Re: [GKD] Invitation to Content for Community Needs Programme (India)

2005-06-24 Thread Peter Burgess
Dear Colleagues, I wish I had the time and money to be with you in New Delhi at the end of the month. 100,000 telecenters is progress, but how much depends on the architecture of the information and the infrastructure of the communication component. How do the content providers know what

Re: [GKD] RFI: How Can A Grassroots Project Obtain Financing From Private Donors In Rich Countries?

2005-06-24 Thread Gena Fleming
Dear Arrigo: I am interested in the topic you present, with respect to finding funding for grassroots endeavors, and I see your question has also generated a good deal of response. I did a bit of internet searching a while back trying to assist a friend in South Africa who was starting an NGO for

Re: [GKD] Local Languages, ICT, and Indigenous Knowledge

2005-06-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Friday, 10 June 2005, Donald Z. Osborn wrote: There is not a huge demand for local language applications right now. The claim that there is no demand for a product is quite often wrong, especially when based on supposition rather than investigation. Every publisher that looked at The

[GKD] Exploring Innovation from a Child and Leadership Perspective

2005-06-24 Thread Debra Amidon
Dear GKD Members, Our discussions have been so fruitful...the seeds of some wonderful solutions and insights into how to deliver progress. I would like to propose a bit of a diversion... I am convinced that what we are all seeking is 'innovation.' In fact, at the Malaysia conference (and

Re: [GKD] Invitation to Content for Community Needs Programme (India)

2005-06-24 Thread Robert T. McLaughlin
Dear Veronica, We've developed an open source application that you would be most welcome to use at no cost that would enable you to catalog and disseminate such digital resources. The one challenge would be to develop a taxonomy of categories and subcategories by which you want to catalog