[GKD] CFP: INSTRAW - Gender and ICTs

2002-04-03 Thread Jeannie Ash de Pou
INSTRAW Call for Papers Gender and ICTs Background Information and communication technologies are recognized as key elements of the new global knowledge-based economy, ensuring rapid and continuous transfer of commercial, financial and political

[GKD] RFI: Dev. Countries and Open Source Software

2002-04-03 Thread Dennis Heuer
Dear GKD Members, My name is Dennis Heuer and I am a german social scientist who is involved in the free source community around the Linux operating system. My interest in social sciences and information technology always was interdisciplinary, so I begann to work on the question what Linux and

Re: [GKD] Digital Divide vs. Social Divide.

2002-04-03 Thread John Lawrence
To Yacine: It is hard to disagree with your pithily expressed frustration, or sharp definition of the social schisms underlying the 'digital divide' (DD) however I would suggest there is some political utility in keeping these two words as a sort of quick shorthand.. if it can focus the