Category: Technology

Apr 18 2007

Women and Computer Science

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While the number of women enrolling in male dominated programs, such as mathematics and biology, are currently close to par, women continue to have very little visibility within the computer...

Apr 09 2007

Technology, USA, Women

Harassment on the Web

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Today, both the New York Times and the Guardian have articles about online sexual harassment. The Guardian’s article describes several cases in which women bloggers have been harassed for such...

Apr 04 2007

Open Access, Technology, USA, World

OpenCourseWare in Chinese

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As mentioned in a previous post, OpenCourseWare is a project which aims at providing high quality educational material on the web for free. Lucifer Chu, a man who became wealthy...

Apr 03 2007

Libraries, Public Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Learning 2.0 is a program initially developed by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), NC, which aims to encourage library staff to familiarize themselves with the variety...

Apr 01 2007

Technology, World

Brazilian Rainforest is Connecting to the Web

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Brazil’s Environment Minister Marina Silva has just announced a plan to make the country’s Amazon region internet accessible! The belief is that Indigenous communities can participate in the struggle to...

Mar 31 2007

Africa, Americas, Asia, Education, Latin America, Open Source, Technology, Tools, Uruguay, USA, World

OLPC – One Laptop per Child

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization trying to address the lack of resources many Third World Countries struggle with and how these affect education and hinder technological...

Mar 27 2007

Technology

GPL – General Public License

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InformationWeek for Mach 19, 2007 had an interesting article titled “What Will Drive Open Source?” by Charles Babcock, which discussed the controversy that has been created with the proposal of...

Mar 20 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA

Open Source and Education

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I was just reading “The Case for Open Source: Open Source has Made Significant Leaps in Recent Years. What does it have to Offer Education?” by Miguel Guhlin, in Technology...

Mar 18 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Primo®

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There is a good amount of discussion in the library world that revolve around how and if we want to make library services more like Google or Amazon.com. The belief...

Mar 16 2007

Archives, Libraries, Technology, USA, World

PLALA – Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives

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This week I got to meet Dan Hazen, Associate Librarian of Harvard College for collection development, and what a treat it was! I was most interested in learning about his...