Worldmapper: Starting with a map that’s more or less the Peter’s Projection, the WorldMapper group have re-drawn the map looking at a number of different statistics. From several different links….
Category: Digital Divide – Majority World/Gender/etc.
Wired News: Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off
Wired News: Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off “When you have both Intel and Microsoft on your case, you know you’re doing something right,” Negroponte said, prompting applause from the audience of several hundred open-source software devotees….
The Ada Project
The Ada Project I’ve just received an inspection copy of Headfirst HTML. One of the authors, Elisabeth Freeman co-founded TAP. Given that it is International Women’s Day today, it seemed a good reason to go and check it out. It looks like a useful resource, though possibly a bit focussed on US resources. UK resources…
EdTechUK: International Edublogging Women's Day 2006
International (Edublogging) Women’s Day 2006 I’ve had this bookmarked for a couple of days now, it seems that today’s a good day to link to Josie’s site – I’ve got quite a few other Women Bloggers Bookmarked, so I’ll post them later in the day….
Big push for Chinese net domains
Net Domains in Chinese At present, Domain names are all written using Roman characters. China has therefore set up a system that allows domains to be registered in Chinese characters. Subramanian Subbiah, co-founder of I-DNS.net that has worked with China on the Chinese language domains, said the system has been brought in because the government…
Ascent of women
EducationGuardian.co.uk | comment | Article looking at the massive increase of women in HE. One thing that does surprise me is that But the advance of women overall meant that even in science, maths and computing 40% of the students were women; We’ve certainly not got 40% women….
Internet serves as 'social glue' – especially if you're female.
BBC report on a Pew Internet Report suggests that they’ve found: But the report, entitled The Strength of Internet Ties, found that e-mail supplements rather than replaces offline communications. Another Pew Report, covered by the BBC at the end of last year, found that the gender divide online has more or less vanished, in terms…
Boys and Learning This actual post is thinking about whether or not e-books might be a way to get boys reading. What I’ve found interesting is the fact that Last year, 60% of boys in Washington State failed the test, compared to 54% of girls (See TeleRead for more info) A recent UK report suggested…
Are $100 Laptops needed in Africa?
misbehaving.net: Are $100 Laptops needed in Africa? Useful points from an African Woman ……
The $100 Laptop- vaporware?
Teemu Leinonen takes a step back & looks at the practicalities of the $100 laptop. While I’ve been in favour of it in general & have reported on the progress quite a lot here, that was, in no small part, due to the technological innovations. I had thought about the practical implications quite a lot,…