Re: [DDN] phoneblog

[Andy Carvin]

I just created a test account. Since I use movable type for my blog, I 
can't automatically post podcasts directly to the site. But it'll allow 
me to upload a voicemail mp3 to my podcasting directory, so then it's 
just a matter of me posting a link to it. Here's a test recording:


http://www.andycarvin.com/podcasts/20060130-234431.mp3

ac



On 1/25/06, Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


http://www.phoneblogz.com/index.php

"This is new the era of blogging. Keyboards are out. Remembering a  
situation for later recollection is history. Now you can blog  
wherever, whenever, even with no internet connection.


PhoneBlogz allows you to blog by phone - to your own blogging  
software on your own server. We support direct posting and remote  
polling. Check out the rest of the site for more info."


Has anyone used this before?

siobhan



Siobhan Champ-Blackwell
Community Outreach Liaison
NN/LM-MCR
Creighton University Health Sciences Library
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
402.280.4156/800.338.7657 option#1,#2, then #1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/ medstat.med.utah.edu/blogs/BHIC/>
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Re: [DDN] New Informal DDN Help discussion board - but help needed

[Andy Carvin]

I've added a link to the new community to the DDN homepage. It's now 
listed as a featured community. -ac

Claude Almansi wrote:

Hi All

Some time ago, Andy Carvin asked for volunteers to help at 
www.digitaldivide.net. I volunteered for the animation of the discussion 
boards. But in one discussion thread - 
 - a tech 
problem crept up: someone had published an article, sharing it with his 
community, but the article didn't show in that community.


I didn't understand why the article didn't show, so I jut made a link to 
it in the community resources. But I wanted to ask a question about it 
on the official Help discussion board, as I understand very little about 
tech. However, this board is one of those that were created before the 
November 2005 Hack By KuBRaT, and it is still unavailable.


On the other hand, communities opened after the hack have a working 
discussion board. So, as a makeshift solution, I opened a new community, 
which I called  "Informal DDN Help Board" 
, in order to produce an 
"Informal DDN Help Board" discussion board: 
, for tech 
questions about using DDN.


So now the informal help board is there, but:

a) it is not linked solidly anywhere in the other pages; i.e. its 
presence in other pages depends on there being recent messages in it.


b) Moreover the index page that used to list all discussion boards, 
, is among those 
still  unviewable due to the hack
-> So how should it be kept visible for people who wnt to ask questions 
about tech problems? Posting there just in order to "bump it" seems a 
bit silly.


c) I'm still as tech ignorant as ever.
-> So would people who are tech competent please kindly check this board 
from time to time, to see if there are new unanswered questions?


It would only be until TIG people fix the hacked bords and index page.

Thank you in advance,

cheers

Claude


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[DDN] New feature stories on DDN

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to highlight a few new articles on the Digital Divide 
Network website. All three can be found on the DDN homepage:


http://www.digitaldivide.net

Facing the Digital Future in San Diego
Technology resources are now a lot more accessible to San Diego County’s 
youth, seniors, veterans, disabled individuals and other community 
members. The San Diego Futures Foundation has accepted the challenge set 
by the county's e-government initiative to provide the citizens with 
better government services and more efficient use of public sector 
resources.


RAIL Provides Access to Resources for Virginia Residents
The Rockbridge Area Information Line (RAIL), a Virginia non-profit, 
maintains an information database of community resources and activities 
available to residents of Buena Vista, Lexington and Rockbridge County. 
These resources help residents lead more fulfilling and informed civic 
lives.


InterConnection Provides Websites And Visibility
Many great organizations are not visible to funders, clients, or allies. 
This is especially true of NGOs in the developing world. InterConnection 
is a nonprofit attempting to fix this problem by providing client 
organizations, the majority of which are in South America and Africa, 
with websites that provide organizations with greater visibility.


thanks,
ac

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[DDN] New Informal DDN Help discussion board - but help needed

[Claude Almansi]

Hi All

Some time ago, Andy Carvin asked for volunteers to help at 
www.digitaldivide.net. I volunteered for the animation of the discussion 
boards. But in one discussion thread - 
 - a tech 
problem crept up: someone had published an article, sharing it with his 
community, but the article didn't show in that community.


I didn't understand why the article didn't show, so I jut made a link to 
it in the community resources. But I wanted to ask a question about it 
on the official Help discussion board, as I understand very little about 
tech. However, this board is one of those that were created before the 
November 2005 Hack By KuBRaT, and it is still unavailable.


On the other hand, communities opened after the hack have a working 
discussion board. So, as a makeshift solution, I opened a new community, 
which I called  "Informal DDN Help Board" 
, in order to produce an 
"Informal DDN Help Board" discussion board: 
, for tech 
questions about using DDN.


So now the informal help board is there, but:

a) it is not linked solidly anywhere in the other pages; i.e. its 
presence in other pages depends on there being recent messages in it.


b) Moreover the index page that used to list all discussion boards, 
, is among those 
still  unviewable due to the hack
-> So how should it be kept visible for people who wnt to ask questions 
about tech problems? Posting there just in order to "bump it" seems a 
bit silly.


c) I'm still as tech ignorant as ever.
-> So would people who are tech competent please kindly check this board 
from time to time, to see if there are new unanswered questions?


It would only be until TIG people fix the hacked bords and index page.

Thank you in advance,

cheers

Claude
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Castione, Switzerland

http://www.adisi.ch
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages
-> forum at http://languages.wikispaces.com


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[DDN] Call for papers

[Martha Garcia-Murillo]

Dear DDN colleagues:

As the chair of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference I would like 
to invite you to participate in this event by sending papers or attending the 
conference. It is clear to me that many of you are working on exciting projects 
and I think that this conference can be a forum to show your results. The track 
that would be of most interest to you is "ICTs for Development and Community 
Informatics." I believe that this could be forum for you your ideas and to 
learn from the work of others.

I am looking forward to your submissions.

Best Regards,
Martha Garcia-Murillo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])


CALL FOR PAPERS

The 34th Research Conference on
Communication, Information, and Internet Policy
September 29 to October 1, 2006
Arlington, Virginia
www.tprc.org 

TPRC hosts an annual conference on communication, information, and Internet 
policy that brings a diverse, international group of researchers from academia, 
industry, government, and nonprofit organizations together with policy makers. 
It serves two primary goals: (1) dissemination of research relevant to current 
communications regulatory and policy debates around the world; and (2) 
promotion of new research on emerging issues.

TPRC is now soliciting abstracts of papers for presentation at its 2006 
conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical 
research relevant to communication and information policy, and may be from any 
disciplinary perspective. TPRC welcomes national, international, comparative, 
and multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary studies. Subject areas of particular 
interest include but are not limited to the following: 

*   Comparative Studies of Networked Industries
*   Competition Policy in Network Technologies and Industries 
*   Laws and Regulation in a Time of Rapid Change
*   ICTs for Development and Community Informatics
*   Intellectual Property and Digital Rights
*   The Transformation and Future of Content/Media
*   Next Generation Devices and Networks
*   e-Applications and Internet Governance
*   Spectrum Policy and Wireless Applications

Go http://www.tprc.org/TPRC06/call06.htm to see the full Call for Papers.

Submissions are due by March 31, 2006. Abstracts must be submitted via the 
submission form and should contain a clear statement of the main research 
question, methods, central ideas, and outcomes of the research. Primary authors 
may have only one paper accepted, but may act as secondary authors of multiple 
papers and may submit multiple abstracts for consideration. Selected papers 
will be due to TPRC on August 30th and authors are expected to present the 
paper. Students are encouraged to submit papers for the student paper 
competition. The Program Committee will also consider tutorials and special 
panels. Suggestions for tutorials or panels can be emailed directly to the 
Program Committee Chair. Inquiries and suggestions may be made to the program 
chair Martha García-Murillo ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Martha Garcia-Murillo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
245 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
Tel: 315-443-1829
Fax: 315-443-5806
Website: http://istprojects.syr.edu/~mgarciam/index.htm


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Re: [DDN] New Book: From Rural Village to Global Village

[Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich]

It would be nice in .pdf for those of us across, on the other side of the
DIGITAL DIVIDE
that can not buy expensive, or even inexpensive books from foreign countries
!!!
Thanks for the bandwidth

Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich
Havana
Cuba
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[DDN] :> REMINDER: Call for student produced educational web projects

[Yvonne Marie Andres]

*PLEASE help us get the word out by distributing this announcement to
teachers and school administrators

*Opportunity for students to participate in TWO international educational
project-design competitions
*Projects showcased at NECC in San Diego, July 2006
*Best "future thinking" projects invited to the World Future Society
international conference, Toronto, July 2006 
*All participants will receive free software being donated by Tech4Learning
and Impatica
*REGISTER NOW! Projects must be completed by March 17, 2006 


1. DOORS TO DIPLOMACY 2006 (Global Issues)
-for ages 13-19 years
-$2,000 USD scholarship awards for each student team member, $500 USD cash
awards for schools 
-projects must focus on global issues including world leadership,
environment, economics, science, culture 
-sponsored by Global SchoolNet Foundation and the US State Department 
-Learn complete details at http://globalschoolhouse.org/doors/ 



2. INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS CYBERFAIR 2006: Prepare for the Future & Connect
Communities! (Local Issues)
-for ages 8-19
-projects must focus on local community topics including local history,
culture, business, leadership, environment 
-sponsored by Global SchoolNet Foundation and the World Future Society 
-Learn complete details at http://globalschoolhouse.org/cf/ 

=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.

ABOUT GLOBAL SCHOOLNET: www.globalschoolnet.org
Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) is the original online resource for global
project-based learning, problem-based learning, and online collaborative
learning. Global SchoolNet partners with schools, communities and businesses
in 194 countries to provide collaborative educational, scientific and
cultural learning activities -- that prepare youth for the workforce and
help them to become literate and responsible global citizens. GSN, a
not-for-profit, has 90,000 members and has been linking classrooms around
the world since 1984. 

 
Dr. Yvonne Marie Andrés, 

Director & Co-Founder, Global SchoolNet Foundation
132 N. El Camino Real, #395, Encinitas, California, 92024
Phone: (760) 635-0001

www.globalschoolnet.org 
  Collaborate, communicate & celebrate learning! 



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[DDN] [MU-SPIN Announce] 200+ Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities

[BBracey]

In a message dated 1/30/06 3:13:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


> 
> 
> We have posted a list of over 200 scholarships, fellowships, grants and
> other funding opportunities on the MU-SPIN web site at:
> 
> http://muspin.gsfc.nasa.gov/scholarships.html
> 
> for students majoring in various disciplines.
> 
> The Project does not endorse nor maintain any of the resources listed on
> the above page, and some links may not work.
> 
> If you would like to recommend a resource, please send the URL to
> webmaster at muspin.gsfc.nasa.gov
> 
forwarded by
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
bbracey at aol com
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Re: [DDN] New Book: From Rural Village to Global Village

[Tom Abeles]

Hi Heather

according to amazon, it is not yet available. Since it is an academic 
publisher, the volume is not discounted. It is only 176 pages, a small 
monograph. Where is it available for download as a pdf or  other 
compatible document so that it can benefit the wider community, as 
appropriate?


thank you

tom abeles, editor
On the Horizon
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oth.htm

Heather Hudson wrote:


Greetings DDN colleagues:
My new book From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications 
for Development in the Information Age was just published in both 
hardback and paperback.
It is available at a discount  from the publisher at erlbaum.com and 
is also on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.


Dr. Heather E. Hudson
Professor and Director
Telecommunications Management and Policy Program
School of Business and Management
University of San Francisco
Phone: 415-422-6642; Fax: 415-422-2502; Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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[DDN] Satellite Mapping Services?

[Peter Abrahamsen]

Hi all,

I'm doing some community wireless networking in Nicaragua. I totally  
dig Google Earth, and asked myself what it would take to get better  
resolution images and elevation maps of the location of my project. I  
really don't know where to start. I'd like 1-3m optical and elevation  
of vegetation, I think, for an island of 100 sq mi (+ whatever it  
takes to make the area rectangular).


If this isn't a rediculous sum of money, I might be able to gather  
folks together and write it into a grant proposal. It'd be useful to  
local government, fun at schools, and helpful for me.


Can anyone throw some ballparks and/or links at me?

Thanks,

Peter Abrahamsen - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Red Libre de Ometepe - http://redlibre.blogspot.com/
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[DDN] article in progress - "what is rss and how will it benefit me?"

[Phil Shapiro]

hi DDN community -

 i'm working on a new article that explains what RSS is and how it benefits
people. the beginning of the article appears at
http://whatisrss.blogspot.com/

  i have some ideas of what i'll be including in this article next, but i
need help getting more examples of how RSS brings benefits into peoples' lives.

   if you can think of some examples of how you or others use RSS, thanks
for sending them over this way.  the more examples i can assemble, the more
people will be able to understand what RSS is about.  

  the article i'm assembling is in the public domain and will be freely
redistributable for any purpose -- including reprinting in newsletters, etc.  
thanks in advance.

 phil shapiro
 washington dc

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"Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates

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[DDN] one more thought on Bangla-medium computing

[John Welch (RI-SOL/BNGD)]

Dave wrote:

>Firstly, I think it's significant that China, Japan, and Korea have 
>computers being sold with operating systems in their languages, 
>keyboards in their languages, even BIOS settings in their
languages
>To displace these models, a nonprofit is going to have to leap all
of 
>these tiers and create an overarching solution from end to end, from 
>education to employment, to serve as a model that makes economic
sense...

Computers and internet access are only going to become cheaper,
infrastructure more extended and last mile solutions more available. 
At some point, enough Bengali-speaking people, whether from Eastern
India or Bangladesh (or London, New York or Houston), will compel the
market to introduce Bengali language services.  This has already
started happening with some cell phone services. 

When it happens on a large scale, it will be industry rather than the
not-for-profit sector providing the drive.  The overall economy of
Bangladesh, government regulation of the computer industry,
communication and education policy may speed the process up or slow
it down by a generation or two, but eventually it will happen as long
as the country does not shut itself off from the rest of the world.
There isn't a lot to do to get ready for this... the standards exist,
and anyone can put together Bengali content.  There just needs to be
a demand.  An educated, computer-literate workforce would be a
catalyst, however.

Linda wrote:
>My other observation is that IF Bangladesh is to emerge
>into the global economy school in Bangla medium, especially those
for the
>emerging middle class, must have Internet access with resources in
>Bengali

I guess that depends on Bangladesh's policy towards English. 
Recently, the Prime Minister requested that the Education Ministry
implement an English medium secondary school in each of Bangladesh's
64 districts.  According to press announcements, these schools would
also have ICT centers.  Bangladesh no doubt wants to mirror India's
success in entering the global economy via English as a medium of
commerce, particularly in the information services sector.  English
is an integral part of the official curriculum even in Bangla-medium
schools. 

The most influential up-and-coming Bangladeshi businessmen/government
officials went to elite English-medium schools and many spent their
university years at English-medium institutions abroad.  While the
previous generation reveres the language martyrs that inspired world
mother language day, this later generation has a different
perspective.  Ironically, adaptation of English might be the best way
to bridge the digital divide for Bengalis by improving the general
economy and state of education, bringing about the conditions to make
computers/internet affordable.

- Jack Welch

The above are my personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect
those of my organization or its sponsors.

Jack Welch, Country Director
Relief International - Schools Online, Bangladesh
+880-173-032-998 | +1-202-470-6793
http://www.connect-bangladesh.org




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RE: [DDN] Access to Internet2

[Donna Sullivan]

Hi David,
I am working on a project in North Carolina where we are trying to
obtain access for all of NC's educational institutions (i.e. public
schools, colleges, universities, charter schools, private schools, etc.)
We have worked with the schools to apply for Internet2 in their e-Rate
application. I am newly assigned on the project and not familiar with
the project in its entirety. However, I will be more than happy to ask
my colleagues any questions that may help you.

Best Regards,
Donna A. Sullivan
Senior Associate, Programs & Outreach
e-NC Authority
phone: (919) 250-4314
cell:  (919) 915-0217
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
website: www.e-nc.org
-Original Message-
From: David Rosen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:51 AM
To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
Subject: [DDN] Access to Internet2

DDN Colleagues,

I have two questions regarding Internet2:

1) Do you think it would be worthwhile for adult literacy/basic  
education programs (in cbo's, public schools, libraries, community  
colleges, etc.) to seek  Internet2  access?*  Internet2 might be used  
for teacher access to professional development courses (some from  
universities), student access to online learning resources or  
courses, and possibly in other ways.

2) If so, what would be good steps to take to work toward this access?

David J. Rosen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

* (Internet 2  is   "a network that allows more than 220 universities  
- and a few research-related companies and government organizations -  
to use advanced online services ... at speeds 100 times faster than  
normal connections.") [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10944795/ ]






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[DDN] New Book: From Rural Village to Global Village

[Heather Hudson]

Greetings DDN colleagues:
My new book From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for 
Development in the Information Age was just published in both hardback and 
paperback.
It is available at a discount  from the publisher at erlbaum.com and is 
also on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.


Dr. Heather E. Hudson
Professor and Director
Telecommunications Management and Policy Program
School of Business and Management
University of San Francisco
Phone: 415-422-6642; Fax: 415-422-2502; Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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[DDN] Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone (fwd)

[Andy Carvin]

The following story from the NY Times discusses the growing competition 
between Nicolas Negroponte's $100 laptop initiative and Microsoft's new 
proposal to low-cost Internet mobile phones for developing nations... -andy



Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone

 It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded 
executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers 
in the developing world to help education. But in the year since 
Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology Media Laboratory, unveiled his prototype for a $100 laptop, 
he has found himself wrestling with Microsoft and the politics of software.


Mr. Negroponte has made significant progress, but he has also catalyzed 
the debate over the role of computing in poor nations — and ruffled a 
few feathers. He failed to reach an agreement with Microsoft on 
including its Windows software in the laptop, leading Microsoft 
executives to start discussing what they say is a less expensive 
alternative: turning a specially configured cellular phone into a 
computer by connecting it to a TV and a keyboard.


Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder and chairman, demonstrated a mockup 
of his proposed cellular PC at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las 
Vegas earlier this month, and he mentioned it as a cheaper alternative 
to traditional PC's and laptops during a public discussion here at the 
annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.


Craig J. Mundie, Microsoft's vice president and chief technology 
officer, said in an interview here that the company was still developing 
the idea, but that both he and Mr. Gates believed that cellphones were a 
better way than laptops to bring computing to the masses in developing 
nations. "Everyone is going to have a cellphone," Mr. Mundie said, 
noting that in places where TV's are already common, turning a phone 
into a computer could simply require adding a cheap adaptor and 
keyboard. Microsoft has not said how much those products would cost.




http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/technology/30gates.html


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