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Audrey Borus wrote:
Taran-- bravo. Well put. There is a raging debate in higher ed too
about accepting any web content. It's foolish IMHO. As as come up over
and over again--good research requires a variety of sources.
Thank you. Comments for and against the Wikipedia caused me to write
this,
Hi Anotnio,
Your research project sounds interesting. I'd be happy to send a copy
of my Masters thesis (when I finish converting it to pdf). The thesis
has a number of references that address the issue of moving beyond the
provision of ICTS to developing a capability to use information.
Christopher Foster wrote:
. . .
Most of the people who work on Wikipedia are white, male technocrats
from the US and Europe. They're especially knowledgeable about
certain subjects - technology, science fiction, libertarianism, life
in the US/Europe - and tend to write about these subjects. As a
A report from USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. Heres a snippet
from the press release:
Among the findings from Year Four of the Digital Future Project:
Internet access has risen to its highest level ever. About three-quarters
of Americans now go online.
The number of hours
Yoni,
David has posted some very good references. But let us keep in mind that a
standard measure of the digital divide requires a standard definition of
what is the digital divide. And I will not repeat the numerous discussions
and debates on that subject that have been held on this forum.
I'm not sure if I understand the semantic web; but if I do, I don't
think I want it.
Technically, the sematic web requires meta data to be added to the url.
In addition to complicating the url it presupposes knowing how others
will view or use the data. Currently, meta tags embedded in the
Dear Friends,
Apologies for cross posting.
The IOSN/APDIP/UNDP FOSS Licensing Primer is a brief introduction to
different FOSS licenses, primarily the GNU GPL license. It presents a
summary of issues involved with using the different FOSS licenses. It
offers several scenarios, and proposes a
Hi everyone,
I've just posted another entry to my blog from the MIT Technology Review
conference, entitled Emerging Technologies that will Change the World.
It's about a panel session featuring Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,
along with a couple of genetics pioneers and an invention expert
Hi Antonio,
You are asking a fundamentally vital question. I do not have a direct
answer to your question although that is my area of interest. I can give
you two pointers though.
1. A look at conceptualizing ICT in a development context is essential. I
have written a paper recently on
I am not sure I understand either. But we should be hesitant of jumping to
too many conclusions, at least just yet. Tim is clearly an intellectual
force capable of jumping over boundaries most of us cannot even see let
alone jump over. We should ask Mr. Tim Berners Lee (TBL)to be more specific
and
We're pleased to announce this new resource from the Low-Income
Networking and Communications (LINC) Project at the Welfare Law Center.
Please feel free to distribute this notice widely!
To this quite correct observation that measurement depends on the object
measured, I would like to add a few thoughts.
First of all, the digital divide is qualitative and not easily quantified.
If a bus stops at a corner and picks up five passengers, each pays two
dollars, it is easy to
fyi, MIT Technology Review has an interview with TB-L in its latest
issue. The very first question they ask him is basically, why is no one
particularly excited about this new work of yours? So the article is
able to delve into a bit more of a detailed response than what he gave
during his
My first thought would be for term papers that students write to be
published on Wiki - so students can (in any discipline) do research on a
topic, and write the paper/entry - correct any errors that the teacher
finds, and then create the entry on the Wikipedia. Given the number of term
papers
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