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From: D. Williams ([email protected])
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 16:48:57 AST

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>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:27:40 +0530 (IST)
>From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[email protected]>
>List-Id: Focussing on how IT and the Internet promote development.
> <bytesforall.mail.sarai.net>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers
>
> The "Open Source Approach" to develop informational goods has been
> spectacularly successful, particularly in the area for which it was
> developed, software. Also beyond software, there are important,
> successful Open Source projects such as the free Encyclopedia,
> Wikipedia; collaborative sites writing/publishing projects such as
> koro5hin.org; and the Distributed Proofreading Project, attached to
> the Gutenberg Project. ....(This) does not mean that the "open
> source model" cannot apply to, say, the production of literary
> works, music, or medical drugs. What it means, however, is that to
> make it viable, another round of social innovation is required. This
> is slowly happening. The growth of "Open Access Journals" or
> discussions around "compulsory licensing" are good, though very
> early examples. -- Felix Stalder <[email protected]> on the
> Nettime mailing list, titled 'Six limitations to the current Open
> Source developmental methodology'.
>
>FOUR INITIATIVES FROM INFODEV: infoDev will launch four initiatives -- an
>e-security network study (contact: Michel H. Maechler,
>[email protected]), a free/libre and open source software toolkit , a
>program on lessons learned from infoDev projects and an infodev case studies
>(contact Jacqueline Dubow, [email protected] for the above three)
>
>FOR PUBLIC SECTOR DECISION MAKERS: OpenSector.org, is for the public sector
>decision makers meet the people, projects and principles of the open source
>software (OSS) movement to bring the benefits of free software to their
>constituents and where OSS developers and organizations can find
>opportunities and advocate for adoption of free software.
>http://opensector.org/
>
>NEW GKD DATABASE ON OFFER: For the past six years, thousands of people
>worldwide have generously shared their experience on IT for development via
>GKD, the Global Knowledge for Development mailing-list. "We believe that
>shared knowledge is extremely valuable, and thus we have developed a
>database that makes it easy to quickly find messages about various key
>topics. I hope that you will find this unique tool to be a powerful resource
>for researchers, educators, donors, journalists, and others with an interest
>in using ICTs for development," says Centre for Innovative Technologies EDC
>director Janice Brodman <[email protected]> Check out the new GKD database
>resource at: http://www.GKDknowledge.org.
>.......
> http://www.tataliteracy.com
> Site explaining the TCS idea of promoting
> functional literacy through low-end computers.
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>ONLINE TOOLKIT FOR NON-PROFITS: The Association for Progressive
>Communications (APC), with the support of the Commonwealth
>Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), has developed an online toolkit to
>assist nongovernmental organizations in understanding the impact of
>information and communications technology policy on their work. See the
>toolkit: http://www.apc.org/english/capacity/policy/curriculum.shtml
>
>INDIA TURNS TO COMMUNITY COMPUTING: Interesting interview by Technology
>Review magazine with Kenneth Keniston, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human
>Development at MIT. Keniston, who serves as director of MIT's India Program,
>is interested in the proliferation of ICT4D initiatives -- an acronym used
>in global development circles to describe the use of information and
>communications technologies for development.
>" SOURCE: MIT Technology Review
>http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/wo_keniston081303.asp
  (url may wrap).
>
>ASIA-PACIFIC REVIEW: See the Digital Review of Asia Pacific: Riding the
>waves of change: Transforming the digital divide into digital opportunities.
>The authors participating in this initiative belong to the same diverse
>constituencies as the target audiences and come from 27 economies in the
>region, including areas for which almost no data was available until very
>recently. http://www.digital-review.org/
>
>UNV's WSIS Project: The United Nations Volunteers has formed a special team
>of online volunteers to research the impact of ICT Volunteers on our
>Information Society, according to David D'Barrio Lamarche
><[email protected]>.
...
> For more information, visit
>http://www.unites.org/wsis or email the group coordinator:
>[email protected]
>
>SEMINAR IN MALYSIA: The theme is -- "ICTs in Asia : Do we know enough?"
>Noida-based magazine 'i4d' is announcing a seminar to highlight the successes
>and failures in information for development attempts in the "developing"
>world; get key information-for-development related projects showcased; and
>provide an opportunity for academic and pragmatic discussions on the
>information for development related issues. These seminars will be held in
>various parts of the developing world encompassing Asia, Africa, Latin
>America and Caribbean countries. The first of these seminars is planned to
>be held as a one-day event at Kuala Lumpur on October 14, 2003.
>Details at www.i4donline.net/seminar
>Contact Manish Kumar, Senior Research Associate, i4d (Information for
>Development) G-4, Sector 39, NOIDA 201301,India Tel No. +91-120-2502180 - 87
>Fax +91-120-2500060 www.i4donline.net

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