[DDN] Tutorial: How to Create Your Own Mobcast

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,
This weekend, I wrote an essay about the concept of mobcasting -- using 
mobile phones and blogging tools as a way for large groups of people 
(smart mobs) to create audio podcasts on the same website. Ethan 
Zuckerman and I exchanged some ideas about it on the Global Voices blog, 
and I spent part of the afternoon tinkering with a variety of tools to 
see if I could come up with a relatively easy way to do this.

The result: a new experimental blog, http://mobcasting.blogspot.com. 
It's a free Blogger website that I've set up with an RSS feed that 
supports enclosure tags -- the key to publishing podcasts on the 
Internet. Now, I have the ability to give anyone posting privileges on 
the site, which in turn would allow them to use Blogger's free 
Audioblogger.com tool. Audioblogger lets Blogger users call a phone 
number and post an audio blog to their blog. But since I've set up the 
blog with a podcast-friendly RSS feed, I've turned Audioblogger into a 
simple telephone-based podcasting tool. If anyone would like to test it 
out, send me an email and I can set them up with an account.

I could see this method being used by groups of people attending any 
event, whether it's a conference, a protest or any other public 
gathering. Any situation in which you'd want to give a number of people 
the ability to podcast on the same website would apply.

So I've written a quick tutorial on how to set up your own mobcast, 
giving a group of people to post their own podcasts on the same website. 
It's really easy, and it's basically free - you just have to pay for the 
telephone call each time you record a podcast.

I've posted the tutorial on my blog; you can find it here:
http://www.andycarvin.com/
permalink:
http://www.andycarvin.com/000713.html
thanks,
ac
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[DDN] Thank you

[Tanya Priber]

Many thanks to those of you who responded to my request for online 
sources regarding IT and the tsunami disaster.  What you have sent is 
very helpful and much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Tanya Priber
Upper School Technology Integrator	
Marymount School, NY, NY, USA

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Re: [DDN] blog: when mobile podcasting leads to mobcasting

[John Hibbs]

I also forwarded it. Andy, you take the prize for being truly innovative!
At 12:23 AM +0100 1/17/05, Claude Almansi wrote:
I'e an old-fashioned cell that only phones and sends SMS, so I wont 
be able to avail myself of your precious indications. But I 
forwarded your e-mail to our local indymedia group. With the World 
Economic Forum in Davos next week, your theoretical example of a 
demonstration with police violence might become reality, 
unfortunately.
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Re: [DDN] IT and disaster relief

[David P. Dillard]

As I read your post, I see to related requests, a request for information
regarding the application of information technology to relief efforts of
the South Asian earthquake and tsunami and a request for information more
generally regarding the interaction of information technology and disaster
relief.

Here are some more pieces to the picture of information technology and the
current tsunami disaster relief.

CEMEX Announces Aid to Tsunami Relief Efforts
07/01/2005


"In addition to monetary contributions, CEMEX has undertaken several
additional initiatives to aid the relief efforts in Aceh and South
Sumatera. First, CEMEX Indonesia has designed and built the website,
www.acehcare.com, which provides updated information on news,
information, donation distribution reports and lists humanitarian
organizations receiving and distributing aid for the victims in Aceh and
South Sumatera. CEMEX updates the website regularly in coordination with
the National Coordinating Agency for Natural Disaster and refugees Relief
and relevant ministries."


Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Asian Tsunami: Can ICTs Deliver?
Michael Gurstein



ODR News Blog
The UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution



Daily News - January 10, 2005 - Monday
Healthcare IT firms part of tsunami recovery efforts
Author: Bernie Monegain, News/online editor
Healthcare IT News



Yahoo! News Search Results for india information technology


A shorter URL for the above link:




Indonesia Technology



Notice to Asia Tsunami Relief Agencies
Posted on Saturday, January 01 @ 08:54:48 CST by xtv
Free Internet Services Available to Non-Governmental Organizations from
Speedera Networks to Manage High Traffic from Donors and Others



Full Coverage: South Asia
One World.net



Japan Today > Asia
Asia considers tsunami warning system
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at 07:45 JST



What can the Tsunami disaster and relief effort tell us about IT?
MIS for the Information Age



Below are some resources that are more generally concerning the
relationship of information technology and disaster relief.


Disaster recovery: redefining disaster recovery as 24x7 - Storage
Networking - Industry Overview
Computer Technology Review,  Nov, 2002  by Steven Robinson



European Space Agency 24.06.2004
Satellites aiding disaster relief


A shorter URL for the above link:




Communications of the ACM
Volume 44, Number 5 (2001), Pages 82-85
The promise of digital libraries in developing countries
Ian H. Witten, Michel Loots, Maria F. Trujillo, David Bainbridge
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Technological Infrastructure
Information Collections
End-User Collection Creation
Conclusion
References
Authors
Figures
Tables


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J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1999 JanFeb; 6(1): 2637.
Copyright  1999, American Medical Informatics Association
Applications of Telemedicine and Telecommunications to Disaster Medicine
Historical and Future Perspectives
Victoria Garshnek, MS, PhD. and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr, MD, MPH, FAAP,
FACEP
Tripler Army Medical Center, Tripler, Hawaii



A Framework for Designing a Global Information Network for Multinational
Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief
Tung Bui
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sungwon Cho
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Siva Sankaran
California State University, Northridge, CA 91330 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Sovereign
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Information Systems Frontiers
A Journal of Research and Innovation
Information Systems Frontiers
1 (4): 427-442, April 2000



Communications of the ACM
Volume 46, Number 1 (2003), Pages 95-98
Organic data memory using the DNA approach
Pak Chung Wong, Kwong-kwok Wong, Harlan Foote
Table of Contents
Lead-in
Introduction
Challenges
Experimental Design
Enormous Potential Capacity

RE: [DDN] broadband strategies for developing countries: civil societyviews?

[K Wong \(UVic\)]

This is great news that they are considering rolling out broadband in
your country. It is also to their credit that civil society
organizations are being consulted; too often these things are populated
by business and government exclusively. When this is allowed to occur,
the programs take on the smell of technology subsidy at best and
corporate welfare at worst.

Don't get me wrong; the connection is important, but after the
connection is made, then the sustainability questions kick-in. One
report I read which was commissioned by Canada's Broadband Task-Force
was called "Access to What? First Mile Issues" and it advocated for
community economic development to sustain the demand for the
connectivity. The report is kind of long, but the gist of it is that
there needs to be a simultaneous push to develop the community to take
advantage of the Internet connection at the same time it is rolled out.

For example, after a connection is made local artisans can try selling
their wares on eBay or some other artisan web site; however, educating
the artisans on how to do this is where corporate driven connectivity
plans fail. The push to develop community capacity should be made at the
same time or before the connection is installed.

The report used to be available online, but I think that Industry Canada
was unhappy with it and removed it. It is only available via the
Internet Wayback Machine; the link is provided below.

Reference
Civille, R., Gurstein, M. and Pigg, K. Access to What? First Mile Issues
for Rural Broadband. Industry Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January
2001. Available at:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://broadband.gc.ca/english/resources/ac
cess_to_what.pdf

TinyURL version of the link: http://tinyurl.com/5agl5


Kelvin Wong
Department of Computer Science
University of Victoria

Personal Blog:
http://nativetech.blogspot.com/


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[DDN] Independent Sector Leadership Award

[Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan]

Independent Sector Invites Nominations for Leadership IS Award

 Deadline: February 18, 2005

 Independent Sector established the Leadership IS Award  in 1999 to
recognize organizations that value and develop  a culture of investing
in the people of the independent  sector as they work to build
community. The Leadership  IS Award supports this principle by
acknowledging an  organization that incorporates the development of
future  leaders in its policies and daily operations.

 The recipient of the award receives a statuette and a  gift of $10,000.

 The recipient organization will have demonstrated its  commitment to
internal and external leadership develop-  ment by embodying and
promoting an inclusive and diverse  community, including youth and
emerging leaders; holding  principles of leadership development central
to the way  the organization functions as reflected in its mission,
programs, and activities; possessing and incorporating  concrete
strategies and systems that encourage and provide  opportunities for
staff and volunteer leadership develop-  ment in the organization and
the community; and having in  place and exercising strategies that
advance the vision,  mission, and values central to the work of the
organiza-  tion and its desired outcomes.

 Anyone may nominate an organization to receive the award.
 To be eligible, an organization must be a nonprofit but  need not be an
Independent Sector member.

 See the Independent Sector Web site for program guide-  lines,
information about past winners, and an online  nomination form.

 RFP Link: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/167/rfp 

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS
Community Outreach Liaison
National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region
Creighton University Health Sciences Library
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
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Re: [DDN] intercepting donated computers offered to schools in the u.s.

[Destiny Africa]

Phil, 
Thanks for the info.Destiny Africa would be interested in these Comps for 
schools here in Kenya. Looking forward to the donations.
 
George


Destiny Africa 
P.O. Box 30852 - 00100 
Tel. 254 - 20-313588 \ 310286\ 310729 
Nairobi - kenya 
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[DDN] broadband strategies for developing countries: civil society views?

[Al Alegre]

Hello all
(I am posting to several lists; apologies if you get this more than once.)

I have just been invited by my country's Commission on ICT to a
multi-stakeholder workshop on Broadband Deployment Plan and Strategy for the
Philippines. It is I think the first effort of its kind here, and will
gather all stakeholders and spend a day and a half discussing (debating)
about the topic... (telcos/celcos; carriers, ISPs, regulators, policy
planners, satellite service providers I think having civil society on
board on a discussion like this will also be a first...)

I have been asked to speak for 15-20 mins on the topic "Broadband Anyone?:
The users' perspective"...I have a few things in mind to say, but I am not
fully comfortable with the topic yet as telco policy is something we are
just getting into.

I thought it would be great if those who have perspectives and thoughts on
the area, specifically from a civil society perspective, contribute to my
presentation by emailing me (privately if you prefer) any things you think
should be in the presentation: e.g., guiding principles; considerations;
possible strategies--even tips on how to present this to the mixed group I
will be speaking to...

Any materials you may also want to recommend for me to read (those not too
long pls :-) are also welcome... I have too much work this week to do full
background datagathering, but any leads to what you think are important and
strategic perspectives are welcome...

The workshop is on Monday the 24th, so would appreciate getting some
comments in the next 3 days (till Thursday the 20th)...

Thanks in advance.

Al Alegre
Foundation for Media Alternatives
Philippines


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