Kagame launches One Laptop per Child Thursday, 2nd October 2008 NYARUGENGE - President Paul Kagame has said that enabling all primary school children to own...
Esther Nasikye
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Oct 3, 2008 3:31 pm
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Mobile banking for credit and debit card holders only will be elitist, and for the ruling classes only. If we want to make it accessible then it should be for...
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28603268086 Internet & Technology - Websites Description: This is a group for people who use or want to use Twitter...
Frederick "FN" Noronha
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Oct 3, 2008 3:32 pm
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telecentre.org, today unveiled its flagship initiative, the telecentre.org Academy during the Fifth Convention of Grameen Gyan Abhiyan held at the National...
01 October 2008 Software Freedom<http://www.derekcordeiro.com/2008/10/software-freedom.html> Software Freedom day is celebrated worldwide on the 3rd Saturday...
Frederick Noronha [€ ...
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Oct 4, 2008 8:19 pm
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An attempt to promote Latin American-Indian software links: http://latinlinks.wordpress.com Would be grateful for any other links you could send my way... Rgds...
Frederick "FN" Noronha
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Oct 5, 2008 6:35 pm
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Friends: Here is a letter sent to US Congressman Honorable John Conyers, Jr, on open access and copyright by a group of professors of law. The arguments are ...
Subbiah Arunachalam
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Oct 6, 2008 11:39 pm
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"I'm facing a difficult dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing heavily to an open source project, making considerable changes to code...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Info-Activism Camp, India - Jan 01-Jan 01, 1970 Struggling to make an impact on your target audience? Are issues unresolved despite...
Google maps interface is being populated slowly with Bangladeshi towns So far, detailed local roads of these following towns have been added to google maps:...
... I don't work in BSD for just such reasons, in addition to several others. I would never sign a perpetual non-compete license. We could discuss a term of...
Edward Cherlin
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Oct 8, 2008 4:56 pm
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Alexandra Ife, the former general manager of Science for Humanity, has been appointed as deputy director of SciDev.Net. In this newly created position, Ms....
... PLEASE READ: 19 to 25 February, 2009 ! (Tactical Tech people were bungling with their time-machine...) ... (...)...
Patrice Riemens
patrice@...
Oct 8, 2008 4:57 pm
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With the usual apologies for x-posting! Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Cente for Internet and Society, Bangalore,...
Sunil Abraham
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Oct 8, 2008 4:58 pm
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... From: Gen Kanai To: sunil@... To: Sreekanth S Rameshaiah To: Vijay Rasquinha To: Chethan Cc: Seth Bindernagel Sent: Oct 7, 2008 14:18 Subject:...
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Oct 8, 2008 4:58 pm
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Fellowships to help Asian journalists improve skills Journalists who live in Asia are invited to apply for a fellowship to study for three months at Nanyang...
Friends: Here is a news story about a wonderful initiative taking place in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a proposal that would...
Subbiah Arunachalam
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Oct 8, 2008 5:01 pm
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E-Development invites you to participate in the live webcast of a workshop on "Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age" organized by the World Bank's...
Global climate change is happening now. Developing countries and particularly the world's poorest people are affected first and worst by changes of climate and...
BytesForAll Initiative has undertaken a research project to study and analyze the Internet usage pattern, browsing habit and service requirements of Internet...
There can be conflict between open access and intellectual propetry rights. How this can be resolved is the question. Â Ananya S Guha. ... From: Subbiah...
I and some others here will be meeting with California Assemblymember Ruskin soon to talk about getting laptops into California schools, and about a much wider...
Edward Cherlin
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Oct 9, 2008 8:45 pm
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I have nothing to say about research and deployments in other countries, but I can report from personal experience that 'pilot' work done in India has been...
Thanks for the information. The Indira Gandhi National Open University has also uploaded all its course material in its web portal, please visit e gyankosh the...
The Bangladeshi satellite channel, The ATN Bangla has started the broadcasting of the BBC Documentary, The Codebreakers, a Documentary on FOSS and Development,...
Abu Mohammad Omar She...
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Oct 9, 2008 8:47 pm
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For those of you are are working on mobile apps in development, social change, or the environment, there are a number of competitions happening right now tat...
... There can? How? Open Access is a matter of voluntary licensing, not of giving up property rights, and certainly not a taking of property in the legal...
Edward Cherlin
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Oct 9, 2008 11:57 pm
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There is absolutely no conflict between OA and IPR. OA is for refereed research papers published in professional journals, which are author giveaways. In some...
Subbiah Arunachalam
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Oct 9, 2008 11:57 pm
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As far as I understand, there is no conflict between "Intellectual Property Rights" and Open Access. "Intellectual Property Rights" consist of Copyrights,...