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Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Development: Development through mobiles —Syed Mohammad Ali
Unless the prevailing range of gender-related hurdles in availing the opportunities being provided by communication technologies, it is likely that women may become further marginalised
How digital changes the legal context of news " Reportr.net
"In an online world, news is part of a distributed and networked ecosystem of information.... there has to be provision for fair use, for remixing and mashing up digital content to create something that helps people make sense of the news. "
Core77 / changing the change
on the role of design in sustainability
Allemandi Conference Press: Changing the change - advancing cosmopolitan localism
The central question that this paper seeks to address is whether indeed Africa can 'leapfrog' into a truly sustainable future by using extrapolated scenarios
Metacycle Home - Metacycle
To metacycle is to prolong the useful life of an obsolete object by transforming it to have a new function.
OnTheCommons.org " The "Flash Mob" Gambit
Could the flash mob represent a new model of citizen action?
ARGs, Serious Games and the Magic Circle " Digital Worlds - Interactive Media and Game Design
Muhammad Saleem suggests several characteristics that a successful ARG should embrace: - Storytelling or narrative - Discovery/deciphering and documentation elements - Cross-medium interactivity
Kenix - Internet as a tool for social change for profits (how democratic is it_)
This research surveys 688 people associated with non–profit organizations in the United States to better understand their perceptions and uses of the Internet as a tool for social change.
Mann - copyright and the new stakeholders in online education
This paper analyses the university as an Internet intermediary in the current climate of online distance education, classifies the stakeholders associated with the university in Web course management, and explores the need for an “Instructional Design C
Brabham -Moving the crowd at iStockphoto: The composition of the crowd and motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application
Classmate Yang goes online: Chinese officials engage netizens | Fool's Mountain: Blogging for China
On Being Proprietary
Are you a hardware vendor who includes a proprietary Windows driver with your product? If so, I intend to convince you that documenting your hardware, and providing OSI Certified(tm) open source drivers, generates enough value to overcome the risk that yo
Internet Patent News / Source Translation & Optimization Patent Web Site
Philosophies of Free Software and Intellectual Property
The GNU and Open Source ideologies are well-defined because they have spokespersons one can quote. The most significant point of difference between these two is that GNU considers it a fundamentally moral issue, whereas Open Source views it in purely prag
Supercommons
Kevin Werbach: towards a unified theory of wireless communication. Since spectrum does not really exist, even open spectrum proposals are inadequate, and we should move towards a universal right of communication
Second Life Grid Open Grid Protocol Draft 1
define the protocols by which a vast, Internet wide virtual world can operate. This protocol enables different regions of the virtual world to be operated independently, yet interoperate to form a cohesive experience.
Future of Media Summit Blog | Quick review of social media coverage of Future of Media Summit
a few important social media references and commentary on the event.
SQO-OSS: Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software
ossd - Open Knowledge Definition - Defining the Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Information
defines 'open' in relation to online (software) services.
Luis Villa’s Blog / evaluating a Free/Open Service Definition (rough draft)
I’m putting in some time on thinking about what an Open Service Definition (to parallel the Open Source and Free Software Definitions). I present here a rough draft of a framework for evaluating such a definition.
FreeOpenServicesDefinition - GNOME Live!
In order to encourage the creation and use of web services which combine the best of both SaaS and Free/Open software, we'd like to create a Free/Open Services Definition. This definition would serve as a reference (and potentially a checklist) for those
The equivalent of free software for online services
There's a lot of movement toward replacing software with services delivered over the internet
Philippe Aigrain » (de)centralization of information activities and services
very useful typology of software services
OnTheCommons.org » Care To Try to Define the Commons?
Blogging from the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons in Cheltenham, England.
OnTheCommons.org » Will the Commons Emerge as a 2008 Campaign Issue?
Even if it doesn’t become a centerpiece of policy for the next administration, discussion of an issue like the commons on the campaign trail can significantly raise public awareness.
Health Commons: Tapping into the Power to Share
Some 2,500 foundations invest hundreds of billions annually seeking cures to hundreds of diseases,” they write, “yet there is little coordination, resource sharing or cross-learning among initiatives and no effective processes for moving research into
OnTheCommons.org » Generic Drugs, an Endangered Commons
At the retail level, this is what proprietary meddling with the generic drug market means: Lipitor now costs from $2.50 to $3 a day, while the generic equivalent could cost one-tenth of that sum
OnTheCommons.org » Can Cattle Save Us From Global Warming?
Carbon farming is an attempt to recreate the natural conditions of a commons even under the structure of private property in order to reverse the effects of global climate disruption.
OnTheCommons.org » Water for All
Barlow sees signs of an emerging water commons consciousness. The efforts at this point are largely local, but when added all together she sees potential for a global movement
OnTheCommons.org » Using Sousveillance to Defend the Commons
“Equiveillance theory” argues that sousveillance may reduce or eliminate the need for surveillance
OnTheCommons.org » Risk, Inequality and the Economics of Disaster
Marcellus Andrews explains how climate change will force us to confront the inequalities that market fundamentalism produces.

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