What's New on Digital Opportunity Channel - http://www.digitalopportunity.org **************************************** News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/news/ **************************************** Young Chinese Internet user detained for four months http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=5093 Psychology student Liu Di has been detained by the Chinese police for four months now and her family has still not been permitted to see her. The authorities accuse her of having threatened national security, but her close friends and relatives say Liu Di was merely expressing on the Internet her desire for freedom. Afghan women get their own radio voice http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=8194&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2 01&reload=1047271278 Afghanistan's first independent community FM radio station managed and operated by women is now on the air in Kabul. The Voice of Afghan Women, launched on the International Women's Day, will air programmes on women's issues and activities. Ugandan districts to get phone, Internet access http://allafrica.com/stories/200303090016.html Ugandan firms have been awarded tenders to install basic telephony services in 26 under-served districts, provide Internet access and design Websites for them. ICTs in education help community at large http://www.id21.org/insights/insights-ed01/insights-issed01-art01.html A project in South Africa and Egypt shows that the impact of using ICTs in the classroom extends further than pupil achievement and classroom practice. It also benefits teachers' professional identities and the community as a whole. Summit to focus on ICT use in reducing poverty http://allafrica.com/stories/200303060264.html Fighting poverty through the use of information and communications technologies will top the agenda when the World Summit on the Information Society meets in Geneva in December. It is expected to declare that access to information is a basic human right. Azerbaijan sets ICT strategy for next decade http://www.undp.org/dpa/frontpagearchive/2003/march/7mar03/index.html Azerbaijan has launched a national ICT strategy to move the country into the digital era in the next decade and harness the power of new technologies for development. ICT in aid of AIDS awareness drive in Central African Republic http://www.irinnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=1837&SelectRegion=Great_Lake s&SelectCountry=CENTRAL_AFRICAN_REPUBLIC The national HIV/AIDS documentation, education and communication centre in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, has received computer and audiovisual equipment worth US $34,000 from UNAIDS. The centre will use the equipment to intensify its HIV/AIDS awareness drive. US edtech investment may be at risk, cautions new report http://www.benton.org/Library/sustainability/sus_challenge.html The massive investment in educational technology by the United States may be at risk, cautions the latest report of the Benton Foundation and the Education Development Centre, The Sustainability Challenge: Taking Edtech to the Next Level. In the last 10 years, the US has spent over $40 billion placing computers in schools and connecting classrooms to the Internet. Nigerians urged to invest in children's ICT education http://allafrica.com/stories/200303060284.html Nigerians have been called upon to invest in ICT education of their children and wards because it pays the best dividend as an investment in human capital and in the future of the nation. Local television content growing in Pacific islands http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=8179&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2 01&reload=1047005012 Many small Pacific islands have made remarkable progress in increasing the volume of local TV programming being broadcast to local audiences, finds a recent Unesco survey. One channel in Tonga, for example, is broadcasting almost exclusively local production. Second private radio station closed in Togo http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=5070 A presidential order has closed Togo's private radio station Tropik FM "until further notice." It is the second private radio station to be closed by the authorities in the past year for frequently featuring opposition voices on the air. Remote Sri Lanka community gets its own radio http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=8150&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2 01&reload=1046924961 Last weekend Badulla, one of Sri Lanka's most underdeveloped districts, got its own community radio station. The Uva community radio aims to facilitate increased community participation in designing, implementing and evaluating an area-based growth and equity programme with its focus on poverty reduction. ***************************************************** Analysis http://www.digitalopportunity.org/features/analysis/ ***************************************************** The gender dimensions of ICTs http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/12/enda.html Women in Francophone Africa are currently marginal users of ICTs, a situation which the networking programme ENDA is working to change. The right to communicate: women in the information society http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/12/cris.html The absence of women's voices and perspectives in the information society indicates that 'new' information and communication technologies reflect many of the gender patterns -- power, values and exclusion -- that have been evident for decades in 'old' media. ************************************************************ Success Stories http://www.digitalopportunity.org/features/success_stories/ ************************************************************ ********************************************************** Campaigns http://www.digitalopportunity.org/get_involved/campaigns/ ********************************************************** Virtual community for online volunteers http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/volslist.html VIRTUALVOLS is an e-mail-based discussion group for online volunteers, sponsored by the Virtual Volunteering Project. It's a place for online volunteers working with any agency to ask questions of other online volunteers and share experiences and resources. Opportunity to help Kenya AIDS prevention project http://www.kaippg.org Kenya AIDS Intervention/Prevention Project Group is an international NGO operating in several districts in Western Kenya, with a force of 50 online volunteers. You can get involved by volunteering online or in the field, donating cash or computers, software, scanners, printers, copiers and other supplies, and in many more ways. Call for proposals: Research on knowledge systems http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=1112 The Research on Knowledge Systems initiative of the International Development Research Centre has launched its second annual research competition. Contribute a concept note on "How can small states participate more effectively in local, regional, and global knowledge partnerships?" and win up to CAD$80,000. Volunteers needed to teach ICT skills in Thailand http://www.openmindprojects.nu The Openmindprojects is looking for volunteers to be placed in Thailand. As a volunteer in its IT in Isan projects, you will guide learners into the jungle of computers, demonstrating computer applications, stimulating them to go on exploring on their own, discovering computers and the Internet. You help them to learn English too, telling them about your country and the world outside. Virtual conference on copyright and the Web http://www.col.org/news/connections/html/0212.htm#COPY The Commonwealth of Learning is holding online consultations on educational use of the Web and issues of copyright. The email-based consultation will debate issues of copyright legislation and practices in Commonwealth countries. ****************************************** Events http://www.digitalopportunity.org/events/ ****************************************** ASEM summit on Globalisation and ICT http://www.iked.org/asem2003ict/intro.html Mon 10 March 2003 - Wed 12 March 2003 Malmo, Sweden This conference, addressing "Globalisation and ICT - The Role of Government, the Private Sector and Civil Society in an Information Society for All," will represent an opportunity for Asia and Europe to shape a new vehicle and platform for engaging in more productive mutual initiatives, and to have a greater stake in choosing the paths of the future in this rapidly evolving area. Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local E-Government Programs in the U.S. and EU http://www.egovos.org/march-2003/index.html Mon 17 March 2003 - Wed 19 March 2003 Washington, DC, USA This conference is designed to discuss best practices, raise awareness and the share experiences among policy makers from the U.S. and Europe. The conference will draw participants from local, national and international organizations from the public, private and academic sectors. Commonwealth Seminar on the World Radio Conference http://www.cto.int/frame.php?dir=02&sd=12&id=66&back=frame.php%3Fdir%3D02%26 sd%3D10 Mon 24 March 2003 - Fri 28 March 2003 London, UK As demands on the spectrum increase, Regulators are increasingly looking to use new tools to achieve effective and flexible spectrum management. In addition, telecommunications and broadcasting are converting to digital technology and this will have significant implications for radio spectrum demand and hence for spectrum strategy. 2nd Annual African American Women in Technology and New Media Summit http://digitalsistas.net/Summit_03/Summit_0303.html Fri 28 March 2003 - Sat 29 March 2003 Philadelphia, PA, USA This conference of leading-edge discussions will help you negotiate the hurdles of the current volatile, and rapidly changing, economy to succeed in the evolving Digital Age. CFP 2003: 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy http://www.cfp2003.org Tue 1 April 2003 - Fri 4 April 2003 New York City CFP 2003 will be held in the shadow of New York's Empire State Building at the New Yorker Hotel. This year's CFP will focus on the Freedom to Move, Think and Speak. This year's program is shaping up to be an exciting gathering. Topics planned for inclusion include the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness program, encryption, biotechnology and the international movement of information. The speakers will be exciting, but so will the casual conversation in the corridors. Democracy in the Digital Age http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/democracy_conference_main.html Fri 4 April 2003 - Sun 6 April 2003 New Haven, CT, USA A Yale University conference on the role of the Internet in fostering democracy and civic participation. Building the Information Commonwealth http://www.communities.org.ru/conference/ Tue 22 April 2003 - Thu 24 April 2003 St. Petersburg, Russia The conference will focus on several key problems of civil society development in CIS countries, through the prism of ICT use. These discussions will be informed in part by specialists from numerous other countries, who will provide case studies, models, methods and projections. The conference will also feature numerous training workshops and occasions for networking and exploring collaborations and partnerships Social Study of IT workshop http://is.lse.ac.uk/Events/SSIT3/default.htm Thu 24 April 2003 - Fri 25 April 2003 London, UK Through presentations, panels and debate we hope to explore, in various contexts and through diverse research strands, some sustaining links that can expose the intricate and tricky connections between knowledge and the act of organizing. ICTs in African Schools - A Workshop for Practitioners and Policymakers http://www.schoolnetafrica.net/IAS2003/index.htm Sun 27 April 2003 - Fri 2 May 2003 Gaborone, Botswana SchoolNet Africa, The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and the World Bank (WB) are organizing a historic workshop: ICTs in African Schools - A Workshop for Practitioners and Policymakers, where both schoolnet practitioners and education policymakers and officials will engage on practical and policy issues relating to efforts to bridge the educational and digital divides in Africa. |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org | | Promoting Digital Opportunities for All | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | If you received this email from a source other than | | listmanager@oneworld.net you can subscribe yourself directly to | | this weekly mailing list by sending an email to: | | mailto:majordomo@oneworld.net | | With the following text in the body of the message: | | subscribe digitalopportunity | | | | If you received this email from listmanager@oneworld.net you | | can unsubscribe yourself from this mailing list by sending an | | email to: mailto:majordomo@oneworld.net | | With the following text in the body of the message: | | unsubscribe digitalopportunity | |------------------------------------------------------------------| ========== HURIDOCS-Tech listserv ========== Send mail intended for the list to <huridocs-tech@hrea.org>. 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