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- ITU warns of widening digital divide
- Inside the OLPC
- APEC signs Bangkok Declaration, eyes digital prosperity
- RSS Awareness Day
- Canada plummets in world network readiness rankings
- Who's on the Wrong Side of The Digital Divide?
- Sony Electronics to give $20,000 in electronics "BCool2UrSchool" Sweepstakes
- Minimizing the digital divide
The world still faces the risk of the widening of the Internet broadband divide, despite the fact that half of the world's population is becoming connected through mobile telephones. This warning comes from Hamadoun Touré, secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)....
But both Nicholas and Seymour emerged from the ashes of the Dakar pilot with their faith in the premise of children learning naturally with computers intact. Armed with the lessons from the Senegal failure, it was perhaps only a matter of time before they tried again. Indeed, Seymour tried again only a couple of years later: the Media Lab was founded in 1985 and immediately started supporting Project Headlight, an attempt to infuse constructionist learning into the complete curriculum of the Hennigan school, a public elementary school in Boston consisting mostly of minority students. Fast forward almost two decades, to around 2000. Former Newsweek foreign correspondent turned philanthropist, Bernie "one-man United Nations" Krisher convinced Nicholas and his wife Elaine to join Bernie's program of building schools in Cambodia. Nicholas bought used Panasonic Toughbooks for one school, and his son Dimitri taught there for a time....
The Bangkok Declaration, created to add a social perspective to the APEC agenda, stresses the need for reliable infrastructure and service. The Declaration states Ensuring universally accessibly ICT infrastructure and services to bridge the digital divide is crucial to our future social and economic prosperity, and that economies should continue their efforts to expand the reach of networks with the ambitious goal of achieving universal access to broadband by 2015....
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages that get updated regularly. An RSS document (which is called feed) contains either a summary or the full content from a website. The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content. The video below illustrates the...
The World Economic Forum released their annual Global Information Technology Report including rankings of ICT readiness. But you wont see Canada on the first page, or in the top ten at all this year. Canada has slipped to 13th place steadily down from 6th place 4 years ago. Nowadays, if you like bandwidth, its better to be a scandinavian....
It's several years since former Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to have achieved "universal internet access for all who want it" in the UK. But the latest statistics from telecoms regulator Ofcom paint a picture of a growing digital divide based on the much less idealistic lines of income and ethnicity....
As part of Sony's "BCool2UrSchool" sweepstakes, middle and high schools in five major cities - Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, Denver and Chicago - have the chance to win $20,000 in Sony electronics, including televisions, laptop computers, camcorders and projectors. Additionally, 900 students will win Sony mylo COM-2 personal communicators....
Arie Scope is the chairman of A Computer for Every Child, a nonprofit organization that is doing its bit to fight poverty and ignorance. It is donating personal desktop computers to children from underprivileged families. Without its help, it is doubtful whether those children would have had a computer at home....