Microlearning - Innsbruck - Austria 2005

http://www.microlearning.org/
MICROLEARNING 2005, Learning & Working in New Media Environments International Conference
June 23 - 24, 2005 :: Innsbruck (Austria)
MICROLEARNING 2005 provides a multidisciplinary forum for intensive discussions on innovative approaches to and best practices in learning, teaching and gaining knowledge in the new media environments.
A new generation of educational programmes based on the concept of microcontent are being developed.
This conference focuses on Microlearning as offering key answers: learning in small units, developing flexible designs, designing mediated environments and integrating different learning models are seen to optimize the use of technologies for learners.

Researchstudio - Austria

http://www.researchstudio.at/
Die Research Studios Austria sind eine außeruniversitäre Forschungsorganisation der ARC - Seibersdorf research GmbH, der führenden außeruniversitären Forschungsinstitution in Österreich.

Sie werden durch das Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie und als Leitprojekt des Aktionsprogramms "Innovation durch eBusiness" des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Arbeit finanziert.

LEAP - Learning and Evaluation Program - Bellanet

http://www.bellanet.org/leap/
The Learning and Evaluation Action Program (LEAP) is an initiative to promote a coordinated and comprehensive approach to learning about the use of knowledge and ICTs in international development. LEAP's main goals are to:
-support communities of interest around sharing experiences in using knowledge and ICTs for development;
-build capacity among LEAP participants to be able to learn from their own ICT experiences, and those of their partners;
-and, research the role of ICTs and knowledge in development, and how organizational learning and evaluation practices affect how we learn about this.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) W3C

http://www.w3.org/WAI/
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
-- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

e - Twinnings Europa

http://www.etwinning.net/ww/es/pub/etwinning/index.htm
Las TIC permiten a los centros compartir información y conocimientos a través de las fronteras europeas. eTwinning permite integrar la ciudadanía europea y la riqueza lingüística y cultural de nuestro continente en una experiencia de aprendizaje eficaz y agradable para los jóvenes. eTwinning preve hermanamientos educativos en los que un gran número de profesores, directores y personal de apoyo de los centros colaboren en múltiples niveles y disciplinas durante un extenso periodo de tiempo.
El mayor activo de la acción eTwinning es el compromiso personal y la valiosa experiencia de los profesores y centros participantes. Estableciendo redes y aprendiendo unos de otros contribuyen al desarrollo cultural y social de la Europa del siglo XXI.

e - Learning Europa - Info

http://www.elearningeuropa.info/
Iniciativa de la Unión Europea

Computer Aid International - UK

La meta de Computer Aid International es, reducir la desigualdad digital, reciclando computadoras aquí en GB para que sean utilizadas en las escuelas y organismos comunitarios en los países en vías de desarrollo. 43.000 PC entregadas a Febrero de 2005.
http://www.computeraid.org/spanish/home.htm

Reflect and ICT Project - Uganda, Burundi, India

This DFID-funded project is exploring potential applications of ICTs for poor and marginalised people, linking to existing Reflect groups in Uganda, Burundi and India.
During the first year (2003), participating groups were encouraged to analyse issues around their own access to and control of information relating to their livelihoods: looking at the value of information to their own lives, the control of information resources, existing sources of information and communication mechanisms.
http://217.206.205.24/Initiatives/ict/home.htm

ICT for Poverty Reduction & Growth - Development Gateway

ICT for Poverty Reduction & Growth This page is listing useful resources exploring a great potential of ICTs to reduce poverty and empower the poor to help themselves. Please share some other useful links with our community! Or leave a comment! See also our special feature on ICT for Poverty Reduction & Economic Growth
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/BrowseContent.do~source=RCContentUser~folderId=3082

Infodev - The Information for Development Program

The Information for Development Program ( infoDev) helps developing countries and their international partners use information and communication broadly and effectively as tools of poverty reduction and sustainable economic growth. Housed at the World Bank, it is supported by more than 20 donors partners(recomendado por Rafael Capurro)http://www.infodev.org/

Internet Governance Project

Syracuse University
Georgia institute Of Technology
Center for Comparative and International Studies of the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
The Internet Governance Project (IGP) is an interdisciplinary consortium of academics with scholarly and practical expertise in international governance, Internet policy, and information and communication technology. The Project is conducting research on and publishing analysis of Internet governance.
Some of the work is intended to contribute to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, as well as related debates at the international, regional and national levels.
http://www.internetgovernance.org/

Netzwissenschaft - Deutschland

http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/
netzwissenschaft.de erschließt die infrastruktur einzelwissenschaftlicher forschungen zum internet und gibt dadurch wissenschaft und öffentlichkeit einen überblick über die internetforschung im ganzen. indem netzwissenschaft streng vom netz her denkt, kann sie gegenüber den nicht am netz gewonnenen, nun aber auf das netz übertragenen einzelwissenschaftlichen methodologien eine kritische korrekturfunktion übernehmen. will sie sich selbst als wissenschaft professionalisieren, darf sie sich nicht auf technische netze beschränken, sondern muß als wissenschaft der netze alle formen des netzwissens zu ihrem gegenstand machen. netzwissenschaft wäre dann neben reflexionswissenschaft und anwendungswissenschaft der dritte pfeiler des wissenschaftssystems.

Negroponte (MediaLab-MIT) PC para el 3er. Mundo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4243733.stm

[1]Nicholas Negroponte, fundador del [2]Media Lab del MIT, está diseñando un ordenador portátil que contaría con las funciones y características esenciales y se vendería a menos de 100 dólares. En su opinión, un ordenador de este tipo en cada casa o en manos de cada niño en países subdesarrollados sería una herramienta revolucionaria para la educación y el desarrollo de toda la comunidad.
Este portátil utilizaría una memoria flash de 1 GB en lugar de disco duro y dispondría de conectividad sin hilos (wifi). Todos los compomentes están pensados para reducir costes y consumo energético. La batería podría cargarse con una manivela. El aspecto más problemático parece ser la pantalla, que debería estar por debajo de los 30 dólares. Una de las opciones más prometedoras es la tecnología de tinta electrónica [3]E - Ink, que sólo consume electricidad cuando cambia la imagen. En cuanto al software, lógicamente se utilizaría el sistema operativo Linux.

Grupo de Trabajo s/Gobernanza en Internet - ONU 2004

http://mistica.net/index.php/docs/119
Por: Carlos Alberto Afonso Publicado el: jue, 03 febrero 2005 16:34:26
Del 23 al 25 de noviembre de 2004 en Ginebra, Suiza, se llevó a cabo la primera reunión del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Gobernanza de Internet (GTGI), creado por Naciones Unidas.
Carlos A. Afonso, director de planificación de RITS y miembro de la CV Mística, hace parte del GTGI, así como del Comité Gestor de Internet en Brasil. Tras su participación en Ginebra preparó un relato detallado sobre esa primera reunión. Entre otros puntos, el informe afirma que "la gobernanza de Internet va mucho más allá de lo que hace actualmente la ICANN (nombres, números y protocolos) y no hay todavía una propuesta consistente que cubra todos los aspectos de la gobernanza"

Rits.org

One World - Africa

http://africa.oneworld.net/
OneWorld is the world's favourite and fastest-growing civil society network online, supporting people’s media to help build a more just global society.

Datamations Foundation - India

http://www.datamationfoundation.org/

Datamation Foundation is a non-profit, apolitical, non-partisan registered Charitable Trust (Trust Deed # 3258 dated March 8, 2001) with its head office at Delhi. The Foundation has been actively engaged in advocating, designing and implementing innovative Information and Communication Technology enabled initiatives to help meet Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) defined by the United Nations as below :
-Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
-Achieving universal primary education
-Achieving universal primary education
-Promoting gender equality and empowerment of women
-Reducing child mortality
-Improving maternal health
-Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other health disorders
-Ensuring environmental sustainability
-Developing a global partnership for development
-The Foundation targets women, economically and socially disadvantaged communities and youth in India and other developing countries.
-Gender equality, youth empowerment and poverty alleviation dovetailed with the MDGs are the main goals of the Trust.

Drishtee Foundation - India

http://www.voicesforall.org
VOICES, a unit of Madhyam Communications (a registered non-profit trust), was set up in 1991 as a development communications organisation working towards the empowerment of the disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society.

UNSA - ARG - Diego Saravia

http://bo.unsa.edu.ar/docacad/softwarelibre/articulos/internetg/
Gobierno, gobernanza, administración, control, censura o penalización de Internet - Internet Governance -, vs. Los deberes de los gobiernos en relación a Internet.
En el marco de la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información (CMSI/WSIS) se debate con especial fuerza la cuestión del gobierno/gobernanza de Internet: Foro de discusión de la Cumbre. Este documento analiza críticamente algunas posiciones frecuentemente planteadas en el debate.

Community Informatics Research Network - Prato, Italy 2004

Community Informatics Research Network 2004 Colloquium and Conference Proceedings, Sustainability and Community Technology:
What does this mean for Community Informatics? 29 September - 1 October 2004
Monash Centre, Prato, Italy
http://www.communities.org.ru/prato/

First International Congress: E-Learning and social inclusion - Barcelona 2004

http://www.el4ei.net/congress/
Our transition from an industrial society towards an informational one has clearly modified a series of social practices. Specific needs for the labour market, new forms of democratic participation, or access to education and culture are only three examples of how work, politics and education are changing due to the influence of ICT.
These new possibilities also strengthen certain exclusion mechanisms, while creating new ones. This is why the term “e-inclusion” appeared, to describe all those practices which try to reduce digital divide and assure that information society, besides being economically profitable, includes the values of justice, equality and solidarity.

V CONGRÉS MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIU - UB - España

Els reptes educatius de la societat digital, 29, 30 de juny i 1 de juliol de 2005 Universitat de Barcelona
El Congrés pretén crear un espai de reflexió i debat sobre els reptes educatius plantejats en la societat digital.
Al mateix temps es pretenen recollir investigacions, projectes i experiències relacionades amb la producció i el disseny de materials multimèdia i l'educació oberta i a distància a través d'Internet. Els àmbits educatius abarquen tant la formació reglada en tots els seus nivells, com la formació no reglada.
El Congrés va dirigit als diferents professionals del sector: professorat de tots els nivells educatius, investigadors, empreses de multimèdia i/o aplicacions per internet, responsables de formació en general i alumnat de 2on i 3er cicle de Pedagogia, Formació del Professorat i altres estudis afins.
http://www.ub.es/multimedia/congres//

The Mobile Communication Society: Wireles Technology - Castells y otros

The Mobile Communication Society:
A cross-cultural analysis of available evidence on the social uses of wireless communication technology
Manuel Castells (USC), Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol (UOC), Jock Linchuan Qiu (USC),and Araba Sey (USC)http://annenberg.usc.edu/international_communication/WirelessWorkshop/MCS.pdf
This research report offers an analytical overview of existing research on the social uses of wireless communication technology. It seeks to provide a solid empirical basis for an informed discussion of the social uses
and social effects of wireless in Europe, the Asian Pacific and the United States. Major themes explored include the deep connection between wireless >communication and the emergence of youth culture, the transformation
of language by texting and multimodalty, the growing importance of wireless communication in socio-political mobilization, and changes in the practice of time and space resulting from wireless communication.
A research report prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, held at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, October 8th and 9th 2004.

Digital Division Program - Stanford University

Located at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information, the Digital Vision Program supports social entrepreneurs who seek to leverage technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals. The Program fosters interdisciplinary projects and prototyping efforts that address real needs in underserved communities.

http://rdvp.org/

DGOF -German Society for On Line Research

The 7th international conference GENERAL ONLINE RESEARCH 2005 (GOR05) will take place in Zurich from 22nd until 23rd of March 2005 (with additional pre-conference workshops on Monday 21st).
http://www.gor.de/index_e.htm

City University of Hong Kong

Departament of Information Systems, Research, City University of Hong Kong
http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/research/resources/
>Mark P.A. Thompson, Mark P. A. "ICT, Power, and Developmental Discourse: A Critical Analysis." EJISD 20.4 (2004). 1-25.
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WGIG - Working Group on Internet Governance

http://wgig.org/index.html
The main activity of the WGIG will be "to investigate and make proposals for action, as appropriate, on the governance of Internet by 2005." The WGIG is asked to present the result of its work in a report "for consideration and appropriate action for the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis 2005."

Ana María Moraes - PUC - SP - Brasil

Esta é a homepage de Ana Maria Moraes, aluna do mestrado do Departamento de Educação e Curriculo da PUC- SP e pesquisadora da Rede Computer Clubhouse. Essa Homepage tem como objetivo de sua criação indicar leituras na área de inclusão digital, educação à distância, construcionismo, robótica e protagonismo juvenil. Gostaria de agradecer à todos os colegas de trabalho que cooperaram com doações (indicações de sites) à Biblioteca Micromundos e à todos aqueles que acessaram e se beneficiaram dos conteúdos dessa homepage através das reflexões entre a teoria e a prática.

http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/bibliotecamicromundos/index.htm

TIC´s - WIP - Chile

DEI Project
http://www.ticschile.cl
proyecto que ha generado un espacio de debate y diálogo en Chile sobre el impacto de las TICs, potenciado desde la División de Acceso Universal de la Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones y ejecutado por Fundación Casa de la Paz (con la asesoría de Rubén Araya).Actualmente el portal ya cuenta con informaciones y con una encuesta-consulta ciudadana sobre las iniciativas y políticas relacionadas con las TICs.

http://www.wipchile.cl
WIP Chile (World Internet Project) entregó los últimos resultados de una encuesta -panel aplicada a 1.200 usuarios del país. Entre las conclusiones del estudio (bastante más cuantitativo) se señala - El uso de Internet en Chile
está "madurando" y su crecimiento se desacelera ya que entre el 2003 y el 2004 hay un 3,4% que se "desconecta" de la red....

Minnesota e-Democracy - USA

DEI ProjectMinnesota E-Democracy is a non-partisan citizen-based organization whose mission is to improve participation in democracy in Minnesota through the use of information networks. We seek to increase citizen participation in elections and public discourse through the use of information and communication technologies.
E-Democracy.Org is name we use for our new activities outside of Minnesota, including our U.S. election information directory and our forming local chapter in Chicago. As we enter our second decade, we are updating our mission, defining our core beliefs, and preparing a foundation for local chapters.


http://e-democracy.org/

ALAINET.ORG - FSM 2005

DEI Project
Los encuentros en el Foro Social Mundial que tratan una diversidad de temas, ya han publicado un documento de Sally Burch sobre Derechos a la comunicación, nuevos retos, en que destaca la relevancia de la Sociedad de
la Información. En:

http://alainet.org/


También en los documentos virtuales de ALAI, encontramos el artículo de A. Mattelart: "La Sociedad de la Información: la retórica en acción. En el que se pueden encontrar definiciones conceptuales diferenciadas entre
Sociedad de la Información y Sociedad del Conocimiento. En:

http://alainet.org/active/show_text.php3?key=7444