NetSquared teaming up with Sun Microsystems to produce global Hack Days. First stop, San Paolo, Brazil on October 1, 2008. Next up, China! Register: Collaborate for Change.
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Hear Our Pain Action Network
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
People are fed up with quality/availability of communications services. Markets and policymakers fail to listen. We aggregate data/public pain across media/telecom services, and provide means for that pain to put weight on levers of power.
Native American youth and the web: an interview with Shannon Lenz-Wall
Shannon Lenz-Wall is a web designer based in Montana who made it out to San Jose for the NetSquared conference. She runs a web design service called Hawkline and volunteers with Hopa Mountain, a nonprofit organization that does capacity building with Native American communities throughout the Northern Rockies and Great Plains. Shannon talked to me at the conference about web use and Native American youth.
Web 2.0 and Africa
Connectivity and ICTs in developing countries are contextualised by the “digital divide”. More than ten years ago, at a G-7 conference on the information society in February 1995 in Brussels, then deputy president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, pointed out that there were more telephone lines in Manhattan than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. "Half of humanity has never made a telephone call," he said.
Although mobile communication and other applications are changing the telecommunications environment in Africa, given the topic of this session, the “digital divide” can be summarised as follows:
