[eccr] Fwd: ICT, Social Enterprise and Sustainable Development Newsletter

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>Mass Mitec and HCLN Conferences and Archives -
>http://www.hcln.net/conferences.htm
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>Bangalore dyd02 Interactive Broadcasting Workshop
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>Call for participants for virtual conference/workshop on Water issues
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>Call for support for urban youth interactive broadcasting project
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>Global Knowledge Russia Moscow Conference
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>Social Enterprise - Rhetoric and Reality
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>PTC2003 Conference Honolulu - Broadband and Development
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>Building the Information Commonwealth Conference in St Petersburg
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>AMARC8 Community Radio Conference in Nepal
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>World Summit on the Information Society Prepcom II Geneva
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>Call for Papers for SCI03 Panel in Orlando July 2003
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>Digital Earth Conference in Brno September 2003
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>Call for Presenters for proposed virtual conference on e-Strategies for
>the Information Society
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>Mass Mitec and HCLN Conferences and Archives -
>http://www.hcln.net/conferences.htm
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>I have recently updated the HCLN web site to make the conference
>archives more easily accessible from a single page and will be adding
>archives from other conference presentations over the next few months
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>Bangalore dyd02 Interactive Broadcasting Workshop
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>In November/December last year, I ran an interactive broadcasting
>workshop at the Shrishti School of Art and Design in Bangalore in an
>event sponsored by MIT Media Lab Asia. This was my first time in India
>which I found to be a land full of enterprise and amazing contrasts. The
>workshop combined participants in Bangalore with presenters in Bangkok,
>the Netherlands and the UK. The virtual event used HP's virtual
>classroom technology with its new voice over IP technology which enabled
>remote participants to listen and speak entirely over the internet using
>a PC headset.
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>Apart from a power cut during the workshop, the technology worked very
>well and the event brought together people from all over the globe to
>share their vision and experiences - see
>http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/dyd02.htm
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>Call for participants for virtual conference/workshop on Water issues
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>Water and sustainable development was an important theme during the
>conference with a umber of papers presented on practices to protect and
>improve the availability and quality of water in developing countries.
>There was some interest in Bangalore in running a virtual
>workshop/conference to progress issues and share knowledge. If you would
>be interested in participating in such an event, contact me at
>(dwortley /at/ massmitec.co.uk)
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>Call for support for urban youth interactive broadcasting project
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>As a follow up to the workshop, the plenary sessions was broken into
>smaller working parties to propose action plans for specific projects.
>My workshop led to a proposal to organise and interactive broadcasting
>project based around urban youth in Asia and the UK. If possible, we
>would like to arrange an exchange of young people between the UK and
>Asia for a short project to develop content for an interactive broadcast
>on urban youth issues across continents and cultures. If you are
>interested in supporting or participating, contact me at
>(dwortley /at/ massmitec.co.uk)
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>Global Knowledge Russia Moscow Conference
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>Within a week of leaving Bangalore, I was in Moscow for an international
>one day conference on Global Knowledge Russia, at the kind invitation of
>the Russian Information Society. To see a report of this event, go to
>http://www.hcln.net/Moscow/index.htm
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>Social Enterprise - Rhetoric and Reality
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>I am grateful to those who have responded to my previous requests for
>evidence in support of my work within the Harborough District. I have
>unfortunately now had to commence legal proceedings. It is a sad
>situation when parties working towards what should be a common goal find
>themselves in such conflict, but this case may help to highlight some
>important matters on the principle of social enterprise.
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>I am a passionate champion of the value of social enterprise as an
>engine of social and economic development based on genuine partnerships,
>shard risk and reward and empowerment of champions across all sectors.
>In practice, I have found that there is often a gulf between rhetoric
>and reality in which empowerment becomes a euphemism for exploitation
>and partnership relationships become unsustainable parasitical
>relationships.
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>For more details on some of the generic legal issues involved - see
>http://www.hcln.net/legal/index.htm
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>PTC2003 Conference Honolulu - Broadband and Development
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>Next week sees the Global Broadband / Global Challenges in Honolulu -
>see http://www.ptc.org/PTC2003/index.html where I will be presenting on
>the role of broadband as a tool for development in a workshop. I hope to
>create some archives for he event on my return and post them on the HCLN
>web site.
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>Building the Information Commonwealth Conference in St Petersburg -
>April 22-24
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>There is an important community networking event taking place in St
>Petersburg at the end of April - see
>http://www.communities.org.ru/conference with many high quality
>participants.
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>AMARC8 Community Radio Conference in Nepal
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>Coinciding with the World Summit on the Information Society will be
>AMARC8 conference in Nepal, bringing together community radio delegates
>from all across the globe. I believe community radio has great potential
>for bridging the digital divide and providing a pragmatic pathway to
>inclusion in the Information Society.
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>See http://kathmandu.amarc.org/article/articlestatic/13/1/9
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>World Summit on the Information Society Prepcom II Geneva
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>The World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva aims to brings all
>sectors of society together to debate the future strategies for the
>Information Society. It will be a major conference - see
>http://www.itu.int/wsis/
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>Call for Papers for SCI03 Panel in Orlando July 2003
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>The SCI03 Conference takes place in Orlando in July 2003 - see
>http://216.72.45.230:1081/website2003/Suggested.htm
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>I have had a proposal accepted to chair a panel of experts on the theme
>of  "Community Informatics - using ICT to develop social and economic
>wealth within sustainable community networks"
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>I am seeking panel members will to present papers with me in this
>section of the conference. If you would like to join me, please contact
>me at (dwortley /at/ massmitec.co.uk)
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>Digital Earth Conference in Brno September 2003
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>Digital Earth - Information Resources for Global Sustainability is an
>important conference taking place in Brno in September - see
>http://www.geogr.muni.cz/digitalearth03/ . The organisers are looking
>for participants and sponsors for this very important event, which will
>have a focus on the role of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) in
>global sustainability. Across the globe there are many projects where
>GIS is playing a vital role in community Informatics.
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>Call for Presenters for proposed virtual conference on e-Strategies for
>the Information Society
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>Finally, I am planning another virtual conference to take place soon
>after the World Summit in Geneva and I am looking for high calibre
>presentations on the theme of "E-strategies from top to bottom and
>public to private - global citizenship in the Information Society"
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>My goal is to bring together senior representatives from Govt, academia,
>industry and civil society across all the continents and cultures to
>present on a debate national and international e-strategies and their
>likely impact on the global e-citizen of the future. If you would like
>to nominate or suggest a speaker for this event (10 minute
>presentations) contact me at (dwortley /at/ massmitec.co.uk)
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>Happy New Year
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>David Wortley
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>Mass Mitec
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>Creative Collaborative Communications
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>Tel: +44(0)1858 410366
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>EMail: (dwortley /at/ massmitec.co.uk)
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>Web: www.hcln.net (Harborough Community Learning Network)
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>www.comknet.org.uk (Community Commerce and Knowledge Network)
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>WHO CARES WINS
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University Brussels
Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication (SMIT)
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