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Chuan is developing a mobile version of Blizzard's World of Warcraft
ptenjoy123 ptenjoy123 | September 21
A few days ago, according to Britain's professional mobile phone games site Pocket Gamer reported that the European mobile phone game makers are gathering at the Mobile Games ForumRunescape weapons (Forum mobile game development) Wivendi issued by the production of online games "World of...
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Mauritius and Web 2.0 [Part 1]
Avinash Oojorah | September 21
Mauritius is an island of 1860 kilometres square found in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. You might probably know about the Dodo, famous extinct Mauritian bird.
Mauritius, a former British colony, became independent on the 12th of March 1968. At that time Mauritius could be...
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JASI Conference, the University of Tokyo, Japan
K Kolpashnikova | September 21
During this weekend, I have participated in the 13th Conference of the Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies, which was held in the Economics Department of the University of Tokyo.
I made a presentation on strengths and weaknesses of global digital divide indices, such as Digital...
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Blogging from the NATOA Annual Conference.
Sascha Meinrath | September 19
I've been in Atlanta this week at the NATOA Annual conference. I presented yesterday evening on, "Grassroots Wireless: State of the Art Networking" (3.7MB) -- it was a lot of fun.
Dharma Daily organized a big dinner for a bunch of us community broadband advocates -- loads of fantastically...
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Access Denied
By: Kim Hart, Washington Post | June 19, 2008
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| The Blind or Deaf Can Feel Left Behind As the Tools of Technology Advance |
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$100 Laptop! Is it worth what it seems to be?
By: Alok Shrestha, TakingITGlobal | Community: Access | January 31, 2008
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| The project named, OLPC (One Laptop per Child), is gaining rapid popularity in developing as well as developed countries. This project was initially conceptualized by Nicholas Negroponte, founder chairman of MITs’ (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab and was announced in The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland on January 2005. The project aims to provide laptops worth $100 to each and every school age child of underdeveloped and developing countries so that children do not have to be deprived of basic education. |
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Thinking About Tomorrow
By: Vauhini Vara,Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal | Community: Cool Tools | February 7, 2008
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How will technology change the way we shop, learn and entertain ourselves? How will it change the way we get news, protect our privacy, connect with friends? We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world.
January 28, 2008; Page R1 |
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Story Telling:My Second Home at Salamieh Telecentre
By: Nabil Eid, Salamieh Telecentre | Community: ICT4 Development | February 6, 2008
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| Story Telling:My Second Home, Salamieh Telecentre
ICTs4D Rural women with Disabilities
Roza Al-Yazji a Twenty-two years old girl, ranking the third amongst four brothers, She was born and suffered from many health problems, including speech disorder and learning disabilities. At the beginning, her parents noticed that case. But when she reached the age of sixteen, her parents could see her delay in speech and learning, balance disorder when she walked.
Her parents tried to get her into the state School but that was in vain. She was unable to continue learning with her colleagues in the classroom. Then she had no other choice but leave school and stay at home and rely on her relatives in learning.
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