RE: [DDN] Whitepaper explores a new form of challenge grants to promotenonprofit sustainability
Dear Mark Frazier of One World Inc, I am trying to contact you through email but your spam guard is not letting my mails through. I wanted to discuss some things for our organization. Please give me an alternate email address or include [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in your accepted list. Regards. --- Fouad Riaz Bajwa General Secretary FOSSFP: Free Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R FOSSAC ' 2006 Secretariat Punjab University College of Information Technology University of The Punjab, Allama Iqbal (Old) Campus The Mall, Lahore-54000, Pakistan Phone #: 92 (042) 111-923-923 Ext: 27 Cell #: 92-333-4661290 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lahore-Pakistan. URL: www.fossfp.org Ubuntu-Pakistan URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org - Disclaimer: This e-mail message is intended for its recipient only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please discard it. The author of this e- mail takes no responsibility for the material, implicit or explicit. -Original Message- From: Mark Frazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:48 PM To: 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group' Subject: [DDN] Whitepaper explores a new form of challenge grants to promotenonprofit sustainability All, A report on new opportunities for nonprofit sustainability is coming out this weekend. I hope DDN participants will find the strategies of benefit in securing new assets and funds. The 80-page Sabre Foundation/Whitehead Foundation-sponsored study -- entitled New Catalysts for Sustainability: A Global Opportunity for Digital Philanthropy -- follows almost a year of research into ways that digital donations can catalyze local assets for self-help initiatives, including those that work in unsettled regions of the world. A copy of the full pre-release version report is on the web at http://tinyurl.com/dovec for advance review by nonprofit organizations that may be interested in applying the strategies, as well as by bloggers and journalists. (The report is officially set for release on October 15, so we ask journalists to hold off on articles until then.) Projects based on strategies set out in the white paper are now under way in Sri Lanka and Kyrygyzstan, where Openworld has been helping to launch land grant and microvoucher initiatives. Background and links about these are at the recently-updated www.openworld.com web site. I will welcome comments and ideas on how the Digital Donation approaches can bring new assets to grassroots self help initiatives. Best, Mark Frazier Openworld, Inc. www.openworld.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] === FOR RELEASE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2005 Press Contact: Mark Frazier - 202.257.2574 SABRE FOUNDATION WHITE PAPER EXPLORES CHALLENGE GRANT OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE LOCAL ASSETS FOR NONPROFIT INITIATIVES Donors can offer digital donations -- gifts in electronic form -- for leveraging policy reforms and land grant endowments that benefit grassroots groups in troubled areas, according to a white paper that distills findings from an 11-month research project on global trends in digital philanthropy. Entitled New Catalysts for Sustainability: A Global Opportunity for Digital Philanthropy, the white paper describes a new challenge grant approach for philanthropies to encourage communities around the world to launch self-funding systems that expand grassroots access to learning, health care, and job opportunities. The research effort, conducted by Mark Frazier under the sponsorships of the Massachusetts-based Sabre Foundation and Brussels-based Sabre Europe with funding from the Whitehead Foundation and private donors, proposes that current forms of digital donations such as free software and online reference materials be extended to include microscholarships for eLearning and microvouchers for health care resources. These new forms of giving can spread grassroots access to valued education and health information resources around the world, much as microfinance innovations have brought private capital within reach of tens of millions of small and new entrepreneurs, said white paper author Mark Frazier, President of Openworld Inc., a nonprofit Washington-based group that specializes in design of self-funding information technology ventures in emerging markets. Given the rapid plunge in telecommunications costs and the rise of new online payment systems, the white paper notes that it is now possible for philanthropies to extend their reach by offering digital donations on a basis that can catalyze self-funding nonprofit initiatives even in remote areas of the world. The white paper notes that expanding bandwidth enables philanthropies to bypass cumbersome and corrupt bureaucracies, and to target resources in ways that reach local nonprofits directly. By combining digital technologies with such traditional devices as scholarships, land grants, and challenge grants, local nonprofits can seize
RE: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights
Need to remember that academic publishers generally do very limited print runs and hence the price of their books will be high. We need to remember that just because it is in digital format doesn't mean that copyright may be violated. Especially now that information is often someone's livelihood. The propensity of people to copy and paste and disseminate information freely electronically also dissipates the authority of the information - who actually wrote it and is it correct, have authority? Copyright and authority add value to information products - why we need to ensure that this concept does not die just because the information is in electronic format rather than print. :) BC Convenor for the Transforming Information and Learning Conference http://www.chs.ecu.edu.au/TILC Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia Ph: (08) 9370 6072 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 4:28 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussiongroup; The Digital Divide Network discussiongroup Subject: Re: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights I agree with you on almost everything you say, Claude. The exception is the possible suggestion -- I'm not sure you mean to say this -- that because print piracy has such a long history, we should be grateful that digital piracy is less threatening Just the fact that Yahoo and Google announce that they are going to scan all the books in some eminent libraries, and don't explain (as you did) that only public-domain material can be legally digitized, does seem to give tacit permission for scanning of anything and everything. And the academic publishers have certainly been asking for trouble for a long, long time, by pricing their books and journals at a level that only research libraries can actually buy them. And yes, there are supposed legal protections in some of the worst piracy countries, and they work a bit better now than they did 20 years ago. I served as President and CEO of Harcourt Brace for several years and had the honor of being bodily thrown out of a bookstore in Taiwan because a colleague and I were trying to buy pirated versions of Academic Press titles so that we could file legal objections Nonetheless: my point is that many people have no idea that the right to copy something multiple times does not become yours when you buy a book or CD or DVD. We need to encourage people, I think, to consider the economic and intellectual consequences of this ignorance. Sarah Blackmun From: Claude Almansi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/10/13 Thu PM 03:22:03 EDT To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights Sarah Blackmun wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? It can be unethical and illegal in some cases, but Taran Rampersad, whom you seem to be answering was only speaking using Optical Character Recognition with texts photographed in the library. - If the digitalized copy is for your personal use and study, it is legal. - If the work copied is in the public domain, it is even legal to distribute it or put it online. - What would be illegal would be to distribute and/or put online a work protected by copyright Don't the writers and producers of intellectual and artistic property own their works and have the right to control how they are distributed? Yes, but copyright laws allow readers to make a personal copy for studying purposes. And a text version is far more handy for studying than a PDF. Not to mention that blind people will anyway have to translate PDFs or image formats into text, by using OCR. (Don't Google and Yahoo and the university libraries know this? Of course they do!) Not exactly: the Google project was halted precisely because of the copyright issue. The Très Grande Bibliothèque Nationale of France so far has only scanned and put on line PDFs, which seem locked - and the ones I have seen are all in the public domain. I have not seen the Yahoo ones Do we have on this list any authors in the group who depend for their livings (or a part thereof) on the royalties they receive from books, music, film, etc.? And will they
Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else think it is unethical (as well as illegal) to digitize works that are protected by copyright? Don't the writers and producers of intellectual and artistic property own their works and have the right to control how they are distributed To get technical, the complainants are book publishers who purchased First book rights or something similar. They have been compensated. Electronic distribution is a right they haven't purchased or have an interest in. As I point out later, this argument isn't about compensating authors. . . . Do we have on this list any authors in the group who depend for their livings (or a part thereof) on the royalties they receive from books, music, film, etc.? And will they continue to publish such works if they can't receive a fair recompense for them? In this day and age, copyright isn't used to benefit the creators of intellectual property. It is used to benefit the copyright owner, i.e. Harcourt Brace specifically or more generally the media conglomerates who have bought the copyrights wholesale. The media conglomerates haven't been satisfied with historical protections and have successfully lobbied to extend the length of copyright protection long after the death of the author. In addition, they bully users by using the threat of legal action to extend copyright beyond what is intended. Further, recognizing changes in technology, the media conglomerates are requiring authors to relinquish more rights (the favoured term is all rights) in exchange for publication. In Canada, the media lobbies successfully portrayed all purchasers of recordable media as thieves who madly copy everything they can lay their hands on. Consequently, Canadians pay a royalty with every recordable media purchase. This being the case one would suspect copying music etc. would be legal -- the royalties are paid. However, Canadians are still being accused of pirating. It's off topic but one of my pet peeves is own the video. False and misleading advertising every time you see it. You license the video. What will be the long-term impact on intellectual and artistic production if everything is in the public domain as soon as it is published? I expect most creators of intellectual property never see any royalties. For example, one condition of recieving a Masters degree was granting the National Library of Canada a non exclusive license to copy my thesis. The National Library of Canada assigned the license to 3M. Personnel y, I really don't see how this can be legal, but my legal team can't compete with the Government of Canada and 3M. In short, copyright may benefit someone -- it isn't the creator. Sarah Blackmun Former Senior Vice President Harcourt Brace Publishing Group -- Larry Phillips FutureCraft http://www.clubwebcanada.ca/l-pphillips/ Quantum 2000: Education for Today and Tomorrow http://www.clubwebcanada.ca/l-pphillips/quantum Finding a Way http://findingaway.blogspot.com/ Alberta Consumers' Association http://albertaconsumers.org Conversations about education Ed Conversation mailing list http://www.topica.com/lists/edconversation/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Intellectual Property Rights
Sarah, thank you for your answer: I agree that former non-digital piracy does not justify digital piracy. What I had written was just aimed at not demonizing too much the piracy potential of digital tools, but it is true that it must be addressed. Same with plagiarism, btw: people have probably plagiarized for various purposes (academic career, passing exams, making money) ever since they started to write (though the notion of plagiarism is irrelevant for the time preceding the rise of the concept of authorship, when centone was an accepted practice, for instance). This doesn't mean that digital plagiarism should be ignored, but it does mean that some of the present catastrophe writing and attitude about it in academic circles is probably not the best way to tackle the issue either. Re your answer to Sharon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharon, I think you're exactly right. Books and journals sold in digital, downloadable form could be priced without the cost of paper, printing, binding, and distribution, and probably with a smaller discount to the retailer. And authors could get royalties, and publishers could receive a reasonable return on their investment. One of the big forces working against this is the academic tenure system, which at most institutions recognizes only printed books and journal articles as part of one's bibliography when applying for tenure. It would take a widespread change in academe as well as publishers to enable meaningful movement toward digitized original works. One interesting solution is online publishers, who offer the possibility to either download a text in digitized form, or to order it on paper. A few months ago, David Warlick mentioned - I can't remember if here or if on the WWWEDU mailing-list or both - http://www.lulu.com/, who do that. They print and bind on demand only, thus cutting the storage costs. Authors set the price, on the basis of an equation comprising fixed costs (price per page + binding), what they want to earn per copy, plus a 20% commission for the publisher - to which postage gets added (see http://www.lulu.com/help/node/view/33 , then Step 5: Price Finish) But when I mentioned this possibility to some friends in academe, they objected that for career purposes, the peer-reviewing would be lacking, whereas it is vital for career purposes. On the other hand, though, Lulu allows authors to buy their books at a discounted price (without the author's commission) and postage can be reduced for bulk shipping. This would enable academics to order copies at a more reasonable price, and send them for peer-reviewing, perhaps. cheers Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi_at_bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Don't Let Fear Kill Muni Wi-Fi (fwd)
Don't Let Muni Wi-Fi - Pimp The Poor For too long in this country, we have used the excuse that we're helping poor people to start initiatives that only help the middle and upper class. Muni Wi-Fi totally ignores the fact that the poor don't have equipment in their homes to benefit from such a network. Municipal efforts would better be utilized to influence the business community and help them donate their used computers to needy families. I've been saying this for nine years. When I bring up this idea, everyone looks with a blind stare and go on talking about why government should continue to go into business, competing with businesses that they are taxing. Municipal governments cannot build and maintain wi-fi systems that only benefit targeted segments of the people. Where will the money come from to update the system. Of course, we'll tax everyone, including the working poor who don't have access to the muni wi-fi system. I think strategies like this are disingenuous and misguided. Create the demand for digital divide access by putting technology into the homes that need it and then use municipal influence to leverage cost effective access to current broadband companies. I'm the director of Time Dollar Tutoring (www.timedollartutoring.org). To date, we have placed 5,325 computers in needy homes. In addition, we have redirected 600 tons of computer waste out of our landfills. The majority of the computers came from Corporate America. It can be done. With the support of government, nonprofit groups like ours could placed millions of computers in homes. Now there's a demand that can't be ignored by any company in the Internet access business and municipal officials would have little trouble making the case. Short of doing this, we're just pimping the poor. Calvin Pearce Executive Director Time Dollar Tutoring Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A commentary about municipal wi-fi from Stanford Law School's Jennifer Granick on Wired.com... -ac Don't Let Fear Kill Muni Wi-Fi Plans are afoot in Philadelphia and Huntsville, Alabama, as well as my hometown of San Francisco, to provide residents with low-cost or free wireless internet access. It's a great idea whose time has come, like drinking fountains, public toilets and park benches. But last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that my city's mayor expects a legal challenge from internet service providers like SBC and Comcast, who presumably prefer every San Franciscan to pay a monthly access fee. Obviously, ISPs fear competition from a free service. But people pay for bottled water, music downloads, open-source operating systems and printed versions of free blogs. Companies can still make money in cities with public Wi-Fi by selling even faster service or bundling connectivity with subscriptions, software or support. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69175,00.html -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ 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. Calvin Pearce, Time Dollar Tutoring, P.O. Box 436964, Chicago, IL 60643 773-233-4442 Office, 773-233-4124 Fax, [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.timedollartutoring.org, http://timedollartutoring.blogspot.com/ http://thepublicthinktank.blogspot.com/ ___ 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.
[DDN] Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Many of you may already know about this, but today's Financial Times has the following story: Call to restrict 'stifling' patents (http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3e3b14aa-3c1e-11da-94fb-0e2511c8.html) An international group of academics, scientists and artists has called for strict limits on patents and copyrights, concerned that the spread of intellectual property protection is suppressing knowledge and stifling creativity. A charter on intellectual property (IP), developed by the Royal Society of Arts in London, calls for an automatic presumption against creating new protection or extending existing rules. It also argues that patents and copyrights should not be allowed to apply to computer code, business processes, scientific theories or abstract data. Today's intellectual property regime was radically out of line with modern technological, economic and social trends, said the charter. The story refers to the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property released yesterday in London - available at http://www.ipcharter.org. In addition to folks from the UK, the group includes some familiar names (some of whom are probably on this email list): James Boyle, Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig and Jamie Love. Good job! Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Intellectual Property Rights
I agree with John that the Google's and Yahoo's digitization of books is not a problem if the purpose is to provide access to specific portions only - the creation of the intellectual showroom (look what happened when the Border brothers encouraged people in their Ann Arbor bookstore to actually sit and read part of the book before they bought it). In fact, digitizing the entire book is the only way to make this search process work - and the access would be permitted under the fair use provisions of copyright. The technology is certainly there to limit access to just the searched portions. But, if access is provided to the entire book, then a copyright issue comes up - which brings me back to my earlier posting about Yahoo's plan to tie its Internet Archive to a Bookmobile that would allow for on-demand printing of a book, purportedly in underdeveloped areas. Such an on-demand printing activity without paying royalties would be a problem (as Kinko's found out a number of years ago when they put together on-demand university course packs from copyrighted materials). The core of this debate, however, is what belongs in the public domain. My real concern is the absurdly long term for copyrights that keeps materials out of the public domain - and goes well beyond any incentive to the authors. That is why I applauded the release of the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
[DDN] Internet or irrigation
from http://www.freepress.net/news/11806 Internet? Give us irrigation, Peru farmers say From http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNewsstoryID=2005-10-12T231346Z_01_DIT283610_RTRUKOC_0_US-MINERALS-Reuters, October 13, 2005 LIMA, Peru (Reuters) Hundreds of Peruvian farmers living near the huge Las Bambas copper project plan a two-day protest on Sunday against a government program to spend a social fund on Internet connections in an area where many cannot read or write. As part of Swiss-based Xstratas concession deal to develop the southern Andes deposit, the company last year paid $45.5 million to a government-run fund to alleviate poverty in one of the countrys most impoverished regions. The government has said it plans to spend the money on installing computers connected to the Internet, soccer pitches and developing city squares in the Apurimac region. Were peasants, many of us cannot read or write But we dont believe the Internet will help us as much as an irrigation channel will, said Cristian Huilca, who went to Congress in Lima to lobby lawmakers, on Wednesday. Huilca said farmers planned to block the entrance to the exploration site being developed by Xstrata, although it was not likely to stop exploration. Xstrata, which aims to begin copper production at Las Bambas in 2011, was not immediately available for comment. Mining is Perus biggest export earner and money is flowing into poor Andean mining regions as metals prices hit record highs this year. But many poor farmers and a growing number of officials worry that funds are being ill-spent on decorative parks and buildings rather than on badly needed schools, drinking water plants, hospitals and electricity provision. Kenan Patrick Jarboe, Ph.D. Athena Alliance 911 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003-3903 (202) 547-7064 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AthenaAlliance.org http://www.IntangibleEconomy.org ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] If the world were a village of 1,000 people +
Re: [DDN] A Littl' More On Bridging the Digital Divide in the US
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I struggle with this $100 dollar initiative because I know that in many
countries, onehundred US dollars is a LOT of money. There were some initiatives
that were a locational resource that served whole villages through UNESCO..
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http://www.gdrc.org/uem/1000-village.htm
You must read on to learn about the technology bits. Bonnie
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Hola Hermana Bonnie and All Fellow Bridge Builders ~ In the urban Inner Third
World where I live in Sacramento, California $100 dollars can still be a LOT of
money and endless innovative imagination is priceless!
I found the websource, after a link and got the whole page ~ with some bits and
bytes herein...
If the world were a village of 1,000 people ...
Dona Meadows
If the world were a village of 1,000 people, it would include:
· 584 Asians
· 124 Africans
· 95 East and West Europeans
· 84 Latin Americans
· 55 Soviets (including for the moment Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians and
other national groups)
· 52 North Americans
· 6 Australians and New Zealanders
The people of the village have considerable difficulty in communicating:
· 165 people speak Mandarin
· 86 English
· 83 Hindi/Urdu
· 64 Spanish
· 58 Russian
· 37 Arabic
That list accounts for the mother tongues of only half the villagers. The other
half speak (in descending order of frequency) Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian,
Japanese, German, French and 200 other languages.
In this village of 1,000 there are:
· 329 Christians (among them 187 Catholics, 84 Protestants, 31 Orthodox)
· 178 Moslems
· 167 non-religious
· l32 Hindus
· 60 Buddhists
· 45 atheists
· 3 Jews
· 86 all other religions
One-third (330) of the 1,000 people in the world village are children and only
60 are over the age of 65. Half the children are immunized against preventable
infectious diseases such as measles and polio.
Just under half of the married women in the village have access to and use
modern contraceptives.
This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them for lack of
food, 1 from cancer, 2 of the deaths are of babies born within the year. One
person of the 1,000 is infected with the HIV virus; that person most likely has
not yet developed a full-blown case of AIDS.
With the 28 births and 10 deaths, the population of the village next year will
be 1,018.
In this 1,000-person community, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income;
another 200 receive only 2 percent of the income.
Only 70 people of the 1,000 own an automobile (although some of the 70 own more
than one automobile).
About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.
Of the 670 adults in the village, half are illiterate.
The village has six acres of land per person, 6,000 acres in all, of which
· 700 acres are cropland
· 1,400 acres pasture
· 1,900 acres woodland
· 2,000 acres desert, tundra, pavement and other wasteland
· The woodland is declining rapidly; the wasteland is increasing. The other
land categories are roughly stable.
The village allocates 83 percent of its fertilizer to 40 percent of its
cropland - that owned by the richest and best-fed 270 people. Excess fertilizer
running off this land causes pollution in lakes and wells. The remaining 60
percent of the land, with its 17 percent of the fertilizer, produces 28 percent
of the food grains and feeds 73 percent of the people. The average grain yield
on that land is one-third the harvest achieved by the richer villagers.
In the village of 1,000 people, there are:
· 5 soldiers
· 7 teachers
· 1 doctor
· 3 refugees driven from home by war or drought
The village has a total budget each year, public and private, of over $3
million - $3,000 per person if it is distributed evenly (which, we have already
seen, it isn't).
Of the total $3 million:
· $181,000 goes to weapons and warfare
· $159,000 for education
· $l32,000 for health care
The village has buried beneath it enough explosive power in nuclear weapons to
blow itself to smithereens many times over. These weapons are under the control
of just 100 of the people. The other 900 people are watching them with deep
anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together; and if they
do, whether they might set off the weapons anyway through inattention or
technical bungling; and, if they ever decide to dismantle the weapons, where in
the world village they would dispose of the radioactive materials of which the
weapons are made.
Donella (Dana) Meadows (1941-2001) has written a regular bi-weekly column
called The Global Citizen that are equally thought
[DDN] Estonians Break Ground, Vote Online
From the AP. -ac Estonians Break Ground, Vote Online TALLINN, Estonia - This tiny former Soviet republic nicknamed e-Stonia because of its tech-savvy population is breaking new ground in digital democracy. This week, Estonia became the first country in the world to hold an election allowing voters nationwide to cast ballots over the Internet. Fewer than 10,000 people, or 1 percent of registered voters, participated online in elections for mayors and city councils across the country, but officials hailed the experiment conducted Monday to Wednesday as a success. Election officials in the country of 1.4 million said they had received no reports of flaws in the online voting system or hacking attempts. snip http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_hi_te/estonia_internet_voting -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ 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.
[DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of
Hi everyone, Eleven years ago today on the EDTECH and LM_NET lists, I launched my first website, EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform (www.edwebproject.org). The site was the result of a post-graduate fellowship from Northwestern University's Annenberg-Washington Program. I'd spent the summer of 1994 working at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting researching the impact on telecommunications reform on K-12 education. Because I was just a lowly grad student, they weren't willing to publish my findings in an official capacity, so instead I learned HTML, set up a Web server on my old Mac Classic, and launched EdWeb myself. It was one of the very first websites examining the role of the Web in education, and it propelled me into the work on the digital divide that I'm doing 11 years later. Meanwhile, as part of EdWeb, I set up a personal homepage for myself called Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth As you can see from this archival copy of my homepage from around eight years ago, the page was organized with my latest news updates at the top, with older information further down the page. http://web.archive.org/web/19970620115056/http://edweb.cnidr.org/andy.html Over time, I eventually stopped coding the page by hand and switched to various blogger tools, including Blogger and Movable Type. Today, of course, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth - still a part of EdWeb but with its own domain name, www.andycarvin.com - is my primary way of saying whatever it is I want to say online. So in a way, I'm able to celebrate the 11th anniversary of my blog today. Perhaps not a blog in function that whole time, but certainly a blog in spirit. (grin) -andy -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ 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.
[DDN] I-pods n' you...
Hello all, I'm looking for information on the I-Pod (both audio and the new video versions) regarding their target market, demographics, market penetration, and projections for future sales. These questions lean towards business forecast modeling but I also am especially interested in the the potential uses for the technology (podcasting/mobcasting as two examples) which may light the fire of more of the folks here. Any resources or thoughts you have on the subject would be very helpful. Thanks to everyone in advance. Paul Mondesire Thirteen/WNET [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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.
[DDN] FW: New NIEA Award from NCAI
Fyi - siobhan -Original Message- From: American Indian Library Association National Indian Education Association 110 Maryland Avenue, N.E. Suite 104 Washington, D.C. 20002 P: (202) 544-7290 / F: (202) 544-7293 October 14, 2005 Broadcast # 05-047 NIEA ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL PRESIDENT'S TECHNOLOGY AWARD - $500 AWARD NIEA is pleased to announce the First Annual NIEA President's Technology Award, sponsored by Educational Options, Inc. This award is designed to assist American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Teachers bring more technology to their classrooms. NIEA will make two awards of $500.00 to innovative projects that incorporate technology in the classroom. The selected awardees will be invited to the 2006 NIEA Convention to present on how their projects were implemented and the resulting impact on their students and school. Consider how technology could help improve the future for your students and tell us how you would use the $500.00 award to use or promote technology use in the classroom for a chance to win! For more information on how to enter, please visit this http://www.niea.org/issues/policy_detail.php?id=18link (www.niea.org/issues/policy_detail.php?id=18) or call our office at (202) 544-7290. Worried about our future? Do not fear. Look into the eyes of our children. John D. Berry, NAS Librarian, UC Berkeley American Indian Library Association - Listserv Manager American Library Association - Councilor at Large, 2001-2004 ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Don't Let Fear Kill Muni Wi-Fi (fwd)
Plans are afoot in Philadelphia and Huntsville, Alabama, as well as my hometown of San Francisco, to provide residents with low-cost or free wireless internet access. To date, we have placed 5,325 computers in needy homes. Hello all: Need these initiatives be mutually exclusive? I am not at all certain that this needs to be a zero sum equation. I am all for the refurbishing and distribution of outdated corporate computers to people in need. This is such an efficient use of resources with so many benefits that is seems like a no brainer. The notion of municipal Wi-Fi with the utility model also seems like a reasonable change in paradigm and could work hand in hand with the technology flow into the hands of the underserved as Mr. Pearce describes. Why need it be one or the other? The only answer to that is a lack of public/political will to make it happen and that is at the core of much of what we so passionately discuss here. Separately, the posting on Irrigation vs. the Internet again points out the disparities in various societies and how little thought seems to be allocated to the real lives of real people throughout the world. Alas, Common Sense, is NOT Common Paul Mondesire Thirteen/WNET [EMAIL PROTECTED] Calvin Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't Let Muni Wi-Fi - Pimp The Poor For too long in this country, we have used the excuse that we're helping poor people to start initiatives that only help the middle and upper class. Muni Wi-Fi totally ignores the fact that the poor don't have equipment in their homes to benefit from such a network. Municipal efforts would better be utilized to influence the business community and help them donate their used computers to needy families. I've been saying this for nine years. When I bring up this idea, everyone looks with a blind stare and go on talking about why government should continue to go into business, competing with businesses that they are taxing. Municipal governments cannot build and maintain wi-fi systems that only benefit targeted segments of the people. Where will the money come from to update the system. Of course, we'll tax everyone, including the working poor who don't have access to the muni wi-fi system. I think strategies like this are disingenuous and misguided. Create the demand for digital divide access by putting technology into the homes that need it and then use municipal influence to leverage cost effective access to current broadband companies. I'm the director of Time Dollar Tutoring (www.timedollartutoring.org). To date, we have placed 5,325 computers in needy homes. In addition, we have redirected 600 tons of computer waste out of our landfills. The majority of the computers came from Corporate America. It can be done. With the support of government, nonprofit groups like ours could placed millions of computers in homes. Now there's a demand that can't be ignored by any company in the Internet access business and municipal officials would have little trouble making the case. Short of doing this, we're just pimping the poor. Calvin Pearce Executive Director Time Dollar Tutoring Andy Carvin wrote: A commentary about municipal wi-fi from Stanford Law School's Jennifer Granick on Wired.com... -ac Don't Let Fear Kill Muni Wi-Fi Plans are afoot in Philadelphia and Huntsville, Alabama, as well as my hometown of San Francisco, to provide residents with low-cost or free wireless internet access. It's a great idea whose time has come, like drinking fountains, public toilets and park benches. But last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that my city's mayor expects a legal challenge from internet service providers like SBC and Comcast, who presumably prefer every San Franciscan to pay a monthly access fee. Obviously, ISPs fear competition from a free service. But people pay for bottled water, music downloads, open-source operating systems and printed versions of free blogs. Companies can still make money in cities with public Wi-Fi by selling even faster service or bundling connectivity with subscriptions, software or support. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69175,00.html -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ 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. Calvin Pearce, Time Dollar Tutoring, P.O. Box 436964, Chicago, IL 60643 773-233-4442 Office, 773-233-4124 Fax, [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.timedollartutoring.org, http://timedollartutoring.blogspot.com/ http://thepublicthinktank.blogspot.com/
RE: [DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of
Congratulations Andy! This is indeed something to celebrate! We are thrilled to have your leadership and guidance. How great to mark your path from a grad student to now - the insights, the progress, the lessons learned. Thanks for all you do for so many others. Stay tuned, Brenda Brenda J. Trainor Frontier Trail, Inc. Box 935 Monrovia, CA 91016 323.229.2397 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Friday, 14 October 2005 1:57 PM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of Hi everyone, Eleven years ago today on the EDTECH and LM_NET lists, I launched my first website, EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform (www.edwebproject.org). The site was the result of a post-graduate fellowship from Northwestern University's Annenberg-Washington Program. I'd spent the summer of 1994 working at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting researching the impact on telecommunications reform on K-12 education. Because I was just a lowly grad student, they weren't willing to publish my findings in an official capacity, so instead I learned HTML, set up a Web server on my old Mac Classic, and launched EdWeb myself. It was one of the very first websites examining the role of the Web in education, and it propelled me into the work on the digital divide that I'm doing 11 years later. Meanwhile, as part of EdWeb, I set up a personal homepage for myself called Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth As you can see from this archival copy of my homepage from around eight years ago, the page was organized with my latest news updates at the top, with older information further down the page. http://web.archive.org/web/19970620115056/http://edweb.cnidr.org/andy.html Over time, I eventually stopped coding the page by hand and switched to various blogger tools, including Blogger and Movable Type. Today, of course, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth - still a part of EdWeb but with its own domain name, www.andycarvin.com - is my primary way of saying whatever it is I want to say online. So in a way, I'm able to celebrate the 11th anniversary of my blog today. Perhaps not a blog in function that whole time, but certainly a blog in spirit. (grin) -andy -- --- Andy Carvin Program Director EDC Center for Media Community acarvin @ edc . org http://www.digitaldivide.net http://katrina05.blogspot.com Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com --- ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [DDN] Celebrating 11 Years of Blogging - Sort Of
Many happy returns, Andy! And thanks for having always shared your tech forrays with others. Selkirk/Crusoe might have been mightily p*ssed off if he'd gone back to his island after 11 years and found a Club Med resort there. Not you. Claude -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages ___ 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.
[DDN] ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL PRESIDENT'S TECHNOLOGY AWARD - $500 AWARD
In a message dated 10/14/05 5:36:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL PRESIDENT'S TECHNOLOGY AWARD - $500 AWARD NIEA is pleased to announce the First Annual NIEA President's Technology Award, sponsored by Educational Options, Inc. This award is designed to assist American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Teachers bring more technology to their classrooms. NIEA will make two awards of $500.00 to innovative projects that incorporate technology in the classroom. The selected awardees will be invited to the 2006 NIEA Convention to present on how their projects were implemented and the resulting impact on their students and school. Consider how technology could help improve the future for your students and tell us how you would use the $500.00 award to use or promote technology use in the classroom for a chance to win! For more information on how to enter, please visit this http://www.niea.org/issues/policy_detail.php?id=18link (www.niea.org/issues/policy_detail.php?id=18) or call our office at (202) 544-7290. Worried about our future? Do not fear. Look into the eyes of our children. John D. Berry, NAS Librarian, UC Berkeley American Indian Library Association - Listserv Manager American Library Association - Councilor at Large, 2001-2004 ___ 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.
[DDN] [Fwd: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief]
SALDWR = South Asian Leftists Dialoguing With Religion - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saldwr/ All the best Claude Original Message Subject: [saldwr] Website on Kashmir Quake Relief Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:15:06 -0700 (PDT) From: yogi sikand To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friends If you want to help the victims of the earthquake in Kashmir, do have a look at this site: http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Earthquake_10-05_Donating#US_Diaspora It offers detailed information of relief organisations in both Indian-Administered and Pakistani-Administered Kashmir. Regards, Yoginder Sikand -- Claude Almansi Castione, Switzerland claude.almansi @ bluewin.ch http://www.adisi.ch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADISI http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/claude http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/languages NB La mia messaggeria di posta elettronica è impostata per rifiutare e-mail di più di 200kb. Per favore, se *dovete* condividere un file pesante, mettetelo online e mandatemi l'URL (si può fare con http://www.rapidshare.de ad es). NB My e-mail client is set on accepting only e-mails under 200kb. If you *have to* share a big file, please put it online and send me the URL (you can do that at http://www.rapidshare.de , for instance). ___ 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.
[DDN] Copyright Awareness Campaign
Dear All We are NGO in Egypt, we are looking to start Awareness Campaign about copyright (software protection exactly) and we hope to find any support or fund to start a smart and effective campaign. any Ideas, tools, mechanisms or grant for this if possible. Best Regards Mohamed Hegazy www.ecipit.org.eg - Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ___ 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.
