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Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? Richard Stallman makes a pitch for freedom

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 1 May, 2008 - 18:49.
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With gratitude to bytesforall, I learned today about this very meaningful appeal to keep the One Laptop Per Child project on course as a force for freedom in the world, by Richard Stallman, described on Wikipedia as "an American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer." I've been following this issue personally, and while I'm not quite as activist a promoter of open source software as RMS, I was crushed when I learned a few weeks ago about Negroponte's plans for Windows on the device.

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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.
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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.
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Newsfordev - news aggregator platform for agricultural development practitioners

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 28 April, 2008 - 16:23.
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I received the very interesting announcement below from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA). The announcement regards the new http://www.newsfordev.org news service for agricultural development professionals.
Initiatives like this in various sectors in Africa present a powerful opportunity for Africans to address the "information overload" issue while keeping themselves informed and connected with events and happenings in their fields. RSS Feeds and e-mail digests such as those provided by CTA are particularly relevant for those lacking regular access to the Internet. Check it out and let us all know how it works out for you.
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Trip down memory lane: www4mail support suspended in January 2008

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 8 April, 2008 - 17:05.
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www4mail logoI was pleased to get the PingER update from the University of Trieste - it was the first time I had heard from PingER since 2002, when it was presented at the eJDS Open Round Table on "Developing Country Access to On-Line Scientific Publishing: Sustainable Alternatives". I was there talking about (and hoping to breathe life into) the www4mail tool, and am pleased my www4mail presentation (PPT) is still up on their website! www4mail was developed at the University of Trieste and for a time there were a few really good servers running including ours at Kabissa and another at Bellanet in Canada. These servers played a critical role for a time, enabling people with limited access to the web to request web pages to be sent to them by email.

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Avanti Web 2.0 in Africa! Web2fordev conference kicks off today in Rome

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 24 September, 2007 - 04:38.
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