[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Tunisia digital divide data needs

Sat Mar 12 16:36:07 GMT 2005

of interest...

>Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:08:20 -0500 (EST)
>From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne at astro.ocis.temple.edu>
>To: Fabrizio Nasti <fabrizio.nasti at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [DDN] Tunisia digital divide data needs
>Reply-To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group 
><digitaldivide at milhouse.edc.org>
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>
>Here are some publications to consider that should have content regarding
>the digital divide and Tunisia.
>
>AFRICA CALLS FOR MORE CYBER-RIGHTS.
>Mutume, Gumisai.
>Contemporary Review
>October 2004  v. 285  no. 1665  p. 226
>
>
>Meeting report Communication technology in the developing nations.
>Lewis, R..
>Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
>April 2004  v. 20  no. 2  p. 159
>
>
>Digital Divides and Network Investment: Perspectives of the World Dialogue
>on Regulation.
>Melody, William H.
>I-Ways
>2004  v. 27  no. 1  p. 21
>
>
>Journal of Asian Economics
>Volume 15, Issue 2 , April 2004, Pages 267-285
>Copyright  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
>An assessment of relative globalization in Asia during the 1980s and
>1990s*1
>R. Looney and P. C. Frederiksen,
>Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943, USA
>Received 4 April 2003;  Revised 11 December 2003;  accepted 2 February
>2004.  Available online 30 April 2004
>
>
>Telecommunications Policy
>Volume 27, Issues 3-4 , April-May 2003, Pages 237-252
>Copyright  2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
>An exploratory model of inter-country Internet diffusion
>Richard Beilock, , a and Daniela V. Dimitrova, b
>
>
>Habitat International
>Volume 26, Issue 1 , January 2002, Pages 21-31
>Copyright  2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
>Low-cost information technology in developing countries: current
>opportunities and emerging possibilities*1
>Jeffrey James,
>Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 Tilburg, LE, The Netherlands
>Received 1 December 2000; revised 16 March 2001; accepted 30 May 2001
>Available online 7 November 2001.
>
>
>Telecommunications Policy
>Volume 27, Issues 1-2 , February-March 2003, Pages 21-39
>Copyright  2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
>Tele-centres as a way of achieving universal accessthe case of Ghana
>Morten Falch, , a and Amos Anyimadub
>
>
>Alcatel deploys a 3G/UMTS pilot network in Tunisia
>30 Jun 2004
>http://www.alcatel.com
>
>
>Tunisia: Police Use Force to Block Rights Meeting
>Government Brands Human Rights Groups Gathering Illegal
>Human Rights Watch
><http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/14/tunisi9841.htm>
>
>
>Policy Reform, Economic Growth, and the Digital Divide: An Econometric
>Analysis
><http://tinyurl.com/53doe>
>
>
>Title Africa: bridging the digital divide
>Source Saramandir qantrajati [1350-0775] Abungu
>yr: 2002 vol: 54 iss: 3 pg: 29
>
>
>The Digital Divide: Implications For African Business Development
><http://snipurl.com/ddx9>
>
>
>I hope that these are of some help to you.
>
>
>Sincerely,
>David Dillard
>Temple University
>(215) 204 - 4584
>jwne at astro.temple.edu
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>On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Fabrizio Nasti wrote:
>
>>  Hi everyone,
>>  i'm a long time lurker of this great mailing-list.
>>  Now I have a request for the members.
>>  Sorry for my uncertain english.
>
>>  I'm completing my work for the degree in
>>  Communication Sciences five years curriculum at
>>  the University of Rome. The subject of the thesis
>>  is the so called digital divide, particularly the
>>  role of community place-based initiatives in
>>  getting technology closer to people needs
>>  both in developed and developing countries.
>>  I'm writing also about the little italian
>>  organization i'm a member of (Pro-digi
>>  www.pro-digi.org) and the one-month volunteer
>>  project we ran in 2003 in south Tunisia,
>>  North-Africa. We used refurbished PC's equipped
>>  with free software (GNU-Linux OS, Mozilla,
>  > OpenOffice and some more) to fit out two labs
>>  connected to the Internet, and ran some basic and
>>  advanced training and workshops for some 30 people
>>  from several communities (basic keybording,
>>  mousing and "filing"; word processing, e-mail use,
>>  web-searching and browsing, web editing, etc).
>>  We also got volunteer help and support from two
>>  tunisians Linux users and developers, who
>>  delivered as well a seminar in arab language on
>>  free software ideas, history and features.
>>  Of the two labs only the one that was placed in a
>>  rural village community center became something
>>  similar to a telecenter and continued to work,
>>  even if with some troubles.
>
>>  I don't want to bore you with the entire report -
>>  if interested you can find more in our website,
>>  included the basic web pages students created
>>  about their communities - so I'll go directly to
>>  the point:
>
>>  does someone know about some up to date data,
>>  reports, case studies, articles, etc. about the
>>  digital divide - and issues related to - in
>>  Tunisia?
>
>>  I guess there would be great attention on
>>  Tunisia ICT issues because of the forthcoming
>>  second phase of the WSIS. So maybe anyone in the
>>  world, the real one, may help me more than Google did.
>
>>  Thanks a lot
>>  Fabrizio
>>  Italy
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