I agree with you that technology is a tool. My issue is with the term
just. When you state that technology is *just* a tool you are
minimizing the important and often obscure biases within the technology.
The issue is subtle, but I believe it is significant.
To use your car analogy, there is
Hi everyone,
We've just added a new feature to the Digital Divide Network website
called DDN Friends. The idea behind this feature is to allow DDN members
to identify friends and colleagues on the network and list them on your
personal profile page. For example, if you go to my personal profile
Sad news from Tunisia... -andy
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Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] 14.03.05 cyber-dissident Zouhair Yahyaoui
dies of heart attack - cyberdissident Zouhair Yahyaoui décède d'une
crise cardiaque
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:51:00 +0100
Courageous young cyber-dissident
Hi,
It is projects like these that make me call Brazil the Shining Star of
Free and Open Source Software.
Note that the report and all of the software necessary to duplicate the effort
is available for download.
Score:
Brazil 2,536,357
Others 5,212
[Note: These scores are
One of the best books I have found on the subject of technology and
American Indians is Jerry Mander's In the Absence of the Sacred: The
failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations. It was
published by Sierra Books, San Francisco in 1991. Mander's book leans to
the left at times,
The following from Kurzweil's email newsletter:
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Mobile broadband Internet access
anywhere
KurzweilAI.net March 14, 2005
*
Three new Inmarsat 4 communications
satellites will provide global
broadband Internet access to mobile
users for the first
FYI
Marouen MRAIHI
CyberVolunteer in Mali right now
http://www.mraihi.com
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Subject: ICV News Update, 14 March 2005
Date:Sun, March 13, 2005 11:22 am
I just wrote this article at the IT Garage, and thought a few people
might be interested.
http://garage.docsearls.com/node/553
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Criticize by creating.
Hi Fabrizio,
I am researcher in Brazil about digital divide issues. I have a small virtual
library where I collected some reports and digital thesis about the theme in
http://br.geocities.com/bibliotecamicromundos Have you seen the blog of Andy
Carvin. He wrote about the prep com of Tunisia
Guide to Rural Telecentres Published in Brazil
09-03-2005 (UNESCO Brasilia) - A Guide to Rural Telecentres (Guia
Gemas da Terra de Telecentros Rurais) was recently published by the
Brazilian NGO Gemas da Terra. The Guide, that was produced with resources
from UNESCO's Information for All
Hi:
This looks like a grant opportunity worth forwarding to the group.
Bob
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2005 Community Grant. The Beaumont Foundation
of America is dedicated to enriching the lives of
individuals by providing technology to historically
underserved schools and communities. The 2005
Areas of Focus
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this new feature is excellent. thanks cedar, andy, mike furdyck and
anyone else involved in creating this feature.
it's useful to note that the word friend is used in the broadest
sense. i use this feature just to keep track of folks whose
profile looks interesting on the DDN site.
K Wong (UVic) wrote:
I agree with you that technology is a tool. My issue is with the term
just. When you state that technology is *just* a tool you are
minimizing the important and often obscure biases within the technology.
The issue is subtle, but I believe it is significant.
To use your car
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