Re: [DDN] UNESCO calls for Project Proposals: Information for All

2005-01-11 Thread Taran Rampersad
Starting an NGO seems more and more important. Janet Feldman wrote: Title:Call for Proposals: UNESCO's Information for All Programme URL: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17828URL_DO=DO_TOPICURL_SECTI ON=201.html Description: UNESCO calls for proposals for projects to be

[DDN] nice mention of DDN on slashdot.org -- thanks, rik

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Shapiro
hi everyone - there's a nice mention of DDN on slashdot.org this evening. the title of of the story is: IT and Natural Disasters here's the opening text of the story. rikomatic writes The Asian tsunami in December has dramatically shown how much SMS, email and the web are now

Re: [DDN] nice mention of DDN on slashdot.org -- thanks, rik

2005-01-11 Thread Taran Rampersad
Phil Shapiro wrote: hi everyone - there's a nice mention of DDN on slashdot.org this evening. the title of of the story is: IT and Natural Disasters here's the opening text of the story. rikomatic writes The Asian tsunami in December has dramatically shown how much SMS, email and the

Re: [DDN] UNESCO calls for Project Proposals: Information for All

2005-01-11 Thread Pamela McLean
Ken Callaghan wrote: Sorry - this page does not seem to want to be found. Is the link correct? I've had the same problem. In the end I got there by going to the site and doing a search - which got me to a page which did seem to be that link... Then there's a reference to another page -

RE: [DDN] UNESCO calls for Project Proposals: Information for All

2005-01-11 Thread Ken Callaghan
Hi I've since discovered that the link runs to 2 lines but the last part of it wasn't part of the URL. If you copy both lines and paste into the browser you will get there. Yes I had the same problem with registering but I've submitted details so I'll see what happens! Thanks for taking the time

[DDN]The Future of the Internet

2005-01-11 Thread AJ Mollo
I'd like to call attention to the report just released by the Pew Research Center and Elon U. School of Communications. The Future of the Internet is a 62 page PDF document, the link to which can be found at http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/145/report_display.asp Over 1,200 experts were

[DDN] Podcast: Overcoming Wikipedia's Growing Pains

2005-01-11 Thread Andy Carvin
Hi everyone, I've just posted a new podcast called Overcoming Wikipedia's Growing Pains. The podcast was inspired by a Wired News article talking about the challenges faced by the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as it tries to become more broadly accepted both by subject experts and the public.