[DDN] Wired article on ICT and homeless people
(cross posting) Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless By Jacob Ogles| Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Jun, 22, 2006 FILLMORE, California -- Happy Ivy doesn't have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station. More http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71153-0.html?tw=rss.index -- Bill McIver People-Centred Technologies group National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology URL: http://nrc.gc.ca Skype: WillMcIver Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: WillMcIver (EU) ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
RE: [DDN] Australia to give away porn-filtering software to allfamilies
Salman Ansari writes: One set of software which works amazingly in LAN and individual home environments are Screen Shield and iShield from Guardware. Thank you Salman - My own experience is predominantly with WebSense which I also find to be a very effective filter. A Google tells me that iShield is available as a 30 day trial so I will d/l the product to see how well it performs. Kind regards, Don Cameron ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] podcasts from the anytime, anywhere learning summit
Andy, I want to thank you for recording the sessions. I had to leave early and missed some. I do believe that many of the presentations will be available at the aalf.org site over the coming weeks and, while not as recordings, at least the .ppts will be accessible. I know mine will. Saul On Jun 24, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Andy Carvin wrote: There may be some at AALF.org. Also, it appeared that Gary Stager was recording sessions, but he's the only other person I noticed doing this. andy Hi Andy, Do you know of anyone else who is making recordings of this conference and putting them up anywhere? I wanted to attend, but circumstances prevented that. Thanks for this work. Best, Jim Lerman Saul Rockman / Rockman Et Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] 49 Geary Street, Suite 530 San Francisco, CA 94108 ph (415) 544-0788 fax (415) 544-0789 www.rockman.com Cell: 415/407-7033 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] [Net-Gold] Browser Links
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:41:10 - From: Sean Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Net-Gold] Browser Links Browser Archive http://browsers.evolt.org/ D?j? vu http://www.dejavu.org/ Bookmarklets http://www.bookmarklets.com/ Favelets http://centricle.com/tools/favelets/ Creating Bookmarklets http://www.webreference.com/js/column35/ Bookmarklets for Opera http://www.philburns.com/bookmarklets.html Bookmarklets-Browser Power http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/ Jalarie: Bookmarklets http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~jalarie/jaa_kcd.htm WorldTimZone: Bookmarklets http://www.worldtimzone.com/bookmarklets/ ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] telecentre for the blind in Uruguay
(please note that the person posting this to the Digital Divide Network has no further information about this project) UNESCO supported telecentre for the blind opened in Uruguay The Juan Antonio Lavalleja Public Library of Minas, the capital of the department of Lavalleja in Uruguay, hosts since last week a telecentre for visually impaired. The two room premises in the House of Culture with state-of-the art equipment was opened on 16 June. Private sector companies - ANTEL Telecommunication and SALUS/Danone - donated PCs with acoustic output, cassette recorders for audio books and a fast Internet access. UNESCO provided access to free educational software - Cantaletras and Toque Magico of the Catholic University Santiago, Chile - and offered printed books in Braille and 3D materials like geographical maps and texture games thanks to its cooperation with libraries for the blind in Buenos Aires and La Plata, Argentina. Earlier in 2005, UNESCO supported one of the only two public schools in whole Uruguay for the blind and visually impaired with PCs, free educational software, and a Braille printer and provided capacity building for teachers. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22399URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html -- Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc Bonn, Germany Services for Mission-Based Orgs www.coyotecommunications.com International Development Studies Work www.coyotecommunications.com/development Contact me www.coyotecommunications.com/contact.html www.ivisit.com id: jcravens.4947 ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] URGENT Net Neutrality Action TODAY: Please send/fax these materials
Please send the following materials on net neutrality TODAY to Senators on the Commerce and Judiciary Committees. Send me a note if you'd like rich text files of these materials. Commerce resumes markup on the Stevens Bill tomorrow morning. We are working to make sure that language that addresses the nature of network neutrality is in front of as many of the interested legislators as possible. We believe that our proposal can move all parties to a fuller, more constructive understanding of this issue. PLEASE FAX these materials or similar to the contacts below. If you compose your own cover notes, I recommend including: 1) a mention of Steve Wozniak's endorsement, 2) something saying this proposal shows the real definition of net neutrality, and 3) a statement that net neutrality language needs to talk about the transport layer, not just applications, content and services -- that that basically means use the word packet. The Judiciary Committee has claimed it has oversight over the matters covered by the Stevens Bill, so there's a tiny text modification you can use in sending the same materials to them -- just replace the opening of the cover letter below with: Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Dirksen Senate Office Building 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building 147 Washington, D.C. 20510-2603 Dear Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Please see the attached proposed legislative language for assuring network neutrality. We think that the Judiciary Committee will find it particularly interesting in light of the current discussion related to the Stevens Bill, currently in the Commerce Committee. Thanks, all! :-) Seth Suggested Text to Send: See below the following logistical details. Targets: 1) Your own Senators You can get detailed info for any Senator by replacing the NYJR in the following link with appropriate values for the particular Senator. NYJR stands for New York's Junior Senator -- Hillary Clinton. So plug in the appropriate state and graduating class for the Senator you want: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=member=NYJRsite=ctc (These links have fax numbers for the committees as well as the individual members, and links to more detailed info about the members) 2) Senate Commerce Committee Majority Fax: 202-224-1259 Minority Fax: 202-228-0303 http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newcommittee.cgi?site=ctclang=commcode=scommerce Ted Stevens (R-AK) [Chairman] Fax: 202-224-2354 Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) [Ranking Member] Fax: 202-224-6747 3) Senate Judiciary Committee Majority Fax: 202-224-9102 Minority Fax: 202-224-9516 http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newcommittee.cgi?site=ctclang=commcode=sjudiciary Arlen Specter (R-PA) [Chairman] Fax: 202-228-1229 Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [Ranking Member] Fax: 202-224-3479 4) The Sponsors of Snowe-Dorgan Sen Snowe, Olympia [] Fax: 202-224-1946 Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] Fax: 202-228-2382 Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] Fax: 202-228-0282 Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] Fax: 202-224-1083 Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] Fax: 202-224-1193 Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] Fax: 202-224-6747 Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] Fax: 202-224-3479 Sen Obama, Barack [IL] Fax: 202-228-4260 Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] Fax: 202-228-2717 Here are the rest of the Commerce Committee members with fax numbers: John McCain (R-AZ) 202-228-2862 Conrad R. Burns (R-MT) 202-224-8594 Trent Lott (R-MS)202-224-2262 Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) 202-224-0776 Olympia Snowe (R-ME) 202-224-1946 Gordon Smith (R-OR) 202-228-3997 John Ensign (R-NV) 202-228-2193 George Allen (R-VA) 202-224-5432 John Sununu (R-NH) 202-228-4131 James DeMint (R-SC) 202-228-5143 David Vitter (R-LA) 202-228-5061 Minority: John D. Rockefeller, IV (D-WV) 202-224-7665 John F. Kerry (D-MA) 202-224-8525 Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) 202-224-1193 Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 202-228-2382 Bill Nelson (D-FL) 202-228-2183 Maria Cantwell (D-WA)202-228-0514 Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) 202-228-4054 Ben Nelson (D-NE)202-228-0012 Mark Pryor (D-AR)202-228-0908 Here are the rest of the Judiciary Committee members with fax numbers: Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)202-224-6331 Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) 202-224-6020 Jon Kyl (R-AZ) 202-224-2207 Mike DeWine (R-OH) 202-224-6519 Jeff Sessions (R-AL) 202-224-3149 Lindsey Graham (R-SC)202-224-3808 John Cornyn (R-TX) 202-228-2856 Sam Brownback (R-KS) 202-228-1265 Tom Coburn (R-OK)202-224-6008 Minority: Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) 202-224-2417 Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) 202-224-0139 Herb Kohl (D-WI) 202-224-9787 Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 202-228-3954 Russell D. Feingold (D-WI) 202-224-2725 Charles Schumer (D-NY)
[DDN] Getting to know Wikipedia
Hi everyone, I've just written an intro to Wikipedia on my learning.now blog. It's the first in a series of posts on the role of Wikipedia in education. http://www.pbs.org/learningnow permalink: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/06/getting_to_know_wikipedia_1.html I'm hoping to discuss examples of Wikipedia being used in the classroom for future entries; if this might apply to your work, please feel free to post a comment on the blog and sum up what you and your students are doing. thanks, andy -- -- Andy Carvin acarvin (at) edc . org andycarvin (at) yahoo . com http://www.andycarvin.com http://www.digitaldivide.net http://www.pbs.org/learningnow -- ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
