[DDN] FWD: Webcasting at Paving the Road to Tunis conference (Canada)

[Robert Guerra]

I am forwarding this to you as I think you might like to know about  
the following
WSIS Civil Society meeting being held in Winnipeg (Canada) later this  
week.

regards
Robert


From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:  Webcasting at Paving the Road to Tunis conference
Date: May 11, 2005 11:23:40 AM EDT (CA)
Greetings,
If you are interested in following the upcoming Paving the Road to
Tunis conference, but won't be in Winnipeg to attend the event, the
following information on webcasting may be of interest.
***
Paving the Road to Tunis - WSIS II: Canada's Civil Society Views on
the Geneva Plan of Action and the Prospects for Phase II
In preparation for the second phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), the Canadian Commission for UNESCO is
hosting a conference entitled: Paving the Road to Tunis - WSIS II:
Canada's Civil Society Views on the Geneva Plan of Action and the
Prospects for Phase II. The main objective of the conference is to
collect views on the Geneva Plan of Action from a Canadian civil
society perspective. The conference will be held in Winnipeg from
May 13-15, 2005.
Webcasting
In order to allow broader participation in this event, the Canadian
Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN)
will be webcasting the conference dinner keynote speech, as well as
the conference plenaries, using the Macromedia Breeze application,
made available for this conference by K-Net with onsite support  
from
CRACIN. Breeze allows remote participants to watch presentations in
real time and features an interactive text chat function. Please
note that the times noted on the agenda are Central (Winnipeg)  
time, as well as
New York, Geneva, and Tokyo time.! Also, unexpected network
failures and technical difficulties may prevent flawless real-time
webcasting, so please be patient.

To access webcast sessions of Paving the Road to Tunis, please  
visit
http://www.cracin.ca and follow the links from our homepage, under
the "News" column on the right-hand side of the page.

Best wishes,
Christie Hurrell
Project Administrator
Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and
Networking (CRACIN)
140 St. George Street, Room 652
Toronto, ON M5S 3G6
Tel: 416-978-4662
http://www.cracin.ca
Fax: 416-971-1399
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Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and
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140 St. George Street, Room 652
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[DDN] SchoolNet.Namibia puts out a Creative Commons Comic - online

[Taran Rampersad]

> Hai Ti!: SchoolNet says it's time to listen up and go FOSS!
>
> WINDHOEK. SchoolNet Namibia  is taking a bold new
> step to entice teachers and students into the wonderful world of Free and
> Open Source Software (FOSS). SchoolNet has teamed up with Direq
> International , Strika Entertainment
>  and The Namibian Youth Paper
>  to produce and distribute Hai Ti!, a comic
> strip that spreads the word about the ways that computers, FOSS and the
> internet can transform learners' and teachers' lives.
>
>
>
> It's a new and highly innovative approach to a universal problem. "Our
> numerous letters, manuals and trainers have not been very effective in
> bringing teachers into the computer lab. So we decided to build a
> character-based drama around the SchoolNet team and teachers and
> learners at
> a remote rural school in Namibia," says executive director Joris Komen.
> "There has also been a lot of controversy
>  about the
> compatibility of Free and Open Source office applications and programmes
> with similar (and usually very expensive!) proprietary software more
> commonly used in the private sector. We expect Hai Ti! to finally put such
> controversy to rest. The skills acquired by teachers and learners to cut,
> copy and paste, and use office tools such as word processors and
> spreadsheets, as well as the Internet, must be completely platform
> neutral,
> without affecting their career and learning opportunities."
>
>
>
> In order to demystify the computers that have proven so alluring to
> learners
> but not so much to teachers, SchoolNet collaborated closely with
> Strika and
> Direq to conceptualize, illustrate and produce a full-colour comic.
> Desiged
> to address educators' fears, SchoolNet staff - young, technically savvy
> Namibians - drew from their own experiences to craft the narrative.
>
>
>
> The first 20-page comic interweaves the stories of a learner who uses the
> internet to prepare for a debate; of a football fan who learns that the
> Internet can be a better source for sports than the "cuca shop" (Shebeen);
> and of a young teacher learning computer basics with the help of SchoolNet
> trainers. The comic, liberally sprinkled with helpful definitions and
> basic
> tips, doubles as an easy reference manual afterwards. Each edition will
> also be published online at Schoolnet's website,
> http://www.schoolnet.na/haiti. The insert will be distributed in The
> Namibian Youth Paper on a regular basis for the next few years, with
> bumper
> Christmas annuals, and loads of local competitions as added bonuses.
>
>
>
> Hai Ti! is also unique in being the first publication of its kind to be
> published under international Creative Commons
>  rules in Namibia. Creative Commons
> copyright ensure that any person who receives a copy or derived version of
> this publication work can use, modify and also redistribute the work and
> derived versions of the work, with appropriate acknowledgement to the
> original authors and artists. The first edition of Hai Ti! -- which means
> "listen up ! " in the Oshiwambo language group, has been included in the
> April 26th edition of the Namibian Youth Paper. Look out for more to come!
>
>
>
> Prepared by Ceiran Bishop and Joris Komen
>
> 25 April 2005



http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/10205 is where I wrote something up on it.

-- 
Taran Rampersad
Presently in: Panama City, Panama
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.knowprose.com
http://www.easylum.net
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[DDN] Live Webcast: ICT4Capacity-Building: success factors

[J Cravens]

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information to this online discussion group is 
NOT affiliated in any way with this event and has 
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ICT for Capacity-Building: Critical Success Factors - Live Webcast
UNESCO and the Club of Rome are co-organizing a three-day World
Conference on Harnessing the Potential of ICT for Capacity Building, from 11
to 13 May at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. The live webcast
allows you to follow the debates in real time!
Live Webcast:
- audio only, mms://stream.unesco.org/audio
- low bandwidth video, mms://stream.unesco.org/liveld
- high bandwidth video, mms://stream.unesco.org/livehd
- Conference homepage,
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17638&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
- Conference Programme,
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18866&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
--
The potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to
train and educate communities that have limited or no access to formal
education channels will be the focus of an international conference to be
opened by UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura at UNESCO
Headquarters, and broadcast live on the internet, from 11 to 13 May.
The conference, "ICT for Capacity-Building: Critical Success Factors"
will bring together local leaders, community educators and experts in
learning from all continents, from as far a field as Brazil, Afghanistan,
Senegal and Jordan. The discussions will focus on the critical success
factors in using new delivery methods for learning and other skills
development, especially for marginalized groups such as rural villages,
urban poor, refugees, the visually impaired and those suffering the HIV
pandemic.
Using satellite facilities and twelve centres affiliated with the
Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), the emphasis will be on learning
from actual case studies presented live from Latin America, Arab
States, Africa and Asia. During the strategic sessions, development experts,
academics, and representatives from industry, non-governmental and
intergovernmental organizations will evaluate the impact of the current
investment in ICT projects, debating the key issues of sustainability,
impact monitoring and evaluation, infrastructure solutions, human
capabilities, appropriation of technologies and content by local communities,
and the social dynamics of these projects.
Through their discussions, the participants will identify prerequisites
and success factors for capacity-building using ICT; collect and
disseminate testimonies and case studies from around the world on how to make
a quantitative leap in development by using ICT; and explore with the
IT industry the need for technology that is appropriate to the
development environment and that meets the needs of the people.
The event is one of UNESCO's thematic meetings in preparation for the
second meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunis,
Tunisia, 16-18 November 2005).
(UNESCO Media Advisory No. 2005-31)
- Conference homepage,
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17638&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
- Conference Programme,
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18866&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Webcast:
- audio only, mms://stream.unesco.org/audio
- low bandwidth video, mms://stream.unesco.org/liveld
- high bandwidth video, mms://stream.unesco.org/livehd
(please note that the person posting this 
information to this online discussion group is 
NOT affiliated in any way with this event and has 
no further information)

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Re: Sharing Podcasts with those without connectivity ) was Re:[DDN]Webheads and the Digital Divide Network)

[Janet Feldman]

Dear Andy, Pam, and All,

Hello and look forward to blogs from Budapest!  What you propose below is
incredibly exciting to me too, as we use mobile phones in our projects and
are always looking for new, lower-tech, and cheaper ways to create and
disseminate info. Please keep us informed about these developments, Andy,
and in the meantime, Pam, you might want to hook up with orgs like
Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (focus on health and nutrition),
WorldSpace, First Voice International, and AMARC, as you might find
programs there for radio listening in particular, and perhaps contacts with
radio stations already in existence (ie w/whom you might be able to link
for pogrammatic content more easily).

I'll be delighted to discuss some ideas w/you individually too, as we have
some of the same challenges and needs in Kenya, and are both searching for
solutions and creating some ourselves. Many thanks and all best wishes, and
here's to casting our lots with pods for mobs, Janet  (Feldman,
[EMAIL PROTECTED])

Andy wrote: hi Pam... Actually, this is one of the things I hope to do with
mobcasting: to allow people in the south to be able to record and listen to
online podcasts on their mobile phones. I'm working to put together the
specs for the software, then plan to recruit some programmers to tackle it.
Then, hopefully it would be possible to host Mobcaster software on a local
server anywhere in the world and let locals use their phones to access
podcasts 








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[DDN] curriculum for computer academy

[Rushton Hurley]

Neil,
While the material is in English, you may want to make use of curricula that 
is on my organization's site.  I work with StRUT (Students Recycling Used 
Technology), and the people that run the organization also run the 
California Engineering and Technology Alliance, on whose site we house the 
material we make available.

Find it at:
www.svstrut.org/curriculum.html
The first item, the six-week module on computer technology, may be useful as 
a resource for your program, and you (and anyone else on the list) are 
welcome to use anything there.  If you decide to incorporate any of the 
material, we only ask that you send us an e-mail letting us know, as that is 
helpful in the reports we give our donors.

Rushton
Rushton Hurley
Students Recycling Used Technology
Silicon Valley StRUT Coordinator
e) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w) www.svstrut.org
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original message:
Message: 27
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 23:23:55 -0400
From: "Neil Hendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [DDN] A new member introduction, Neil Hendrick
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1"
Introducing myself as a new member and suggesting a topic of conversation,
I am a Digital Divide activist, Neil Hendrick. I'm working with Partners in 
Solidarity to build
a network of Computer Academies in Xela, Guatemala. Project dates, Jan-Mar 
2006.

A little history is that this is the PIS's fifth consecutive year working in 
the region, we've
set up 16 computer labs serving rural indigenous Mayan schools. This is my 
third year working
with PIS, I have also worked in Nicaragua with an organization I co-founded, 
Communication
Integration. This upcoming project is the most ambitious project to date, 
creating 9 Computer
Academies with 30-40 computers each.

In that vein, I would like to pose a question to the list.
What sort of Curriculum should be used in a Computer Academy?
The Rules:
1) There are 9 schools, open 40 hours a week with 30 computers. Children can 
sit 2 to a
computer.
2) The curriculum will terminate in a certificate.
3) No access to Internet. (however, a person can visit cybercafes in 
Quetzaltenango, it can be
assumed that any person using a computer in this program will be able to 
find public access to
computers in the real world at some time. )

So, thank-you, I look forward to following the discussion.
Neil Hendrick
http://www.partnersinsolidarity.com/
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[DDN] GOVERNMENT: ELECTRONIC: E-Planning Poses Data Protection Risks

[David P. Dillard]

GOVERNMENT: ELECTRONIC:
E-Planning Poses Data Protection Risks

This post may be of interest to those on the list interested or concerned
about the impacts electronic government will have on the digital divides
facing this world.


From: "jwneastro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu May 12, 2005  10:43 am
Subject: GOVERNMENT: ELECTRONIC: E-Planning Poses Data Protection Risks



Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[EMAIL PROTECTED]





World Business Community Advisor


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[DDN] Seeking ICT in remote areas best practices

[Eric Schneider :: PNYV E-Zine]

Dear all,
I have for a while been searching the web for best practices, guides and
toolkits for introducing ICT in remote areas, - and have found NO
satisfying results.
Can you help me with your experience and knowledge of the web?
What is the state of things?
+ What are alternative solutions for introducing (wireless) ICT access in
remote locations in Latin America, Africa...
+ any specific numbers on distances to servers and costs?
+ what are the best knowledge environments and  online / offline
communities and competences for this issue?
I would greatly appreciate your help, as I have two concrete platforms
(and further related contacts) where this is becoming a hot issue in the
near future. www.pnyv.org and www.tribaltravel.org for linking tribal,
rural and urban communities.
Thank you!
Eric Schneider
PNYV >>> Positive + News + Youth + Views
Online Mag for Youth Leadership & Changemaking
http://www.pnyv.org
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[DDN] Open Source - Made In Trinidad.

[Taran Rampersad]

Burrokeet, an Open Source project being done in Trinidad and Tobago, is
being implemented in a local school:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/10203

While this might not be seen as such a big deal for some, it is in that
local developer(s) are being paid to create a project which is used
within the country - in essence, there's no need for smart people to
leave a country when they can find work locally.

Now to catch up with other stuff...

-- 
Taran Rampersad
Presently in: Panama City, Panama
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.knowprose.com
http://www.easylum.net
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran

"Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo

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[DDN] BBC World Service Discusses Intellectual Commons and (versus?) Patents

[Amos Anyimadu]

  

Peter Day's Global Business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_business.shtml
discusses, from the BBC web pages, the following:

"This edition of Global Business reports on the battle over inventions.
Inventors and companies protect their new ideas with patents that give
them monopoly rights for 20 years. But now there’s an explosion of
patents, and a tug of war between critics - who think they’ll stifle
innovation - and companies who believe the patent system is vital for
human progress."

Peter Day was hosted by the Technology Assessment Project of the
University of Ghana, with which I am associated,  a few weeks ago. I
understand a programme centred on that discussed, on business process
outsourcing in Ghana, would be broadcast in early July. 

-- 
  Amos Anyimadu
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[DDN] Rotary to help close the divide

[David Abel]

I'm excited to pass on that my local Rotary Club has taken interest in
helping bridge the digital divide. I'm currently forming a committee to
decide what project we will pursue and was hoping the DDN list would be kind
enough to offer suggestions.

 

I open to ideas for projects that require fundraising, implementation,
awareness or all three. I'm specifically looking for projects that are
easily scalable, meaning other Rotary clubs can adopt the program and still
stay true to the original focus. 

 

The long term goal is to use our local club as a "case study" in order to
propose that Rotary International take on a similar project as part of its
world wide efforts.

 

As you are probably aware Rotary International has a large membership (over
1.2 million) around the world. But you might not know that Rotary
International recently acknowledged the digital divide should be part of its
focus and opened a discussion on how Rotary might help close it. 

 

At this point my club has express interest in building technology center's,
or the funding of affordable laptops/mobile phones for education in third
world countries.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

David Abel

Editor & General Manager

PoliticsOnline Inc.

207 East Bay Street, Suite 211

Charleston, SC 29401   USA

1 843 853 8190 office

1 843 722 4283 fax

www.PoliticsOnline.com

 

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