[DDN] REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: U.S. Wikipedia Users are Wealthy and Well-Educated

REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: U.S. Wikipedia Users are Wealthy and Well-Educated U.S. Wikipedia Users are Wealthy and Well-Educated Despite concerns about accuracy and reliability, Wikipedia remains a popular online source of information, as a study from the Pew Center for American Life Project rec

[DDN] Updated Call: Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration & Organizational Synergy

*Please share with your colleagues* The first call for chapters for The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (http://www.vision2lead.com/html/esynergy.html ) formally closes April 30, 2007. We have been extremely pleased with both the quantity and quality of

[DDN] U.S. Unready For Rise In Disabled

From Web MD. This should be a concern to tech developers as well: Report: U.S. Unready For Rise In Disabled Experts Say Policy Reforms Needed For Growing Population Of Disabled Americans April 24, 2007 (WebMD) Experts warned in a report Tuesday th

[DDN] CPRsouth2: Conference on "Empowering rural communities through ICT policy and research"

CPR/south/2: Empowering rural communities through ICT policy and research* December 15-17, 2007 in Chennai, India *www.cprsouth.org *Organized by LIRNE/asia/ & TeNeT Group and RTBI, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, supported by the International Development Research Centre of Cana

[DDN] Drop Digital (in Digital Inclusion)

Feedback welcome: Drop Digital (in Digital Inclusion and just about everywhere else) http://wrythings.net/2007/04/21/drop-digital-in-digital-inclusion-and-just-about-everywhere-else/ *What is Digital

[DDN] E. African Telecentre Leaders Forum (Online Sessions/Kenya Meeting June 4-6): APPLY by MAY 11th

Dear Telecentre Practitioner, Once again the East African Telecentre Leaders Forum (EA-TLF) is around the corner. This third of its kind will be co-hosted in Kenya by UgaBYTES and Kenya Network of Telecentres (KenTel) in the Kenya district of Siayi . For online sessions of the event (14 - 25th

[DDN] EDUCATION: K-12 : LIBRARIES: The School Library and Learning in the Information Landscape

EDUCATION: K-12 : LIBRARIES: The School Library and Learning in the Information Landscape The School Library and Learning in the Information Landscape The National By JOHN MATTHEWS Papua New Guinea has come a long way in its education system from

[DDN] promoting FOSS in Arab region

The UNESCO office in Rabat has just launched a listserv to discuss the Miftaah project aiming at promotion of free and open source software (FOSS) in the Arab Region. This list will allow the developers' community from the Maghreb, involved in the Miftaah project, to share information and to di

[DDN] Gender and ICT - new publication

Gender and ICT http://www.apdip.net/news/gender This publication, with a foreword by Executive Director of UNIFEM, Noeleen Heyzer, looks at information and communications technology (ICT) for development through a gender lens and discusses ICT within a gender equality framework. Recognizing the

[DDN] shared phones in the developing world

An online volunteer referred me to a resource on the Future Perfect blog, and I've spent about 30 minutes on the blog now – given how much blogs bore me, that's a major statement. It's "about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the design research"

[DDN] One Laptop Per Child / $100 Dollar Laptop project presentation (Cambridge, Mass, USA)

Dear Digital Divide Network Colleagues, At the May meeting of the Ethos Roundtable, Samuel Klein, also known as "Sj," will be speaking about his work with the One Laptop Per Child project. Ethos Roundtable Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:30 - 6:00 pm Business center conference room Charles Hotel 1 Bennet

Re: [DDN] Free Salsa?

Hi Chris, Salsa is free and open source, but it's written in Java; this means that it requires a significant investment in infrastructure to run. The hosted Salsa service offered by Democracy in Action will also be offered free to orgs with under 3,000 contacts; I'd suggest contacting Demo

[DDN] Fwd: [pakistanictpolicy] Various alternative hardware access solutions from across the globe

Hi All My apologies for cross-posting to those of you who subscribe to the mailing lists Fouad Riaz Bajwa already sent this message to, but the info seems to me relevant to the Digital Divide Network too. Best Claude -- Forwarded message -- From: Fouad Riaz Bajwa Date: Apr 25, 20

[DDN] FREE WEBINAR: Investigations with African Independent Thinkers

Limited (FREE) Registration Now Open for a Live Webinar Title: Investigations with African Independent Thinkers Speaker: Andrius Kulikauskas, Ph.D. Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007 Time: 10:30 am Eastern (Arrive at 10:00 for a tutorial on Elluminate) Presentation will last 1.5 hours with 0.5 ho