on 'Science & Tech' -> 'ICT' http://zunia.org EN Zunia.org Content Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:19:31 -0500 http://zunia.org/fileadmin/knowledge/images/zunia_logo.gif http://zunia.org 297554 http://zunia.org/post/from-silos-to-systems-an-overview-of-ehealths-transformative-power/ The Rockefeller Foundation hosted Making the eHealth Connection:Global Partnerships, Local Solutions, a month-long conference series at & nbsp;Bellagio Center. While gathered there, more than 200 experts, working across disciplines and sectors, set and championed a new agenda to expand use of technology in health systems—one crucial component of the global health community’s strategy to make modern care more accessible and affordable for all. This report, “From Silos to Systems,” arises from that Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:35:35 -0500 297518 http://zunia.org/post/world-telecommunication-development-conference10/ The International Telecommunication Union, through the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), organizes a World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) every four years and a number of Regional Preparatory Meetings (RPMs) within that same period. The Telecommunication Development Conferences serve as forums for free discussion by all concerned with the Development Sector. In addition, they review the numerous programmes and projects of the Sector and BDT. Results are reported and ne Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:24 -0500 297510 http://zunia.org/post/community-mapping-in-tsunami-affected-areas-in-aceh-indonesia/ A touching 10-minute video production on how community mapping has been used in post-Tsunami Aceh, Indonesia.The documentary has been jointly produced by the Indonesia Community Mapping Network or Jaringan Kerja Pemetaan Partisipatif (JKPP), and the Center for people Economic Development or Yayasan Rumpun Bambu Indonesia (YRBI). Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:49:38 -0500 297509 http://zunia.org/post/knowledge-and-cultural-transmission-in-kenyan-participatory-mapping/ In this 5 minute interview Dr. Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat at IPACC, elaborates on intergenerational ecological knowledge transmission in Participatory 3-dimensional modelling (P3DM). Crawhall discusses his observations on intergenerational interaction when the Ogiek community of Nessuit, Kenya built a geo-referenced model of their mountain forest landscape in 2006. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:41:23 -0500 297500 http://zunia.org/post/ict-for-development-research-size-and-growth/ How big is the ICT4D research field? And is it growing or shrinking?This provides some estimates on the size of the ICT4D research field in terms of numbers of people active, and numbers of papers being produced. It also provides statistics on the (rapid) growth of academic publications in the field during the 2000s. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:57:39 -0500 297371 http://zunia.org/post/online-tools-for-project-management/ Online project management tools enhance productivity and transparency. Project management can easily become chaotic and not very efficient whether you are part of a team or of an organization. If you were planning to enhance remote collaboration, an Intranet or document management system was so far a good choice. Online project management tools go beyond that and allow decentralized collaboration between co-workers, thus project planning and implementation get more transparent and productive. Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:27:51 -0500 297343 http://zunia.org/post/libya-must-halt-web-crackdown-says-rights-group/ "Libya must stop blocking access to opposition websites and internet pages such as YouTube, US-based Human Rights Watch has warned."The activists say Tripoli began a crackdown on 24 January, blocking several foreign-based sites reporting on Libya, and the entire YouTube site."'The government is returning to the dark days of total media control,' the group said in a statement."February 4, 2010 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:03:49 -0500 297342 http://zunia.org/post/book-review-preparing-for-a-mobile-phone-uprising-in-africa/ The trouble with people who know about mobile phone technology is that they are a lot better at good ideas than they are at explaining to non-techies what their good ideas are for. So I fell upon SMS Uprising: Mobile activism in Africa, a collection of essays by people who either write mobile applications or transfer them to the field, hoping that at last I would understand not so much what's going on as how. To begin even nearer the beginning than this book does – and in case I am not the las Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:28:37 -0500 297320 http://zunia.org/post/interview-of-venky-hariharan/ Venky Hariharan of Red Hat India talks explains the concept of open standards and their importance Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:53:04 -0500 297297 http://zunia.org/post/saving-face-the-privacy-architecture-of-facebook/ This thesis is about Facebook. It argues that the world’s largest social utility has revolutionized the environment within which people communicate. Specifically, it finds that Facebook challenges intuitive ideas of identity and privacy practices by changing the informational dynamics of the space within which individuals represent and situate themselves. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the sort of privacy violations that take place on Facebook, explains how the design of Fa Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:36:46 -0500