Re: [DDN] google's new literacy web site
Andy Carvin wrote: Hmm... Surprised at how limited it is, both in terms of usefulness and in its definition of literacy -andy --- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) http://www.google.com/literacy/ I think this spartan simplicity is brilliant, Andy: this is just the Google part of a project in which the other participants are the Literacy Campaign of the Frankfurt Book Fair http://www.litcam.org/litcam/en/index.php and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning http://www.unesco.org/education/uie/index_uie.shtml, which will probably produce more elaborate materials. But as a demonstration of how search tools work, the Google page is great. Think of a Luddite teacher, put off by the fact that the internet is made of 99% of rubbish. Showing such teachers that you can safely and easily get to the immense quantity of great resources comprised in the remaining 1% without having to wade through the rubbish is vital. Each of the 6 subpages of results prompt users to use the tool themselves. I was such a Luddite teacher not that long ago. I walked out of a conference where erudite and prolix zealots enthused about the magnificent future of the connected world, muttering The expanse of bullsh*t in a waste of sham, when the organizer threatened to repeat the videoconference with Edgar Morin from Paris, after the Swisscom folks had fixed the bad connexion during the coffee break. It took me 2 years after that frustrating experience before I tried the internet . My initiation: I clicked on Netscape in the school lab, stared at it blankly for a while, turned to a student and asked And now how can I find pages on a given subject? He typed altavista.it in the URL window,hit return and showed me there were other search engines in the bookmarks. That's what the Google part of the Literacy project does, and that's what is needed if you want to get tech-reluctant educators to use tech tools for furthering literacy. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch PS I blogged in Italian about the google literacy site: http://adisi.livejournal.com/62384.html - thanks, Phil. ___ 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] google's new literacy web site
judith green wrote: I second Andy Carvin's Hmmm and comments. This site does not represent state of the art work on literacy. It would be good to link that site with Google Scholar to support the intellectual basis for current research on literacy and to professional sites of the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, whose materials for classrooms are peer reviewed and intellectually sound. http://www.google.com/literacy/ *is* linked to Google Scholar: second link from the top of the left menu is Scholar http://www.google.com/literacy/scholar.html. And http://www.google.com/literacy/scholar.html gives both search results for the words and phrases reading skills learning to read phonological awareness adult literacy dyslexia literacy and technology in google scholar - and a google scholar search windows. There are parallel organizations in other countries that provide conceptually and pragmatically sound programs for teachers and students (NATE in UK and in Australia to name one). http://www.ncte.org/ They have an enewsletter http://www.ncte.org/about/over/inbox http://www.reading.org/ They have an on-line journal that focuses on technology -- Reading Online http://www.readingonline.org/ Of course the links you give are very important, Judith. But - sorry if I repeat myself - http://www.google.com/literacy is *only the Google part* of this literacy project, the part about using search tools to find materials about literacy. UNESCO Lifelong Learning is another partner in this project, and it is likely to offer human- and even scholar-gathered/created resources about literacy (I don't know about the third partner, the Frankfurt Book Fair's Literacy campaign, except for what is on their http://www.litcam.org/ site). Besides, according to http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/wr_nm/media_google_literacy_dc, i.e. the competition: ...Google has asked literacy groups around the world to upload video segments explaining and demonstrating their successful teaching programs. Among the first few hundred to be posted is a same-language subtitle project from India that uses Bollywood films to teach reading. A nonprofit group in New York called 826NYC is helping a group of six-to-nine-year-olds make a video tutorial for Google, while a set of older kids is filming a claymation short. When our students see the Web as something they can contribute to -- rather than just browse through -- they're inspired to think bigger, write more and film more, said Joan Kim, the group's director of education. The service also uses Google's mapping technology to help literacy organizations find each other, and provides links to reading resources. ... So the Literacy Project portal is also an incentive for the production of more resources on literacy ;-) Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch ___ 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] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video Contest]
Hi DDNers Several of you are gifted video makers: so I thought this might interest you. My apologies for possible cross-postings. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: [Cc-icommons] Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video Contest Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:24:37 -0400 From: Elizabeth Stark ... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], tomislav medak ..., Paul Keller ... CC: Fred Benenson ... References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Freeculture.org is announcing the Down with DRM video contest today in conjunction with Defective by Design's Oct 3 Day against DRM. Please forward far and wide, ask your friends and colleagues to participate, and even create your own submission! (And we hear the Neuros OSDs are very cool...) Thanks, Elizabeth + Fred (oh, and please Digg thishttp://www.digg.com/videos_educational/Make_an_Anti_DRM_Video_and_Win_a_Neuros_Portable_DVR_from_FreeCulture_org !) Enter the Down with DRM http://freeculture.org/blog/2006/09/15/downwithdrm/ video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSDhttp://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/Neuros_OSD- a portable digital VCR! Joining in Oct 3rd - Day Against DRMhttp://defectivebydesign.org/en/blog/announce_day_against_drm, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ is also looking to air selected anti-DRM videos on their website during the week of October 3rd, and we want to give them a hand. Here are the official rules to enter Free Culture's Down with DRM video contest: - Deadline for submissions: *Sunday, October 1 at 11:59pm EDT* - Criteria for video: - Anti-DRM themed - Short - Video, animation, or remix - Make it catchy — we want these videos to be viral - Please submit your video to the online video sharing network(s) that you prefer. Here are some examples: - http://www.archive.org http://www.archive.org/details/movies - http://www.youtube.com - http://www.revver.com - http://www.blip.tv - Please tag your video with downwithdrm and dbdoct3 so that people can search for it. - Preference will be given to submissions under free content licenses such as Creative Commons BY-SAhttp://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?license_code=by-sa, BY http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?license_code=by, PD http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2?lang=en-us, or the Free Art http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ license. - E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a link to your video by October 1 at 11:59pm EDT. - Free Culture will select the top 5 entries and award the winners with a Neuros OSD (one per video). ___ 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] Dropping Knowledge Roundtable tomorrow (Sept 9, 2006)
Hi All, I have removed the PDF attachment in forwarding Mia Garlick's communique below. If you wish to have it, please write to me off-list, but actually, the same content can be found at http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/dk?ph=press_release_popuppressReleaseID=22 Best Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: [Cc-icommons] PRESS RELEASE: DROPPING KNOWLEDGE USES CREATIVE COMMONS IN ITS KNOWLEDGE-SHARING INITIATIVE Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 02:32:19 -0700 From: Mia Garlick ... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ibiblio. Org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pdf attached; text below; link: http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/6049 DROPPING KNOWLEDGE USES CREATIVE COMMONS IN ITS KNOWLEDGE-SHARING INITIATIVE San Francisco, USA, Berlin, Germany, September 8, 2006 Creative Commons is pleased to announce that dropping knowledge, the not-for-profit initiative that offers a global knowledge portal and dialogue forum on its website www.droppingknowledge.org will use Creative Commons’ licenses for its innovative online resource. On September 9, 2006, 112 creative thinkers, ranging from artists, writers and scientists to philosophers, politicians and activists, will gather in Berlin, Germany, around the world’s biggest round-table — “The Table of Free Voices” — to simultaneously answer 100 of the most pressing questions that have been raised by people from around the world. Their digitally recorded answers will provide the foundation of a new web platform designed to promote dialogue and social change. In order to make the resulting audiovisual footage in its online resource free to share for everyone, dropping knowledge decided to publish the 11,200 answers under Creative Commons licenses. Users of the dropping knowledge web platform will be able to freely access, share and remix the recorded answers from participants as diverse as filmmaker Wim Wenders, Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu and the Greek evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris as well as many more inspiring thinkers. Creative Commons’ licenses offer a way to legally share and remix content and, consequently, are a logical solution for and enabler of dropping knowledge's philosophy that sharing knowledge is key to a global dialogue. dropping knowledge’s freely accessible web-platform invites the global public to ask and answer questions, exchange viewpoints and ideas and join in conversation of global social topics. It aims to become a knowledge-resource for individuals, schools, universities, NGOs and the media, as well as socially minded businesses, foundations and organizations the world over. About dropping knowledge A non-profit initative with offices in Berlin and San Francisco, dropping knowledge operates as an international non-governmental organization with 100% stakeholder perspective. A public resource, it cannot be owned and is freely accessible to all for all time. dropping knowledge's Founding Partner is the Allianz Group. Its Founding Supporters are the Mark Sharon Bloome Fund and the Wallace Global Fund. For general information, visit http://www.droppingknowledge.org About Creative Commons Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works—whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that build upon the all rights reserved concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary some rights reserved approach. It is sustained by the generous support of various organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general information, visit http://creativecommons.org Contact Christiane Henckel von Donnersmarck Executive Director, Creative Commons International, Creative Commons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Kit http://creativecommons.org/presskit ___ Cc-icommons mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-icommons ___ 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] Carolyn Riddle Wikipedia on low-costs PCs must be live!
Hi All, Here's a granny's attempt to bring some historical context the Wikipedia vs academe question raised by Carolyn Riddle , and to which Bob Turner and David Rosen already answered. When I read for my first degree in literature at the University of Geneva in the early 70's, the Death of the Author - title of a 1968 book by Roland Barthes (1) was all the rage. At best you were allowed to mention narrators, but authors were a no-no. And biographical info about the author even more so. I remember a seminar about Baudelaire's Poèmes en prose. A jolly, pear-shaped, mature Syrian student dared mention a possible allusion to Jeanne Duval (2), Baudelaire's (3) mistress. We almost all reacted as if the jolly student had farted. Except another mature student, Cathy Chiotellis, the most intelligent of us lot, who made brilliant fun of the various taboos and distortions of the text-only approach in 5 minutes. Well, you went through that in English earlier, with the New Criticism school (4), I guess. The paradox is that the first academic authoricides had a very solid grounding in traditional criticism. Umberto Eco studied philology, for instance. They could afford to brilliantly play at primal scene and killing Daddy as it were. The problem arose with the disciples who aped them mechanically. When I was a French lectrice (i.e. in charge of language exercises) at Arezzo in Italy in the mid 80's, one day the students arrived in class, dismayed, after a lecture: Is it true that you can't translate mise en abyme(5)? - another shibboleth of the text-only folks - they asked. Yep, because it's a magic formula dug up by modern sorcerers to frighten freshmen silly, and magic formulas lose power in translation - but it's the same thing as a story within a story, and it's been around at least since Homer, I answered. Any rate, it became increasingly clear that the text-only, no-author, no-context approach produced cultural illiteracy. Especially in its deconstructionist (6), anything-goes avatar. And so there was a swing back in the 90's. Literature studies went back with a vengeance to the former discipline of analysis, contextualisation, proper quotation, etc., which had been preserved in other branches of academe. The devastation wreaked by the prime donne of the text-only approach left their mark, though. Academics were scalded and remained very wary of anything vaguely looking like an attack against this discipline. And in particular of Wikipedia, written by a weird collective hydra. They'll have to come to terms with it though. They'll have to learn how to train students in evaluating it - as well as any other source. In the traditional academic culture, reliable sources were the ones mentioned in the prof's reading list, at least for undergrads. Not so anymore. Bob Turner is certainly right in saying: in fact, what is? Academic argument is a form of protectionism, isn't it? But maybe the daunting task of teaching students how to evaluate a source also plays a part in academics' reluctance to consider new sources instead of just the ones they fully master themselves. Finally a note on the notes: were I writing a web page I would use hyperlinks on the words. In a text e-mail, URLs next to the words hamper the flow of reading. Of course, the exclusive choice of Wikipedia references is - partly - tongue-in-cheek. But hey, it's great to be able to mention things readers may not be familiar with, and give them the possibility to find out about them in one click. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_author (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Duval (3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baudelaire (4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism (5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_abyme (6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructionist; the Talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Deconstruction about why the article should be rewritten is very telling too: The article in its current form is a patchwork of occasionally contradictory points which does not attempt general coherence and therefore poorly represents the subject matter and utterly fails to provide a general overview for the benefit of the vast majority of readers. IMHO the problem is not with the article, but with deconstruction per se. Best, Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland ___ 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] DDN milestone: 10,000 user accounts!
Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, Earlier today, DDN had its 10,000th user account created. The person in question, Katharina Reinecke of Switzerland, probably has no idea she helped us reach this milestone, because it appears she's just joined the website but not the email list. http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Katharina That's great, Andy! I send her a message via her profile giving the URL of your e-mail, of the RSS feed and of the archive/joining page of the mailing-list. Hey, I'm not particularly patriotic, but I'm really glad that we are now 23 members from Switzerland: maybe we could organize a mini local DDN pow-wow some time (1) Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch (1) Meanwhile, for those within reaching range of Zurich: *** Freitag, 7. Juli 2006, 13.15 bis 17.00 Uhr: Oeffentliches Symposium zum Thema Freie Kulturen - freies Internet. Internet Governance und die Schweiz. Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung von SWITCH und ETH Zuerich. Programm und kostenlose Anmeldung unter http://www.igf-06.ch/index2.html ETH Zuerich, Raemistrasse 101, 8092 Zuerich, Auditorium Maximum (HG F 30). *** ___ 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] GEMA (Germany) has announced a tax on music in podcasts as from this summer
Hi All GEMA www.gema.de - the German collecting society for author's rights on music - has announced the levying of a lump tax on music in podcasts as from this summer. For those of you who read German, see: - GEMA Podcasting-Tarif angekündigt - http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/gema-podcasting-tarif-angekundigt - Podcastday 2006 » GEMA gibt Gebührenmodelle für Podcaster bekannt http://podcastday2006.com/de/gema-gibt-gebuehrenmodelle-fuer-podcaster-bekannt While the tarifs (1) may seem reasonable, this levying of a lump tax on podcasts means that German podcasters should in theory register with GEMA, as if they were traditional radio broadcasters, with a recording studio at a physical address. Podcasts don't work this way. The audio files in them can be hosted on servers in various countries, the podcast envelope containing these audio files is an XML file that can in turn be hosted on yet other servers in yet different countries. So on the one hand, this means that this tax levying might prove difficult to implement - but on the other hand, the attempt to regulate podcasting per se is there. And if GEMA does this in Germany, other collecting societies in other countries might well follow suit. Besides, the GEMA tax project doesn't seem to consider the case of music outside its jurisdiction: in podcasts made by composers themselves, or using music under a Creative Commons license, for instance. And in the comments to the Netzpolitik.org post linked above, there is one by someone calling himself GVU Mitarbeiter, a collaborator of GVU, calling for the compulsory introduction of DRM protections in podcasts. Now GVU = Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen e.V. i.e. Society for the Prosecution of Copyright Violations (dunno what the e.V. part means). Other people have called this GVU Mitarbeiter a troll in their comments, sure. Nevertheless, this is even more worrying. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch (1) From 5 to 30 Euros per month, according to how much of a musical work is use in the podcast - see the podcastday2006 link above. ___ 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] Appeal for supporting/contributing to establishing NEW MEDIA TV FOR HUMANITY
Fouad Riaz Bajwa wrote: Appeal to support the establishment of a Non-Profit Internet TV Broadcast Network enabling and promoting Social Justice and Sustainable Development deployed on Free and Open Source Software Technologies and Platforms through the Internet Appeal by Fouad Riaz Bajwa, FOSS Advocate ICT4D Activist. (...) Hi, Fouad and All This is a great idea, but as to: The bandwidth cost will not be a big issue as the network will be based on BitTorrent File Sharing Technology. The network will be made sustainable through online advertising, training programmes, international best production awards and in kind donations to support production of movies for non-profits who cannot afford capturing videos of their projects. (...) Hardware Infrastructure: The web servers and online infrastructure will be based on the BitTorrent technology as it is a fast, powerful, and spy ware-free way to download large files online. Instead of downloading files from a central server, viewers download from other people who are also downloading the file. The more popular the file, the faster it is for everyone. Torrent plug-ins for the browser and download programs are available free all over the internet. I want the TV to capitalize on this technology. On BitTorrent: I haven't used it yet. But big content producers (RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, BSA etc) are unfortunately strongly lobbying to have P2P file-sharing declared illegal per se in many countries. In Switzerland, the FAQ of the federal institute for intellectual property about the present revision of author's rights law http://www.ige.ch/faq/ur/ur_e.shtm already does so: Will peer-to-peer networks be prohibited? Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are already illegal under today’s law. Without the permission of the rights holder, protected works may not be offered over the internet, even when there is no money or commercial gain involved. Nothing will change in this respect. According to the draft law, downloading works for personal use will continue to be legal. The consumer will not be required to distinguish between legal and illegal internet offerings. Even content offered very cheaply or for free may be licensed, and thus legal I asked them (04/20/06) for a reference to a law declaring P2P filesharing illegal per se, as ADISI www.adisi.ch did use it to share files of interviews we co-edit for our Tam Tam broadcast, because they are too big to e-mail. Dr. Emanuel Meyer, LL.M., Attorney at Law, Legal Advisor [for the] Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, answered me (04/24/06) that ...Les bourses d’échange de fichiers vivent des téléchargements illégaux (je vous renvois aux considérants de la décision du cas Grokster). A nos yeux, cela justifie donc leur qualification d’illégaux, et ce même si, dans des cas exceptionnels - comme le vôtre - des téléchargements peuvent s’avérer licites. i.e. P2P networks live from illegal downloads (see the considerations of the Grokster judgment[? not sure of the English phrase - CA]). In our eyes, this justifies defining them as illegal, even if, in exceptional cases - like yours - downloads can prove licit He didn't quote any article of the present law or of the bill presently worked on in Parliament. But if this is the position of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (1), there is reason to fear that such an article might be introduced in the new version of the Swiss Copyright law. Pressure in that sense (i.e. to change the presumption of innocence into guilty until proved innocent) has been and is being exercised in several countries, at times successfully, unfortunately. And Cory Doctorow, in his 02/16/06 talk at Olin College (2), speaking of Notice-and-termination that content producers want to introduce to fight P2P filesharing, said: ...when I asked the MPAA's representative at the WIPO hearings that I was at on this: How do you expect this will play out in the real world? He said. Well, I think that ISPs will figure out how to contain their liability by doing aggressive filtering of their customers' use of the internet... and mentioned port blocking and other filtering measures. So wouldn't syndication through RSS feeds (videocasts, podcasts) be a safer option than P2P filesharing? But this begs another question: can you have a videocast or podcast with enclosures in a free format? Say, .ogg instead of .mp3 for audio? Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland ADISI Associazione di Diritto Informatico della Svizzera Italiana www.adisi.ch Tam Tam broadcast: www.adisi.ch/tamtam Bcc to Emmanuel Meyer and Cory Doctorow, for their information as I quote them. (1) The statute and tasks/duties of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual property are defined in the federal law 172.010.31 Bundesgesetz über Statut und Aufgaben des Eidgenössischen Instituts für Geistiges Eigentum http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/172_010_31
[DDN] BSA forbidden to use its acronym alone, and the bsa.ch domain in Switzerland
Sources: - Piratenbekämpfer als Freibeuter (Pirate fighters as filibusters). inside-it.ch, April 21, 2006 http://www.inside-it.ch/frontend/insideit?site=ii_d=_articlenews.id=6809 - Judgment by the first civil section of the Swiss Federal Court on BSA Business Software Alliance Inc v BSA Bund Schweizer Architekten, Jan. 12, 2006 (in German) http://relevancy.bger.ch/cgi-bin/AZA/JumpCGI?id=12.01.2006_4C.360/2005 BSA Bund Schweizer Architekten, the federation of Swiss architects, was created in 1908. In 1998, BSA Business Software opened a branch in Switzerland and grabbed the bsa.ch domain name. The architects' BSA objected, in particular when the pirate-hunting BSA launched a Schonfrist Kampagne (period of grace campaign for retroactive software legalization) aimed at all Swiss architects' studios in 2003. On Juli 11, 2003, Architects' BSA sued pirate-fighting BSA. On Jan 24, 2005, the Zurich district court ordered the pirate-fighting BSA to stop using its acronym without its full name. Pirate-fighting BSA appealed to the Zurich cantonal court. On Sept. 2, 2005, the cantonal court confirmed the judgment of the district court. Pirate-fighting BSA appealed to the Swiss federal court. On Jan. 12, 2006, the federal court confirmed the judgment of the Zurich cantonal court, specifying moreover that pirate-fighting BSA must stop using the bsa.ch domain name. Pirate-fighting BSA did try to argue that BSA is a common acronym (Boy Scouts of America, for instance), and that software and architecture being different trades, no confusion could arise that would harm the commercial interests of the architects' BSA. But the architects' BSA retorted that if people landed by mistake on the pirate-hunters' site when they wanted the architects' federation site, this would indeed harm the architects' federation good name, due to the aggressive pirate-fighters' Period of grace campaign. And the court found the architects' argument valid. Does anyone know a top-brass at the Boy Scouts of America? Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch ___ 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] song composed as shoutback to new york times article
Phil Shapiro wrote: hi DDN community - over the weekend i composed this song (and created this multimedia) as a shoutback to last month's new york times article on the digital divide. http://digg.com/technology/New_York_Times_Reporter_Tipsy_on_Digital_Divide_Progress http://tinyurl.com/gahz5 i uploaded this multimedia to the internet archive, which provides free, permanent web hosting. - phil Great song, Phil - but I messed around a bit before I managed to listen to it, from http://ia310119.us.archive.org/0/items/whiskeyinyourjar/ then http://ia310119.us.archive.org/0/items/whiskeyinyourjar/whiskeyinyourjar.html (and methinks this is not the right way to go about it), as you'll see from my comments in your digg post. Maybe a line of instruction for blonde (or gray in my case) dummies? But seriously: UNESCO Switzerland has set various NGO's a survey about future post-WSIS action re access to information. I'll quote you. best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Citizen journalism: Macchiaradio's podcast on Italian elections
Hi All, I just downloaded - by mistake and without being aware of it (1) - a podcast: Macchiaradio (puntata del 10/4/2006: Speciale Elezioni 2006). As the producers write in the corresponding blog item http://www.macchianera.net/2006/04/10/macchiaradio_speciale_elezioni.html: Now that the live broadcast described below is over, we feel obliged to warn you: it lasted exactly 12 hours and 24 minutes, which makes its postcast the longest one ever - in Italy at least. The point is that people wishing to listen to it must be forewarned: Macchiaradio speakers are not answerable for possible saturation by their BS (cazzate) of low-storage iPods (my trsl.) In fact, the thing weighs 340.8 Mb, but it can also be listened to in streaming from the URL above, and it is anything but BS. Some contextual info: Macchianera.net is a left-wing multi-author blog, started by Gianluca Neri. It has 3 webradio channels of its own: RadioNation (= Machiaradio) 1, 2, 3 - and links to other webradio channels. I listened to parts of the special broadcast on the elections live. It was a fascinating experience for several reasons. It covered the changes in the forecasts from an easy winning to a defeat to a bare winning by the left - and the corresponding changes of mood of the people doing the broadcast. People doing the broadcast were not just the people in the studio: listeners could phone in, use skype or a text chat. In the studio, they had a television and they zapped from channel to channel, commenting the excerpts (2). But on April 10, gales were blowing in Milan, so they periodically had to go out to re-orient the parabolic antenna. When it seemed that Berlusconi was going to win, they asked for someone who had voted him to explain why. Robinik, the editor of 2 neocon aggregators (B4CDL.com and tocque-ville.it) called. It was a great moment. Often, Italian neocons are even more strident and offensive than their US models. Robinik isn't. And maybe he is not a neocon either, rather a libertarian. He was courteous, and so were the people at Macchiaradio. *** Some time ago, there was a discussion on UGA's ITforum mailing-list about the optimum size for a podcast. 340.8 Mb certainly isn't. But this one is the exception that confirms the rule: I'm certainly not deleting it. (1) Though I have been co-handwriting the http://feeds.feedburner.com/adisi/tamtam podcast for months, I have only recently been able to subscribe to podcasts, i.e. when I started using a Bundy Mac with iTunes. So I am not yet very proficient at it and I bungled the subscription settings for the Macchiaradio one. (2) Considering the short length of the excerpts, the fact they were arguably background noise - and the nature of the comments, this is fair use, isn't it? Best wishes, and happy Easter Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Svizzera www.adisi.ch www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude ___ 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] Question on configuring/disabling Spamassassin
Hi All Sorry for the perhaps off-topicness of my question, but maybe I'm not the only person having trouble with an apparently server-based SpamAssassin program. I'm in charge of info for ADISI www.adisi.ch, a site hosted at ipowerweb.com. For the last week, a spamassassin program has been the subject line on e-mails sent to @adisi.ch addresses into just SPAM:: when it calculates they are spam. I suspect the program is a bonus offered by ipowerweb, on the basis of: (...) Received: (qmail 42994 invoked by uid 3600); 28 Jan 2006 04:40:42 - Received: from 127.0.0.1 by host297.ipowerweb.com (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED], uid 3191) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.88/1244. spamassassin: 3.1.0. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):SA:1(6.4/5.0):. Processed in 0.620686 secs); 28 Jan 2006 04:40:42 - X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.4 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: ++ Delivered-To: [deleted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (...) in the header of these renamed e-mails. - As it presently works, Spamassassin is zany: it lets through tons hardcore porn, and labels SPAM perfectly legitimate e-mails - Anyway, I don't want a piece of software to make choices without my having any say: I prefer to customize Thunderbird myself using the junk labeling: if I goof, there is only a dustbin next to a legit message, it doesn't get renamed. - ADISI's webmaster, owner of the adisi.ch domain name and signatory of the contract with ipowerweb says he doesn't understand, as he has disabled the spam filter and in fact, until last week there was no trace of its interference in @adisi.ch e-mails. If I am right in surmising that Spamassassin is on the ipowerweb server, how come it became active again after being disabled? Is there a way to permanently disable it? Thanks for your patience and for your potential answers. Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch ___ 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] Adding a mouse-over caption to a picture in a DDN blog by using flickr.com: easy tip
Hi All Apologies to those of you who talk html with native speakers' ease. This is in case others on this list, like me, don't. The simplest way to add a picture in a Digital Divide Network blog entry is to use the dialogue box for uploading pictures below the entry you have written: the picture will appear top-left. That's fine in most cases (1). In some instances, though, it might be nice/convenient/funny to add a mouse-over caption, i.e. a text that appears when you place the mouse pointer on the picture without clicking. You can do that by using a picture previously uploaded in a http://flickr.com/ album, directly in the entry text. A) If you don't have an album at flickr, creating one and uploading pictures there is easy: if you have a yahoo ID, you can use it to create the album. B) Once you have uploaded the picture in your flickr album, click on it, then click on All sizes above it: in the new page, a chunk of code for adding the picture to the source of any blog entry appears in a box under the picture. C) Copy-paste the chunk of code in the DDN blog entry you are writing/editing, where you want the picture to appear. D) In the chunk of code, look for the title tag, which commands the mouse-over text. E) Replace the text of the title tag with the one you want to appear as mouse-over caption. F) Finish editing your entry and save it (2). PS I found out about the flickr.com trick because I made another blog (3) at www.iobloggo.com, which has an Italian editing interface. A boon in Ticino, where many people are not at ease with editing instructions in English. Besides, iobloggo.com was started by a student in communications studies at Università della Svizzera Italiana www.unisi.ch and it's great to have something really useful created by a local student. But in order to add a picture to a iobloggo.com blog, you have to upload it somewhere else first. That's why I opened a flickr.com account and how I found out about the possibility to use the chunk of code (see C) to make a mouse-over caption. cheers Claude (1) For a picture added using the uploading dialogue box, see e.g. http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=10803 (2) For a picture with mouse-over caption added by using the modified flickr.com chunk of code, see e.g. http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=10876. The original chunk of code (see C) read: a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/95120672/ title=Photo Sharingimg src=http://static.flickr.com/19/95120672_662ad0f760_o.gif; width=400 height=326 alt=Mauro Biani Caricature //a. I replaced Photo Sharing with the English translation of the Italian text in the cartoon. (3) http://cavoliamerenda.iobloggo.com. Cavoli a merenda literally means cabbages for an afternoon snack, but figuratively, it means off-topic - which suited me as I didn't want to stick to a single topic. -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] article in progress - what is rss and how will it benefit me?
to debates about tech innovation. Or rather: about the uses and potential of tech innovation, as happens here on the DDN list. Media could do more. At RSR, the French-speaking national radio, Jean-Olivier Pain has a hilarious and bloody well-informed broadcast about IT innovation, La capsule de Pain every morning from Monday to Friday: http://info.rsr.ch/fr/rsr.html?programId=110451bcItemName=capsule_multimediarubricId=3500contentDisplay=last_fivesiteSect=1000 (1). With a podcast and a help page about podcasting. It doesn't quite work the same way in the Italian-speaking part. RSI does have podcasts, but it doesn't have a general RSS feed, whereas RSR has one. Again, a language issue: English is far more widespread in French-speaking Switzerland than here. There are other factors too (RSI has a smaller budget, for instance), but access to info in English seems to be the main one. And it's a sorry paradox, because Italian speakers, being a minority and fairly isolated geographically from the rest of Switzerland, have an even greater need for the advantages of IT innovations such as RSS feeds. (1) I wish our national broadcasting corporation would find a way to produce meaningful URLs - shorter one for La capsule de Pain: http://tinyurl.com/a3uuz. Best Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch ___ 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] New Informal DDN Help discussion board - but help needed
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 - http://www.digitaldivide.net/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=813 - 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 http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/help2, in order to produce an Informal DDN Help Board discussion board: http://www.digitaldivide.net/discussion/viewforum.php?f=177, 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, http://www.digitaldivide.net/discussion/index.php, 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 -- Claude Almansi 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 ___ 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] WSISBlogs.org after WSIS
Frankreich und Taiwan genannt. Dies zeigt, dass sich die Kampagne vermutlich gezielt auf die Länder richtet, die mit Linux und Freier Software sympathisieren. Und wenn ich mir die Ziele anschaue, ist Deutschland sicherlich mit dabei. Die Argumentation ist ja hier nicht neu. * links for 2006-01-23 - http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogs/RConversation?m=265 - Ah Q! Performance Project (tags: china chineseinternetresearch) - Joho the Blog: The end of coverage (tags: webcred citizenmedia journalism blog blogs) - Joho the Blog: [Berkman] Dan Gillmor (tags: citizenmedia berkman webcred journalism blog blogs) - fixtheworld: Response to The Financial Times Rony Abovitz reflects on his role in the Davos Easongate one year later (tags: Easongate davos WEF webcred blog blogs) - Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » I'm pushing for more transparency, here's why Note to Microsoft employees: if you aren't transparent about when you deal with governments you will hand your competitors a huge advantage. (tags: microsoft search surveillance freespeech trust doj privacy) - » MSN Search On DOJ Demands I __ -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Corporate responsibility : Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression.
Hi All The French equivalent of this e-mail was forwarded to the mailing list of comunica-ch, www.comunica-ch.net. Best Claude http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16121 *Corporate responsibility : Reporters Without Borders urges Internet users and bloggers to support its recommendations on freedom of expression.* On 6 January, Reporters Without Borders issued six concrete proposals aimed at ensuring that Internet-sector companies respect free expression when operating in repressive countries. The organisation calls on bloggers and Internet user to sign an online petition in support of this initiative. To support this initiative, Sign the petition http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16119 Find out more about corporate responsibility in the Internet sector http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16110 These recommendations are addressed to the US government and US legislators because all the companies named in this document are based in the United States. Nonetheless, they concern all democratic countries and have therefore been sent to European Union officials and to the Secretary General of the OECD as well. (...) - Read the rest of this page at http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16121 -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] New Literacy Portal launched - UNESCO
For Andy: If you already got a former version of this reply to Jayne Cravens for moderation, please just delete this version: my computer folded as I was sending it, LOL. J Cravens wrote: New Literacy Portal launched 02-01-2006 (...) The portal: http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40338URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html (needs a better URL, don't you think?) They do have an alternative one, Jayne: www.unesco.org/education/literacy, which carries over to the one you gave. But in order to find it, you have to - go to their Literacy Initiative For Empowerment - LIFE page, http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42853URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html - download their LIFE Vision and Strategy Paper coyly announced as approx 3 MB, but actually 4036 kb in the English version and 4754 kb in the French version. The www.unesco.org/education/literacy is at the very end. It's actually cliccable. But for some reason that escapes me, when you mouse-over it, there is an MS Word icon, and the link opened in Internet Explorer, even though I have Firefox as default browser. Other oddities: *Main Literacy page - French version* http://portal.unesco.org/education/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=40338URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html Only the central text is in French. It is completely different from the main text in the English version. *Literacy Initiative For Empowerment - LIFE page - French version* http://portal.unesco.org/education/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=42853URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html is entirely in English, identical to the http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=42853URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTION=201.html page, except that the image for the LIFE Vision and Strategy Paper is sick-liver purple instead of yellow. The link label for downloading the PDF is in English, but the URL does indeed lead to a text in French. *LIFE Vision and Strategy Paper PDF* At whom is a 4036 / 4754 kb PDF aimed, and for what purpose? Printing by folks who have a broadband connection? On dial-up, you think twice before downloading something announced as approx 3Mb, and you get mightily peeved off if you do choose to downlod it and discover that the thing is actually 25/30% bigger than announced. The PDF could have been made much lighter by replacing the artish header pic repeated on each page with just the page number, with having a text version of the 2 covers, and by having only the names of the authors of the authors of the 2 introductory texts (1) . Especially considering that it was made from a Word file: Word files get bloated when you insert images in them. For printing? Then the headers of the Logical Framework for LIFE table, which spans pages 42-45 in English, should be repeated for each page (same problem in the Fench version). And the Implementation timeline table on p. 30 (English version) is made unreadable in print by the use of shades of grey. Moreover, why does the table of content only appear on page 8 (English) or 9 (French)? Granted, Preface in the Desobligeant is the 7th chapter of Sentimental Journey http://www.tristramshandyweb.it/e-texts/sentimental/07.htm but hey, Lawrence Sterne meant it as a literary *joke*, not as a template for informative texts. It is particularly absurd in an informative text about furthering literacy. *Literacy Initiative for Empowerment LIFE and ICT* The above-mentioned PDF says: LIFE will be implemented following six principles that recognize the need to situate the provision of literacy within a wide developmental and cultural context: 1. Stressing acquisition of basic literacy using integrated approaches; 2. Mobilizing communities; 3. Focusing on mothers and their children, especially in rural areas; 4. Strengthening the literate environment; 5. Making good use of information and communication technologies (ICTs); 6. Giving due attention to bi- and multilingual contexts. (page 20) Unesco had better work a bit on that point 5 themselves. Why not offer that PDF in HTML, with a printable option? And OK, of they insist on it, the possibility to download a PDF version, but without the artish stuff? The English text can fit in a ca 320 kb PDF. Still far too much for its content, but better than over 4030 kb. (1) Apart from the fact that having just an unreadable squiggle of a signature for the first introductory text is not very helpful: you have to read the second introductory text to find out that the squiggle corresponds to Laura Bush. -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] seeking feedback: DDN volunteer job descriptions
Hi Andy I had volunteered for: Andy Carvin wrote: (...) Bulletin Board Coordinator Summary: The Bulletin Board Coordinator oversees DDN's bulletin board, encouraging their use and troubleshooting for DDN members. (...) But as I wrote you - and then forwarded to the TIG person in charge of tech aspects on your advice (no answer so far) - the bulletin boards are still in the hacker-blocked, save for the bulletin boards of communities created after the hacker's attack in November, which are the only ones that work. Any idea of when they will get unblocked? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Questions on Google cache, Unisys and Swiss epower initiative
Good morning Could someone help me understand a tech issue that has to do with Swiss e-government, please? *ePower initiative* From 2001 to 2004, the Swiss federal chancelry worked on a national Guichet Virtuel, www.ch.ch, which was meant to become interactive, allowing citizens to do some administrative transactions online. Early this year, the federal chancelry gave up the transaction possibility, too costly, entrusting it - and its cost - to cantons and boroughs. In reaction to this decision (? - or using this decision as an argument, I'm not sure which) - a group of politicians and IT industrialists started working on the ePower für die Schweiz (ePower for Switzerland) initiative http://www.epower-initiative.ch. There ws a first discreet meeting on May 30 2005, and a second more public one on Sept. 19 to officially launch it, with an endorsement from Federal Counselor (=minister) for economy Joseph Deiss. The ePower initiative has several worrying features, for instance its 1st and 2nd basic requirements for Swiss ePower and e-government: - a single digital identity that functions both in [sic] virtual and real identity - a strict separation between state and private sector, where the state only deals with its tasks of sovreignty, while the actuation of e-government is done by the private sector. *ePower Unisys and Google* Now Unisys http://unisys.ch also sells e-government services, and it was associated with the ePower initiantive on the ePower site at first. There are traces of this if you search for unisys epower without quotes in Googl. The first 2 hits lead to pages of the ePower website, one in German http://www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1.2.0.phtml and one in French http://www.epower-initiative.ch/fr/1.3.0.phtml. But neither page mentions Unisys anymore. The only trace is the Google description: Unisys hat E-Voting in der Schweiz vom nationalen Pilotprojekt zum internationalen ... i.e. Unisys [transformed (? the verb is missing) e-voting in Switzerland from a national pilot project into an international...) *ePower Unisys and Google cache* If you try to retrieve the original pages in Google cache, there is a text in German superimposed on first words of the page (both for the French and the German pages), which makes it difficult to read. But the source of the page gives it in clear, before the actual head of the page. My translation (1): This is an intermediate saving of http://www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1.20.phtml (2) , as it stood on Dec. 11 2005 06:51:19 GMT. The Cache contains a snapshot of the site that was taken during its web transformation. Under circumstances [sic], this page was changed in the meantime. Click here [link] in order to reach the present page without highlightings. This cached page may refer to pictures that are no longer available. Click here [link] in order to only show the cached text. In order to make a bookmark or a link to this page, please use the following URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:fsopIwXtAJ0J:www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1.2.0.phtml+epower+unisysamp;hl=de. Google has no relation with the authors of this page. The following search words have been highlighted: epower. The following search words appear only in links pointing to this page: unisys. This meta-tagged text appears both with google.ch and google.com *Questions* - Is this kind of meta-tagged text a normal occurence in Google? (I had never seen it before) - Did Google add it? - How come it is only in German? - Was it written by a human being or is it a bot message? I am asking because other pages and PDF files connecting the ePower initiative and Unisys have recenntly disappeared too. Whether it is because the connection was actually severed or because it was embarrassing, I don't know. Thanks for your patience - and for your answers. Claude Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland www.adisi.ch (1) Source text for the translated passage above: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 BASE HREF=http://www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1.2.0.phtml;table border=1 width=100%trtdtable border=1 bgcolor=#ff cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 width=100% color=#fftrtdfont face=arial,sans-serif color=black size=-1Dies ist der a href=http://www.google.com/intl/de/help/features.html#cached;font color=blueZwischenspeicher/font/a von bfont color=#0039b6G/font font color=#c41200o/font font color=#f3c518o/font font color=#0039b6g/font font color=#30a72fl/font font color=#c41200e/font/b für A HREF=http://www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1.2.0.phtml;font color=bluehttp://www.epower-initiative.ch/de/1.2.0.phtml/font/a nach dem Stand vom 11. Dez. 2005 06:51:19 GMT.br bfont color=#0039b6G/font font color=#c41200o/font font color=#f3c518o/font font color=#0039b6g/font font color=#30a72fl/font font color=#c41200e/font/bs Cache enthält einen Schnappschuss der Webseite, der während des Webdurchgangs
Re: [DDN] protopage web service - recommended
Protopage sounds great, Phil But instead of further exploring the software, I followed the link to your Setting up a Database for Lost and Misplaced Items http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/lostandmisplaced.html, then I shortened the URL, then I moved on to http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html Yeah well, maybe a database can't be blown away by the wind as Frog's list in Arnold Lobel's story - but with hypertext, I'm the one who gets lost - pleasantly lost and not misplaced at all... I've been meddling around with a wiki at www.wikispaces.com. Very userfriendly with a visual editor that almost always really givees shows you what you'll get. But I'm just plainly fascinated by the wiki world, to be honest. That you can make a structure then completely change it so easily if new things come up. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Swiss epower: how come a PDF, though unlocked, stutters when copied into a text file?
Hi All *Background to my question*: A month ago, the Swiss Federal Council (government) should have issued its Strategy for Information Society report. It didn't. According to a well-informed source, the Swiss government chose to shelf the report in favor Swiss epower: une initiative du Parlement et de l'économie http://www.epower-initiative.ch instead. It seems extremely likely that this initiative indeed replaces the official Strategy for Information Society report, because Federal Councelor Joseph Deiss is among the first signatories of the initiative and he made a speech at its launching. *How come the PDF of the declaration stutters when copied into a text file* Given the influence Swiss epower will probably wield, I wanted to make a page about for the ADISI site, www.adisi.ch. But when I try to copy from the PDF of the Declaration (German version) into any kind of textual file, the result is (sample): 1 Warum die Schw Schwei eiz „e z ePow Power“ bra er“ braucht ucht Wir alle wissen es und h hören es täglich: Mit mehr Wachstum wären viele anstehende ören Prob- Probleme einfacher zu lösen leme lösen. Wenn die . Schweiz tat tatsächli ächlich ein h eine „Wissensg e Wissensgesellschaft“ esellschaft“ sein will, dann muss ein wesentlicher Teil die dieses angestr es angestrebten Wach ebten Wachstums von Seiten der Inf stums Informatik ormatik und Teleko Telekommunikation kommen. mmunikation (...) whereas in the PDF, the same passage reads: 1 Warum die Schweiz „ePower“ braucht. Wir alle wissen es und hören es täglich: Mit mehr Wachstum wären viele anstehende Probleme einfacher zu lösen. Wenn die Schweiz tatsächlich eine „Wissensgesellschaft“ sein will, dann muss ein wesentlicher Teil dieses angestrebten Wachstums von Seiten der Informatik und Telekommunikation kommen. (cleaned version of the above, to show what I read in the PDF) How come some parts (Wir alle wissen es sein will, dann muss ein wesentlicher Teil)*don't* stutter? What could be the cause of the stuttering in the rest? I.e. can one intentionally scramble a PDF in order to make its conversion to text stutter in this manner? Or is it just the result of a faulty PDF-writing program, or of an incompetent use of the PDF-writing program? If this declaration is to replace the Swiss government's report on Strategy for Information Society, it is an important document for Swiss citizens and denizens. Thank you in advance for your answers. If this Swiss epower declaration becomes the official Swiss strategy on information society, the impossibility to convert it to text clearly - whether intentional or due to incompetence - is not very reassuring. And it is not the only disturbing element: the Swiss epower declaration can be signed online at http://www.epower-initiative.ch, but a) there is no declaration of privacy as to what will happen with the entered data anywhere in the site and b) there is no confirmation request automatically sent by e-mail, just a page saying that the data entered will be checked before your name appears on the page (1) Have a great week-end Claude (1) I know because I tested the signing form by entering Name: Pinocchio - Surname: Justtestingyourform, but indicating a real e-mail address and no automatic confirmation request arrived there. -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] [Fwd: Cancelation of side-events in Tunis] - mirrors for Citizens-summit.org?
membres du comité d’organisation du SCSI Pour soutenir le SCSI : [EMAIL PROTECTED], Presse : [EMAIL PROTECTED] summit.org Informations générales : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Re: [Fwd: Cancelation of side-events in Tunis] - mirrors for Citizens-summit.org? URL for the English Statement
Claude Almansi wrote: Hi all The e-mail below was sent to the comunica-ch mailing-list. I'll send the URL for the ENglish version of the statement when I find/get it. The statement of which I forwarded the French version before is quoted in English in http://www.netzpolitik.org/2005/wsis-viele-zivilgesellschaftliche-veranstaltungen-aus-protest-gecancelt/ or http://tinyurl.com/cffa5 The post also includes links to an interview with Anriette Esterhuysen, of the Association of Progressive Communication (APC) in OGG and MP3 formats. Don't know in which language, as there are problems with sound on this laptop. all the best Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Europe's digital divide (fwd)
as serious tool among Swiss educators. Until they do, i.e. until young people can learn about responsibilities involved in blogging by doing it in schools, misuse prevention measures like Blog sur Internet are not likely to have much effect. Information is part of prevention, but it is not enough, per se. (1) another description of this Pew report was sent on 3/11/05 by Doug Johnson to the WWWEDU discussion list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwwedu. See also Marc Ahnless' and Nancy Willard's replies there. Have a nice week-end Claude Bcc to: Doug Johnson, Marc Ahnless and Nancy Willard - not to Bonnie Bracey-Sutton as she will already get this through the list. -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] [Fwd: Sommet Citoyen] Citizens' Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) website
From the comunica-ch mailing list. The site of the Citizens' Summit http://www.citizens-summit.org/index.html is blingual French/English. Programme of the CSIS: http://www.citizens-summit.org/programme.html cheers Claude Original Message Subject: Sommet Citoyen Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:34:25 +0100 From: Chantal Peyer To: comunica-ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [wsisforum] Bonjour, Le site du Sommet citoyen, qui aura lieu du 16 au 18 novembre, à Tunis est désormais on-Line. Vous trouverez un premier programme, ainsi que diverses informations. Le site sera alimenté de nouvelles au fur et à mesure du déroulement des événements. Le lieu exact sera également indiqué sur le site en temps voulu... ou possible http://www.citizens-summit.org/ Chantal Peyer comunica-ch - plateforme suisse pour la société de l'information -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] NEWS: My departure from EDC the future of DDN
Dear Andy Your e-mail was a shock: ironically, a few hours ago, I posted on the Your favorite website thread in a discussion on the Swiss Forum New Learning www.fnl.ch - I posted about www.digitaldivide.net, that is. As the discussion board is locked (asking for its unlocking for viewing was the other thread I posted to), I'm copying the post below, without the links but you know them. I'd suggest that Founded by Andy Carvin be added to the http://www.digitaldivide.net/images/title.gif header's picture - as Le Monde did with Beuve-Méry when he retired. But maybe you'd find that a bit too Europeanly pompous? Re volunteering for DDN: Nothing involving technological responsibility, for everybody's sake. But I'd be willing to do something with the discussion boards. I think I could answer simple questions about DDN use, for instance. The person I co-managed an Italian mailing list about Judaism sank it 4 hours ago in a moment of blues, so I'll have more time. Best wishes in your looking for a new job. I'm sure that if it gets known at WSIS that you are on the market again, as it were, you'll get plenty of offers. cheers Claude here goes the Forum New Learning post mentioned above. URL https://www.fnl.ch/forum/forums/42/ShowPost.aspx but as i said, it's locked. Digital Divide Network (presented by C. Almansi) From the Digital Divide Network website: The Digital Divide Network is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide. At DDN, you can build your own online community, publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and post news, events and articles. You can also find the archived discussion lists of the DIGITAL DIVIDE listserv. Membership is free and open to all, so join today! In 2004, I had the priviledge of being among the beta-testers of the resources offered by the Digital Divide Network. Apart from my profile and my personal blog, Odds and Not Ends, I also opened the Linguistic And Cultural Diversity community there. The Digital Divide Network (DDN) resources can be a valid alternative for educational projects when obtaining a nook on an official platform takes too much time. Say you create a project community: project members can share their DDN blog posts with the community. They can do the same with events headlines and articles they post to DDN in general. You can also import an existing blog into you DDN one, which has an RSS feed. This means that the RSS feeds for all articipants' blogs can in turn be aggregated in a single viewing page, for instance at www.bloglines.com . DDN also has a mailing-list, where new tech developments are presented and discussed in function of their educational and social relevance. Among the projects initiated withn DDN, see Katrina Aftermath, a blog opened within hours of the levees breaking in New Orleans during the Katrina hurricane last Summer, to facilitate the coordination of relief operations, with explanations (right column) on how to submit information, queries, pictures and podcasts. Katrina Aftermath is not an educational project, granted, but it is a great illustration of how blog potential can be exploited. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere un file pesante, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] What if fair and accountable don't translate?
Hi All I must first thank Peter Lopez, who mentioned Jonathan Dube's A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php in a message entitled On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05, sent to the DDN mailing-list on Oct. 16. This code of ethics is a great text, Peter. It is so great and stimulating that I decided to translate it into Italian for ADISI (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI), because Swiss powers-that-be in education are finally waking up to the fact that blogs are not just futile and harmless toys, due to kids blogging unflattering pictures of their profs, accompanied by even more unflattering comments. The Geneva school authorities already reacted with Blog sur Internet: une arme d'information massive qui requiert de la prudence which was distributed to all middle school students of Canton Geneva this year (1). Better than nothing, perhaps. However, this text seems written by people who know how a blog works, technically, but who apparently never have blogged and don't take blogs seriously, except in their possible negative uses. Blog regulation - if any is needed or advisable - must come from bloggers like Jonathan Dube and the people who commented on his Bloggers' Code of Ethics, not from outside. Hence the decision to translate Dube's text - into Italian because that's ADISI's language. The main hurdle in this are words like fair and accountable, for which there are no equivalents in Italian (or French for that matter). And to a lesser extent, Code of Ethics itself. Sure, there is codice deontologico in Italian (code déontologique in French). But ethics and ethical are fairly common terms in English. Not so with deontologia etc in Italian, apart from the fact that deontologia ecc. have an imperative nuance, which is absent in ethics. Sure, there are work-arounds: there always are with translation. But paraphrasing is far less efficient than a one-word equivalent. Moreover, fairness and accountability are key concepts in several fields: education, communication, information - well, society in general. So when a social group speaking a given language has no word for these concepts, what are the implications and repercussions? Who knows how much time was spent in order to come up with logiciel for software, courriel for e-mail and joueb for blog by various official francophone terminology services? Would it not be more pertinent to concentrate on how to import essential concepts like fairness and accountability? This would not only mean finding/inventing equivalent terms, but also means and strategies to impose the concepts themselves in research and debates on social issues, and on information society and information rights in particular. I am also posting this as a discussion topic in the Language and Linguistic Diversity DDN community http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages. If you have suggestions and/or comments on these issues, please join the discussion there. All the best Claude (1) i.e. Blog on Internet: a weapon of mass information that requires caution. If you speak French and have a broadband connection, you can download Blog sur Internet from http://wwwedu.ge.ch/sem/doc/semblog.pdf - over 1 Mb -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05
Andy Carvin wrote: (...) Hi Claude, I think this was intended as a play on the expression, Greetings, space cadets, which is in itself a reference to the old Space Cadet radio show. A somewhat obscure American cultural reference, in no way intended as connected with actual military cadets. Oops, thanks for the explanation, Andy - and my apologies for the misunderstanding, Peter: apart my ignorance of American culture, the recurring war theme in your post also bent my (mis)understanding of the word. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] WSIS - Campaign to support Shirin Abadi as opening speaker
Robert Guerra wrote: I would like to share with readers of this list news of a campaign being organized to support the nomination of the Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Abadi as an opening speaker at the upcoming UN World Summit on the Information Society (see below for details). Thank you, Robert The candidature of Shirin Abadi is very important, also in view of the context of grave civil and human rights issues in which WSIS is about to open. comunica-ch, the Swiss Campaign for Information Society (www.comunica-ch.net) is among those who signed to support her candidature. Best Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] Sahana Heroes bring Sahana to Pakistan in response to South Asia Earthquakes]
I am forwarding this information, because the description of Sahana seems interesting, but I am not able to assess the program technically. All the best Claude Original Message Subject: [FOSS-PDI] Sahana Heroes bring Sahana to Pakistan in response to South Asia Earthquakes Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:22:37 +0500 From: Fouad Riaz Bajwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: bajwa @ fossfp.org, FOSS - Policy and Development Implications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: FOSSFP: Free Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that the Sri Lankan's Chamindra de Silva and another volunteer developer are arriving in Islamabad today to deploy Sahana that is a Free and Open Source Software disaster management system that handles missing/displaced persons, camp management, assistance, trading system, etc. These are the lead developers for the same system which was used in Sri Lanka to co-ordinate aid for the Tsunami disaster. Pakistan Software Export Board, Open Source Resource Centre, International Open Source Network UNDP-IOSN are assisting them to Pakistan. FOSSFP will keep you updated about their visit and sahana deployments. More information on Sahana: http://sahana.sourceforge.net/ http://news.info-share.net/?p=8 Why Sahana? --- -Simple IT solutions can help the relief, recovery and rehabilitative work. No solution exists globally; an opportunity to make the Tsunami work in our favour for creating such a solution. -Starting with a single people database (missing, IDPs, dead, orphans etc.) Sahana now has several components. -Project is now a global open source software project with contributors lining up globally. -Feedback from people experienced with disaster management and others has been that Sahana is far more advanced than anything available today. What is Sahana? --- -Sahana is a collection of integrated applications which handle an increasing amount of functionality. -Organization registry: To keep track of various organizations participating and what they do / can do etc. -Request management system: To allow coordination of how requests from camps and other places are serviced by various organizations. -Camp registry: Database of camps, including historical information. -People registry: Database of missing, IDPs, dead, orphans etc. (including pictures, finger prints, DNA samples) with advanced search capabilities More function being developed. Regards. --- Fouad Riaz Bajwa General Secretary FOSSFP: Free Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R Phone #: 92 (042) 111-923-923 Ext: 27 Cell #: 92-333-4661290 e-mail: bajwa @ fossfp.org Lahore-Pakistan. URL: www.fossfp.org Ubuntu-Pakistan URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere un file pesante, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] On Blogging and Other Stuff =Sunday, 10-16-05
Hi Peter 2 observations about your post on the necessity to meaningfully communicate and to avoid extended sermons when people aren't paying attention, and on the usefulness of blogs. Peter S. Lopez wrote: On Blogging and Other Stuff Hola All Fellow Cyber Cadets ~ I don't consider myself as a cadet, cyber or otherwise, and I doubt many here in the Digital Divide Network do. Cadet evokes rigid discipline, unconditional obediance to a hierarchy. Not quite the way DDN works. (...) it is how well we live in a qualitative life-sense; it is how noble, how just and how humane we have been towards others in the scales of eternal time that counts in the end. The rest is just inhaling and exhaling… any animal can do that! (...) Many online groups and chat rooms are akin to the insanity of the Tower of Babel wherein we speak endlessly to really no one but ourselves because no one reads, no one listens, no one responds. (...) Actually, the Tower of Babel was an extremely well coordinated and perfectly communicating international project aimed at the betterment of mankind, beyond just inhaling and exhaling like animals. The Tower of Babel might be a good symbol for DDN, actually - were it not that it got so successful that G-d felt He'd better put an end to it - and so *He* did, by messing up the Babel communication network big way. So better not wake His attention. He probably has programmed His version of Echelon to launch His weapons of mass destruction at any mention of plans to revive the Babel project. All the best, Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Intellectual Property Rights
Sarah, thank you for your answer: I agree that former non-digital piracy does not justify digital piracy. What I had written was just aimed at not demonizing too much the piracy potential of digital tools, but it is true that it must be addressed. Same with plagiarism, btw: people have probably plagiarized for various purposes (academic career, passing exams, making money) ever since they started to write (though the notion of plagiarism is irrelevant for the time preceding the rise of the concept of authorship, when centone was an accepted practice, for instance). This doesn't mean that digital plagiarism should be ignored, but it does mean that some of the present catastrophe writing and attitude about it in academic circles is probably not the best way to tackle the issue either. Re your answer to Sharon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharon, I think you're exactly right. Books and journals sold in digital, downloadable form could be priced without the cost of paper, printing, binding, and distribution, and probably with a smaller discount to the retailer. And authors could get royalties, and publishers could receive a reasonable return on their investment. One of the big forces working against this is the academic tenure system, which at most institutions recognizes only printed books and journal articles as part of one's bibliography when applying for tenure. It would take a widespread change in academe as well as publishers to enable meaningful movement toward digitized original works. One interesting solution is online publishers, who offer the possibility to either download a text in digitized form, or to order it on paper. A few months ago, David Warlick mentioned - I can't remember if here or if on the WWWEDU mailing-list or both - http://www.lulu.com/, who do that. They print and bind on demand only, thus cutting the storage costs. Authors set the price, on the basis of an equation comprising fixed costs (price per page + binding), what they want to earn per copy, plus a 20% commission for the publisher - to which postage gets added (see http://www.lulu.com/help/node/view/33 , then Step 5: Price Finish) But when I mentioned this possibility to some friends in academe, they objected that for career purposes, the peer-reviewing would be lacking, whereas it is vital for career purposes. On the other hand, though, Lulu allows authors to buy their books at a discounted price (without the author's commission) and postage can be reduced for bulk shipping. This would enable academics to order copies at a more reasonable price, and send them for peer-reviewing, perhaps. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of
Many happy returns, Andy! And thanks for having always shared your tech forrays with others. Selkirk/Crusoe might have been mightily p*ssed off if he'd gone back to his island after 11 years and found a Club Med resort there. Not you. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] [Fwd: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief]
SALDWR = South Asian Leftists Dialoguing With Religion - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saldwr/ All the best Claude Original Message Subject: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:15:06 -0700 (PDT) From: yogi sikand To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friends If you want to help the victims of the earthquake in Kashmir, do have a look at this site: http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Earthquake_10-05_Donating#US_Diaspora It offers detailed information of relief organisations in both Indian-Administered and Pakistani-Administered Kashmir. Regards, Yoginder Sikand -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere un file pesante, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] Intellectual Property Rights
Sarah Blackmun wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? It can be unethical and illegal in some cases, but Taran Rampersad, whom you seem to be answering was only speaking using Optical Character Recognition with texts photographed in the library. - If the digitalized copy is for your personal use and study, it is legal. - If the work copied is in the public domain, it is even legal to distribute it or put it online. - What would be illegal would be to distribute and/or put online a work protected by copyright Don't the writers and producers of intellectual and artistic property own their works and have the right to control how they are distributed? Yes, but copyright laws allow readers to make a personal copy for studying purposes. And a text version is far more handy for studying than a PDF. Not to mention that blind people will anyway have to translate PDFs or image formats into text, by using OCR. (Don't Google and Yahoo and the university libraries know this? Of course they do!) Not exactly: the Google project was halted precisely because of the copyright issue. The Très Grande Bibliothèque Nationale of France so far has only scanned and put on line PDFs, which seem locked - and the ones I have seen are all in the public domain. I have not seen the Yahoo ones Do we have on this list any authors in the group who depend for their livings (or a part thereof) on the royalties they receive from books, music, film, etc.? And will they continue to publish such works if they can't receive a fair recompense for them? I do - to a small extent, granted: royalties on 2 anthologies I co-edited in the 80's. The rest of my writings don't produce royalties: I was/am paid a lump sum for translations, most editing jobs and prefaces. So I don't care a hoot if folks digitize these texts. Actually, I have done so myself, and banged them online, when the publishers remaindered the paper editions. Ever since Creative Commons licenses appeared, I have put what I write online under a CC license: by NC (non commercial) - at times also SA (share alike), when I felt like p...ing off some likely plagiarists. On the whole, it has worked fine: got far more paid translations to do since then. What will be the long-term impact on intellectual and artistic production if everything is in the public domain as soon as it is published? Mistaken assumption. There were pirate editions before digital age: ask Oxford University Press or any academic press whose books got merrily pirated and sold at 1/4 of the price in some countries; ask authors old enough to remember being translated and published without authorization or royalties in USSR. Well, USSR relented in the end and did give royalties: in rubles, and it was forbidden to export them. So the writers would go to USSR and have a luxury holyday on their royalties, buy some furs (though for the better ones, you needed to pay in dollars). So yes, there are digital pirates. But if anything, making pirate editions on the scale that was practiced with paper editions in USSR and other countries is more difficult in the digital age, because if they get offered online, it's easier to nab the pirates. BTW the above obtains for music and videos too, up to a point: there was already a thriving pirate industry for cassette and videotapes in Italy before the digital age, for instance. The problem with music and videos is that big producers like RIAA are now digitally protecting there works, which means that non-tech-minded users can't make a legitimate personal copy for their own use, while tech-minded folks wishing to break the law override the protections without problems. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere un file pesante, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] Tunisians conduct online protest - alternative URL
Hi All In the e-mail below, which I forwarded to the comunica-ch list on Oct. 4, Andy Carvin mentioned that yezzi.org the main site for the online protest, had been blocked by the Tunisian authorities. A Tunisian human rights militant who participates in the demo has now sent an alternative URL for the slide show part of the site, http://www.flickr.com/photos/yezzi/show, which she says is not yet blocked in Tunisia. She has authorized me to forward this alternative URL. Claude Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, Right now there's an extraordinary online protest coming out of Tunisia. The website, Yezzi.org, is a collection of photos of Tunisians holding up signs in various languages, each with a message directed to Tunisian President Ben Ali. Though the phrase they use, Yezzi, Fock!, may appear to be a misguided attempt to curse out a certain swear word in the English language, it roughly translates to General Ben Ali, enough is enough! in Tunisian Arabic. In the words of the protest's organizers: This expression in Tunisian dialect intends to transmit a clear message to the dictator in order to give up power, because we consider it is enough. For us Tunisians, who are always banned from freely reaching independent information and who are violently forbidden from any peaceful demonstration; this kind of demonstration is a new form of peaceful protest. The site, launched yesterday, contains dozens of photos of Tunisians venting their frustration at President Ben Ali. They note that free expression is technically protected under Tunisian law, though not in practice, so they're using the website to exercise that right: [T]here's no Tunisian legislative provision prohibiting the right to express our opinions. Absolutely not, this demonstration is covered by the fundamental guarantees provided as well by the Tunisian Constitution as by the International Conventions ratified by Tunisia. All the demonstrators on Yezzi.org make use of their right to express an opinion in saying to the General Ben Ali 'It is enough!' The Tunisian authorities, not surprisingly, see the matter differently. They've already started blocking the site, so only those of us outside of Tunisia can see it. One can only imagine what might happen to these cyber dissidents if they were caught by the Tunisian police. No matter the response, though, it serves as another reminder of the ackwardness of having the World Summit on the Information Society hosted in Tunisia. -andy -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Devices help the blind cross 'tech divide'
Peter S. Lopez wrote:
(..)
We must always strive to maximize human potential
to the utmost of one's real capacity.
The DDN Movement should strive to remove all obstacles
that stand in the way of really bridging the 'tech divide'
{a reflection of dominant class-economic property
relations in present-day society}.
True but at times it's really uphill to try to make deciders understand
issues. Recently an equal-chances-through-ICT lady guru showed me the
prototype learning platform she was using in a program to enable women
to acquire needed skills in ICT in order go back on the work market
after their kids start going to school. The platform was in old flash,
i.e. non vocalizable and with no possibility to copy the text, so wide
you had to keep scrolling left and right. She herself acknowledged that
she had to have a tech person upload the files for the courses as the
platform was rather complicated to manage.
I pointed out that participants should learn how to use normal
platforms/groups/communities/mailing lists for when they would have
finished the course and wouldn't be able to access that prototype
anymore, and added that said prototype was not accessible to blind
people anyway. The equal-chances-through-ICT guru retorted: Come on!
How could a blind person possibly use a computer?! And her program is
funded by the Swiss Federal Equal Chances Office, because equal chances
here is exclusively understood in gender terms. Besides, the same
prototype platform is being experimented in a few middle schools here
for grade 6 math, and there is a strong risk it will be adopted in all
middle schools for all subjects in grades 6-9.
The Swiss Disability Insurance won't pay for disabled people's broadband
connection, on the pretext that the rest of the family might use it too.
So disabled people here remain cut off from the opportunities the
internet would offer them: in particular from the opportunities to
learn about devices like the ones described in this thread, and to
organize and lobby through the internet.
Switzerland in particularly backwards in this, granted. But I wonder if
this deciders' tech and tech-accessibility illiteracy isn't slowing down
progress elsewhere too.
Claude
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Re: [DDN] Internet Applications Via Cell Phone?
Hi Don and All Would it be possible to also have a further discussion about both the $100 laptop and this analysis of possibly differenciated uses of desk top, cell phone and lap top at www.digitaldivide.net? I'm not sure which community it would best be attached to - but probably someone will have a suggestion. I'm not advocating duplication, but the discussion boards at www.digitaldivide.net permit the use of more formatting than a plain text, attachment-less mailing list, and in the case of the table Don suggests elaborating on, it might be an advantage. After this housewifely suggestion: Don, I think this analysis of uses of different types of devices would be very useful. Last Summer I translated a text about enhancing tourism in a remote Swiss valley through IT communication. I had an unconfortable feeling that they were staking far too much on what cell phones could/should do. When you translate, you translate, you don't argue. Nonetheless, considering that the same people also do ICT4D projects, it would be useful if recipients of such proposals (by these people or others) could have external documentation on which to discuss them. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere un file pesante, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] [Fwd: Growing Concerns about Summit Host Country Tunisia] (Summit=WSIS)
From the http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/web/795.htm page refered to by Daniel Boos in the email below, you can also download http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_en/Letter-Geiger_Complaint.rtf, i.e. the complaint letter sent by comunica-ch (Swiss platform for the information society http://www.comunica-ch.net) to Mr Charles Geiger, executive director of the Secretariate for the WSIS, about the irruption of Mr Moncef Achour into a private meeting of members of Tunisian human rights organisations and of comunica-ch. Of course, a Tunisian member of the secretariate for the WSIS irrupting in a private meeting during a Geneva prepcom for WSIS, claiming to be a member of the UN police, is not very grave compared to judges, journalists and internet users being jailed and at times tortured in Tunisia. Nevertheless, the incident is telling of an arrogant confidance that by now, les jeux sont faits and WSIS will indeed take place in Tunisia, violations of human rights notwithstanding. Claude Original Message Subject: Growing Concerns about Summit Host Country Tunisia Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:54:27 +0200 From: Daniel Boos Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [wsisforum] On Worldsummit2005.org: -- Growing Concerns about Summit Host Country Tunisia Civil Society Groups and Governments React 28 September 2005. The summit host country Tunisia has not tried to improve its human rights record, and the Tunisian authorities are actively obstructing the work of civil society groups – even in Geneva. Western governments are currently preparing a strong reaction, and independent activists are thinking about not going to the sumit at all. The Tunisian authoritarian regime under President Ben Ali has long been criticised for its infringements on freedom of speech, the harrassment of independent groups, and Internet censorship. Some observers, as well as civil society groups active in the WSIS, had hoped that growing international pressure and the spotlight around the summit would improve the situation. This is not the case – quite to the contrary. http://www.worldsummit2003.de/en/web/795.htm -- There is even a video of the incident: http://www.worldsummit2003.de/download_en/Moncef_Achour_prepcom3.AVI Daniel comunica-ch - plateforme suisse pour la société de l'information -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch Castione, Switzerland http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] IFLA, WSIS and intellectual freedom in Tunisia (originally sent by Danielle Mincio to the comunica-ch mailing list)
-governmental, not-for-profit organization. Our aims are to promote high standards of provision and delivery of library and information services, encourage widespread understanding of the value of good library information services, and represent the interests of our members throughout the world In pursuing these aims IFLA embraces the following core values: *We believe that people, communities and organizations need for their physical, mental, democratic and economic well-being, free access to information, ideas and works of imagination *We believe that the provision and delivery of high quality library and information services help guarantee that access *We are committed to enabling library associations and institutions throughout the world, and their staff, to participate in the work of the Federation regardless of geographical location *We support and promote the principles of freedom of access to information ideas and works of imagination embodied in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights *We recognize the rights of all members to engage in, and benefit from, its activities without regard to citizenship, ethnic origin, gender, language, political philosophy, race or religion. IFLA/FAIFE (Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression, (www.ifla.org/faife ) is a core activity within IFLA to defend and promote the basic human rights defined in Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The IFLA/FAIFE Committee and Office furthers free access to information and freedom of expression in all aspects, directly or indirectly, related to libraries and librarianship. IFLA/FAIFE monitors the state of intellectual freedom within the library community worldwide, supports IFLA policy development and cooperation with other international human rights organisations, and responds to violations of free access to information and freedom of expression. Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both hold and express opinions and to seek and receive information. Intellectual freedom is the basis of democracy. Intellectual freedom is the core of the library concept. visiting address: ifla headquarters prins willem-alexanderhof 5 postal address: p.o. box 95312 2509 ch the hague netherlands telephone: +31 70 3140884 fax: +31 70 3834827 e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www site: http://www.ifla.org bank accounts: postbank 351460; abn-amro nv, the hague 51 36 38 911; vat number: nl 0028 70 836 b01 -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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.
Thank you for your immense patience, Cedar, and best wisshes (was Re: [DDN] Cedar Pruitt's departure from DDN)
Dear Cedar, a thank you is not enough for your patience in explaining when I fumbled. And I fumbled a lot: uploading files, linking to articles, etc. Sure, others are more competent as a rule. But I can imagine what workload you had On the basis of the great work you did at DDN, you should get a new rewarding job - but I'll miss you a lot. Best wishes for your future. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi(at)bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Learning Networks Through Cross-Aggregation? - I would be grateful for a critical reading
Hello All Learning Networks Through Cross-Aggregation? http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=6259 is something preparatory I wrote for what might become an ADISI www.adisi.ch project, aiming both at creating learning networks through cross aggregation and to bring home the importance of RSS feeds and their aggregation here in Italian-language Switzerland. But before going further, I'd be grateful if someone was ready to check it, especially for factual mistakes, and in particular in the third part: The Bellinzona Liceo students' blog is a great start, but it could be further developped. You could have several similar initiatives, where each would have subject-specific blogs or groups producing RSS feeds [4], which they would gather in a feed-aggregating page (bloglines ones or similar). These separate feed-aggregating pages could then be enriched by subscribing to each other's feeds, and used to create a general aggregating page for all these initiatives. Individual students would then be able to pick the feeds they want to subscribe to in the personal news aggregators on their computers. Considering the overall feed lliteracy in Italian speaking Switzerland [5],though, it might be necessary to first have a few 3D meetings about feed aggregation – and to make a specific exploratory blog about it, which could be aggregated in turn ;-) [4] There could be blog entries linking to what does not get included in feeds: files and pictures that are uploaded elsewhere online, with instructions on how to download them. [5] Telling example of this illiteracy: the site of the Swiss Italian TV-Radio Coorporation, RTSI www.rtsi.ch, does not have a RSS feed. If you accept to check this, please make your comments either in the comments to http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/Claude/view?PostID=6259, or by e-mailing me directly. Thank you in advance, Have nice week-end! Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Making the Astrodome CTC the Rule, Not the Exception
Andy, Do you remember Tracey Naughton's Drums of Colours, the African Media Village in the ICT4D hall at WSIS in Geneva? They had 2 big containers: one as a radio studio for their live broadcast about WSIS, the other one a cybercafe with Linux-operated computers inside. Then I remember a thread here 2 (?) years ago, but I cannot remember by whom, about using adapted big lorries for a CTC. Bye Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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.
Alert Retrieval Cache (ARC) (was Re: [DDN] SMS vs phones: a New Orleans perspective)
Hi Taran ARC is a great concept because it sounds so easy to set up and use (sounds only judgmental on my tech understanding, not on the concept). After the tsunami, my brother got an SMS from the Red Cross telling him a friend who was in Sri Lanka was accounted for and OK. He actually didn't even know his friend was in Sri Lanka to start with. Though this is not using your ARC concept, wasn't it already a way of streamlining the use of SMS? Apparently, the Red Cross sent an automatic message to all the contacts of people's cell phones. Now if I understand correctly, you say they could had added a number that would have sent the same message to a mailing list all relief bodies could have accessed? If that's right, then yes, it must be done. You are saying it may be late for helping Katrina victims. Maybe not: your anger at ARC not being used so far is understandable. But in the height of an emergency people are not at their best learning new things. After, there is still a lot of information that must be shared, and with less immediate pressure, relief agencies might be more willing to explore a system that would work even with no internet connection directly at hand. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] connecting with others in the Digital Divide Network community
Hi Phil Thank you for the precious advice, Phil, and thank you for having helped me rewrite my profile. a further tip re, if I may: Phil Shapiro wrote: (...) as a volunteer project, i recently collected as many of these profiles as i could find. you can view these at http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/ddnprofiles.html When you browse these collected profiles, you can then use the Add as a friend link at the top of the page, which adds a link to that profile under Friends in the right-hand column of your profile (you'll have to log in for that). You can choose to make this list of Friends public or not by clicking Edit next to your name in your profile, then on the About me tab, then scrolling down to Public Friends? Phil's list of friends, for instance, is public - and impressive ;-) See http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Browsers automatically call search engines - influence on market share of browsers and search engines?
Good morning Duh. I normally type URLs in browsers' address boxes: a search engine's URL if I want to search the web. Yesterday, though, I absent-mindedly skipped this part and typed the search words directly in the Firefox address box: I immediately got a relevant page. Browsers call up a search engine if you just type words in their address box: Explorer calls search MSN, giving you a list of results - Firefox calls Google in I feel lucky mode, which opens the first site of the results list directly. For instance, if I type my surname in the address box, I get my personal page at www.digitaldivide.net through Google with Firefox, and I get a search.msn list of links, starting with www.almansi.net a site in Arabic (*), with Explorer. Shouldn't this boost in theory the market share of search.msn, compared to Google and to yahoo search (which doesn't get summoned by any browser, apparently), as Explorer still remains the most used browser? And yet search.msn apparently remains the least used of the 3. Maybe there aren't enough absent-minded people yet who type search words in the address box of their browser and find out that it also works. But once this becomes more widely known, will it boost the use of search.msn, or on the contrary, drive more people to use Firefox as a browser? Have their been studies on this search engine preference of browsers? (*) (I wish I understood Arabic - I was not aware that there were Almansi's in Arabic-speaking countries). The called version of search.msn seems to vary according to the language version of Explorer: my Explorer being French, it calls the French version of search-msn. Firefox on the other hand calls google.com (though in normal mode I get automatically transefered to google.ch) cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude ___ 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] DDN's bonnie bracey profiled in the new york times
Phil Shapiro wrote: hi everyone - bonnie bracey, a teacher and teacher-trainer who has been an active supporter of the DDN community since the first week of the DDN email list (back in 1999) was profiled earlier this month in the new york times. bonnie has brought great value to DDN with her ideas, her energy and her forward momentum. appended below is the section of the article that talks about her. the full article can be found at http://shorterlink.com/?2NELGY bonnie's DDN profile is at http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey her blog is at /www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey i often wonder how bonnie is able to fit so much into her day. i suspect it's because she cares a lot. - phil Congratulations, Bonnie - you more than deserve both the profile in the NYT and Phil's praise. I'm trying to translate the NYT profile into Italian for the ADISI blog - but I'm stumped with crusader: a male crusader is a crociato - but a crociata is a cruise*. Would militante (militant) be OK with you? cheers Claude *Latin languages are a bit sexist about jobs and roles... -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] Grassroots Particpation in Policy Advocacy - Survey Report by WSIS Grassroots Caucus
Anuradha wrote: WSIS Grassroots Caucus *Truncated!* *This message exceeded the Maximum Message Size set in Account Settings, so we have only downloaded the first few lines from the mail server.* May we have this information against as a link to where you put it online, please(*)? I was traveling and had only access to my hosts' modem connection when your e-mail arrived, hence the limitation below to 200kb in order not to occupy their line for too long. I might not be the only one having this kind of problem. Besides, I would like to forward the information to the mailing list of comunica-ch, the Swiss campaign for information society www.comunica-ch.net, and having asked members there to refrain from sending heavy attachments, it would not be coherent to forward one myself. cheers Claude Bcc to Anuradha -- Claude Almansi claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. (*) If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] [Fwd: Réaction des bibliothécaires à la cens ure en Chine] Librarians' reaction to censorship in Ch ina
Hi All The IFLA's call on the Chinese government to end censorship of internet access and allow freedom of expression online, below, was forwarded to the mailing list of comunica-ch (www.comunica-ch.net) by Danielle Mincio. cheers Claude Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages Original Message Subject: Réaction des bibliothécaires à la censure en Chine Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:51:19 +0200 From: Danielle Mincio To: comunica-ch.net mailing list FYI. IFLA/FAIFE calls on the Chinese government to end censorship of Internet access and allow freedom of expression online Media release 13 July 2005 The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (IFLA/FAIFE) expresses its deep concern over the state of freedom of access to information on the Internet in China. At a time when China is becoming more and more significant on the world stage in terms of trade and technological development, the increasing curtailment of the freedom of its citizens to access the information they choose is deeply disturbing. In addition to their continuing use of technological restrictions, the Chinese authorities are tightening control of the Internet, through measures against bloggers and website operators. This is an attempt not merely to silence and punish critics of the government, but also to prevent citizens' general interaction in the online public sphere, says the Chair of the IFLA/FAIFE Committee Professor Paul Sturges. IFLA urges rethink The elimination of freedom of access to information and freedom of expression will deeply affect the development of a country and its people. Those with influence in China must demonstrate their commitment to full participation in the information and knowledge society. This means to actively work for the provision of unrestricted access to information in accordance with Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. IFLA urges the Chinese government to reconsider their attitudes towards the country's Internet users and permit full freedom expression online. Access to information, knowledge and lifelong learning is central to democratic development and active participation and influence in society. It is a fundamental human right as specified in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Chinese government's attitude towards the circulation of information is one that cannot be reconciled with Article 19 nor the aspirations of the nations attending the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia in November 2005. Furthermore, IFLA strongly suggests that western computer companies providing assistance to the government consider the effects of their actions on freedom of expression in the country. China must be seen as more than just a market for western companies to gain a foothold in - it must be seen as a country where citizens have rights to access the information they choose and to disseminate the opinions they hold without consequences. - END - Contacts: * Chair of the IFLA/FAIFE Committee, Professor Paul Sturges Loughborough University, the UK, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Director of the IFLA/FAIFE Office, Susanne Seidelin, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Background Restrictions on website owners and bloggers In the past five years the censorship of online information in China has been extensively reported by many organisations such as Amnesty International and the Open Net Initiative. An extensive filtering system is in operation that restricts Chinese Internet users' access to information on topics such as democracy, human rights and Taiwanese independence. This year authorities in China have sought to extend these restrictions by concentrating on the country's bloggers and website operators. In March 2005 the Chinese government announced their intention to close down all China-based websites and blogs that did not officially register with authorities by the end of June. Blogs provide individual Internet users with a convenient and easy way to exchange information and discuss topics of interest among a wider audience. The Chinese government is intent on stifling debate in the country's blogosphere by restricting the activities of bloggers and preventing discussion of sensitive topics. Reporters Without Borders state that the plan is all the more worrying as the government has a new system for monitoring blogs and websites in real time and spotting sites that are unregistered. Internet users who have gone against the Chinese authorities in the past have been given prison terms. Western software companies such as Microsoft are complicit in the government's actions. Microsoft's new blogging tool has been amended to prevent publication of certain controversial issues including democracy and Falun
Re: [DDN] HI TO ALL
Hi Chibuzo Welcome to the list! Claude (another member) -- Claude Almansi http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude ___ 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] creativity begets creativity
Phil Shapiro wrote: hi everyone - my niece, who is turning seven next week, is very creative. i wanted to give her a present that recognizes and encourages her creativity. so i composed this song and created this web multimedia presentation. see http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro/view?PostID=4353(...) Hi Phil Unfortunately my Quicktime is bust, but I followed the link to your great Ways of Promoting a Creative Mindset Using Email essay http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/creative.mindset.html - when I was a child, I also had an uncle - otherwise a very serious EU law specialist - who invented fantastic stories for us kids, as you do with your nephews and nieces. BTW, do you know Gianni Rodari's Grammar of Fantasy? See http://www.eceteacher.org/books/reviews-rodari.html for a review and, for applications,http://www.eceteacher.org/consulting/workshops/5.htm. (Actually, the title should be Grammar of Imagination: by some odd quirk of language evolution, fantasia in Italian = imagination and viceversa phantasy in English = immaginazione). Rodari was also a commited communist, and it comes through at times as a proto-political-correctness in Grammar of Fantasy. But not too much, in his ditties and tales: he also wrote Favole al telefono, Tales on the phone, btw - no e-mail back then. One of them - an update of The Little Mermaid is translated by Bernie Libster in http://storyteller.net/articles/73 - not Rodari's best one, unfortunately. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] French translation of the Ubunto declaration - anyone game for editing a draft?
Hi While translating something else, I realized that there is apparently no French version of the Ubuntu Declaration On Education, Science Technology for Sustainable Development http://www.ias.unu.edu/research/ubuntu.cfm online. As this is an important text, I started translating it, and posted a draft at http://www.digitaldivide.net/discussion/viewtopic.php?t=206. All corrections and improvements are welcome, if anyone is interested/has time. I chose a discussion board, because it is easy to quote and correct quotes for a given passage there. At one point I'll have to learn how to use a wiki for that kind of things. Once the editing is finished, maybe we could post it either as a DDN article or upload it as a document at a DDN community? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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] [Fwd: Open Access News von FQS]
Hi All The forward below gives resources, some in German and some in English, about open access to content. Daniel Boos, of the committeee the Swiss Internet Users' Group http://www.siug.ch/, sent it to the working group on public domain, open access and media, of comunica-ch www.comunica-ch.net, the Swiss Platform for Information Society. I know German speakers are a minority in this mailing list, but I hope this is acceptable nonetheless: after all, cultural minorities are also a Digital Divide issue. Besides, there are also English and Spanish versions of http://www.qualitative-research.net . Apology to Myriam Schweingruber for the repetition. Have a nice day! Claude Almansi http://www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude Original Message Subject: Open Access News von FQS Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:45:02 +0200 From: Daniel Boos To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [domaine public] Hallo zaeme im FQS Newsletter (Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung) hat es immer eine Rubrik Open Access News. Ich habe euch mal diesen Teil angehaengt. Der Teil ist immer sehr gut und gibt einen ueberblick was passiert. Info zum Newsletter: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/bezug-d.htm Teil zum Thema Open Access News. F) OPEN ACCESS NEWS Die Mai-Ausgabe des SPARC Open Access Newsletter findet sich unter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-05.htm. Texte: - Richard Sietmann: Wissenschaftler fordert: Open Access gehoert ins Urheberrecht, heise online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59496 - Richard Sietmann: Open Access als Publikationsalternative unter Wissenschaftlern kaum bekannt, heise online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59796 - Praesentationen im Rahmen des DINI-Symposiums zu Open Access im Mai 2005 in Goettingen http://www.dini.de/veranstaltung/workshop/goettingen_2005-05-23/programm.php. Zeitschriften/Newsletter: - Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health http://www.cpementalhealth.com/home/ - Culture Machine, CfP 2006 COMMUNITY-Ausgabe http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/frm_f1.htm - Cyberculture studies, neue Reviews http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/ - Demographic Research, neue Texte online http://www.demographic-research.org - eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health Addiction, neue Ausgabe http://www.ecommunity-journal.com/issues/issue/2/2 - First Monday, 10(5) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_5/ - IASLonline, neue Rezensionen http://iaslonline.de - Revue internationale en Sciences du Langage Marges Linguistiques, 9 http://www.marges-linguistiques.com - sehepunkte 5(5) http://www.sehepunkte.de/ - Surveillance Society http://www.surveillance-and-society.org - Webology, neue Ausgabe: http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n1/toc.html - Working Paper on Culture, Education and Human Development / Papeles de Trabajo sobre Cultura, Educación y Desarrollo Humano (neu) http://www.uam.es/ptcedh -- FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) English - http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm German - http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm Spanish - http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s.htm Please sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ Open Access News: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html -- Gruss Daniel Groupe de travail domaine public de comunica-ch http://www.comunica-ch.net ___ 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] Intellectual Property and the Information Ecosystem
Peter Yu wrote: (...) Hopefully, the information ecosystem will provide a useful framework for those working to bridge the global digital divide. The piece is not digitally locked-up; it is freely available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=578575. As usual, feedback is greatly welcome. Regards, Peter Your proposal to apply complexity theory to whatever is covered by intellectual property laws could be a needed revolution. But there might be a strong resistance to it, particularly in countries with a Roman law tradition, which seems less amenable to evolution - let alone revolutions - than the anglo-saxon law tradition*. Laws have to be passed by parliaments, and lawmakers are even more rigid than law scholars. Moreover, as Declan McCullagh put it bluntly: Trying to teach the lawmaker about tech is as useless as trying to teach a pig how to type: all you get is an angry pig.** Of course, the combination of this rigidity and this ignorance has had and is having ridiculous and/or dangerous consequences when the bills concern information society. Something must be done to change this situation, sure, but how? Your paper is written in clear, understandable language. This should help launch a reflexion and discussion on the issues you raise. Paradoxically, though, it might brush some of your Old European colleagues the wrong way, because some of them are extremely attached to the use of legalese as a power tool. What were the reactions to your illustration applying complexity to art. 27 of the Human Declaration of Human Rights? cheers Claude * Example of this gap in legal cultures, concerning the adaptation of free software licenses to creative content: the French developers of Free Art License (FAL) http://artlibre.org/licence.php/lalgb.html keep accusing the Creative Commons (CC) licenses of non-free heresy, because of the Non Commercial option. Last May, in a discussion with people defending the CC licenses, the FAL people asked Stallman for his opinion. Stallman answered that not allowing the commercial use would not be legitimate for software, but would be legitimate for a novel, according to him. The FAL people are now saying that Stallman is not competent to judge non-software issues - but in the same breath (well, e-mail), they state that it was Stallman himself who confered the FAL its free legitimacy... Sure, envy also plays a part in their attitude: they started working on FAL before Lessig launched the CC idea. But the hankering for a rigid orthodixy is real. ** I'm quoting from memory, as I can't find the reference anymore. As far as I remember, Declan McCullaugh wrote this comparison in the description of a round table he moderated at an H2O2 meeting, in Summer 2002 (?). -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Bobby reporting improved
Hi JW Life in Hackney wrote: Have just seen that 'Bobby' having been taken over by Watchfire some time ago, had undergone a makeover / upgrade. I saw that too, and I agree that the presentation in four tables of informaiton on Accessibilillty, Privacy, Traffic and User Feedback. is much clearer - I am a bit uneasy about the change to a commercial teaser, though. The ISOC disability chapter www.isocdisab.org offers a completely free site evaluation resource, Cynthia says, http://www.isocdisab.org/cynthiasays.htm . which offers the possibility to test a site according Section 508 (US) and levels 1, 1 and 2, or 1, 2 and 3 of WCAG (international), and to emulate several versions of several browsers, plus 3 options: - Do not fail pages for WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 and 3 errors, simply warn me. - Include the Alternative Text Quality Report - Include File source on Accessibility Failures Not being tech literate, I don't always understand Cynthia Says' results (1). But it would be grat if you and other people who are knowledgeable could try it too and report about it. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Bcc to Michael Burkes, ISOC Disability Chapter, www.isocdisab.org Cynthia Waddell, International Center for Disabilty Reseearches on the Internet , www.icdri.org and ISOC Disability Chapter -- (1) for instance, testing our www.adisi.ch site, one of the mistakes picked up by Cynthia Says was: 11.2 Avoid deprecated features of W3C technologies. * Rule: 11.2.1 - Identify the use of one or more deprecated elements or attributes within the document. o Failure - Document uses one or more deprecated elements or attributes. The document contains the element: BODY with the deprecated attribute: BGCOLOR Now we added that attribute at the request of the most accessibility-aware member of our team, who is also sight-impaired himself. If I understand http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/#deprecated correctly, the failure means we should (learn how to) use CSS sheets instead of adding the color in the background tag, which is obsolete? ___ 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] FW When iPod goes collegiate
Jon maddog Hall wrote: I am fairly sure that a lot of concepts in education have not been updated to the Internet age: (...) Thank you so much to Steven Wagenseil, Taran Rampersad, Chris Warner-Carey, Jacqueline Morris, Subbiah Arunachalam , Andy Carvin and Jon maddog Hall for the precious information. Would it be possible to integrate a link to this discussion in one of the existing DDN communities? I'm not sure wich, though. Perhaps http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/access or http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/content ? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere file pesanti, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] FW When iPod goes collegiate
Hi All One odd thing about this article: podcasting gets mentioned only once, between bracket. Interesting queries about copyright issues raised by students' ability to record a course and put it on the Net. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:50:47 -0700 From: gary satanovsky To: Triumph of Content List When iPod goes collegiate (...) from the April 19, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0419/p11s01-legn.html When iPod goes collegiate By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor When Kenneth Rogerson walked into his newspaper journalism class on the first day of the school year, the professor could barely contain his excitement. After a quick introduction he broke the big news: We got the grant, he told his class. You all get iPods. As if on cue, the students exhaled an audible whoa and exchanged elated glances. Duke University in Durham, N.C., had already made many a headline as the first school ever to provide all incoming freshmen with their own 20-gigabyte iPods - enough space to store up to 5,000 songs. Now, thanks to a grant program set up within Duke, some upperclassmen were overjoyed to also become recipients of the slim white gadgets. (...) ___ 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] blog: The Mystery of the Food Pyramid
Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan wrote: And the page doesn't even work today - i'm assuming its been overwhelmed with users, but everytime i get on it, and try the interactive tools, it times out. siobhan Hi Siobhan, It works fine with firefox. What browser are you using? Andy,re: Meanwhile, don't get me started on Web accessibilty for the disabled. I ran an accessibility test on the homepage and the Inside the Pyramid page, which describes the pyramid in greater detail. Both failed even the most basic accessibility standards; in the case of the homepage, it was because it didn't have alternative text descriptions for all the images on the homepage May I take your don't get me started as a rhetorical device (aposiopesis)? On Tuesday, I finally had a chance to see the Virtual Learning Platform used in several distance training projects of a program I have translated for. The variant I saw is used in a Gender IT project financed by the Swiss Office Fédéral de l'Egalité (Federal Office for Equal Chances). It is nice because it looks like a village square, with little Playmobile guys representing students and teachers. But it is so wide you have to scroll left and right continuously, and it is in Flash with no alternate text version. When I pointed out that Flash cuts off blind people, the leader of the Gender IT project was puzzled: How can a blind person use a computer to start with? I was even more puzzled by her asking, but I explained. Now the real problem is that another variant of the same Flash platform is being beta-tested in 7 public middle schools of Ticino. Should the test lead to a recommendation of its generalisation to all middle schools, there is a strong chance that the accessibility issue won't get raised until it's too late. I just do translations and a few web searching jobs for them, whereas they have a big team of teaching and of tech experts, so what I say has no sway, per se. But I also spoke with one of the tech people there: he at least is aware that the problem is bound to come up, as accessibility of state web sites is made compulsory by the disabilty law that came into force on Jan. 1st, 2004 - though he is still wondering how to make the virtual platform accessible. I showed him the DDN site and he bookmarked it because he really liked the easy connection between community, blog and profile. And if the teaching experts want to stick to their visual metaphor (which might make sense at middle school), maybe they could go for something like http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/home/index.cfm , but with alt texts for all pics. ENT (Education with New Technologies) is one of the first e-learning sites Bonnie Bracey introduced me to, 5 years ago. The visual interface hasn't changed since: why should it, if it works? cheers -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] [Net-Gold] Pope Podcast Hints At Broadcast Revolution
David P. Dillard wrote: With the intense interest in podcasting that has been evident on this discussion group, this message from George Lessard, moderator of the MediaMentor discussion group of Yahoo Groups should be interesting to at least some of this list's members. (...) Pope Podcast Hints At Broadcast Revolution (News Online: 11/04/2005) URL: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1342195.htm Thanks a lot for this post-mortem papal imprimatur for podcasting! With ADISI (www.adisi.ch), we tried to convey the importance of podcasting in Italian-language Switzerland when the first discussions about it arose at the Digital Divide Network. For instance http://www.adisi.ch/in-formazione/Maffin_podc_it.html is the translation of Tod Maffin's How Podcasting Will Save Radio, plus a few other links. Our local Indymedia team got the message immediately and took it up http://switzerland.indymedia.org/demix/2005/02/30216.shtml But when we suggested coordinating a podcasting workshop with a local radio for a (demochristian-hued) youth project, in spite of the enthusiasm of the local radio, the penny didn't exactly drop with the organizers. Here, even some people who teach at university about using IT in education don't know what is a blog, so let alone a RSS feed, let alone a podcast. The indymedia team, on the other hand, are far more attentive to tech innovation facilitating broad, fast and unexpensive information, and were already working at producing an audio-streaming radio broadcast when we added the page on podcasting. Similarly, it makes sense that the Church should endorse podcasting. After all, the Church invented propaganda, short for propaganda religio, i.e. religion must be broadcast (broadcasted?). From broadcast to podcast, if you have a goal, the step is short, and the Church always followed closely the development of new broadcasting tech means. Sure, she sort of hiccupped at Mr Gutenberg's first effort with the Bible in vernacular, but she soon caught up on the importance of the media itself: I once had a Counter-Reform Vulgata Bible, pocket-book size, printed on so cheap a greyish paper it cost less than a modern edition. Now, with this piece of news of a hallowed use of podcasting, it might be easier to convince the demochristian politicians pulling the strings of the above youth project that a workshop on podcasting makes sense... cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] [Fwd: toc The Cellphone as Church Chronicle, Creating Digital Relics (NY Times)]
Is popecasting wrong, perhaps? Well, *this* Pope launched the Popemobile, after all. Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: toc The Cellphone as Church Chronicle, Creating Digital Relics (NY Times) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:34:23 -0400 From: Steve Brant To: Triumph of Content List The NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/international/worldspecial2/08snaps.html April 8, 2005 The Cellphone as Church Chronicle, Creating Digital Relics By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, International Herald Tribune ROME, April 7 - The body of Pope John Paul II has lain in state this week in St. Peter's Basilica. But it has hardly been peaceful with 18,000 people shuffling by each hour - especially when the majority were Italians wielding cellphone cameras. ___ 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] Worrying Trouble at South Asian Tribune's Forums
Thank you for your answer and rectification Salman Ansari wrote: It is interesting how the gullibility of people is exploited by people, who have personal ax to grind! This is all a bunch of bull. I stand corrected - and by the Advisor to Pakistan's Minister of Information Technology and Telecom himself. Thank you for taking the time to do so: it is great to know that the online version of the South Asian Tribune can freely be seen in Pakistan . The source that fooled me was the Pakistan section of the US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2004 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor February 28, 2005 http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41743.htm I wasn't aware the US State Department had an axe to grind with Pakistan. All you have to do is to read the on line mainstream newspapers (Dawn, News, Daily Times, Express, Jang, etc) to see how the press skewers the Government when it steps out of line. If you could see the TV in Pakistan (in fact in the US you can see Geo, Indus and ARY) you will get a flavour of the openness that is available. Thank you, I have started checking the mainstream newspapers of Pakistan after I had the privilege to hear the speech by Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, your Federal minister for science and technology, at RSIS in December 2003. But as I said above, I was mislead by the US State Department site into believing that SAT was censored in Pakistan. Surely, you will agree that there can be no freedom of speech - no matter what flavour of openness is available in other authorized media - as long as a single one is censored. Cordially Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] [Fwd: ATTN SAT USERS: SOME FORUMS RE-OPENED, SOME USERS SUSPENDED]
About the trouble-makers at the South Asia Tribune forums, see my post this morning http://mailman.edc.org/pipermail/digitaldivide/2005-April/001933.html Now they are not only re-opening some forums, but they have found a work-around for users in Pakistan who have to use anonymizers and whose IP addresses thus cannot be checked. Hats off cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude Original Message Subject: ATTN SAT USERS: SOME FORUMS RE-OPENED, SOME USERS SUSPENDED Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:53:03 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of the SAT Discussion Forums have been reopened after the first round of scrutiny checks in which several users, found to be using fake identities or incorrect locations, have been suspended. All other users can resume discussions on the Four Subjects reopened for discussions. Other subjects will stay blocked until more scrutiny is completed. As a new rule only 4 subjects will be open for Discussion at any given time so that the Forums can be better monitored and decorum and discipline is maintained. To keep the spirit of free Press, the Forums are not yet being put under Moderation, so users can post messages uncensored but those abusing the Forums will be immediately suspended and removed. ALL THE SUSPENDED USERS ARE ADVISED TO SEND FULL DETAILS, CONTACT NUMBERS, ADDRESSES AND REAL IDENTITY TO THE ADMIN, WHICH CAN BE COUNTER-CHECKED AND VERIFIED. IF FOUND IN ORDER, THEY MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE SUSPENDED LIST AND ALSO ALLOWED TO USE AN ANONYMOUS NAME, BUT ADMIN HAS TO BE SATISFIED. Users in Pakistan, where the SAT Forums are blocked, may send their details directly to the Admin, in reply to this message, and if found in order, they will be allowed to use anonymizer sites for joining the discussions. ADMIN ___ 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] Digital Inclusion Question
Hi Raymond, Sandra and All Raymond -Info wrote: I would like to propose a question to the group. What would it take to solve the digital divide here in America and abroad if the resources were available. Please keep in mind, I don't see digital inclusion as merely making access to technology available, I define it as having the majority of the country effective users. By the way, loved the Airplane analogy mentioned the other day. Raymond Waynick Sandra Latherbenson wrote: Due diligence and education with lots of financial resources. Sandra Benson Granted the resources are there (Raymond's premiss), of course, Sandra, you are right about Due diligence and education. But for people to be educable, they need to be motivated. Abstract courses about using Office or surfing the Net tend not to work. Schemes like the European / International Driving License may be a little more efficient, because people get a certification that theoretically can help their carreer, and that's a motivation. But the problem with the courses leading to ECDL/ICDL I have seen the material for is that they are content-centered rather than knowhow-centered: if a given function gets moved from one menu to another one in a new version of a program, people feel lost. The best approach seems to be project-centered, i.e. centered on a project that is not mastering IT resources per se, but mastering them towards a goal: economic, cultural, educational... However, here again, motivation is crucial. The goal must be formulated by the users, not imposed from outside by the project conceptors. The movingAlps project in Switzerland www.movingalps.ch worked, because the organisers took time to survey the needs and wishes of the people involved before they actually elaborated the project. Also, there should not be too great a divide between project conceptors and tech people providing the IT infrastructure for the project. Conceptors should have a basic IT literacy themselves, in order to avoid misunderstandings with the tech team. Maybe - hopefully - things are different elsewhere, but here in Switzerland, tech people got trained with commercial use in mind, so left to themselves, they tend to make posh products (with a crass indiscriminate overuse of Flash, for instance). As a result, neither conceptors nor users can gain real mastery of these products and they remain dependant on the tech team, which defeats the goal of bridging the digital divide. But the linguistic factor plays an important role in aquiring this basic IT literacy. Switzerland is a rich country, but with 4 national languages, which means that many conceptors of projects involving IT literacy don't know English well enough to follow what is happening in IT through lists such as this one, because they first learned the other national languages. When blogs were first discussed here, I thought they were too complicated for me and only filed the messages in the DDN folder. After a few, though, I decided to have a go and opened one for ADISI at blospot.com: simpler than I thought. Same, later, with RSS feeds and podcasts. -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Call for papers Enhancing health literacy through communication
Hi Several of you are involved/interested in Enhancing health literacy through communication, so I thought I would forward this call for papers, though I am not involved in Studies in Communication Sciences. cheers Claude www.adisi.ch Original text: http://www.scoms.ch/calls/call_SComS_05_2_health.pdf Call for papers Studies in Communication Sciences Thematic section on: Enhancing health literacy through communication Guest Editors: Peter J. Schulz, Health Care Communication Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano Kent Nakamoto, Department of Marketing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Access to health information is greater than ever before. The mass media and the Internet have made available to health consumers vast amounts of medical and health-related information. Policy shifts have increased consumers access to medical records. This welter of information, however, can overwhelm consumers; they feel overloaded, confused, and uncertain which information and information sources to trust. Moreover, the technical complexity of the information can compound these problems. In many ways, consumers often lack the health literacy to make effective use of the available information. Health literacy is a complex phenomenon that plays around a delicate interrelation of at least three factors: the ability to read and understand medical information, the ability to use medical information for ones own health and make good decisions on the basis of it, and peoples general attitudes toward life. The damaging consequences of low health literacy have been widely documented. Low health literacy is associated at the individual level with lower self-esteem and less successful interaction with healthcare providers, and at a community level with increasing health care costs and hospitalization. Conversely, increasing health literacy can lead to crucial gains in compliance, recall, and satisfaction. As such, the concept of health literacy has become a central concern in the field of health communication. This thematic section of Studies in Communication Science aims to bring together contributions that explore communication strategies to both reach people with low health literacy and increase health literacy. We invite researchers in the humanities and social sciences, as well as mass-media and technology scholars to share theoretical perspectives, empirical studies, and case experiences on this topic. Interdisciplinary contributions are particularly welcome. Article Format Topics: Article in the thematic section can have a length of up to 15 pages (400 words per page, footnotes and bibliography included). Each author receives 25 free bound reprints of his or her article. The list of possible article topics includes (but is not limited to): Measures to increase readability Health literacy and peoples attitudes toward health and health-related products and services Health literacy skills Health literacy in the domain of patient/provider communication Health literacy and Informed Consent Health literacy in decision-making Case studies on health literacy Improving health literacy through different media Health literacy and new technologies Key Dates: Submission of Abstract (1-2 pages): 31st March 2005 Feedback on Abstract: 15th April 2005 Submission of Article: 30 June 2005 Feedback from Reviewers: 15th September 2005 Final Version due: 31st October 2005 Publication of the Journal: December 2005 Contact Information: For questions or to submit an abstract contact: * The Journals website (including notes for contributors) can be found at: www.scoms.ch *e-mail address deleted here, but you can find it on the original document at http://www.scoms.ch/calls/call_SComS_05_2_health.pdf ___ 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] Typing software for Windows
The OpenOffice suite is free and windows compatible: downloadable from www.openoffice.org, results compatible with Microsoft Office programs (hem, not if you go into complex page settings with tables, though). Purely for writing: there's something called AbiWord. I've used it a couple of times, don't like it so much, but the advantage is you don't have to get the whole suite, say if this person has little storage available. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Parisian Wi-Fi Lessons
Hi Bonnie and Andy In Geneva, I did a little survey of access prices 4 years ago. Intercontinental Hotel - the joint where US and other presidents stay for peace conferences and that kind of things - took the cake with $5 for 15 minutes on a crummy connectionm. I wonder how much they charge now... -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] lower-case letters in email - an explanation - DDN style sheet?
Hi Jim and Phil Interesting discussion. The poet e.e. cummings wrote in lower-case before the internet. But Phil, you could go back further: alexandrinescribesbangedallthewordstogetherinlowercasewithoutpunctuationorspaces - not to save time, but because papyrus was expensive. Joking apart, I was just pondering on the style sheet for DDN communities: Titles Choose titles that are very clear, descriptive and specific. Be sure to capitalize the first letter of every word. Now capitalizing every word in titles is one English convention (even articles, prepositions, pronouns, though?). In several other languages (French, Italian, Spanish, (modern) Greek for instance), it would be wrong or look pre-20th or even pre-19th century. In German it would be wrong and confusing, because German capitalizes the first letter of all nouns everywhere, but only of nouns. So when writing in another language than English at the DDN communities, can we follow that language's use for titles? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] An example of how human translation can be handled on the internet.
Taran Rampersad wrote: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9976 This uses the trackback functionality in a way that it was not originally designed for. I've been writing/speaking of it for a while, but finally got a chance to use it. Hi Taran, I think I did something similar, but using comments in a blog entry http://www.livejournal.com/users/adisi/14957.htm . Though in that case, it was not a language translation, but a html version of a relevant passage from a huge PDF, which I didn't want to put in the body of the entry. I've done that with real translations too, but I shamefully can't find the entries, lol. I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback (apparently, livejournal doesn't offer this possibility). Question re TrackBack is a system (...) that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a 'ping' between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert in this Wikipedia article: Can the second blogger refuse to be tracked back by the first blogger? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Telecenters for Seniors; Social - Distance and Local
site came from listservs like DDN and WWWEDU and Net-Gold. She thanked me, adding that her dissertation topic is The role of institutions in the communication of science. I suggested she should also include a part on *non institutional* communication of science, by contrast: arxiv.org , but mainly wikis, refering in particular to your Wikis as trees post, Taran. -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Local Languages Demand More Space on the Internet
them forever in muck. Locality of geography has no value in the world of connected ideas. -- Guido Sohne(address removed) At Large http://sohne.net -- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. -- R. Bach, Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul -- (I would have given just the URL and a teaser but the archive of the list at http://www.dgroups.org/groups/IS/index.cfm seems reduced to the discussion summaries. I have kept most of the posts of the list, if anyone is interested). cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere file pesanti, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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] [Fwd: [Cc-icommons] FW: World Trade Organization - Invitation to apply to the WIPO-WT O colloquium for teachers of intellectual property law]
Hi All The WTO's TRIPS (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) approach is not very likely to help bridge the digital divide. Nevertheless, this colloquium might be interesting in a know thy enemy way. Plus: Expenses of participation in this programme will be borne by the organizers. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: [Cc-icommons] FW: World Trade Organization - Invitation to apply to the WIPO-WT O colloquium for teachers of intellectual property law Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:42:55 - From: Whelan, Darius [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: World Trade Organization - Invitation to apply to the WIPO-WTO colloquium for teachers of intellectual property law Now on the WTO website: La version française de ce message apparaît après la version anglaise La versión española de este mensaje viene después de la versión francesa INVITATION TO APPLY TO THE WIPO-WTO COLLOQUIUM FOR TEACHERS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW A two-week colloquium for teachers of intellectual property from developing countries and countries with economies in transition is being jointly organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva from 27 June to 8 July 2005. Find out more: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/wipo_wto_colloquium_june05_e.htm WIPO pages on this colloquium: http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/forms/wipo_wto_colloquium/index.html More on TRIPS: http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm (Click on the links or copy and paste them into your browser. Alternatively, you can go to our home page http://www.wto.org and follow the links.) TIP: When pages are newly published you might at first have difficulty viewing them. Try clicking your browser's reload or refresh button. If that still does not work, try again a bit later. - INVITATION À PRÉSENTER UNE DEMANDE DE PARTICIPATION AU COLLOQUE OMPI-OMC ORGANISÉ À L'INTENTION DES ENSEIGNANTS DE DROIT DE LA PROPRIÉTÉ INTELLECTUELLE Un colloque de deux semaines à l'intention des enseignants dans le domaine de la propriété intellectuelle en provenance des pays en développement et des pays dont l'économie est en transition est organisé conjointement par l'Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) et l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) à Genève du 27 juin au 8 juillet 2005. Pour en savoir plus: http://www.wto.org/french/tratop_f/trips_f/wipo_wto_colloquium_june05_f.htm (uniquement en anglais) WIPO pages on this colloquium: http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/forms/wipo_wto_colloquium/index.html (uniquement en anglais) Pour en savoir plus sur les ADPIC: http://www.wto.org/french/tratop_f/trips_f/trips_f.htm (Cliquez sur les liens ou copiez-les sur votre navigateur. Autre possibilité, vous pouvez aller à la page d'accueil (http://www.wto.org) et suivre les liens.) UNE SUGGESTION: Il se peut que vous ayez quelque difficulté à visualiser des pages qui viennent d'être publiées. Cliquez sur le bouton Recharger ou Rafraîchir de votre navigateur. Si le problème persiste, essayez à nouveau après un petit moment. - INVITACIÓN A SOLICITAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN EN EL COLOQUIO OMPI-OMC PARA PROFESORES DE DERECHO DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL La Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) y la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) organizarán conjuntamente en Ginebra, del 27 de junio al 8 de julio de 2005, un coloquio de dos semanas de duración dirigido a profesores de propiedad intelectual procedentes de países en desarrollo y países con economías en transición. Más información: http://www.wto.org/spanish/tratop_s/trips_s/wipo_wto_colloquium_june05_s.htm (solamente en inglés) WIPO pages on this colloquium: http://www.wipo.int/academy/en/forms/wipo_wto_colloquium/index.html (solamente en inglés) Más información sobre los ADPIC: http://www.wto.org/spanish/tratop_s/trips_s/trips_s.htm (Haga clic en los enlaces o cópielos y péguelos a su explorador. Como alternativa, puede ir a la portada http://www.wto.org y seguir los enlaces.) CONSEJO PRÁCTICO: Cuando las páginas están recién publicadas, puede ser que al principio tenga dificultad para visualizarlas. Intente hacer clic en el botón de refrescar y recargar de su explorador. Si esto no diera resultado, intente de nuevo un poco más tarde. Regards, WTO Webmaster Information and Media Relations Division World Trade Organization Rue de Lausanne 154 CH-1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland Website: http://www.wto.org Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from the emails please go to http://www.wto.org/english/info_e/unreg_e.htm To change your contact details or subject preferences please go to http://www.wto.org/english/info_e
Re: [DDN] the power of blogs on the DDN web site
Thanks for your practical advice, Phil Re: yes, you can include links right within your blog postings. the syntax for creating a link in html is a href = http://www.whereyourelinkingto.com;text you're linking from/a use this same syntax and replace where you're linking to and the text you're linking from. being appallingly absent-minded, I tend to even mess-up such a simple tag. So I use the OpenOffice html editor, copy the source and paste it into my DDN blog. The same would work with any html editor, wouldn't it? Question: I do translations for a local economic-development-with-IT program here. One of their features is on-the-job training of local project coordinators, and the training evaluation is based on diaries. Would they be allowed to use DDN blogs for these diaries? Even if they are not in English? For the moment, my question is very hypothetical. They hadn't heard of blogs till I asked recently if they meant blogs by diaries, and I have a hunch that they are a bit suspicious of something that doesn't require the mediation of an IT specialist ;-) cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] Internationalized domain names, phishing and respect of cultural diversity
Hi all If I understood correctly what I read on this issue: - LDH characters = Letters (Latin A-Z and a-z, without accents, dieresis, tilde etc), Digits (0-9), and the Hyphen-minus sign - Internationalized domain names (IDN) can be written with non-LDH characters - IDNs were meant as a gesture of respect towards languages and cultures where writing doesn't stick to the LDH characters - Sure, URL spoofing for phishing purposes can be done with LDH-only domain names (using zero instead of o, for instance), but the addition of non-LDH characters in IDNs makes the spoofing more difficult to detect. For instance, the Cyrillic (*) cannot be told by sight from the Latin a, though their ASCII coding is different. As a unfortunately occurs in bank paypal, phishers have availed themselves of that. Besides, non-LDH characters also include no-break space, which hugely increases the possibilities of Homograph spoofing (see The state of spoofed IDN attacks, last updated Feb. 11, 2005, http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt ) - Basic Explorer-tribe browsers don't support the reading of IDN's, but you can get a plug-in to do that - Mozilla-tribe browsers support the reading of IDN's by default, so their users are more likely to become victims of IDN-based phishing schemes. - See the Feb. 7 2005 Secunia warning about these phishing schemes: http://secunia.com/advisories/14163/ Now an article in Heise Online http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/56110 (in German) suggests a workaround for Mozilla etc. users: disable IDN reading in the browser. Except that the disabling apparently lasts only until you quit your browser anyway. When you re-open it, IDN reading is automatically enabled again. Anyway, in a discussion in Mozillazine about the Secunia warning, http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6038 , some people have maintained that disabling IDN reading would be discriminatory against minority cultures and languages . Others then suggested adding something to the software that would warn users that a URL contains non-LDH characters. Defenders of minority rights retorted it would be just as discriminatory as blocking them, because the alarm would also flag legitimate IDNs using non-LDH characters, thus equating them to phishing pages using these non-LDH characters. Byzantine nit-picking or fundamental ethical issue? You tell me. I like the fact that minority respect is the focus of that discussion on Mozillazine. It shows once more that the free software movement is about freedom before being about tech (see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html ). But are there not areas where minority rights must be fought for more urgently than domain names? And aren't the very people belonging to these minorities likely to become victim of these IDN phishing scams, because they are more likeky than others to enable their browsers to read IDNs? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch (*) real cyrillic here: my daughter studies Russian so I have enabled the Russian keyboard in Windows XP home. But some of you might only see a squiggle if you haven't enabled Unicode (UTF-8) ___ 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] TRENDS: How Podcasting Will Save Radio
Brian Russell wrote: (...) I'm a Podcaster and when I read Tod Maffin's blog entry I wrote one called, Podcasting will save it's Creators from Corporate Media This blog post is here. http://www.audioactivism.org/archives/23.html (...) Hi Brian, thanks for the reference to your article. Looking aroung your audioactivism blog, I also found a link to your podcasting tutorial What is this new Podcasting stuff? http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/brussell/view?PostID=848 (23.12.04), which I had missed under Xmas: thanks for that too: it's very clear. Had to laugh at Tip: The files sizes of Podcast can be rather large. In 2003, when we first started Tam Tam,ADISI's radio series of short broadcasts* on IT uses and repercussions, one condition was that we could put the sound files on our site. Back then, though, the recording was done by a technician of Radio Fiume Ticino, and he made whacking big stereo files. I objected that not everyone has a fast connection, and that stereo was unneeded for a jingle-intro-guest speaking-extro-jingle thing. Giovanni Rengucci insisted that the files on the site should sound pro. I got a trial freeware to translate the files into something downloadable by others: under 500kb. This way I was able to make an alternative library on a MayeticVillage joint we used for drafting pages. The program was valid 30 days, but we had already quite a few broadcast, both already aired and in store. After 26 days, though, the damned thing started trying to call the internet for me to buy it, so I uninstalled it. I was lucky it didn't mess up my registry, which I have no clue how to fix. In the end, Giovanni had to remove the files from the main site: they were eating up our allotted storage capacity. Since we started the new series last autumn, he has been in charge of the recording and editing, and is now making more reasonably sized files for the site. I'm pushing for the podcasting of these interviews: I even put one of the old files at the podhost.de place Andy mentioned, where the RSS feed is automatically produced. But Giovanni and Mahdi Mezher (ADISI's IT specialist) want to wait until we move the site to a US server where we can have a resident RSS file producing feature (not possible with the one at Ticino.com). It's fun. I don't really understand the tech issues involved by RSS and hence podcasting (XML is Greek to me) but I like the application prospects. Mahdi does (he's got an MA in software engineering)and likes the prospects too. Giovanni is now catching up on RSS. So we experiment in MOB, in a tiny manner. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch * Bonnie Bracey was one of our first guests, btw. ___ 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] blog: when mobile podcasting leads to mobcasting
Andy Carvin wrote: Hi everyone, I've just posted a blog that might be of interest. It's about mobcasting -- the idea of combining mobile phone-enable podcasting with smart mob-like group action. Here's a snippet from the blog: (...) To read more, please visit here: http://www.andycarvin.com permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/000712.html Well, I have an old-fashioned cell that only phones and sends SMS, so I wont be able to avail myself of your precious indications. But I forwarded your e-mail to our local indymedia group. With the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, your theoretical example of a demonstration with police violence might become reality, unfortunately. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ 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] [Fwd: 2nd annual Stop Spam Today! campaign begins today]
Hi Andy and all The forward below begins with Dear MyTechSoup Member but ends with spread the word, so I suppose it's OK to forward it to WWEDU and Digital Divide Network, TechSoup being respectable? cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch Original Message Subject: 2nd annual Stop Spam Today! campaign begins today Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:05:13 GMT From: T. Lynn Stott Dear MyTechSoup Member: I am excited to announce the launch of this year's Stop Spam Today! campaign. This educational campaign is sponsored by TechSoup.org and Mailshell, one of our long-time technology partners. The campaign begins today and culminates on December 15th, when nonprofits can order free anti-spam software from Mailshell. LEARN HOW TO FIGHT SPAM The goal of Stop Spam Today! is to help nonprofits manage the effects of spam on their organization. Each week during the campaign, TechSoup.org will bring you helpful articles, tips, resources, and online discussions about fighting spam. All of this educational content is available in a new Anti-Spam Solutions section of TechSoup.org located at: http://ga0.org/ct/71L7aeM1zmzh/TechSoup. You can also find weekly updates on TechSoup...By the Cup. FREE ANTI-SPAM SOFTWARE: ONE DAY ONLY - 12/15 Mailshell's Anti-Spam Desktop software is available to all eligible U.S. nonprofits and Canadian charities. Orders can be placed on TechSoup Stock, the production donation distribution service of TechSoup.org, on one day only: December 15th. If you are a registered TechSoup Stock customer, you are already eligible for this special offer. Just place your order at TechSoup Stock on 12/15. If you are not yet registered at TechSoup Stock, we encourage you to pre-register and qualify your organization now. Your pre-registering allows us to deliver the software to you more quickly after you order on 12/15. To learn more about this offer and pre-register, visit: http://ga0.org/ct/I7L7aeM1zmzU/StopSpamToday. If you have questions about how to register or qualify your organization for TechSoup Stock, check our frequently asked questions at http://ga0.org/ct/7dL7aeM1zmzn/FAQ or email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] TELL US HOW SPAM AFFECTS YOU Tell us how spam affects your organization's day-to-day life. Our short survey takes just a few minutes. We'll publish the results in December. Your responses will help us raise awareness about spam's impact on the nonprofit sector and provide insights that may lead to solutions. To complete the survey, visit: http://ga0.org/ct/IpL7aeM1zmzy/Survey SPREAD THE WORD Last year we saved over 75,000 inboxes! Tell other nonprofits about the Stop Spam Today! campaign so we can save even more inboxes this year. Just forward this email or send a message to lots of nonprofits at once here: http://ga0.org/ct/77L7aeM1zmz8/TellAFriend. On behalf of TechSoup.org and Mailshell, I hope this expanded campaign gives your organization the spam-fighting information and tools it needs. We all need to be spending our time and resources on our missions, not spam. Sincerely, T. Lynn Stott, Ph.D. Director TechSoup.org -- Invite your nonprofit peers to receive TechSoup Stock product alerts. http://ga0.org/join-forward.html?domain=discountechr=JdL7aeM1hBDz If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for TechSoup Stock New Product Alert at: http://ga0.org/discountech/join.html?r=JdL7aeM1hBDzE -- This message was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile, visit your subscription management page at: http://ga0.org/discountech/smp.tcl?nkey=wnden5i44j83im5 To remove yourself from ALL email lists maintained by TechSoup Stock Update, reply via email with remove in the subject line, or click the following link: http://ga0.org/discountech/remove-domain-direct.tcl?ctx=centernkey=wnden5i44j83im5 *** Powered by GetActive Software, Inc. Relationship Management for Member Organizations (tm) http://www.getactive.com *** ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes
://www.latl.ch/ , in English, but they are presently jazzing up their pages. Wish they'd stop using frames. Well, the contact page still works, lol. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes
if pictorial language could be more widely used. But who is going to cover the costs? Who is going to pay for universal access conditions pemitting its use? Who is going to pay for legal tools enabling victims of bandwidth theft in poorer countries to get affluent but clueless hotlinkers to pay for the damage they cause? Erudite communication science scholars should be forced to take an Internet 101 course before they shoot their mouths about the advisability of multimedia language for multicultural dialogue. /rant cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Re: [WWWEDU] Making Second Language a First Priority
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ellie Wen is a juggernaut. She writes, acts, sings and studies French, Spanish and Chinese at high levels. (...) http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-wen15oct15,1,2170924,print.story?coll= la-headlines-technology I've tried www.RepeatAfterUs.com : the database is extremely well done and easy to use. Thanks a lot, Bonnie: I forwarded your post to the mailing-list of English teachers in Switzerland. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] UN cobwebs and indigenous people
Guess what? Yesterday I removed cobwebs at the UN, my daughter daughter wrote this morning on messenger, from Geneva. A daunting task, dear. N,it's not a metaphor, I mean REAL cobwebs She was helping a friend mount the exhibition Visages dune lutte pour la reconnaissance , faces of a struggle for recognition, which is being inaugurated tomorrow at the UN, to mark the end of the decade dedicated to indigenous people. And the cobwebs were in the gallery between 2 buildings where the exhibition will take place and be inaugurated tomorrow. See http://www.gfbv.ch/f/ , no English version, sorry. The inauguration and the exhibition won't be public at the UN, for security reasons - just as the official core of the World Summit on Information Society wasn't public last December, for the same reasons. Moreover, the exhibition was meant to have both photographs of people struggling for recognition, and their texts. The UN scrapped the text part. Why on earth? I asked. Too militan for the UN - but they will be shown when the exhibition moves in town in its public form. There seem to be other cobwebs at the UN than the ones woven by 8-leg spiders, after all. cheers Claude Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
