I would like to give thanks to Andy Carvin and the digital divide network for inspiration. We often had discussion about the digital divide, national and international. I sometimes chafed at the idea that it was the same thing. The thing is, it is with variables of place,funding, circumstance, and permission. It is a problem of perception.
I attended WSIS( Geneva) and RSIS and Andy gave good pointers. The RSIS was inspirational too. The Role of Science in the Information Society. http://rsis.web.cern.ch/rsis/ Some parts of the US , inner cities, and remote and rural have restrictions as difficult as developing nations, and there are the Native America areas of unconnectedness. Anyway I attended the UN Global Forum in Dublin after talking with Andy. The United Nations ICT Task Force met in Dublin in April, 2005 (see http://www.unicttaskforce.org ) on the topic, Harnessing the Potential of ICTs for Education. I was the editor for a book based on the conference. Most of the chapters were presentations at the conference and everyone at the conference did not contribute but the strands of information and the ideas are shown of the group and there are contributions from many. This was a UN project. There were a few things I added because I did not see them and felt they were important. There were some wonderful projects that people were too busy to add or share. The discussion of used computers was a firecracker at the conference too. Chip Bruce's work is a reprint of his chapter in Liora Bresler and Alexander Ardichvili's book, Research in international education: Experience, theory, and practice. I won't point out my favorites, but there are some very interesting contributions. Its the first work I have done with my husband Vic Sutton. If you're interested, you can see a preprint (pdf) of the new book at <http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/chip/documents/882/home/ publications/dublinbook-final.pdf>. Hard copies will be in Tunis. ( I won't be there, no funding) but my ideas will be there, The ICT Task Force will have an online copy and hard copies to distribute at the conference. Sincerely, Bonnie Bracey Sutton bbracey at aol 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.
