ICTlogy

An interesting project by Informal: “project supporting civil society partners in building their connectivity in license-exempt spectrum (802.11 wireless, also known as WiFi or WLAN) based on open technology and open knowledge.”

Its help might be focused to set up WiFi insfrasctructures in developping countries or civil society non-profit projects.

The Wireless Roadshow

(Via emergic.org

UNESCO Information for All Programme

The Information for All Programme provides a framework for international co-operation and international and regional partnerships. It supports the development of common strategies, methods and tools for building a just and free information society and for narrowing the gap between the information rich and the information poor.

UNESCO’s Information for All Programme provides a platform for international policy discussions and guidelines for action on:

• preservation of information and universal access to it
• participation of all in the emerging global information society
• ethical, legal and societal consequences of ICT developments

(I love copy & paste };)

Via Open Access News and Stephen Downes

The Campus for Peace will be at the Fair of the Forum Barcelona 2004 from 21st to 26th july, within the framework of the Joint action. The Fair for Cooperation and Conflict Prevention thematic period.

Caused by humans, nature or the invisible hand of the economy, the world faces hundreds of emergencies on a daily basis. NGOs are created to respond to these crises, but also to help prevent possible future ones. At The Fair, they will explain what they do, how they do it and how you can join them.

See you there! :)

I’ve just added UNESCO Free Software Courseware Tools site to my e-Learning resources link section.

The link I found it at Harold’s blog, who also wrote about the UNESCO Free Software Portal.

(I’m going through though days…)

I know I had to have posted this long before.

el4ei.net, a EU funded project to:

• develop national observatories compiling and linking information about experiences of the use of e-Learning for disadvantaged groups
• create and encourage an European digital network of observatories
• promote the participation and intercommunication of professionals taking part of digital learning processes for disfavoured people
• develop an “European Charter of e-Learning for Digital Inclusion”
• To disseminate the Charter all over Europe

Colleges and universities are engaging in virtual projects with developing countries throughout the world. Such projects give faculty an opportunity to collaborate with their peers, to conduct research, and to strengthen their organizations. Students who enroll in virtual internships or who participate in the project are able to gain experience in employing “appropriate technology” e-solutions in places where information sharing, education, training, and community and health support are desperately needed.

I found this in XPlanaZine

There’s a cute example following the lines I quoted but I don’t see whether it is a real example, ’cause it all starts with “colleges and universities are engaging in virtual projects” but I cannot see further information or links to some of these projects.

Anyway, the post is worth reading it and it’s just about a thing I’ve commented here zillions of times: content, content, content and services, services, services, this time carried on by students acting non-profit (well, they get some marks, but at least it is not about money)

By the way, Xplana has changed recently so now you just have to syndicate once and not three times (articles, whitepapers, interviews) as before.