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• The UK needs to look at lessons in broadband adapation

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 442
  Lesson for the UK? Across the Atlantic,The Federal Commission has listed seven obstacles in the road towards universal use of broadband. In the United States almost two-thirds of adults have broadband connections at home, but of course thats a long way from the countrys ultimate goal. The biggest problem according ...
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• Confessions of a Digital Immigrant: Reflections on mainstream and new media

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 125
  In early August 2009, I talked to a captive audience of media owners, senior journalists and broadcasters in Colombo about the ‘digital tsunami’ now sweeping across the media world. (It has been reported and discussed in a number of blog posts on Aug 6, Aug 7, Aug 8 and Aug 31).As I later heard, some [...]
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• Broadband Internet Access in Schools Should’t be a Luxury

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 551
  Imagine the outrage from parents, teachers, and the community if a school announced that some of its students would have access to textbooks, research papers, and literature, but other students would be denied those resources. Some students would be branded as worthy, while others as second class. It baffles me that ...
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• Black Elected Officials Urge FCC to Keep the Digital Divide in Mind

  
  Black Web 2.0 — Authority: 551
  In a letter sent to the FCC last month, the groups asked the agency “ensure that any new rules proposed can clearly be shown to benefit all consumers and not expand the digital divide facing disadvantaged populations.” The FCC is one of the agencies responsible for developing and implementing a national broadband ...
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• España (Galicia): Zonas rurales y empresas pequeñas, los más retrasadas en uso de tecnologías

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  Las zonas rurales y las pequeñas empresas son las más retrasadas en la utilización de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en Galicia, afirmó hoy la secretaria general de Modernización e Innovación Tecnológica de la Xunta, Mar Pereira. También señaló que solo el 54 por ciento de la ...
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• Britain; ISPs should have legal obligation on rural broadband

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  An articles published in the Telegraph (UK) reports that Internet providers should be under a legal obligation to offer fast broadband speeds across Britain to combat the worsening digital divide between urban and rural communities. The problem of slow Internet speeds in the countryside was first highlighted in ...
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• España (Aragón): II Plan para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información para reducir brecha rural

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  Aragón continúa su camino para reducir la brecha digital existente entre el medio urbano y el rural. Para el ello, desde la Consejería de Universidad y Tecnología se ha puesto en marcha los planes directores para el desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información. El II Plan Director para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad ...
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• India: conexiones WiFi móviles en autobuses rurales

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  Un nuevo artículo señala que la empresa United Villages ha implantado un sistema en la India gracias al cual es posible enviar y recibir correos electrónicos, mensajes de voz, fotos, hacer compras online, consultar servicios matrimoniales (algo muy importante en la India), y prácticamente todo lo que ofrece ...
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• Superlists!: Ten tips on file-sharing etiquette

  
  Plug One — Authority: 129
  This is a primer for labeling and properly uploading mixtapes. Some tech-savvy dudes will mock my simple suggestions. But it’s hard to laugh at the sundry ways musicians, labels and marketers label their wares; and the inconvenience they cause for those of us who actually try to maintain order on our hard drives. ...
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• Torbay RTC: e-Learning Foundation

  
  EdCompBlog — Authority: 127
  Live blog from #torbayrtc. Kevin Pay is talking about overcoming the digital divide. The e-Learning Foundation aims: "...to reduce the effect of this “Digital Divide” by working with schools, parents and other stakeholders to ensure that all children have access to the learning resources that technology can ...
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• Inventor del Web busca mejorar las condiciones de vida (en zonas rurales)

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  El artículo en ComputerWorld reporta sobre dos proyectos que Berners-Lee, el inventor de la Web, anunciará el domingo en el Internet Governance Forum 2009 en Egipto. Estos se centrarán en aprovechar la tecnología Web para mejorar la agricultura en África y enseñar a los más jóvenes cómo crear contenidos ...
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• Webs Inventor Wants the Web to Improve Life of rural people

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  An article in PCWorld says that the World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lees latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change. Berners-Lee, the Webs ...
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• Teams of Tech-Savvy Teens

  
  Idealist in NYC — Authority: 460
  MOUSE Squad is a program that provides training and support for middle and high school students to run computer help desks at their schools. In addition to a technical curriculum, students also receive training in career readiness, problem-solving, literacy, job etiquette, and teamwork. Sounds like the schools ...
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• High-speed Internet gap between rich and poor widening, UN official warns

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 438
  [news release] While the “digital divide” between rich and poor countries may be shrinking overall, the gap is widening between the developed and developing worlds in the availability of broadband or high-speed Internet, a crucial tool for achieving economic and social goals, a top United Nations official said ...
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• How to Profit off the Poor… and Keep Your Soul

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  DELHI, INDIA–“I’ll take you! I live there!” a small boy with a blue shirt and a perfect toothy grin said as he ran ahead of me. His quiet friend in yellow jogged beside him smiling shyly, his jet-black Elvis curl bobbing on his forehead. The boy in blue stopped a few yards in front of me turned around, beaming ...
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• Living on the last mile

  
  edu-it — Authority: 110
  The Last Mile I’m writing this at the Latham Library /, no, I cannot tell a lie, I’m writing this at home to post later at the library. Our phone line has been getting noisy lately and yesterday it finally became unusable. We have dial-up. Most of the time we connect at a fairly good clip for dial-up, ...
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• Half of Africas improved growth from ICT

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 133
  A recent report indicates that Market liberalisation has encouraged massive private investment in Africas cellular networks, according to a report released recently by the World Bank. The result was a major revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), which helped boost economic growth to an annual ...
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• Think People

  
  Digital Beat — Authority: 92
  People are the "killer app." From e-mail, to digital pictures, to todays social media, connecting people to people has always been a motivating force for getting people on and keeping them on the Internet. And the value of the network grows and grows with each additional person on it.
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• Within Reach: Current Readings

  
  Christopher D. Sessums : Weblog — Authority: 407
  Some old, something new; something borrowed, something blue. Heres whats on/open/brewing on my desk. Lenses Bruno Latour    Reassembling the Social: An introduction to Actor-Network-Theory    Oxford University Press    2005    A how-to trace associations through accounts of activity: defining ...
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• Maslow meets Rogers : A web that connects us all

  
  NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org blogs — Authority: 517
  Theres some remarkable synchonicity today as we arrive at the launch for the Charter for Compassion. The concept of self-actualisation defined by Maslow and later work by Carl R Rogers in achieving in through person-centered counselling bore influence on a 1996 white paper which proposed a new paradigm for economics ...
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