Category Archives: E-Infrastructure

“We Come In Peace” – LAST CALL [deadline: 9 Oct]

Posted on October 6, 2010 by arthit

“We Come In Peace” – Call for Participation in the 27th Chaos Communication Congress. We invite you to participate at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress, focused on advancing the state of the art in hacking, making, and new perspectives on … Continue reading →

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Setup your own Proxy Server in 5 Minutes for Free

Posted on April 20, 2010 by arthit

There’re situations where you can’t access your favourite website because your ISP ‘accidentally’ blacklisted it somehow. Most of the time, a proxy service is an easy way to get around. Anyway, find a nice public proxy server is difficult. And … Continue reading →

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Spud: a potato powered web server

Posted on April 16, 2010 by arthit

Want to run a web server but can’t find any power socket? No problem … if you have some potatoes. Spud is the name for the world’s lowest power consuming web server that runs on raw potato power. That’s right … Continue reading →

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Kannel: Open Source WAP and SMS gateway

Posted on April 10, 2010 by arthit

Kannel is a compact and very powerful open source WAP and SMS gateway, used widely across the globe both for serving trillions of short messages (SMS), WAP Push service indications and mobile internet connectivity. Kannel works on Linux free software … Continue reading →

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Advocate the rights, including rights for equal access. Think Universal Design.

Posted on March 3, 2010 by arthit

Building a very beautiful website or a very cool community space that very few people can access to is of no point. That’s why we have to have universal design in mind from the start. From Wikipedia: Universal design refers … Continue reading →

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IT and Universal Access: It’s not only about technology. Appropriate policy and legal framework are needed.

Posted on February 24, 2010 by arthit

A good piece on universal access to information and information technology, as fundamental rights, from the Center for Internet and Society India: India Needs Policy Formulation for IT and Web Accessibility. While some measures are already deployed by the Indian … Continue reading →

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Sahana: open source and open collaboration for disaster management

Posted on February 18, 2010 by arthit

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, … Continue reading →

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Location-aware mobile field communications and data collection

Posted on February 4, 2010 by arthit

With its ubiquity and mobility, mobile phone shows high potential in community development. Open Mobile Consortium reviews GeoChat and JavaROSA: GeoChat is a flexible open source group communications technology that lets team members interact to maintain shared geospatial awareness of … Continue reading →

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Digitalibrary.my

Posted on January 31, 2010 by arthit

Digitalibrary Malaysia – digital archives of significant documents and events on Malaysia, a project of Malaysiakini.com. The digital archive aims to build an online collection of historical documents, books, photos, publications and personal memoirs that is open to the public … Continue reading →

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WNDW – a fantastic book for everyone who wants to start a community wi-fi

Posted on January 30, 2010 by arthit

Wireless Networking in the Developing World is a free book about designing, implementing, and maintaining low-cost wireless networks. Available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian, and French. Translations are welcome. From table of contents: introduction, radio physics, network design, antennas … Continue reading →

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