[CWN-Summit] More Podcasts? and Privacy?

Sat Apr 15 19:41:58 CDT 2006

Ok, I've listened to the 3 podcasts at 
http://commonsvcg.oar.net/LewisClark/... is there a hidden stash of 
more files floating around? Listening reminds me:  You did an amazing 
job getting some pretty far flung people together.  Really fascinating 
crew of speakers.

One thing that wasn't remotely touched on in any of the speakers that 
I've heard thus far is ubiquitous connectivity vs. privacy.  This is 
huge and we really need to be thinking about it all the time.  
Particularly with RFID or  any other bit of tech.  that allows users to 
be uniquely tagged as they move through space.    Rick Dearborn gave a 
very rosy picture of ubiquitous connectivity that sounded very similar 
to one that I heard a few years back by the PR man for the RFID 
industry.  While the RFID industry has been placing lots of PR the last 
few years talking about supply chains and smart refrigerators, they 
were busy courting fortune 100 companies like "the creme de la creme"  
Wal-Mart-  and defense contractors. RFID is in identity tags for 
boarders crossers and in Chinese identity cards.  Think of that!!! 
Those RFID stinkers... selling the Chinese government on "smart" ids 
that will interact with "smart" buildings- for a whole new generation 
of cradle to grave spying on Chinese citizens.-- And if Mr. Chan or Ms. 
Lee went to bring these concerns to a larger community such as the UN 
sponsored World Summit on Information Society- they would have found 
that Civil Society WSIS tags also had RFID tags-- though no one that I 
know could find out why.  A choice between being on the wrong side of 
the digital divide and being enveloped in  pervasive invasive 
connectivity is no choice at all.  We need to do better in proactively 
addressing this.

-Dharma

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> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:23:46 -0500
> From: "Dave A. Chakrabarti" <dave at ctcnetchicago.org>
> Subject: [CWN-Summit] [Fwd: [DDN] Experience with rural connectivity
> 	in Ghana, Mexico and Nicaragua?]
> To: MinWah.Voon at fao.org, cwn-summit at lists.cuwireless.net
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> I thought this might be of interest to this list, since I remember
> several participants who might be in a position to help out.
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>   Dave.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [DDN] Experience with rural connectivity in Ghana,	Mexico and
> Nicaragua?
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:20:19 -0400
> From: Voon, MinWah (FAOLOWA) <MinWah.Voon at fao.org>
> Reply-To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group
> <digitaldivide at milhouse.edc.org>
> To: digitaldivide at milhouse.edc.org
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> Dear all,
>
> This is a general shout-out to any "last-mile" technicians out there 
> with
> experience in establishing rural Internet connectivity in Ghana, Mexico
> and/or Nicaragua, who can help our hunger-fighting project, The Growing
> Connection.  We need figures/estimates of costs for setting up 
> connectivity
> for our project sites, and any other advice you may wish to offer!
>
> The Growing Connection uses the Internet to link young people - from
> Chicago,
> to Nebraska, to villages in Ghana and barrios in Mexico - to each 
> other, and
> to vital sources of information, as they establish highly sustainable,
> productive and low-input vegetable gardens.
>
> The food-growing elements of this project have taken off.  
> Internationally,
> we collaborate with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.  
> We now
> have vegetable gardens at schools and in communities in the U.S., 
> Mexico
> (Jalisco), Ghana (Cape Coast, Accra); U.S. Virgin Islands (St. John 
> Island),
> Senegal (Meche) and Canada (Ontario).  We'll be establishing vegetable
> gardens in schools all across Nicaragua this year.
>
> The HUGE CHALLENGE that remains, with our minimal financial resources,
> is the
> rural connectivity piece.  So this is a call-out to any "last-mile" 
> people
> out there who have worked in any of our countries, who may provide us 
> with
> some figures of costs and/or any other advice relating to rural
> connectivity.
>
> We have Internet connectivity needs in:
>
> -	Ghana: 	Cape Coast
> -	Mexico:	Jalisco (mountain and coastal regions)
> -	Nicaragua:	Somoto, San Lucas, Las Sabanas, San José Cusmapa,
> Managua
>
> Thanks!  And all the best for the great work you are all doing out 
> there!
>
> Best,
>
> Min Wah Voon
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