Re: [DDN] Afterschool Technology Math Science Curriculum
Thank you, I contacted them and no response. I was very impressed with the info. - Original Message - From: Kate Snow ks...@igc.org To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] Afterschool Technology Math Science Curriculum Jacquelyn, YouthLearn has all kinds of curriculum, best practice and supporting research on their site. They're based at EDC. Youthlearn.org Kate Snow -Original Message- From: Jacquelyn Thomas jacque...@kidsntechnology.net Sent: Mar 11, 2009 11:56 PM To: DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net Subject: [DDN] Afterschool Technology Math Science Curriculum Does anyone know of a source for a best practice after school curriculum for technology, math, science, curriculum. Or at least one that is being used? Jacquelyn Kids N Technology 314 Auction Memphis, TN 38105 901-576-6984 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Stats on state education system?
No, but I will check it out. Thanks so kindly for responding. - Original Message - From: Vincent Wright linke...@mylinkedinpowerforum.com To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] Stats on state education system? Have you seen: http://www.schooldatadirect.org/ Thanks, and Keep STRONG!! VincentWright.com (Linkedin) | VincentWright.net (Facebook) | VincentWright.us (Twitter) | TheEntrepreneurialRecruiter.com | MyLinkingPowerForum.ning.com | MyVirtualPowerForum.com | MyLinkedinPowerForum.net | Skype/Gtalk = MyLinkedinPowerForum | +1-860-967-0563 On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Jacquelyn Thomas jacque...@kidsntechnology.net wrote: data ( last 3 years) on school systems in US that's listed by state ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Manhinga Village Children's Home ICT Centre in rural Zimbabwe
www.manhingavillage.org Manhinga Village Children's home is an orphanage in Rusape, rural Zimbabwe where i am a volunteer, i have done their publicity for the past three years and a lot of developments are happening there. The website is helping us a lot with ideas coming from people across the globe. We are setting up a skills training centre at the farm to cater for the needs of children who are finishing high school and cannot find places at universities or colleges because of below average results. So we want to accomodate them at the Manhinga Technology Centre. So we are looking for donations of computers...so that we will start with training on speciallised computer course to these kids and some from the community, hoping even to make MTC the best computer training institute in Zimbabwe. Thanks guys, There is also a tourism section on the farm and we would be glad to have volunteer teachers coming to initiate the projects with us. We once have a farmer volunteer from New Zealand, Bruce Minsen through VSA.org and he enjoyed the community, hunting at the farm, braaing and the scenic environs of the farm For more information go through the village website: www.manhingavillage.org Richwell Phinias e-Marketing Consultant Dariro Comms just for today, think big! website development, graphic design, e-marketing, ict skills training Website: http://www.dariro.co.zw Cell: 091 3 222 327 --- On Sat, 3/14/09, jocan...@changeway.us jocan...@changeway.us wrote: From: jocan...@changeway.us jocan...@changeway.us Subject: Re: [DDN] CPU's and Monitors for Donation - Non-Profits/CTC's in theU.S. To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Cc: jocan...@msn.com Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 6:04 AM We can help, we visited Africa last year Novemger and we can collect computers from the US and ship them to Africa, We have a shipping line. Hi Everybody, I am a regional coordinator for Southern Africa Telecenter Network and coordinating a national telecenter network in Zambia. I have noted that Howard and others have a link to doated CPUs and monitors for the US states. We have some telecenters in Zambia and some in southern Africa who need donated equipment for their telecenters. Any information on the above. We will also soon launch a tourist volunteer project for telecenters to enable people from the West who want to support telecenters during their visit to Africa. I will be glad to hear through this network any respones or any help towards this development. Thanking you in advance, Dean Mulozi, Connect Africa Project Manager, ZAA-ICT/SATNET Regional Facilitator, Makeni Road, Plot 32899, Private Bag 195x Ridgeway, Lusaka, Zambia. Mobile: 260 978 034196 --- On Tue, 3/3/09, how...@abc-cde.com how...@abc-cde.com wrote: From: how...@abc-cde.com how...@abc-cde.com Subject: Re: [DDN] CPU's and Monitors for Donation - Non-Profits/CTC's in theU.S. To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 8:43 AM Margaret, that's similar to what we do. I suggsst you query google in several ways to locate organizations in your area. There are some 20 or more in Fla. Start state wide and then local. Howard Howard G Kaufman, President Association for Better Child Care, Development Education Dwight's Computers for Kids P.O.Box 2703 Miami Beach, FL 33140 Web site: www.abc-cde.com Phone Fax: 305-672-1026 email: hgkauf...@hotmail.com Miami Beach, FL 33140 On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:14:11 + margaret margaretqhug...@comcast.net wrote: I am on the board of an elementary school serving the learning-disabled. Computers donated for the use of these children who are visual learners, would be awesome. We are just north of Lanham,MD in Bel Air. Please let me know. Margaret Hughes margaretqhug...@comcast.net Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Njideka Harry njide...@hotmail.com Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:46:05 To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Subject: [DDN] CPU's and Monitors for Donation - Non-Profits/CTC's in the U.S. Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) has partnered with a large agency in the U.S. to donate fully functional computers to other non-profit organizations and community technology centers working in the U.S. Quantities vary by city. There are donations available in the following cities/states: * Culver City, CA * Austin, TX * Mountlake Terrace, WA * Atlanta, GA * San Antonio, TX * Rancho Cucamonga, CA * Gardena, CA * Lees Summit, MO * Columbus, OH * Niles, OH * Raleigh, NC * Wilmington, NC * Erie, PA * Evansville, IN * Albuquerque, NM * Grand Rapids, MI * Hamden, CT * Montgomery, AL * Lanham, MD * Brookfield, WI * Albany, NY * Ames, IA * Fairfax, VA * Charlotte, NC * Warwick, RI * Burlington, MA Please send me an email,
[DDN] Changing Mindsets - How do you change a whole country's perception - For the Educated Lots
Changing Mindsets How do you change a whole country's perception - For the Educated Lots (Fouad Bajwa, Independent Discussion, 19-03-2009) How much will a Ubuntu Linux CD cost in Pakistan, this student of University of Jamshoro asks me via SMS after a session of exchanging introductory messages, My friend gave me your number when I asked about that where can I acquire an original CD for an operating system? she clarifies. She further inquires, Where can I get a free Ubuntu CD? to which I reply, The CD is free to order, will be land mailed to you for free, you can use it for free and after you have benefited from it, pass it on to your friends because it takes around 2-3 weeks to be delivered! I continue to share, and it's pretty simple to order, you can visit http://shipit.ubuntu.com, register a free user account and order a server or desktop Linux Operating System Free Ubuntu CD!. After four years today, nearly half a million Ubuntu Linux CDs have been distributed for free either by http://shipit.ubuntu.com or by volunteers in Pakistan. I know about more than a hundred thousand CDs distributed by Ubuntu volunteers, friends and myself. This is the current scenario of an environment of local demand for adoption and use of Free and Open Source Software FOSS in Pakistan. I used Ubuntu Linux for the first time before taking up the responsibility for evolving its community and the ecosystem for generating a demand and supply system, when I wanted to something other than my copy of Windows Xp. I had trouble with it, it was too slow after all that I had to test and with every new development environment, I would delete this system file or that. My friends on the network could knock over my machine for fun and the bugs were climbing up my brains every day in and out! I was in search for freedom, I was looking for my freedom of choice! I had used Linux before at work and now I wanted to use it again as a solace to my operating system troubles. I respected Intellectual Property being a Computer IT Professional (I am both a undergrad and graduate in both CS and IT). My peers had educated me to respect other peers' intellectual assets and to encourage others to respect mine. But, we lived in a false and artificial economy where everyone would wag their tails to the current trend! Y2K then was a big thing but we lacked lots of important software in the local market. We resorted to downloading free software from the Internet and exchanged information with peers all over the world using the web. We had to find a solution to the problem before the so called lights blacked out. Out of knowledge, we downloaded a lot of FOSS technologies and platforms. In the years to follow, I would adopt PHP-MySQL-Linux-MySQL (LAMP) to solve my web needs, earn my bread butter as well as complete research contracts online. I was to learn to use various other technologies and platforms without the word Windows in them. It was fun, I could run my FOSS solutions on Windows too. The somehow bonded for some reason to be differentiated valued later on. I wanted to share these findings with other people. I did so during my service in the govt. When I left the govt. I brought it to the academic sector and civil society. I grew an affiliation with like minded people and FOSS users all over the world and got a visit to see the amazing things they were doing with their solutions in their countries, both developed and under developed. I thought for a moment, to share the spirit for mutual respect of intellectual property with my local friends and others in my city. I tried to remove bugs from my research work using Ubuntu Linux, today, thousands of my countrymen continue to do so from Karachi to Quetta to Peshawar to Islamabad and of course, in Lahore, I thought you would figure that out already. From I its now about you, us and we. We are a community, we work for eachother's continued benefit. We want to help eachother keep away from stealing other people's property, prosper with open and inclusive technology, grow together as a nation. You know about Ubuntu Linux, your family members, your friends and colleagues know about Linux in general, everyone that has installed software on their or someone's computer knows about Linux or even FOSS or Free Software. I can relate to this mindset as a result of evident change. I feel happy that the FOSS platform developed by the old community members of the Debian Linux Distribution and thousands of others under the umbrella of www.Ubuntu.com and www.Launchpad.net is used so much or people know about it to a large extent in the Government, Academia, Civil Society and Private Sectors has reached this level due to our volunteers and people who use it for learning, fun, research, work or business find it useful. We have visited your offices, we have written stories and case studies about you. We have shared with the world that you are an aspiring and inspiring nation. You are open to intellectual change.
Re: [DDN] Stats on state education system?
I used this site and it was great! Thank you so much. - Original Message - From: Vincent Wright linke...@mylinkedinpowerforum.com To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [DDN] Stats on state education system? Have you seen: http://www.schooldatadirect.org/ Thanks, and Keep STRONG!! VincentWright.com (Linkedin) | VincentWright.net (Facebook) | VincentWright.us (Twitter) | TheEntrepreneurialRecruiter.com | MyLinkingPowerForum.ning.com | MyVirtualPowerForum.com | MyLinkedinPowerForum.net | Skype/Gtalk = MyLinkedinPowerForum | +1-860-967-0563 On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Jacquelyn Thomas jacque...@kidsntechnology.net wrote: data ( last 3 years) on school systems in US that's listed by state ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: IDIA2009 Development Informatics Conference 28-30 October 2009 Kruger National Park, South Africa
STOP SENDING ME E-MAILS OR I WILL TAKE FURTHER ACTION From: paul.planti...@infotech.monash.edu To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:52:17 +0200 Subject: [DDN] Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: IDIA2009 Development Informatics Conference 28-30 October 2009 Kruger National Park, South Africa Reminder: Astracts for the IDIA2009 Development Informatics Conference should be submitted online by 14 March 2009: http://www.conftool.net/idia2009/ Updated conference details (incl. fees) are on the website: http://www.developmentinformatics.org/conferences/2009/3rd.html Key deadlines are: 14 March 2009 Final date for submission of Abstracts 1 April 2009 Notification of acceptance of Abstracts 1 June 2009 Full papers due for blind peer review 1 August 2009 Peer review results 1 September 2009 Final version of papers due - Original Message - From: Paul Plantinga paul.planti...@infotech.monash.edu Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:48 pm Subject: [DDN] Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: IDIA2009 Development Informatics Conference 28-30 October 2009 Kruger National Park, South Africa To: digitaldivide@digitaldivide.net CALL FOR PAPERS IDIA2009 Conference 28-30 October 2009 Digitally Empowering Communities: Learning from Development Informatics Practice www.developmentinformatics.org/conferences/2009/3rd.html Call for papers The 3rd International IDIA Conference will be held in Africa in order to make it easier for interested parties of this continent to participate. The conference is aimed at researchers, policy-makers and reflective practitioners. It will be managed by the School of Information Technology, Monash South Africa (Johannesburg). Monash University is seeking to accelerate its engagement internationally, and this conference reflects this commitment. The Conference will be held at the Berg-en-Dal camp in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. The Conference Committee calls for papers on the following themes. Papers will be peer-reviewed. Selected papers will be published in an accredited Journal. While the main language of the conference will be English, participation from Francophone and Portuguese-speaking Africa is most welcome. 1. Communities and empowerment * What are developing communities? * Does every community need to 'develop'? * What does 'empowerment' mean in a DI context? * Why should communities be empowered with ICT? * What are the objectives of empowering communities? * What are the methods and instruments to empower communities? * Implications of the full range of 'digital divides'. 2. Development Informatics and ICT4D * Satisfying basic development needs with ICT. * What ICT cannot achieve; its limitations in development practice. * The range of changing economic models for empowering communities with ICT. * What are the special ICT issues for deep rural communities? * Giving voices to the poor via ICT; the necessity of advocacy. * The relevance of ICT planning and policies. * Does development automatically empower; the role of vested ICT interests? * Ethical and moral issues, eg. the barefoot economist debate, top-down/bottom-up/dual system approaches, and technological determinism. * Global versus regional implementation 3. DI in practice * What are the technical issues, networking problems, and relevant ICT devices? * System design for the bottom of the pyramid of the digital divide * Do small communities benefit from ICT, or is it only applicable on a large (regional, national) scale? * How do the micro social groups (eg. households and families) use ICT for their business? * Evaluating separate and integrated business, government and civil society ICT solutions. * Issues of free access and sustainable access. * Business filling the gap in the absence of government co-ordination of ICT practice. * When business practice and community expectation collide in ICT, who suffers? * Differences between individual access (such as OLPC, mobile phones) and public access (telecentres, MPCCs). * Open source vs proprietary systems. 4. Opportunities * The future of skills and literacy training, and professional development, as part of ICT. * Opportunities for professional communities to contribute to ICT. * Eliciting expressions of local concern and building them into ICT programs. * Ensuring that external ICT solutions meet local needs. * Balancing short-term and long-term ICT solutions. * Universal access as a dream or reality? * What is the appropriate role of developed countries in assisting with ICT
