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The Communications Revolution It’s a Wired World By DAN SCHILLER

December 17, 2009

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I’m not sure about all the details but an interesting brief global overview of the political economy of ICTs http://www.counterpunch.org/schiller12162009.html MBG The Communications Revolution It’s a Wired World By DAN SCHILLER Citigroup bank employed 25,000 software developers and spent an estimated $4.9bn on information and communication technologies – ICT —  (exclusive of operating expenses) in 2008 […]

Support letter for Community Access Program in the context of Digital Inclusion

December 12, 2009

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This below points to this year’s campaign to “save community access”. That CAP needs “saving” in this way is a shameful indication of the degree to which Canada alone among its OECD colleagues has ignored issues of broad based digital inclusion and allowed its only on-going program in this area to atrophy to the point […]

New Book: Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice

December 12, 2009

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...the table of contents suggests to me that this volume deals directly with what I consider one of the most important areas for future CI research which is the interaction between online communities and off-line interaction and physical communities and virtual deliberation...

IT tools for virtual projects: The Technology for Communities Project

December 12, 2009

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This looks like an extremely worthwhile effort and a great contribution to community informatics.   Thanks very much John, Nancy and Etienne! Mike —–Original Message—– From: John Smith [mailto:john.smith@learningAlliances.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:20 AM To: KM4Dev Subject: [km4dev-l] RE: Consolidated reply: IT tools for virtual projects I know this is a bit late!  […]

Empowering Communities with Video: VIVIDH – Community Journalism program

December 12, 2009

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A great linkage between the web and community activism… Challenge for Change http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=11410 comes to the Web? Mike If you’re having trouble viewing this email, you may see it online. I’m writing to tell you about VIVIDH, a new program Video Volunteers (VV) is launching. I hope you can be part of it! Imagine a […]

Interfacing Community Informatics with Activism on the Web?

December 12, 2009

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I’ve been invited to have a discussion with folks here in Vancouver who are involved with using the web in support of various types of social action.  Here are a few comments I’ve made as introduction to the discussion… I think we should be discussing the interface/divide between what many of you are (I think) involved […]

An amazing shift in the computing paradigm

December 12, 2009

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Now that we are all accustomed to living a significant portion of our working and recreational lives through a screen along comes the following...