Arun wrote:
Thanks Larry! CODATA and ICSU are keen to promote open access to
scientific data and grid computing (for virtual collboration) - all of
which will help developing country scientists in ways we cannot foresee
now!
Thereby benefiting those of us in industrialized nations in ways
Arun's case for the public computer thesis, below, is powerful and
compelling.
That we can do much to bridge the digital divide without public computing is
a fiction that needs to be exposed and contested.
Steve Eskow
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Taran Rampersad wants to believe, it would seem, that 20 people owning 20
motorcycles amounts to the same thing as a bus. (I'm guessing here that
that's what the missing message argues.)
And he wants to inject the important notion of the network into the issue:
In a network, public computing is
Beware the uniquely Liberal concept of ownership.
Clarification, for those in/from the US who are wondering about this
correlation between liberal and the concept of ownership (as I
was when I first moved to Europe -- so I'm assuming there might be at
least a few people puzzled by this...
Thanks Larry! CODATA and ICSU are keen to promote open access to
scientific data and grid computing (for virtual collboration) - all of
which will help developing country scientists in ways we cannot foresee
now!
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
The idea of public commons is now picking up among
Beware the uniquely Liberal concept of ownership. For John Stuart Mill,
ownership meant title and control. For many others it merely means taking
responsibility, as in owning up to an act or decision. In the first sense,
assuredly, many techno-literates do not own computers but use them in common
Thanks very much Dr Eskow. Honestly, I did not follow what Mr Errol Hewit
wrote in reply to my comments. I will read it again when I have more time
at hand. Best wishes.
Arun
Arun's case for the public computer thesis, below, is powerful and
compelling.
That we can do much to bridge the
Dr. Steve Eskow wrote:
Arun's case for the public computer thesis, below, is powerful and
compelling.
That we can do much to bridge the digital divide without public computing is
a fiction that needs to be exposed and contested.
Steve Eskow
Sorry, Steve, I've read all of this quite
Errol Hewitt wrote: As soon as the individual or family in the community
sees the benefit of
the technology to his/her own circumstance, is when the real economic
decision will be taken to learn the skill and own it -- then is when the
sacrifice will be made to 'own' it.
Sorry, that is not what
Friends:
The idea of public commons is now picking up among scientists (and scholars)
around the world. It was about 15 years ago that Paul Ginsparg, then at Los
Alomas National Laboratory, thought of a central archive for physics
research papers - both preprints and post prints. Now 'arXiv'
The idea of public commons is now picking up among scientists (and
scholars)
Thanks to Arun for an excellent survey of open scientific publishing.
I would only add that open access to scientific data sets and on-line
instruments can require significantly higher bandwidth than access to
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