WOS 3 / Programm / Panels / Globalisierung der freien Wissenkulturen / Globalisierung II.
Opening Speeches Opening Keynote Freie Software Freie Software im öffentlichen Sektor Ökonomie der Freien Software Freie Software und Qualitätsmanagement Freie Video Software Freie Datenschutzwerkzeuge Offene Archive I. Emulatoren Beyond the Unix Paradigm? Freier Content CC I. Launch von Creative Commons Deutschland CC II. Creative Commons Summit Wikipedia & Co. Freie Wissenschaft I. Publishing Freie Wissenschaft II. Funding and Activism Art as Anticopright Activism Offene Archive II. Games Globalisierung der freien Wissenkulturen Globalisierung I. Globalisierung II. Internet Freedom goes East I. Internet Freedom goes East II. WSIS: Globalisierung der Zivilgesellschaft Freie Infrastrukturen Keynote on Peer-to-Peer Freie Standards Freie Funknetze Freie Suchmaschinen Urheberrechte Alternative Kompensationssysteme Die Zukunft der digitalen Allmende Globalization II. Bridging the Digital Divide Friday, 11 June 2004, 13:00, Track 1 + Workshop, 11 June 2004, 15:00 The session will be discussing strategies for enabling technologies, knowledge transfer, and skill building. The Simputer was developed at the Indian Institute of Science in order to bring literacy and the power of IT to the common man. Its free hardware license inspired many to take the spirit of free software beyond software. Refurbishing used hardware and giving it a second life in African schools is one of SchoolNet Namibia‘s tasks. It leads to demands concerning the way computers are produced in the first place. Geekcorps and Tactical Tech bring international technical volunteers to developing nations. They contribute to local IT projects while transferring the technical skills needed to keep projects moving after the volunteers have returned home. Mod: Thorsten Schilling Director, Department for Multimedia & IT, German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn Ethan Zuckerman Founder Geekcorps, Boston Technology Transfer and Digital Independence I'll be talking about different models being used to do technology transfer in developing nations, with a special focus on models that use volunteers to do technology trainings. I'll talk about the concept of "Digital Independence" and why I think it's important for people in developing nations to be producers, as well as consumers, of information technology. I'll look at the ways the Geekcorps program suffered from the fact that it was, essentially, a "closed source" endeavour, and tak about how it might have been more successful if it had been "open sourced". Samyeer Metrani General Manager, Mobile Computing Products, Encore Software Limited, in charge of software for the Simputer, Bangalore The Simputer The Simputer started out as a discussion at the Global Village Seminar at the Bangalore IT.COM exhibition. From that beginning it has come a long way, transitioning from being an upstart technology to a mobile applications platform. Government interest and the burgeoning e-governance sector has helped to spread the use of this the platform. Along the way there were a lot of problems that were faced, and choices that were made, I would like to describe some key parts of that journey, and where we are today. Joris Komen Executive Director, SchoolNet.na, Windhoek, Namibia From Global to Local - Experiential considerations in the deployment of ICTs to disadvantaged rural schools and communties Critically, the commodity market comes with an environmental burden - this burden must be shifted to the manufacturers and primary corporate consumers. ICT development champions in the first world must rally to this crucial cause! While we don't need to turn into green anti-fur campaigners, I do believe we urgently need higher level intervention to swing this environmental scenario in our favour. Enter the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative. --> more Discussion 1 Marek Tuszynski Tactical Technology Collective, Amsterdam Discussion 2

All original works on this website unless otherwise noted are
copyright protected and licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License Germany.