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Wouldn't you just love to have this problem: can you survive a day without computers/internet? Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 29 April, 2008 - 17:50. Tags: digital divide ICT ICT4D loband Via incom-l mailing list, I received the following message about the shutdownday.org campaign which is encouraging people to shut down their computers on Saturday 3 May. This is an interesting initative, and from our perspective of working with computing in African civil society it raises the starkness of the digital divide between North America and Africa. Consider this in contrast to Jare's blog post recently about the difficulties of working under conditions in which one doesn't even know how long the computer will even be running and you get a sense of what I mean. This week we've been experimenting with a tool to enable us all to post to the Kabissa blog, member news and resource listings by email - I am typing this post via gmail right now. I think this type of thing will help to ease the frustrations caused by access problems at least so that Kabissa members can draft their content offline like they would an email and then connect to post it. Stay tuned. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/shutdown_day/ A group of Canadian self-confessed geeks is asking concerned citizens to turn off their tech on Saturday 3 May - dubbed "Shutdown Day <http://www.shutdownday.org/>" - in an attempt to "spread awareness about the pitfalls and dangers that lie in the extended and unnecessary use of, and exposure to television, computers and computing equipment". ===== from the organiser's website: It is obvious that without computers we would find our life extremely difficult, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope? Be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate! Shutdown your computer on 03 May 2008 and find out! http://www.shutdownday.org/ Average: 4 (1 vote) Tobias Eigen's blog Login or register to post comments Email this Blog entry Printer-friendly version

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Via incom-l mailing list, I received the following message about the shutdownday.org campaign which is encouraging people to shut down their computers on Saturday 3 May. This is an interesting initative, and from our perspective of working with computing in African civil society it raises the starkness of the digital divide between North America and Africa. Consider this in contrast to Jare's blog post recently about the difficulties of working under conditions in which one doesn't even know how long the computer will even be running and you get a sense of what I mean.

This week we've been experimenting with a tool to enable us all to post to the Kabissa blog, member news and resource listings by email - I am typing this post via gmail right now. I think this type of thing will help to ease the frustrations caused by access problems at least so that Kabissa members can draft their content offline like they would an email and then connect to post it. Stay tuned.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/shutdown_day/
A group of Canadian self-confessed geeks is asking concerned citizens to turn off their tech on Saturday 3 May - dubbed "Shutdown Day <http://www.shutdownday.org/>" - in an attempt to "spread awareness about the pitfalls and dangers that lie in the extended and unnecessary use of, and exposure to television, computers and computing equipment".

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from the organiser's website:

It is obvious that without computers we would find our life extremely difficult, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?

Be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!

Shutdown your computer on 03 May 2008 and find out!
http://www.shutdownday.org/

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