Hi Len: PlantCollections - A Community Solution started as an effect restricted to the USA to link plant related information from botanic gardens together on the WWW. Additional funding has permitted us to expand the project to include China and India. Portals to access the information will be created in Mandarin and Hindi to provide as broad an access to the data as possible. Expansion activities have certainly provided opportunities for building collaborations with other cultures based upon a shared interest in plants and the natural world.
Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 tel: 847-835-6841 fax: 847-835-1635 email: btankers at chicagobotanic.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Leonard Steinbach Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:04 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [POSSIBLE SPAM SENDER] - [MCN-L] "cultural diplomacy" - Email found in subject I have been long interested in how web or other technology based collaborations are a form of "cultural diplomacy," which for the moment I will simply define as fostering better understandings among peoples based on the sharing of art and culture. For example, FRAME www.framemuseums.org fosters the sharing of information, exhibitions, and intellectual discourse through a consortium of 12 French and 12 American regional museums. I was most impressed and inspired by the work of our colleagues and friends at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan who through multi-lingual presentation and broad distribution of information about their art are really promoting and sharing their culture. http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm Our friends also talked about their involvement n "culturemondo" -- check out http://www.culturelink.org/conf/culturemondo/index.html Then there are non-museum projects such as the Digital Worlds Institute http://www.digitalworlds.ufl.edu/ which is using internet2 and music and other culture to bridge communities around the world. Anyway..... i would appreciate and links or information about web or otherwise technology-based culture-based multi-national initiatives to bring the world's peoples together. many thanks Len Steinbach lensteinbach at gmail.com cell 917 821 6207 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
