'Digital Divide' Tag
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Bill would prohibit municipal public networks
July 7, 2005A bill, Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005 (HR 2726) , is introduced byTexas Republican Pete Sessions prohibits state and local governments from offering any public telecom or networking services in competition with private companies. More detail It’s interesting this bill is called “Preserving Innovation In Telecom Act.” Should it be called “Destroying Innovationin [...]
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Compare open source tools
July 7, 2005Opensourcecms.com. provides a comparision tool which helps you to narrow down your search for content management system for your need.
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Hello world!
July 4, 2005Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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Why does govt need so many Public affairs officers?
February 26, 2005Newsday: Cadre grows to rein in message Between September 2000 and September 2004, the number of public affairs officials rose 9 percent, from 4,327 to 4,703, in executive-branch agencies, according to U.S. Office of Personnel Management statistics. Meanwhile, the federal work force grew 6 percent. The cost of public affairs staffing has grown by more [...]
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Grey Lit journal set to begin spring 2005
February 23, 2005Welcome to GreyNet, Your Grey Literature Network Service What’s grey literature? It’s “Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commerical publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity.” THE GREY JOURNAL ~ FLAGSHIP FOR THE GREY LITERATURE COMMUNITY The first issue of [...]
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Top censored stories of 2004
January 6, 2005Project Censored 2005 – Top 25 Censored Stories #1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy #2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Holds Corporations Accountable #3: Bush Administration Censors Science #4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians #5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources #6: The Sale [...]
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Iraq’s library
December 27, 2004Iraq’s library struggles to rise from the ashes by Rory McCarthy. Tuesday December 21, 2004. Guardian Unlimited. The daylight burning of the library, which the invading US military did not protect, was one of the first costly failures in the post-war chaos of occupation last year. Now it is slowly being restored. But in a [...]
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Book lists
December 4, 2004Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Season’s readings We don’t usually post general items like this one here, but I’ll make an exception with this one. From The Guardian a list of good books: “writers and guest critics recommend their favourites, from bestsellers to the undeservedly obscure.” The contributors: JG Ballard | Iain Banks |Julian [...]
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Declaration from the First Social Forum of Information, Documentation and Libraries
December 3, 2004Declaration from Buenos Aires – Social Forum of Information 2004 The attendees at the First Social Forum on Information, Documentation and Libraries: alternative action programs from Latin America for the information society, held in Buenos Aires from August 26-28, 2004, was called by the Social Studies Group on Library Science and Documentation (Argentina) and the [...]
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The Digital Divide: Who is in and who is out?
December 2, 2004A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age. US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age is the sixth report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce examining the use of computers, the Internet, and other information technology tools by the American people. Based on the U.S. Census [...]