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Another spin with the pocketable Lumix LX5, that has been lying around. @CityHall
The fine details of the grid just illustrate the capability of this amazing Lumix LX5
My book is out! The newspaper in town is doing a little story. They needed a photo. So, I went through the zillion stupid little steps I always do when I need a new photo. This is one of the few that came out okay.
Four years ago, I was proposing a similar idea. I'm just glad it's now real.
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Photo Credit: Ahmad Dan-Hamidu
OLPC interface video: www.ivr-usability.com/olpc/olpc.html
Running OLPC on your Mac / Windows: www.edgargonzalez.com/2006/11/21/emulating-the-olpc-xo-on...
This is what I do on a lot of my days. I go to libraries and help people with their computers. Today was a fun day. Both my students had Macs and were clever and interesting people [the little girl is a grandchild of one of the trustees] with problems to solve.
I taught the man on the right how to reply to an email, how to use the shift key and how to make a folder and put a message in it. I taught the woman on the right how to create a text document, save it and close it and open it again. I also showed her how to add someone to her Yahoo mail address book.
It's so great having wifi in the library so that I can show these people how to do these things on their own computers and they can take them home and do them over using the exact same computers.
Photo taken with a Woca 120 GF fitted with a Full Frame Holga for Polaroid. I loaded it with a 89 Polaroid instant film- ISO 100/DIN 21- which expired on 02/07.
Were you to wonder about the photo title, just peep at the tags. I rest assured they provide plenty of food for thought!
A "Polaroid perspective" offers a way to think about problems and decisions concerning the Digital Divide/Gap in a reasonable way without exaggerating their importance. At the end of the digital/analog day, we still need a "room of one`s own".
In the last 25 years Ukraine has built a reputation as a country of programmers – a leading recipient of outsourced coding jobs that rivals coding giants like India. More recently, with the smartphone and tablet computer revolution, Ukraine has also become an innovative producer of code used in popular apps around the world.
But the successes of Ukraine’s hi-tech present mask a problem that could grow in the future: There is a widening gap between old and young, men and women, and urban and rural people with regard to access to, and the use of the Internet and modern digital technologies – the Digital Divide. A new research has found that 53% of Ukrainians have “below average” level of digital skills and 15.1% of Ukrainians do not have any digital skills at all.
Read how UNDP is working to change that: www.ua.undp.org/content/ukraine/en/home/blog/2020/bridgin...
Photo: Anton Kuba / UNDP Ukraine
Day 1 draws to a close with "The Mobile Content Mandate."
You don’t get to decide which device people use to access your content: they do. By 2015, more people will access the internet via mobile devices than on traditional computers; in the US today, nearly one-third of people who browse the internet on their mobile phone say that’s the only way they go online. It’s time to stop avoiding the issue by saying “no one will ever want to do that on mobile;” chances are, someone already wants to. In this session, Karen will discuss why you need to deliver content wherever your customer wants to consume it, and explain how to get started with your mobile content strategy—defining what you want to publish, what the relationship should be between your mobile and desktop site, and how your editorial workflow and content management tools need to evolve.
The Ghana Library Authority’s mobile library service and ICT van regularly visits rural commmunities. In partnership with EIFL, the service provides people with an opportunity to acquire practical ICT experience and skills bit.ly/1XtGyYJ
Inspired by the cover of Shel Silverstein's classic book, 'The GIving Tree', this is my third wallpaper for Macs...
This was a bit more of a challenge, as the gaps between the leaves of the tree were complicated to make transparent, etc. I also experimented with brushes, artistic effects and blurs to make this more like an illustration.
Initially, I created the wallpaper because I was struck by the cover illustration of Silverstein's book, but then I began to see, that with the addition of a poor boy from the Philippines (where I once worked as a Dominican lay volunteer), it could be an illustration of 'the digital divide'.
Will Apple - which has been reporting rising profits each quarter - help to bridge the gap, reach out and give to those who need access to technology? Or will Microsoft have to step into the breach?
Deborah Jacobs (BMGF), Kartik Raghavan (BMGF), Suneet Singh (Datawind), Jon Gosier, Esther Dyson
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
Beyond Access Member teams representing twelve countries in Asia and Europe gathered in Indonesia to share their successes, challenges, and visions about the role of modern libraries in their communities. Participants came from vastly different countries in terms of culture, level of development, and political environment. Yet they shared many of the same challenges, and more importantly, they shared a commitment to the role libraries play in their communities.
The digital divide and the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative are the center of this weeks column and illustration. There is a saying "Give a starving man a fish and you've given him food for one day, give him a fishing rod, and you gave him food for the rest of his life." This is the aaproach with the OLPC project and it's latest contracts in places like Libya and other third world countries.
What the illustration asks is: What will the man do with a fishing rod when there is no fish or water around?
The Mobile Content Mandate
Karen McGrane, Author, Content Strategy for Mobile
You don’t get to decide which device people use to access your content: they do. By 2015, more people will access the internet via mobile devices than on traditional computers; in the US today, nearly one-third of people who browse the internet on their mobile phone say that’s the only way they go online. It’s time to stop avoiding the issue by saying “no one will ever want to do that on mobile;” chances are, someone already wants to. In this session, Karen will discuss why you need to deliver content wherever your customer wants to consume it, and explain how to get started with your mobile content strategy—defining what you want to publish, what the relationship should be between your mobile and desktop site, and how your editorial workflow and content management tools need to evolve.
The Kitengesa Community Library has a strong women's association that offers workshops on income generation and health topics.
The Ghana Library Authority’s mobile library service and ICT van regularly visits rural commmunities. In partnership with EIFL, the service provides people with an opportunity to acquire practical ICT experience and skills bit.ly/1XtGyYJ
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
Raj Shah (USAID), Ricardo Lagos (former President of Chile) and Susan Glasser (FP magazine) discuss technology and development in the conference's opening session.
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
The event kicked-off with a special roundtable discussion between USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos. Other featured speakers included technology innovator Esther Dyson and representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Beyond Access Member teams representing twelve countries in Asia and Europe gathered in Indonesia to share their successes, challenges, and visions about the role of modern libraries in their communities. Participants came from vastly different countries in terms of culture, level of development, and political environment. Yet they shared many of the same challenges, and more importantly, they shared a commitment to the role libraries play in their communities.
Representatives from the government and international agencies discuss access to information at the Beyond Access salon on March 7, 2013.
In Zigoti, public internet is almost 15 km away. The library has started a co-op to help local dairy farmers.
In September 2013, library teams from 10 countries gathered in Medellin, Colombia for the Beyond Access 2013: Latin America event, where participants shared their experiences and ideas about community development.
The Mobile Content Mandate
Karen McGrane, Author, Content Strategy for Mobile
You don’t get to decide which device people use to access your content: they do. By 2015, more people will access the internet via mobile devices than on traditional computers; in the US today, nearly one-third of people who browse the internet on their mobile phone say that’s the only way they go online. It’s time to stop avoiding the issue by saying “no one will ever want to do that on mobile;” chances are, someone already wants to. In this session, Karen will discuss why you need to deliver content wherever your customer wants to consume it, and explain how to get started with your mobile content strategy—defining what you want to publish, what the relationship should be between your mobile and desktop site, and how your editorial workflow and content management tools need to evolve.
Youth attending the IT School, basic ICT literacy training organized by Taiwanese NTHU volunteers and oneVillage Foundation, Ghana, learning hands-on to assemble the computer hardware and components together as part of the 10-day training in Aug. 2008.
Day 1 draws to a close with "The Mobile Content Mandate."
You don’t get to decide which device people use to access your content: they do. By 2015, more people will access the internet via mobile devices than on traditional computers; in the US today, nearly one-third of people who browse the internet on their mobile phone say that’s the only way they go online. It’s time to stop avoiding the issue by saying “no one will ever want to do that on mobile;” chances are, someone already wants to. In this session, Karen will discuss why you need to deliver content wherever your customer wants to consume it, and explain how to get started with your mobile content strategy—defining what you want to publish, what the relationship should be between your mobile and desktop site, and how your editorial workflow and content management tools need to evolve.
The Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries event took place on October 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event brought together an estimated 400 practitioners, funding organizations, and innovators from around the world to have a conversation about alternative development approaches and to build partnerships.
The event kicked-off with a special roundtable discussion between USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah and former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos. Other featured speakers included technology innovator Esther Dyson and representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.