Hi everyone,
I've got some very sad news to report. Avid DDN member Steve Snow has passed
away. I don't know any details apart from what has been posted on the AFCN
website, which I've copied below. Steve joined DDN at the very beginning, way
back in 1999, and was a leading voice for bridging
This is the ultimate digital divide...
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There has been
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What, you mean this? http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/the_drupal_song
grin
FWIW, the Kabissa site is drupal and civicrm, and through it we are able to
have a group blogging platform wih email notifications permitting email
replies, monthly email newsletter and periodic special mailings. This
What I have not seen in this exchange is the cost for the system including:
a) the number of staff, their positions, full or part time and the over all
costs for each area (not individuals), mgmt, tech support, etc
b) the overhead costs for hardware, software and other maint. issues
c) other
hmm, how long between submission and approval as in this just released batch
of postings.
I am wondering how useful a network working in the ICT4Dev area really is with
gate keepers. Think China in today's world. Who would fund such an organization
when the internet is pushing for open
Hello all and Tom,
Have been reading this stuff about future of DDN which essentially needed some
funding.
We which sites do not need funding. :)
Tom you mentioned about China. Just like to ask does anyone has contacts with
China in the education sector looking for solution for their rural
Does the DDN website (www.digitaldivide.net) and TakingITGlobal not count,
Deborah?
Andy Carvin
andycarvin at yahoo com
www.andycarvin.com
www.pbs.org/learningnow
- Original Message
From: Deborah Phelan deborahphe...@gmail.com
To:
not saying that at all, Andy. what I was suggesting was possibly using this
resource as a home for the listserv since you seemed to be looking for
volunteers to manage it. That idea could just mean listing Digitial Divide
Network and TakingITGlobal on WE, (unable to locate either in a search
I've co-moderated 3 Italian mailing-lists a couple of years ago. So
I'd volunteer to co-moderate this DDN list - preferably not alone,
especially at first, until I get the hang of issues possibly involved.
DDN counts. The issues may have evolved, but they have not gone away.
Best
Claude
On
Let's simplify.
Ismael Peña-López wrote:
I'd second Andy's proposal to recruit some volunteers and let the list run
(smoothly) for a while.
i.
Forgive me. That was Andy's proposal when DDN left Benton, and there was
a sincere attempt to do that to some degree. It didn't work then, it
We see this often with our clients; technology shouldn't be
implemented for technology's sake. If people are comfortable with a
mailing list, then that's what they'll use, even if the client just
spent a hideous amount of money on their shiny new online
communications center that the
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