Ken Novak: Digital DevelopmentCommunications and info tech in developing countries, especially wireless broadband and high-value applications(Untitled)- August 30, 2003 GOVCOM.ORG: "A Narrative of the Software Project, IssueAtlas.net." Richard Rogers does interesting work on mapping people and ideas on the internet. This project is funded by the Soros Open Society Institute with OneWorld.net support.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/08/29.html#a1177 (Untitled)- August 26, 2003 Gyandoot: Community-Owned Rural Internet Kiosks: Worldbank report on Indian network of rural single-computer entrepreneurs.http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/08/25.html#a1168 (Untitled)- August 16, 2003 Reporters sans frontières - Iraq: Interesting review of press developments, with a note on cybercafes and satellite dishes: "one shopkeeper in Baghdad's Karradeh Karej Street, where business is booming for him and dozens of others selling receiver dishes. "Even shoemakers are selling them," said one. They cost between $150 and $220, about the same as the fine you would get in Saddam's time, when they were illegal. If the police found one at the bottom of your garden or...http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/08/15.html#a1151 (Untitled)- August 4, 2003 In DSpace, Ideas Are Forever: "A number of universities, from the California Institute of Technology to M.I.T., are creating ''institutional repositories'' designed to harness their own intellectual output. M.I.T.'s archive, perhaps the most ambitious, is called DSpace (www.dspace.org). "http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/08/03.html#a1123 (Untitled)- August 4, 2003 World Officials Agree to Share Ecology Data: "Officials from more than 30 countries agreed today to expand monitoring of the atmosphere, the oceans and the land and to create a system for sharing the resulting data. At a meeting here organized by the Bush administration, the officials said the goal of the 10-year effort was to fill in big gaps, primarily in developing countries, in the network of instruments recording earth's vital signs. The resulting benefits, like better crop and weather...http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/08/03.html#a1122 (Untitled)- August 1, 2003 Philanthropist and scholar George Kozmetsky makes $6 million gift to Stanford: "George and Ronya Kozmetsky have donated $6 million to Stanford to establish the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory, a joint project with the University of Texas at Austin that will seek new ways to use technology to enhance shared global prosperity.. funding will also support the Real Time Venture Design Laboratory (ReVeL) in the Department of Communication. According to Nass, ReVeL will conduct research on how...http://www.novak.com/weblog/categories/digitalDevelopment/2003/07/31.html#a1118 |