Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international body charged with managing the standard file formats and protocols that make the web work, has formed a group to look into connecting people with mobile phones. The Mobile Web for Social Development interest group (or MW4D, they really like acronyms) will ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
I wrote a month ago about a school district in North Carolina that is using smart phones in class as a platform for learning.
Mobile devices could be a great way to integrate technology into the classroom. They are inexpensive, ubiquitous, and are designed for communication. A lot of kids have ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The ITU, or International Telecommunication Union, has produced another video about their efforts to connect a remote and impoverished area of Honduras. They sent out a technician to install a wireless telephone that locals can use to communicate. This kind of thing can make a big impact in communities, allowing ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Here is a good video about using microcredit to provide a poor remote village with a cell phone. The video is produced by the International Telecommunication Union, a special agency of the United Nations. Grameen Bank is an organization that provides micro-credit loans to people throughout the world, and provided ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A North Carolina school district partnered with Qualcomm's Wireless Reach Initiative and Arlington, Virg., based Digital Millennial Consulting to provide some 9th graders smart-phones with internet access in a pilot program. The K-Nect Program, as it's called, is an attempt to address three issues at once: Getting at risk kids ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The era of global communication is upon us, and the Internet is changing the way people work, find information about their world and talk to friends and family. But many people are left behind because they can't afford a computer, have no Internet access where they live, or are just ...
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