Greetings all, Dec 1 is World AIDS Day, and there are little things one can do to increase awareness, such as including a button on your website
<a href="http://www.worldaidsday.org/default.asp"; title="Link to the official World AIDS Day website"><img src="http://www.worldaidsday.org/images/virtualribbon.gif"; width="120" height="40" border="0" alt="Support World AIDS Day" /></a> As important as this is, among many important things in the world, that require resources and attention, I am also interested in hearing about these and other strategies for communicating a cause to the wider public (other campaigns of note: "Make Poverty History" ) What campaigns are we involved in related to Digital Divide issues, and how might we coordinate them? What dates are significant for our field that we might make use of? What is the big cause for our field? In Illinois, friends in our field put a fair amount of effort on a few related themes: Digital Literacy Matters (Digital Literacy, Access & Equity) Get(ting) Illinois Online Civic Engagement Matters One issue that we need to communicate to the wider public is the protection of "Net Neutrality". A recent article by Doc Searls addresses this, and it is certainly not a new topic. But I will warrant that the issues and the threat to this fundamental design of the Internet is not widely understood. Some who have a notion of what this means may not feel the threat is very real. Still, this should be one of central concern to folks in this network, and I put it out there as a possible challenge for us to address collectively. (In the United States more and more of us are calling for local public hearings that would include this issue as Telecom law is being considered in Congress.) What other important issues would you propose we coordinate behind, for the advancement of our field? How would you approach it? -MM ____________________________________________________________________________ Michael Maranda President, The Association For Community Networking (AFCN) http://www.afcn.org Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter http://www.ctcnetchicago.org Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition (ilCTC) http://www.ilctc.org Vice President, CAAELII http://www.caaelii.org Vice President, NPOTechs http://www.npotechs.org Think ahead to Illinois Community Technology Day, 2006. http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/techday _______________________________________________ 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.
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