Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

2008-08-15 Thread Steve Eskow
Hi Tom, Please say some more about this: < What is a "development phenomenon"? How are technologies, like the digital technologies, related to "development"? Steve On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM, tom abeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi steve > > I think you are right- Hope is the key >

Re: [DDN] e-waste in Ghana

2008-08-15 Thread Sameera Wijerathna
Hi Bajwa We are at Dialog Telekom, Sri Lanka too have an initiative to handle M-Waste (Mobile Waste). Please refer the following article for more info. Dialog Telekom launches M-Waste take back programme. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 03rd December 2007. Leading the way in Corporate Environment

Re: [DDN] The Digital Divide and Human Health

2008-08-15 Thread Joe Beckmann
Sternberg's got loads of stuff on and through the Tufts website - as well as news stories through google like this one - http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/07/06/tufts_gets_creative_on_admissions/- and I got the attached from a powerpoint he did which is somewhere I can't fin

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

2008-08-15 Thread Joe Beckmann
A meeting of minds is far from difficult: western techniques are easier to transport than western technology - and netting via medicine men is virtually how the Edna McConnell Clark foundation almost wiped out Trachoma (http://www.trachoma.org/). It's a lot more complicated than condoms imply, sin

Re: [DDN] e-waste in Ghana

2008-08-15 Thread rengab
hi johnson you obviously are misinformed in pc recycling repair cost cannot be equivalent or higher to a new pc cost, you just juggle around working parts to make a complete pc the unuseable you recycle, might even get paid some for it also shipping and repairing cannot be higher than the price

Re: [DDN] The Digital Divide and Human Health

2008-08-15 Thread Catherine Arden
This is very interesting, Dave, and appears to concur - at least in part - with what Pierre Bourdieu wrote in "The Forms of Capital" in 1983: "So it has to be posited simultaneously that economic capital is at the root of all the other types of capital and that these transformed, disguised for

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

2008-08-15 Thread Taran Rampersad
Sarah Blackmun-Eskow wrote: > There is no good metaphor to express this situation in all of its raw power > and destructiveness. Perhaps a non-metaphorical expression is needed. > Any society is the sum of it's expectations. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

2008-08-15 Thread Sarah Blackmun-Eskow
Metaphors, while compelling, can be misleading and ultimately destructive. A chunk of the billions of dollars of "aid" goes to Western "experts" and consultants: the aid establishment, looking out for its own financial interests. Another goes to the corrupt indigenlous politicians and government f

[DDN] University of Guadalajara (Mexico) invites you to the E-Goverment International Seminar

2008-08-15 Thread david ram
Dears friends, I would like to invite you to assist to the “E-Government International Seminar”, that will be celebrate in Guadalajara, Mexico at September 8th. More Information here: http://www.udgvirtual.udg.mx/interior.php?id=965 ___ Estimados amigos, quisi

Re: [DDN] Google Insights - social networking

2008-08-15 Thread tom abeles
hi steve I think you are right- Hope is the key But bad policy and false hope is another issue. And a lot of the precious capital in the development arena has this problem cell phones are not a development phenomenon- it's an economic and business deal with political participation tom > Date