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Socially Responsible Social Media
Taran Rampersad | July 2
I just got done watching Clay Shirky talk about how cellphones, twitter and Facebook can make history - the video is on the left if you have about a little over 17 minutes to kill. And everything that Clay Shirky said was true. But he left out a few things that I believe are important to balance...
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Green Dam is breached...Now what?
Rebecca MacKinnon | July 1
As a number of China hands predicted, the Chinese government has postponed its mandate requiring that all computers sold in China must include the Green Dam -Youth Escort censorware by today.
Yesterday after the news broke I told the Financial Times: "There's been this impression in the...
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Teen-created machinima dramatizes child sex trafficking
Rik Panganiban | July 1
Today our 15 teen machinimatographers in Global Kids' Virtual Video Project publicly premiered their film "Discovered" before an audience of their peers, parents, teachers, and supporters at the Sony Wonder Theater in Manhattan. It was great seeing their work on the big...
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NBN on the right track
Michael de Percy | July 1
While we wait patiently in Palmerston via Gungahlin for faster and more reliable broadband connections, today's announcement is good news:The Rudd government has named six broadband-deprived areas as the first recipients of its $250 million cash injection to kickstart the $43 billion national...
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Access Denied
By: Kim Hart, Washington Post | June 19, 2008
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| The Blind or Deaf Can Feel Left Behind As the Tools of Technology Advance |
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$100 Laptop! Is it worth what it seems to be?
By: Alok Shrestha, TakingITGlobal | Community: Buy Acomplia Rimonabant | January 31, 2008
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| The project named, OLPC (One Laptop per Child), is gaining rapid popularity in developing as well as developed countries. This project was initially conceptualized by Nicholas Negroponte, founder chairman of MITs’ (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab and was announced in The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland on January 2005. The project aims to provide laptops worth $100 to each and every school age child of underdeveloped and developing countries so that children do not have to be deprived of basic education. |
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Thinking About Tomorrow
By: Vauhini Vara,Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal | Community: Buy Diflucan | February 7, 2008
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How will technology change the way we shop, learn and entertain ourselves? How will it change the way we get news, protect our privacy, connect with friends? We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world.
January 28, 2008; Page R1 |
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Story Telling:My Second Home at Salamieh Telecentre
By: Nabil Eid, Salamieh Telecentre | Community: Buy Paxil online | February 6, 2008
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| Story Telling:My Second Home, Salamieh Telecentre
ICTs4D Rural women with Disabilities
Roza Al-Yazji a Twenty-two years old girl, ranking the third amongst four brothers, She was born and suffered from many health problems, including speech disorder and learning disabilities. At the beginning, her parents noticed that case. But when she reached the age of sixteen, her parents could see her delay in speech and learning, balance disorder when she walked.
Her parents tried to get her into the state School but that was in vain. She was unable to continue learning with her colleagues in the classroom. Then she had no other choice but leave school and stay at home and rely on her relatives in learning.
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