Dear Colleagues, The aim of the first ISSOME conference is to address new modes of information behaviour in different contexts focusing the effects of social media and technologies in the interactive web. The change process is not always straight forward and we need to underline what is really changing and …
<ed.note>I’ve been tweeting and stuffing content into my “delicious knowledge management repository” [Update: Diigo] at a ferocious rate. Yet there’s some outstanding stuff I want to note. A City Sponsored BOINC Distributed Computing Effort – what if every municipality took advantage of its citizens as voluntary compute cylce resources this way …
VC4Africa was started as a LinkedIn group in the spring of 2008 and has grown organically into what is now the largest online community dedicated to Venture Capital in Africa. The VC4Africa community (vc4africa.com) and related platforms have always been free for anyone to join, and the entire network and …
Hi. I’d like to announce that at the next OMG Technical Meeting (21-25 March near Washington DC, USA) we will be having a Cloud-related meeting to restart the efforts begun months ago. I will be acting chair for now and would like to encourage anyone interested in Cloud and how …
CTO Executive position – Enterprise Collaboration software – SaaS at Cisco Systems Location: San Jose (San Francisco Bay Area) URL: http://www.cisco.com Type: Full-time Experience: Executive Functions: Engineering Industries: Computer Hardware, Computer Networking, Computer Software Posted: September 14, 2010 by Mohamed Ali Compensation: DOE Employer Job ID: MA_CTO Job Description Email …
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (http://www.cis-india.org/). CIS, in collaboration with Hivos’ Knowledge Programme (http://www.hivos.net/), launched a project, Digital Natives with a Cause?(http://www.cis-india.org/research/dn/dnrep) in 2008. As younger generations growing up in emerging information societies learn to engage with their geo-political and socio-cultural environments, a form of technology-mediated …
A scholarship from big tobacco company led Leila to volunteer as a teacher in Ghana. Seeing her students ambition combined with the rise in global literacy and access to technology, Leila presents the concept of microwork as a way to overcome poverty and participate in the global tech economy. Leila …
GLORIAD is built on a fiber-optic ring of networks around the northern hemisphere of the earth, providing scientists, educators and students with advanced networking tools that improve communications and data exchange, enabling active, daily collaboration on common problems. With GLORIAD, the scientific community can move unprecedented volumes of valuable data …
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<ed.note>O.k., we all know that the real subhead is “And How Planners Can SURVIVE it” but it is interesting to see that the author omits the only real advantage conventions which don’t take place virtually still hold over their non-geo-locked equivalents.</ed.note> How Social Media Is Revolutionizing Community Building – …
Expansion of Existing Research and Education Networks Are Key to Accelerating FCC National Broadband Plan Vision Cypress, CA and Ann Arbor, MI, March 16, 2010 – The Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR) communities strongly commend the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for emphasizing the importance of providing advanced broadband to community …
Nine Sigma (http://www.ninesigma.com ) is a company that facilitates open Innovation process between service providers and business sponsors. NineSigma achieves this by launching/administering “Requests For Proposals” on behalf of their large corporate clients (typically Fortune Global 500 companies e.g. GM, GE, P&G, 3M, Dow, DuPont etc.) for consulting, R&D, joint …
http://broadband.ideascale.com/a/rpxAuthentication.do Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson and their team at GoROWE.com have made it their mission to promote “results-only work environments”. They have a Linkedin GoROWE Group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2715125 and a blog at their web page. I think it is asinine that as we build out global broadband, cloud computing and …
The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council has issued a Call for Papers for its 9th annual conference to be held from September 12 – 16, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. The 2010 FTTH Conference & Expo is the only gathering of its kind dedicated to the advancement and deployment …
Download the plan here. FCC TO HOLD OPEN COMMISSION MEETING The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on the subjects listed below on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, which is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. With respect to …
<ed.note>Conmergence blog rolled passed 150,000 pageviews. It’s read in well over a hundred countries. Yep, I know — surprised me, too. Then again, there was this very nice review|pointer earlier at the former the HIT Transition Weblog: Conmergence – Perhaps the ultimate HIT wonk blog? Sometimes Ed Dodds’ posts are …
The Intelligent Information Processing conference series provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, university and industry to present their latest research findings in any aspects of intelligent information processing. This time, we especially encourage papers on knowledge discovery, intelligent Web, intelligent agents, machine learning, autonomic reasoning, intelligence science …
Top Houston Hospital Selects MedConcierge to Offer Telemedicine to Corporations and Master Planned Communities September 8, 2009 (Sarasota, FL & Houston, TX) – St. Joseph Medical Center, the largest, Level 3 trauma hospital in downtown Houston, has selected MedConcierge to provide its advanced telemedicine solution to leading communities and corporations. Both …
From Telework Exchange Newsletter: Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that Virginia teleworkers saved approximately $113,000, avoided driving 140,000 miles, and removed 75.89 tons of pollutants from the air through participation in Telework Day on August 3, 2009. “I commend the individuals and organizations that took the Telework Day …