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Re: Introducing Leo Burd

Have you seen this Leo?

http://www.cvm.org/

-Zack

--- In mobcasting@yahoogroups.com, Leo Burd <leob@m...> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Leo Burd and I'm a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab. I'm
> extremely interested in the design of tools to help youth from
> low-income areas become active participants in the development of the
> places where they live. In particular, I'm very interested in the uses
> of telephones as a means for kids to record stories/interviews, and
> exchange information about what is going on.
>
> I've recently started implementing "What's Up", a voicemail system for
> kids using a combination of Asterisk and CivicSpace/Drupal. I
> personally think that it would be great if we could give a voicemail
box
> to each single kid in the city and help them create voicemail groups,
> publish/subscribe to audio feeds, and reach out to each other. What's
> Up is still in its very early steps towards that vision. It would be
> great if I could get more people to share ideas with and participate in
> this project. What do you think?
>
> About me: I was born and raised in Brazil and have been involved in the
> area of technology and education for community development since 1995.
> I joined the Media Lab in June 2001 and have been working with Prof.
> Mitchel Resnick since then. I would love to explore how kids use
What's
> Up as part of my thesis and graduate around summer 2006.
>
> Best,
>
> Leo





Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:16 pm

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Hello everyone, My name is Leo Burd and I'm a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab. I'm extremely interested in the design of tools to help youth from low-income...
Leo Burd
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Aug 15, 2005
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Hello everyone, and especially to Leo for sending his first introduction. Let me introduce myself. My name is Aldon Hynes. I started programming in the late...
Aldon Hynes
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Aug 15, 2005
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Have you seen this Leo? http://www.cvm.org/ -Zack ... box ... What's...
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Aug 15, 2005
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I think I read about the community voicemail project on omidyar.net a few months ago. Are they doing a podcasting component as well, or is it traditional...
Andy Carvin
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Aug 15, 2005
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