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MISTICA: Bytesforall 2/2004 (EXTRACTS)

From: Deirdre Williams ([email protected])
Date: s�b feb 14 2004 - 09:35:34 AST

>B y t e s F o r A l l --- http://www.bytesforall.org
>Making Computing Relevant to the People of South Asia
>FEB04 * http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers
>
>Portal for women entrepreneurs
>Small and medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA), Pakistan, has
>designed the country's first exclusive portal for women entrepreneurs with
>the support of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Centre for
>Research on Poverty Reduction and Income Distribution (CRPRID). Hasan Rizvi
>of the IUCN Pakiststan Programme informs that it can be accessed at:
>www.win.org.pk
>
>FLOSS and e-gov
>Planned shortly is a conference on "How does Open Source provide an
>Innovative Solution for E-Government?" The Center of Open Source &
>Government and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) are
>co-sponsoring the conference in Washington, DC, March 15-17, 2004. See
>www.egovos.org for more information and to register.
>
>IS mailing list
>This is a list set up to discuss Information Society issues. For discussion
>archives visit: http://www.dgroups.org/groups/IS/index.cfm
>To join, send a blank message to: [email protected]
>
>Computing, responsibility
>The Centre for Computing and Social Responsiblity has relaunched its
>website. The new website contains new resourses, improved interfaces, and
>new drill-down searching facilities, says CCSR webmaster Robert Neal. As
>part of the relaunch a new electronic journal, The ETHICOMP Journal
>(www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/journal) has been launched. Currently the journal is
>on a free subscription for a limited period. Go to the journal webpage to
>complete a simple subscription form.
>
>Licence fees and GDP
>Expat Indian researcher Rishab Aiyer Ghosh argues that there is a strong
>case for free software (also known as open source or libre software) being
>deployed widely in developing countries. FLOSS's development community
>provides an environment of intensive interactive skills development at
>little explicit cost, which is particularly useful for local development of
>skills, especially in economically disadvantaged regions. Further, this note
>argues that the controversy over total costs of ownership (TCO) of free vs.
>proprietary software is not applicable to developing countries and other
>regions with low labour costs, where the TCO advantage lies with open
>source, and the share of licence fees in TCO is much higher than in high
>labour cost countries. The note concludes with a table comparing license
>fees for proprietary software against GDP per capita for 176 countries.
>Read the complete article at
>http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ghosh/index.html
>
> From Sri Lanka
>http://developmentgateway.org/ict
>In Sri Lanka, there is a sharing of a strong belief in ICT as an enabler of
>development and as a key determinant of the competitive advantage of
>nations. Due to this, the Government, private sector and other stakeholders
>within Sri Lanka have developed a vision for an 'e-Sri Lanka' -- a vision
>that, proponents say, will bring the benefits of ICT to every village, to
>every citizen, to every business and will revolutionize the way Government
>operates.
>
>DG, an IT link
>There are some 6040 DG (Development Gateway) members who have selected to
>receive broadcasts on ICT4D from the Development Gateway. To subscribe,
>unsubscribe, add your bio and photo to your personal profile or change how
>often you receive email from the gateway (e.g. hourly, daily, weekly or
>bimonthly) go to http://www.developmentgateway.org/pvt and change the
>settings under "My interests" and click on "Update" at the bottom of the
>page. This community now consists of 6324 members in over 185 countries who
>have shared about 7087 knowledge resources as of January 19, 2004.

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