· [DDN] news: DDN list has moved
· [DDN] [Net-Gold] Instant Messages, Lingering Paper Trail : Some Thoughts About Implications
· [DDN] Mobile learning in hospitals and nursing homes
· [DDN] AFRICAN AMERICAN: MUSIC: Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC)
· [DDN] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS : SECOND CALL
· Re: [DDN] Audioblogger.com shutting down
· [DDN] Audioblogger.com shutting down
· [DDN] Google reportedly in talks to buy YouTube
· [DDN] INFORMATION LITERACY : COUNTRIES: INDIA: Information Literacy Programme in Colleges
· [DDN] Educational Technology Research Symposium - Call for Papers deadline extended
· Sad news at end of year: the passing of Steve Snow
Earlier this year the Community Networking family mourned the passing of Steve Cisler.Â
Today we learned of the pasing of another of the founders of the AFCN ... Steve Snow passed away this weekend. He will be greatly missed.
Here follows the obituary note.
Stephen Hopkins Snow, MA, PhD
Stephen Hopkins Snow, formerly of Charlotte, NC and St. Petersburg, Fl. died suddenly on December 27th in Asheville, NC where he maintained a clinical practice in counseling. He was the loving father of Stephanie Snow Tursi, Mary Snow and Timothy Snow of Charlotte, NC and Katie Snow-Rackley of Cleveland Heights, Ohio and is survived by grandchildren: Amanda, Ella, Jonah, Benjamin, Ruthie, Samuel and Thomas Tursi and Eli and Sylvia Rackley and siblings Roger Snow of Boston, Ma., Susan Snow-Burnett of Norfolk, Va., and Deb Snow of Santa Cruz, Ca. He will also be mourned by his former wife Patt Snow, friend Ed Fierstos and fiancée Cynthia Yancey.
· Twenty-one years since the first DIAC Symposium! Call for Participation -- DIAC-2008 / OD2008
Tools for Participation:
Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium
Conference on Online Deliberation
(DIAC-2008/OD2008)
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
and UC Berkeley School of Information
Partners: National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
University of California, Berkeley
June 26 - 29, 2008
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/
· International Summit for Community Wireless Networks: Call for Panels
CALL FOR PANELS — Due March 31, 2008
International Summit for Community Wireless Networks
 May 28-30, 2008, Washington, DC
 Send panel proposals and questions to: summit@chambana.net
Since the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in
2004, hundreds of community Internet and municipal broadband
initiatives have sprung up around the globe. Internet access is
increasingly important to all facets of civil society, but many
communities are being left out of this communications revolution.
· One Web Day 2007 - September 22
September 22 is One Web Day, celebrate the changes in our world and the positive dimensions of the Internet in our lives!
http://onewebday.org
· Community Media Summit - 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007 was a very special day for community in Chicago and for Chicago community media. The Benton Foundation and the Community Media Workshop convened a Community Media Summit with the launch of the Benton Media Scan - What's Going on in Community Media a report by Fred Johnson of the University of Massachusetts, Boston with Karen Menichelli, Benton Foundation.
Julia Stasch, Chair of Mayor Daley's Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide released it's official report at the summit - the Chicago Report on Digital Excellence.
· Wireless Summit, SEO and Civic Gardens
Third time's the charm! The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is a few days away. We look forward to seeing you there.
SEO and the NPO: Grassroots.org has launched a toolkit for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for non-profits - spread the word.
Civic Garden: The notion of the Civic Garden we've been promoting locally in Chicago (as an evolution of the Minneapolis' "Walled Garden") is being taken up in Minneapolis.
· ICANN, RALO, ALS
Friends,
Who among you has interest in ICANN issues? Are you following them currently? Which issues have your attention?
AFCN is following ICANN and the process of the formation of Regional At Large Organizations (RALOs) which serve as an aggregation of "At Large Structures" (ALSs) in each region (global).
The At Large process is intended as a vehicle for everyday users of the Internet to have a voice in Internet governance questions.
Whether the voice of everyday users will play a meaningful role in Internet governance and ICANN specific issues remains to be determined, but if you are active or have interest in becoming active in following these issues or in helping educate the public or providing a channel so their voice can be heard, please let us know.
· Developments in the Open Movement: Feb 2007
I've just returned from Recent Changes Camp 2007 (Portland)
Recent Changes takes it's name from Wiki tool and takes it's inspiration from Wiki Culture
Among the many developments of this Open Space format event is the effort to establish an Open Guild. See the wiki: http://www.oguild.org
Under this rubric there is opportunity for a place-based node for Portland as well as a more general virtual community and dreams of a network of such place-centered nodes. Open Source technologists/developers are a core constituency, but there was some care in framing the idea as being about an Open movement, rather than just Open Source.
· Silicon Valley community panel calls for public input on equal access to municipal broadband
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Oct. 18 2006. A community panel organized by Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Broadband Institute of California urged greater public participation in planning broadband networks that are being commissioned by local governments around the country. The panel also asserted that truly equal access to municipal broadband can only be achieved by providing underserved groups -- seniors, low-income, rural residents, the disabled, and non-English speakers -- a free or discounted tier of service with the same speed, privacy, and security available to households that pay full price.
· Workshop: Open Source CMS and CRM
John Kenyon, a highly recommended professional trainer, will conduct a
workshop Thursday, November 2, 2006, at the Fitzpatrick Center for
Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS)
on the Duke University campus, Durham, NC. The morning session is on
Open Source Content Management Systems, focusing on Drupal, and the
afternoon session is on Open Source Customer Relationship Management
Systems, focusing on CiviCRM. See http://civicrm.org/aboutcivicrm for
more information about CiviCRM and a list of key features.
Registration is open to the public. You may register for only the
· Access to Online Health Information
digitaldivide posted a photo:
A class was given for Spanish speaking child care workers on how to find online information on issues related to children's health
· Delegates at the 2003 WSIS Summit
digitaldivide posted a photo:
Delegates listen to a speech by Iranian president Mohammed Khatami at
the 2003 World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland.
· Ruddie Memorial Youth Foundation Accepting Applications
URL: http://www.rmyf.org Referred by: Foundation Center
· Google Maps: A Tool for the Youth Media Field
URL: http://www.youthmediareporter.org/2009/06/google_maps_a_tool_for_the_you.html
· Some Video Games Can Make Children Kinder And More Likely To Help
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090617171819.htm
· Washington Koen Media Presents "The Beyond The Bricks" Project
URL: http://www.Beyondthebricksproject.com
· Why After-School Programs Matter
URL: http://www.edutopia.org/spiralnotebook/katie-klinger
· Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition
URL: http://www.iuowfilm.com/index.html Referred by: Edutopia
· LEGO Children's Fund Grants
URL: http://www.legochildrensfund.org/Guidelines.html
· Grants for Middle School STEM-Focused Service-Learning Programs
URL: http://ysa.org/AwardsGrants/tabid/58/Default.aspx Referred by: Foundation Center
· Summer Reading
URL: http://readingrockets.org/calendar/summer
· Classroom Computers Boost Face-to-face Learning
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090525134153.htm