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Flyer Flyer Flyer: spread the words about Mekong ICT with this flyer :)
Help spread the words about the camp to your local hacker-, journalist-, and social worker communities, with this handy A4 flyer (PDF) hashtag: #mekongict
UPDATE: Participants from outside Mekong is very welcome
With a lot of requests, we decided to make the application criteria more open geographically. Participants are now welcome from EVERY countries and territories. We believe that experiences from participants outside Mekong will further benefits Mekong campers. On proportion, about … Continue reading
Advocate the rights, including rights for equal access. Think Universal Design.
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
Posted in E-Advocacy, E-Infrastructure, post
Tagged accessibility, universal access, universal design, W3C, WAI, web accessibility
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IT and Universal Access: It’s not only about technology. Appropriate policy and legal framework are needed.
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
Posted in E-Infrastructure, E-Management, post
Tagged India, universal access, universal design, web accessibility
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Sahana: open source and open collaboration for disaster management
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
Posted in E-Infrastructure, post
Tagged disaster management, disaster relief, Sahana
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Announcement: Camp date changed to May 31-June 5, 2010
Due to funding timeframe from our granters, we pushed the date for the Camp forward to May 31-June 5, 2010.
Location-aware mobile field communications and data collection
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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Tagged community healthcare, data collection, disease surveillance, GeoChat, InSTEDD, MBDS, mobile, Opendream
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Themes for 2010
Two main themes we are thinking about for this 2010 camp: 1) Open mobile technologies for community communication, public health, and disaster relief; and 2) DIY information activism and citizen journalism. What do you think?
