| Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:43:41 +0100 (CET) |
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----- Useful links... via BytesForAll 17Feb2009 ----- RS 500 'COMPUTER' India plans '10 dollar' laptop to promote computer skills http://tinyurl.com/d7vsp4 Rs 500 laptop story in Indian Express http://tinyurl.com/dk6qkn The World's Cheapest Laptop http://tinyurl.com/cdt9zr $10 laptop a damp squib http://tinyurl.com/badmpr Govt's much-awaited $10 laptop turns out be a joke http://tinyurl.com/cwfyyf Seen its picture in The Hindu? Read the ToI report on it from Tirupati? What is it? An Internet storage device? http://tinyurl.com/dkgrkc MoHRD and the "Rs 500 computer", comment by Vickram Crishna http://tinyurl.com/a9leqs A $10 computer? Would you believe it? http://tinyurl.com/cy7zv7 What happened to the $20 laptop? http://tinyurl.com/csrxer Laptops not the answer: Availability of tech alone cannot compensate for absence of enabling institutions. http://tinyurl.com/bxyrs9 Balderdash. Hokum. Humbug!! American Enterprise Institute comment on the $10 computing device... a response. http://tinyurl.com/afy4jr Computers are not the capital goods of the industrial manufacturing age, but tools of production of the info age. http://tinyurl.com/afy4jr USEFUL PROJECTS Chennai Bus Routes - Community Project http://tinyurl.com/clgyag Giving relief that edge, via maps and GIS Sandra Sudhoff http://tinyurl.com/bdd5gz Convergys funds computer lab for rural women in Maharashtra http://tinyurl.com/ageovd India Fights Patents with Huge Prior Art Database http://tinyurl.com/cbm3sx Some ICT4D-linked research projects (Sambasivan, N et al) http://tinyurl.com/c7dbna Simple Navigation and Access Platform http://tinyurl.com/bholu5 Greensweeper -- A Mobile Game for Environmental Landscape Awareness http://tinyurl.com/b5qpy8 VoiceList -- User-generated Audio Content for Socio-economic Development http://tinyurl.com/broog6 Nithya Sambasivan, researcher, ICTs for social and econ dvpt, from a human-centered standpoint http://www.ics.uci.edu/~nsambasi/ Have you seen the OLPC India project? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India Building a Social Entrepreneurial Garage Startup in India http://tinyurl.com/cqrbwx INFOACTIVISM This is an exciting time for people working with video -- Sam Gregory (Witness) http://www.informationactivism.org/node/45 Training communities in video is exciting -- Namita Singh http://www.informationactivism.org/node/49 Info-activism is of special relevance to take exiles' message through -- Phuntsok Dorjee http://tinyurl.com/dzj7ro Australia has done some great work in info-activism -- Andrew 'And' Lowenthal http://www.informationactivism.org/node/57 Alternative media is alive and well all over Latin America. -- Marie Trigona (Argentina) http://tinyurl.com/cp5hqn Free Software brings freedom in choosing tools to access software, and more... Saifullo Hikmatov (Tj.) http://tinyurl.com/bbsawg 21 minutes ago PUBLICATIONS, E-PUBLICATIONS, SEMINARS DContent news http://tinyurl.com/ajov7h Call for Papers/Articles - i4d - March 2009 Issue http://tinyurl.com/cr4o8y Smoking Apples (and the Mac), a free edited-in-Goa online magazine http://tinyurl.com/ckrrnv ANALYSIS Open Source in India Today (Alolita Sharma) http://tinyurl.com/bybcoh 36 minutes ago Reflections from the IGF: Thanks APC for making the IGF happen to me (Anupama Saxena) http://tinyurl.com/bah3kf ALTERNATIVES A Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women (Protesting via Facebook) http://tinyurl.com/ambvax/group.php?gid=49641698651 Alternative news and features India Infochange on Twitter: http://twitter.com/infochange Global Voices, Advocacy 2.0 guide http://tinyurl.com/6qs4tq Social networking, the new pressure group in India http://tinyurl.com/czj2an Social networking, the new pressure group in India http://tinyurl.com/d328a8 Online activism gathers speed (by Alisha Coelho) http://tinyurl.com/c84w4g HUMAN RIGHTS HURIDOCS Human Rights Information and Documentation System, http://www.huridocs.org/ MISCELLANEOUS Spectacular presentation of virtual products at SOFTEXPO http://tinyurl.com/dc5feh MP's idea4cm ... via Narendra Sisodiya http://tinyurl.com/d2t36n No Charge Licensed Software RFI posted on MERX http://tinyurl.com/dlj5jv US Congressional records are set free! http://tinyurl.com/cg3ub4 International Conference on Development Communication in the Era of Globalization http://www.gcra-chennai.net/ Ekushey Boimela 2009 Website (Book Fair of Bangladesh) http://tinyurl.com/bavnyw Amnesty International Bangla Online Community http://bangla.amnesty.org http://www.amnesty.org/en/join Women and Technology in Africa (a Facebook group) http://tinyurl.com/ar8kdu geoGreeting website http://tinyurl.com/bpzncj 17-19 avril 2009 : 3eme conference internationale sur technologies ... http://tinyurl.com/bsehoe Cuba launches Gentoo Linux distro http://tinyurl.com/bhyslu Coromandel mishap: Poor database makes tracing kin a difficult task http://tinyurl.com/ctjhvw OFID (The OPEC Fund for International Development) scholarships http://tinyurl.com/dj6dj6 Canadian government puts out a call for information on open source software http://tinyurl.com/cspzoy Code Editor in the Cloud Mozilla Labs lauches Bespin, a cloud-based, collaborative code editor. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7248 DilKholKeBol.Com is the first microblogging portal to be launched in India http://dilkholkebol.com/ -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org