is no question that the YouTube program is US-focused. None. I > can only hope that Google/YouTube is trying this out on some low > hanging fruit - the US market - before rolling out to the rest of > humanity. It makes a lot of sense from an engineering perspective to > do it this way. Google did this with their iGoogle roll-out. Let's hope so - I didn't know about iGoogle. So the US focus is not due to the donation possibility and the fact that it is possible to check the tax status of a US-registered charity? Re: > > Now that being said - anybody - including non-US NPOs, can post videos > to YouTube. You just can't get onto the NPO channel and as such, you > will get 'long-tail' viewing rates. > > YN has been posting videos to YouTube for some time. We have some > very, very talented videographers at YN. Our youth homelessness > initiative went from a few hundred views to about 89,000 views because > of our position as a channel launch partner. Now, there is likely a > lot of founder effect involved in that number, but if other US-based > NPOs can benefit from this and get the word out then I believe that > they should use it, in spite of the limitations. > > There are some obvious DD aspects to streaming video not unique to > YouTube. I have been told by other activists that Louisiana has some > pretty poor broadband access in rural areas. For us, YouTube and video > is only one of the ways that we try to get our message out. We are > also experimenting with delivery over cell phones. If you need to get > a message out and you have the technical capacity to use YouTube (and > your target audience is on YouTube) then it makes sense to use it. I fully agree on that: in the case of the Pakistani eCrime Bill I mentioned, actually, what counted was that the videos of the presentation of its defects was on You Tube and could be linked to in blogs. In Pakistan, it seems that on 5% of the people have broadband access. So people read about the presentation, viewed the slides on slideshare, but actually few viewed the videos, because of the bandwidth issue. But it was important that the videos were public - as the Legal officer of the Ministery of IT understood too, when he finally chose to listen to the objections to the Bill. And that was what counteed. > > I watched the Autism videos you pointed out and I think that there are > some political maneuvering going on in that debate; Alison is > definitely having her words taken out of context. The remixers cut off > the tail end of her statement from something like "I'd rather kill > both of us than attend a school like that" into "I'd rather kill us > both". This is the type of BS you see in political campaigns; it is an > act of desperation. The stories in the Autism Speaks video ring true > to me and they are consistent with my interactions with caregivers of > people affected by these types of disorders. I think that she was just > being blunt and honest which is always bound to rub some people the > wrong way. On that I don't fully agree: "Reply to Autism Everyday" cites the whole scene, including the part where she says she didn't because of her other normal child - in front of the autistic child. It was the ABC interview, sympathetic to Autism Speaks, that didn't show, but only discussed, the scene where Alison says she contemplated killing herself and her child. "Autism Everyday is a Doctored film" quotes the whole scene, but with sound off. It IS a pamphlet answer to a film that is itself a pamphlet answer to films presenting achievements of autistic people. I know about caregivers' exhaustion and despair: I was one, to my husband after he had a stroke, and I was member of a self-help group for relatives and friends of brain-injured people. Not the same as autism, but the problems caregivers have to face are similar in many ways in both cases. Plus in the case of brain injury, the jarring with the memory of who the person was before - the person's and the relatives' memory of it. So we had our meetings to exchange freely about our experiences, feelings, and work-arounds. And our association, fragile.ch , made awareness campaigns on the whole issue, but from both point of views. I discovered fragile.ch through a TV broadcast, one night I felt rather desperate because the rehab clinic director - nicknamed Rottweiler by both patients and staff - had decided to chuck my husband out before we could move to the wheelchair accessible flat. Our family doctor had said "Don't go to the clinic until the flat is ready, they can't just put Guido in the street". Yeah well, I wouldn't have put it past Dr. Rottweiler. Above all, Guido would not have understood why I wasn't coming anymore. So there was this broadcast, telling the association offered legal support too. I rang them the next day. Giovanna Valli, the chair person, immediately understood, knew about the clinic and its director, and gave me precise indications, even though we weren't yet members. Fragile organises activities and courses for the people with brain injury too, tailored to their wishes and capacities - and this also gives some free time to their relatives. But fragile.ch does not use what is said in the caregivers' self-help group in information campaigns. Had they done something on the line of Autism Everyday in the above-mentioned broadcast, I might have killed myself that night. Autism Everyday gives no indication about how to get concrete help, it only spotlights the hardship of being a caregiver. What is particulary shocking in the film is that the mothers speak about this hardship in front of their autistic children, as if they were nonpersons. Hearing your mother say to others in your presence that she contemplated killing herself and you rather than putting you in a special school is devastating enough. Deliberately keeping this passage in a video that was broadcast nationwide made it worse. Putting the video on YouTube means that Jodie herself risks being reminded of it again and again. That people she meets later on might associate her with it. So the problem with Autism Everyday is not just a matter of "rubbing the people the wrong way" by being "blunt and honest". It is that it deliberately offends human dignity. It is that it only conveys a message of despair, and none whatsoever about concrete help possibilities. And the problem with AutismSpeaks in general is that it never gives voice to autistic people: they have even disabled comments on their YouTube videos to prevent them from directly answering. "Christschool", the author of "Autism Everyday is a "Doctored Film"", recognizes that speaking about autism is a political gesture. He is the autistic father of an autistic child: see his "I reject the term's "high functioning" and "low functioning"" video. And see also his other videos offering far more concrete and useful information about autism, with far lesser means than the whole batch of the professionally made AutismSpeaks videos - where there is a political agenda too. Both things qualify him to answer "Autism Everyday", politically, but without having his answer called BS, I think. And it explains, maybe, why the "long tail viewing rates" for his "Autism Everyday is a "Doctored Film"" are actually almost 3 times those of "Autism Everyday", for all the latter's being showcased in the Non Profit channel and having been presented and discussed on national television. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi v. Cantonale 22 CH-6532 Castione tel. +41 (0)91 829 04 51 cell. +41 (0)76 401 85 69 gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch From rachita at csdms.in Tue Oct 9 03:42:02 2007 From: rachita at csdms.in (rachita at csdms.in) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:12:02 +0530 Subject: [DDN] National Policy on ICT in Education: Call for Suggestions/ Recommendations / Position Papers - Last Date October 25 Message-ID: Dear Group Members, We take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the national consultative process for developing a National Policy on ICT in Education on behalf of the Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India. www.education.nic.in The Department of Education, MHRD invites you to submit your recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, to assist the Ministry to formulate a National Policy on ICT in Education. Please find the announcement details below. Your support and encouragement is vital to the whole process and we look forward to it. Regards Rachita Jha Research Associate, digital LEARNING Monthly Print Magazine www.digitallearning.in CSDMS,Noida Uttar Pradesh- 201301, India Tel: +91 120 2502180 to 87 Fax: + 91 120 2500060 NATIONAL POLICY ON ICT IN EDUCATION CALL FOR SUGGESTIONS/ RECOMMENDATIONS / POSITION PAPERS The Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India is currently developing a National Policy on ICT in Education. Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) and Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) will provide strategic support in this process. This process consists of drafting policy objectives, guidelines, practices and knowledge tools to support the implementation of the policy across all states and union territories of India. This critical task would be approached by ensuring an active stakeholder participation at all levels of formulation and implementation. A national consultative and collaborative process, to understand the needs, challenges, and issues of the states and union territories, is indispensable for formulating an inclusive and holistic policy. This will ensure that the policy represents the views and aspirations of various stakeholders, acts as a guiding document for the States to adapt it according to their local requirements, and meets the Education Goals of the country. The Department of Education, MHRD invites you to submit your recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, to assist the Ministry to formulate a National Policy on ICT in Education. Through this call for recommendations/ suggestions/ position papers, we solicit inputs from leaders and visionaries in international agencies, industry, academia, NGOs and government to identify the needs, gaps, challenges, and issues of ICTs in Education sector in India and to contribute to the goal of defining a road map for building a National Policy on ICT in Education. Submission of position papers Position papers/ inputs are solicited on the following aspects of developing the policy framework for ICT in school education. 1. Articulate a progressive vision, objectives, guidelines and promising directions for building the ICT in Education Policy Framework 2. Identify challenges that must be addressed in the forthcoming Policy Document 3. Propose innovative approaches and solutions for building a forward-looking road map/master plan for ICT in Education Format and Deadlines 1. Last date of submission October 25, 2007. 2. Submissions can be made either by mail or in type written formats .Please limit your contributions to no more than 2000 words 3. Provide brief bio and contact details of the contributing members of the suggestions / position paper. 4. You may choose to respond to one, two or all of the topics of the framework of the policy outlined above. 5. Submissions may be made by email to: rachita at csdms.in Print submissions may be sent to: Rachita Jha, Research Associate, CSDMS, G-4 Sector 39, NOIDA 201301. Tel: +91-120-2502180-85 From claude.almansi at gmail.com Tue Oct 9 07:22:21 2007 From: claude.almansi at gmail.com (Claude Almansi) Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:22:21 +0200 Subject: [DDN] Fwd: re New YouTube channel for non-profits In-Reply-To: <835a41eb0710051526he6c06caq10e760135fa92f3a@mail.gmail.com> References: <47055655.8000803@bluewin.ch> <835a41eb0710051526he6c06caq10e760135fa92f3a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Kelvin and All Thanks for the further information about the Non Profit Program of YouTube. Re: On 10/6/07, K Wong wrote: >(...) > > There is no question that the YouTube program is US-focused. None. I > can only hope that Google/YouTube is trying this out on some low > hanging fruit - the US market - before rolling out to the rest of > humanity. It makes a lot of sense from an engineering perspective to > do it this way. Google did this with their iGoogle roll-out. Let's hope so - I didn't know about iGoogle. So the US focus is not due to the donation possibility and the fact that it is possible to check the tax status of a US-registered charity? Re: > > Now that being said - anybody - including non-US NPOs, can post videos > to YouTube. You just can't get onto the NPO channel and as such, you > will get 'long-tail' viewing rates. > > YN has been posting videos to YouTube for some time. We have some > very, very talented videographers at YN. Our youth homelessness > initiative went from a few hundred views to about 89,000 views because > of our position as a channel launch partner. Now, there is likely a > lot of founder effect involved in that number, but if other US-based > NPOs can benefit from this and get the word out then I believe that > they should use it, in spite of the limitations. > > There are some obvious DD aspects to streaming video not unique to > YouTube. I have been told by other activists that Louisiana has some > pretty poor broadband access in rural areas. For us, YouTube and video > is only one of the ways that we try to get our message out. We are > also experimenting with delivery over cell phones. If you need to get > a message out and you have the technical capacity to use YouTube (and > your target audience is on YouTube) then it makes sense to use it. I fully agree on that: in the case of the Pakistani eCrime Bill I mentioned, actually, what counted was that the videos of the presentation of its defects was on You Tube and could be linked to in blogs. In Pakistan, it seems that on 5% of the people have broadband access. So people read about the presentation, viewed the slides on slideshare, but actually few viewed the videos, because of the bandwidth issue. But it was important that the videos were public - as the Legal officer of the Ministery of IT understood too, when he finally chose to listen to the objections to the Bill. And that was what counteed. > > I watched the Autism videos you pointed out and I think that there are > some political maneuvering going on in that debate; Alison is > definitely having her words taken out of context. The remixers cut off > the tail end of her statement from something like "I'd rather kill > both of us than attend a school like that" into "I'd rather kill us > both". This is the type of BS you see in political campaigns; it is an > act of desperation. The stories in the Autism Speaks video ring true > to me and they are consistent with my interactions with caregivers of > people affected by these types of disorders. I think that she was just > being blunt and honest which is always bound to rub some people the > wrong way. On that I don't fully agree: "Reply to Autism Everyday" cites the whole scene, including the part where she says she didn't because of her other normal child - in front of the autistic child. It was the ABC interview, sympathetic to Autism Speaks, that didn't show, but only discussed, the scene where Alison says she contemplated killing herself and her child. "Autism Everyday is a Doctored film" quotes the whole scene, but with sound off. It IS a pamphlet answer to a film that is itself a pamphlet answer to films presenting achievements of autistic people. I know about caregivers' exhaustion and despair: I was one, to my husband after he had a stroke, and I was member of a self-help group for relatives and friends of brain-injured people. Not the same as autism, but the problems caregivers have to face are similar in many ways in both cases. Plus in the case of brain injury, the jarring with the memory of who the person was before - the person's and the relatives' memory of it. So we had our meetings to exchange freely about our experiences, feelings, and work-arounds. And our association, fragile.ch , made awareness campaigns on the whole issue, but from both point of views. I discovered fragile.ch through a TV broadcast, one night I felt rather desperate because the rehab clinic director - nicknamed Rottweiler by both patients and staff - had decided to chuck my husband out before we could move to the wheelchair accessible flat. Our family doctor had said "Don't go to the clinic until the flat is ready, they can't just put Guido in the street". Yeah well, I wouldn't have put it past Dr. Rottweiler. Above all, Guido would not have understood why I wasn't coming anymore. So there was this broadcast, telling the association offered legal support too. I rang them the next day. Giovanna Valli, the chair person, immediately understood, knew about the clinic and its director, and gave me precise indications, even though we weren't yet members. Fragile organises activities and courses for the people with brain injury too, tailored to their wishes and capacities - and this also gives some free time to their relatives. But fragile.ch does not use what is said in the caregivers' self-help group in information campaigns. Had they done something on the line of Autism Everyday in the above-mentioned broadcast, I might have killed myself that night. Autism Everyday gives no indication about how to get concrete help, it only spotlights the hardship of being a caregiver. What is particulary shocking in the film is that the mothers speak about this hardship in front of their autistic children, as if they were nonpersons. Hearing your mother say to others in your presence that she contemplated killing herself and you rather than putting you in a special school is devastating enough. Deliberately keeping this passage in a video that was broadcast nationwide made it worse. Putting the video on YouTube means that Jodie herself risks being reminded of it again and again. That people she meets later on might associate her with it. So the problem with Autism Everyday is not just a matter of "rubbing the people the wrong way" by being "blunt and honest". It is that it deliberately offends human dignity. It is that it only conveys a message of despair, and none whatsoever about concrete help possibilities. And the problem with AutismSpeaks in general is that it never gives voice to autistic people: they have even disabled comments on their YouTube videos to prevent them from directly answering. "Christschool", the author of "Autism Everyday is a "Doctored Film"", recognizes that speaking about autism is a political gesture. He is the autistic father of an autistic child: see his "I reject the term's "high functioning" and "low functioning"" video. And see also his other videos offering far more concrete and useful information about autism, with far lesser means than the whole batch of the professionally made AutismSpeaks videos - where there is a political agenda too. Both things qualify him to answer "Autism Everyday", politically, but without having his answer called BS, I think. And it explains, maybe, why the "long tail viewing rates" for his "Autism Everyday is a "Doctored Film"" are actually almost 3 times those of "Autism Everyday", for all the latter's being showcased in the Non Profit channel and having been presented and discussed on national television. Best Claude From cmeisch at hotmail.com Wed Oct 10 10:13:50 2007 From: cmeisch at hotmail.com (Charlie Meisch) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:13:50 -0400 Subject: [DDN] The Incredible Shrinking Hard Drive In-Reply-To: <1336.121.97.149.197.1191639155.squirrel@www.edsamail.com.ph> References: <2471.165.106.206.98.1191616979.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu> <1336.121.97.149.197.1191639155.squirrel@www.edsamail.com.ph> Message-ID: FYI - saw this in National Journa's Technology Daily this morning. Nice to see recognition for this work, though I think there are probably better examples of the fruits of their labor than MP3 players coming down the pike. For instance, how has giant magnetoresistance enabled less expensive mobile computing devices that have helped (or will help) bring computing power to remote areas of the world? Cheers, Charlie Meisch Culture Scientists Behind Data Breakthrough Win Nobel Prize Two European scientists were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard disks. AP and The Washington Post report that Albert Fert of France and Peter Grunberg of Germany independently discovered a physical effect in 1988 that has led to sensitive tools for reading the information stored on hard disks. That sensitivity lets the electronics industry use smaller and smaller disks. "The MP3 and iPod industry would not have existed without this discovery," Borje Johansson, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said. "You would not have an iPod without this effect." The two scientists discovered a phenomenon called giant magnetoresistance, which allows information stored magnetically on a hard disk to be converted to electrical signals that the computer reads. _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts!? Play Star Shuffle:? the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct From pshapiro at his.com Thu Oct 11 11:22:05 2007 From: pshapiro at his.com (Phil Shapiro) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:22:05 -0400 Subject: [DDN] blogging about whether linux is ready for the desktop Message-ID: <1192116125.470e3f9dd2276@webmail2.his.com> hi Digital Divide Network community, for those who might be interested, i'm blogging on PCWorld.com about whether linux is ready for the desktop. see http://tinyurl.com/3c8ajt submitted to digg.com at http://tinyurl.com/3ca4pr phil i'd like to thank taran rampersad for helping me understand why linux brings greater freedom to our world. just last weekend i was explaining linux gently to a friend of mine who is very smart, but who is out of the loop on such things. it didn't take her long to understand that linux is going to be good for our world. -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro at his.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." From MKinyua at amrefhq.org Fri Oct 12 07:38:58 2007 From: MKinyua at amrefhq.org (Kinyua Martin) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:38:58 +0300 Subject: [DDN] Contacts Message-ID: Hello all, My name is Martin and currently working with AMREF in Nairobi, Kenya. I am based at our UK office for the next 2 months or so. I am on a Commonwealth Fellowship and would like to get in touch with organisations involved in Information and Communication Technologies for Development. At AMREF, we are implementing an eLearning project for nurses whose objective is to upgrade their skills from Certificate to Diploma level. During my time in the UK, I would also be interested in attending courses in eLearning administration, learning management systems and content standards. If you know of any courses or organisations that I can get in touch with, please let me know. Lastly, I would also like to hear from organisations that could have some information materials in nursing, for example, videos. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards Martin AMREF mkinyua at amrefhq.org From bjlist at globalkids.org Mon Oct 15 17:06:21 2007 From: bjlist at globalkids.org (Barry Joseph) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:06:21 -0400 Subject: [DDN] Job openings: go to Global Kids and create your own job description In-Reply-To: <909746.16198.qm@web53407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <909746.16198.qm@web53407.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Choose-Your-Own-Job-Description Global Kids, Inc., a New York City based non-profit organization dedicated to transforming urban youth into successful students and global and community leaders, is seeking to fill a number of positions within its Online Leadership Program (OLP). The OLP, amongst other things, is on the cutting-edge developing best practices in the use of virtual worlds for supporting global youth leadership. It has grown in 2007 from three full time to fourteen employees. We are currently looking to hire three to four people. However, each position contains more than one area of responsibility, all of which can be mixed-and-matched. And who are WE to tell YOU the best combination? Instead. we are looking to YOU to tell US the best combination of responsibilities to meet your strengths and interests. There are eleven possible combinations, each with is own job description. Some are full time, some are part-time, and one is as a consultant. Some require work in our NYC office while others can be performed remotely. These details are described within each job description. If you are interested in more than one position, please feel free to apply for multiple; however, we would still prefer to receive only one job application from you, even if it is addressed to more than one position. The application deadline is October 31st, but the hires might be offered as resumes arrive; feel free to check the status of positions or ask questions here: http://tinyurl.com/2dfrrd. To choose your own job description, please start by selecting the job type that most interests you and then follow the links provided below. Depending on your choices, you will find all sorts of job possibilities, such as: - Developing a science curriculum in the virtual world of Second Life - Creating a web-based social network for teens around digital media production - Creating a Second Life based social network for adults interested in international justice - Producing Second Life events for teens relating to MacArthur Foundation program areas - Running an after school program using Second Life to teach science or programming - and more? Get ready to choose your own job description. Your future begins here: http://globalkids.org/?id=73 Barry Joseph bjinfo2 at globalkids.org -- ___________________________________ Barry Joseph Director Online Leadership Program Global Kids http://www.globalkids.org http://olp.globalkids.org http://www.NewzCrew.org Play our game! http://theCostofLife.org Sign-up for the Global Kids' Newsletter: Send an email to: GlobalKidsUpdate-subscribe at yahoogroups.com From claude.almansi at bluewin.ch Sun Oct 14 15:38:59 2007 From: claude.almansi at bluewin.ch (Claude Almansi) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:38:59 +0200 Subject: [DDN] Decreasing the Digital Divide In-Reply-To: <2471.165.106.206.98.1191616979.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu> References: <2471.165.106.206.98.1191616979.squirrel@webmail.brynmawr.edu> Message-ID: Hi All This time I promise I'll be much shorter. But re Sharon's question: On 10/5/07, smcpherson at brynmawr.edu wrote: > The World Information Society Report of May 16, 2007, exclaimed that > mobile telephony holds the greatest potential to bridge the digital > divide. > > Answer me this. Is it not only logical that the advertising-supported free > mobile phone service platform be utilized to decrease the digital divide? .... Shahzad Ahmad (of Bytes For All) wrote a post on the PakistanICTPolicy list that is relevant to this discussion: " Pathetic Mobile Telephone Service - inconvenience" : "We wish to draw your kind attention to very poor service of various cellular phone companies in Pakistan, particularly during last 2 days. Just to experiment, I have used three different services and found all of them to be extremely inconvenient for SMS or calls. It takes hours to send an SMS and many more hours to make a successful 2-3 minute call. Charging meter is always ON though. (...)" So even if cell phone there were no charge for calls and SMS in an ad-supported system, you would still have the problem of the traffic infrastructure. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi CH-6532 Castione gruppo di lavoro Noi Media www.noimedia.org Swiss Internet User Group www.siug.ch From deborah_elizabeth_finn at post.harvard.edu Sun Oct 14 15:51:53 2007 From: deborah_elizabeth_finn at post.harvard.edu (Deborah Elizabeth Finn) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:51:53 -0400 Subject: [DDN] For fans of the OLPC project Message-ID: <3228c2a50710141251g50207cbfnd4597f017014696d@mail.gmail.com> Dear DDN Colleagues, This one is just for fun: http://lolnptech.blogspot.com/2007/10/further-testing-is-obviously-necessary.html Enjoy! Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Cyber-Yenta Boston, Massachusetts, USA deborah_elizabeth_finn at post.harvard.edu www.cyber-yenta.org Recommended reading: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" From fouadbajwa at gmail.com Sun Oct 14 06:22:19 2007 From: fouadbajwa at gmail.com (Fouad Riaz Bajwa) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:22:19 +0500 Subject: [DDN] PTCL launches metered Internet Service on Nationwide Landline Telephone Network Message-ID: <4711ede5.1f538c0a.0b08.fffffec4@mx.google.com> PTCL launches metered Internet Service on Nationwide Landline Telephone Network By Fouad Bajwa (BytesForAll Pakistan) Pakistan is set on the path to become one of first developing countries in the low-income category of the development index to promote and embrace the widespread usage of Internet in the region. The national telecom company of Pakistan, PTCL (www.ptcl.com.pk) Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has launched a metered Internet Service on its nationwide telephonic landline network at a flat rate of Rs. 0.10 Paisas per minute (U$0.0017) operative in all Provincial Capitals of the country and will shortly be launching in all cities, villages and corners of the country. PTCL has offered "phone n net" service as the most convenient landline internet solution for its subscribers that convert a user's phone into a basic internet connection enabling no hassle direct internet access. There are no associated up-front costs and balance issues with no expiry or forced usage. Users can also enable code barring to restrict internet access. The service is currently available in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad while it will be enabled on all landlines nationwide in a short span of time. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), a government owned entity was privatized in 2005 with Emirates Telecommunications Corporation Etisalat transferring 26 per cent stake in. This step was hailed as ushering in a new era for telecommunications in Pakistan and the Phone n net service appears to be the first step towards making this a reality. If PTCL fulfills its commitment to offer this internet service throughout Pakistan, it will be giant-leap towards reducing the digital divide and enhancing ICT enabled growth in the region as an example for others to follow. Users may simply connect to the internet by plugging their PTCL telephone lines into their computer's modems and login to a generic usage account with the login id "PTCL" and password "ptcl" while dialing an ISP dial-up access number "13177777". The billing appears on regular telephone utility bills distributed on a monthly basis to PTCL subscribers. Phone n Net Service http://www.ptcl.com.pk/images/files/uploads/file/phone_net_ad.jpg About BytesForAll Pakistan BytesForAll Pakistan is part of the BytesForAll South Asia Network. BytesForAll (also known as B4A or BfA) is a South Asian initiative to focus on how information technology and the internet can help in taking up social development issues. It is one of the oldest ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) networks in South Asia. It was launched at a time when ICT4D was yet to become a buzz-word on the development circuit, and was still largely unnoticed for its potential. http://www.bytesforall.net About PTCL: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is Pakistan?s largest converged services carrier providing all telecommunications services from basic voice telephony to data, internet, video-conferencing and carrier services to consumers and businesses all over the country. http://www.ptcl.com.pk From fouadbajwa at gmail.com Mon Oct 15 12:33:10 2007 From: fouadbajwa at gmail.com (Fouad Riaz Bajwa) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:33:10 +0500 Subject: [DDN] The Anti-Software Piracy impetus - Their side of the story (Part 1) Message-ID: <47139654.02578c0a.2e14.ffffc1d8@mx.google.com> The Anti-Software Piracy impetus - Their side of the story (Part 1) By Fouad Bajwa (BytesForAll Pakistan) The issue of Software Piracy has been a pain staking ordeal for governments in the continent of Asia due to pressure by global closed source and proprietary software giants and their consortiums of companies that protect their interests. Pakistan amongst these countries faces a key challenge when trying to find its niche in the global Information Technology market after India and China amidst high software piracy rates prevailing in its software market. The local authorities have been pursuing the issue within the last few years with a more focused approach on rather improving legislation and policy processes then just beating the bush. An important element to justify its interest through Anti-Software Piracy initiatives, the government is encouraged to implement considerable law enforcement. Such is being made possible through the Intellectual Property Rights organization of Pakistan, a guardian for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and watch dog for the official system as well as the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) under its Special Crimes Wing. Committed to protect the rights of copyright owners, the organization has been equipped and partners with other law enforcement agencies to carryout surprise raids and impose deterrent penalties against software pirates to encourage users to purchase original software. These pursuits are carefully protected under the law such as the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1992 (The Amendment Act) that was extended to cover computer software emphasizing that it is illegal to make or distribute copies of computer programs without authorization and no other copies may be made without specific authorization from the copyright owner. As grave the situation under these amendments may be, the copyright law now prohibits reproduction of software without permission from the original owner of the copyrighted computer program. In the event that a software pirate or anyone using the pirated software is caught, the law prosecutes both the users and their companies. Under the provisions of the Copyright Laws, penalties include a fine of up to Rs.200,000 (US$3,312) including seizure of products (hardware equipment and digital media) used for illegal copying followed by a prison sentence of up to three years. The legislation and law enforcement should not be taken lightly amidst increasing pressures by international trade organizations and companies that definitely want to get their buck for the product they develop and distribute to economies of mass and population. There side of the story is that it is the user's responsibility to purchase original programs for use therefore all computer systems in their workplace should carry its own set of original software and accompanying documentation. Moreover, a single copy of software holding a license for single machine installation cannot be installed on to more than one computer. This also prevents the opportunity to lend, copy or distribute software for any reason without prior consent of the software manufacturer. It is the responsibility for the user that uses the software to make sure that he had bought legitimate products and not the pirated versions of counterfeit packaged products designed to look similar to the original manufacturer's software products. Such counterfeit products are of inferior quality thus users are prone to unnecessary risks including viruses, corrupt media and defective and illegally copies software. Such pirated software also lacks in documentation and no technical support is provided by the original software manufacturer including blockage of future software updates online or illegal software check through the internet if the system running the software is connected to the internet. It is also intimated that for copying illegal software, a user not only denies the software developer or manufacturer their rightful share of revenue, the industry is harmfully effected as the manufacturers spend huge amounts of both time, efforts, resources and investment into developing and improving the software overtime. If the rightful manufacturer of the software receives appropriate price for their software product, they invest a major portion of their income on research and development so that the software may be improved but when a user buys pirated or illegal software, they are paying software pirates for software that only harm the software industry. According to FIA's Special Crimes Wing, it deals with the following crimes related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) crimes: - Business software piracy - Motion picture piracy [video, TV, satellite, cable] - Records and music piracy - Books piracy - Internet piracy - Digital piracy [LAN file sharing, mobile, digital stream ripping] - Fake consumer products, etc. These concerns are part of their story, the industry that forces users to pay more money then their average incomes in the region for original software. Such manufacturers of closed source or proprietary software also have the money to pursue users using illegal or pirated versions of their software through legal arrangements in Pakistan. Therefore, users should protect themselves from illegal or pirated software usage, and find access to alternate forms of software that is both free in terms of cost and is widely available through the internet. Online References: Software Piracy and the Law http://www.pasha.org.pk/html_files/policies_antipiracy.htm Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan http://www.ipo.gov.pk FIA Special Crimes Wing http://www.fia.gov.pk/dep_crime.htm About BytesForAll Pakistan BytesForAll Pakistan is part of the BytesForAll South Asia Network. BytesForAll (also known as B4A or BfA) is a South Asian initiative to focus on how information technology and the internet can help in taking up social development issues. It is one of the oldest ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) networks in South Asia. It was launched at a time when ICT4D was yet to become a buzz-word on the development circuit, and was still largely unnoticed for its potential. http://www.bytesforall.net Article Licensed under Creative Commons License Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ From ictlogist at ictlogy.net Thu Oct 18 05:07:25 2007 From: ictlogist at ictlogy.net (Ismael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pe=F1a-L=F3pez?=) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:07:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [DDN] Researcher wanted in mobile telephony for development Message-ID: <2610.87.217.206.98.1192698445.squirrel@webmail.ictlogy.net> Hi, At our university we're looking for an Economist to help and analyze mobile communications in Latin America. Job description follows in Spanish, a required language. Notice that I AM NOT the responsible for this project, so please don't ask me for more information. Thanks, Ismael Pe?a-L?pez ICTlogy.net Public Policies for Development and ICT4D Faculty of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia _______________________________________ Ayudante de investigaci?n en Macroeconom?a - Proyecto Desarrollo econ?mico, desarrollo social y comunicaciones m?viles en Am?rica Latina More info: http://www.uoc.edu/rrhh/servlet/rrhh.servlet.viewProfile?id=3064&idioma=2 Se incorporar? en el Internet Interdisciplinary Institute de la UOC, en el marco del programa proyecto de investigaci?n Desarrollo econ?mico, desarrollo social y comunicaciones m?viles en Am?rica Latina para realizar las siguientes tareas y responsabilidades desde el ?mbito de la macroeconom?a: * Realizar la b?squeda de informaci?n (bibliograf?a, estudios, bases de datos) del proyecto a desarrollar. * Crear y gestionar la bases de datos de inter?s. * Realizar el an?lisis e interpretaci?n de los datos * Realizar la estimaci?n de modelos macroecon?micos. * Participar en la elaboraci?n de informes y realizar la gesti?n documental del proyecto. * Colaborar en la elaboraci?n de art?culos y otras publicaciones derivadas del proyecto e investigaci?n. La colaboraci?n durar? 18 meses y la jornada laboral ser? de 40 horas semanales de lunes a viernes. From bjlist at globalkids.org Tue Oct 23 10:00:49 2007 From: bjlist at globalkids.org (Barry Joseph) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:00:49 -0400 Subject: [DDN] LAST CHANCE: Survey on interest in Second Life classes Message-ID: Hi Everyone! Global Kids is working on a new program for Second Life Professional Development. We have put together a quick online survey so that we can best address the needs and wishes of educators and administrators using, or planning to use, Second Life. Please help us by taking a moment to fill out this online survey! http://tinyurl.com/2djqt8 We will close the survey this week. Thank you for your time. Thanks! Barry Joseph bjinfo2 at globalkids.org -- ___________________________________ Barry Joseph Director Online Leadership Program Global Kids http://www.globalkids.org http://olp.globalkids.org http://www.NewzCrew.org Play our game! http://theCostofLife.org Sign-up for the Global Kids' Newsletter: Send an email to: GlobalKidsUpdate-subscribe at yahoogroups.com From pshapiro at his.com Tue Oct 23 09:26:17 2007 From: pshapiro at his.com (Phil Shapiro) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:26:17 -0400 Subject: [DDN] youtube video of the eee pc laptop in action Message-ID: <1193145977.471df679ce5d7@webmail2.his.com> hi Digital Divide Network community, here is a very nice video of the low-cost eee pc laptop in action. this video shows the spanish language version of the laptop. http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=UFv9SD2-GC8 wow, i didn't expect the web surfing to be so fast. word has it that here in the united states best buy stores will start selling the eee pc on november 1, 2007. (http://www.bestbuy.com) i'll be buying mine at 10 am on november 1. i'll be able to show people this laptop in the computer center i work at in takoma park, maryland. i'll probably resell the laptop at cost (or for $10 less than i paid for it) to help seed the community. the current price of this laptop is $259. they apparently have some models with extra memory or flash drive space, but i'll be sticking with the entry level model, which meets all my needs. phil -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro at his.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." From tracie at sdfutures.org Wed Oct 24 12:31:46 2007 From: tracie at sdfutures.org (Tracie Umbreit) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:31:46 -0700 Subject: [DDN] Job Openings at San Diego Futures Foundation Message-ID: <001501c8165b$5f0ece60$1d2c6b20$@org> EDUCATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR The Education Program Coordinator is responsible for coordinating elements of educational programs and projects, and assisting with the planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs including the development of educational materials and delivery of training. SDFF's current educational offerings include a Hoover High School Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) internship program, an intensive summer internship program open to students countywide, an innovative countywide after school program for middle school youth and more. Interns also assist SDFF in the process of refurbishing computers and providing technical services to nonprofits. SDFF is in the process of implementing several other educational initiatives which will require the support of this new position. REWARDS PROGRAM MANAGER The Rewards Program Manager is responsible for the continued development and management of a countywide afterschool program for middle school-age youth. In addition to Rewards, SDFF's current educational offerings include a Hoover High School Academy of Information Technology (AOIT) internship program, an intensive summer internship program open to students countywide, an entrepreneurial training program for young adults and more. Interns also assist SDFF in the process of refurbishing computers and providing technical services to nonprofits. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO APPLY. Tracie Umbreit Education Program Manager San Diego Futures Foundation www.sdfutures.org 619.269.1684 "Changing Lives Through Technology" From pshapiro at his.com Sun Oct 28 15:55:42 2007 From: pshapiro at his.com (Phil Shapiro) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:55:42 -0400 Subject: [DDN] any intel employees on this list? Message-ID: <1193601342.4724e93e3ce97@webmail2.his.com> hi Digital Divide Network community, in case there might be any intel employees on this list, thanks for sending me an email off-list. i'm really proud of intel's work on digital divide issues in the past year and would like to blog more about it on my PCWorld.com blog. phil -- Phil Shapiro pshapiro at his.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." From ictlogist at ictlogy.net Tue Oct 30 10:19:11 2007 From: ictlogist at ictlogy.net (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ismael_Pe=F1a-L=F3pez?=) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:19:11 +0100 Subject: [DDN] PhD on the Information and Knowledge Society Programme In-Reply-To: <466A43B9.6080903@aya.yale.edu> Message-ID: <562CFBA28F03E04E80E5122F2E16C32314A032@correu1.interna.uoc.edu> Dear list, The Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) has just open the call for applications for its "PhD on the Information and Knowledge Society Programme" for year 2008. More info http://in3.uoc.edu/index.php/in3web_eng/doctorat__1 Please feel free to circulate this notice and/or forward it to anyone that might be interested in the programme. Ismael Pe?a-L?pez ICTlogy.net Public Policies for Development and ICT4D School of Law and Political Science Open University of Catalonia