Thanks to Andy Carvin for posting on this very important and very digital divide and in this case language divide related development. Net-Gold has a post with links to several news stories on this subject that may be of interest to members of this discussion group.
From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:43 pm Subject: ELECTRONIC TEXT: RESOURCES : LIBRARIES: ELECTRONIC: DIGITIZATION PROJECTS : VIRTUAL LIBRARIES: French Classics Enter Cyberspace : France Fights Back Against 'Googlisation' <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5205> What is really interesting about this is that this development following on the heels of the Google creation of their project as five libraries to put fifteen million books online full text is coming at the same time that there is discussion within the newspaper industry of charging for news content online and the Yahoo sports coverage already includes fee based article links. From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:02 am Subject: NEWS : NEWSPAPERS : INTERNET: ACCESS: FREE : FREE VS. FEE: Can Papers End the Free Ride Online? <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5122> If this happens and becomes widespread that newspapers become fee based, look for a very rapid coming of age of weblogs as they move in to replace newspapers as a free source of news and information about current events. The Wikipedia already does extensive current events or news coverage. To say the weblogs are liked by the membership and leaders of the Digital Divide Network is sort of like saying that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans tend to be wet. <g> It may be an important potential role of the digital divide communities, not just this one, to lobby and counsel the media to retain free content and even assist them in finding through advertising and marketing electronic commerce ventures, the facility to viably continue free web based content, as a key part of reducing and ending the digital divide is access to quality and currently needed content and information. Providing free access to libraries would be of little good to anyone if the books and magazines in the libraries had first been carefully removed and only an empty building remained in its place. Although with the Google and Chrirac book initiatives and other already in place full text book and periodical full text free online resources, the library is hardly empty, thank goodness, but there is still a vital need for the citizens of the world to have up to date knowledge of what is happening in the world and of these many simply cannot afford to pay for this knowledge. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> ================================================== On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Andy Carvin wrote: > From CIO-Today.com... -ac > Chirac Plans French 'Counter-Offensive' on Internet Culture > French President Jacques Chirac has vowed to launch a new > "counter-offensive" against American cultural domination, enlisting the > support of the British, German and Spanish governments in a multimillion > euro bid to put the whole of European literature online. The president > was reacting last week to news that the American search-engine provider > Google is to offer access to some 15 million books and documents > currently housed in five of the most prestigious libraries in the > English-speaking world. > The realization that the "Anglo-Saxons" were on the verge of a major > breakthrough toward the dream of a universal library seriously rattled > the cultural establishment in Paris, raising again the fear that French > language and ideas will one day be reduced to a quaint regional > peculiarity. So on Wednesday Chirac met with Culture Minister Renaud > Donnedieu de Vabres and National Library president Jean-Noel Jeanneney > and asked them "to analyze the conditions under which the collections of > the great libraries in France and Europe could be put more widely and > more rapidly on the Internet." <http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_title= Chirac-Plans-French--Counter-Offensive--on-Internet-Culture&story_id=31513> > or > http://tinyurl.com/4c9ew > ----------------------------------- > Andy Carvin > Program Director > EDC Center for Media & Community > acarvin @ edc . org > http://www.digitaldivide.net > http://www.tsunami-info.org > Blog: http://www.andycarvin.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.
