Michael Geist: Ten Reasons Canada’s Wireless Market Is Woefully Uncompetitive

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via Michael Geist: Ten Reasons Canada’s Wireless Market Is Woefully Uncompetitive.

» Journalists at E.W. Scripps paper have to pay to read their stories JIMROMENESKO.COM

» Journalists at E.W. Scripps paper have to pay to read their stories JIMROMENESKO.COM.

Bleak.

Closing the Gap

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With this fourth issue we wrap up the first year of the Journal of

Digital Humanities, and with it, our first twelve months of attempting

to find and promote digital scholarship from the open web using a

system of layered review. The importance of assessment and the

scholarly vetting process around digital scholarship has been foremost

in our minds, as it has in the minds of many others this year. As digital

humanities continues to grow and as more scholars and disciplines

become invested in its methods and results, institutions and scholars

increasingly have been debating how to maintain academic rigor while

accepting new genres and the openness that the web promotes.

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From Journal of Digital Humanities, VOL. 1 NO. 4 FALL 2012

 

Digital Humanities Journal–after first year

» Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012 Journal of Digital Humanities.

Open Knowledge: much more than open data | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

Open Knowledge: much more than open data | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog.

Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped | Education | The Guardian

Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped | Education | The Guardian.

Hacking the World

Hacking the World – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Accessibility Upgrade: EPUB, Libraries, and Ebook Accessibility

Accessibility Upgrade: EPUB, Libraries, and Ebook Accessibility.

India, Known for Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips – NYTimes.com

India, Known for Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips – NYTimes.com.

 

Interesting account, but more analysis needed; I’m sure it has been done, just need to do the needed research. Creating ecosystems is seldom easy. And there are differences between semiconductor and computer fabs and automobile, if only in the materials and industrial tolerances. And then there is the issue of toxic pollution.

ICT4D Bibliographies: Three

One of the more interesting things I’ve been doing is going through the literature on ICT4D (or, ICT for development). The bibliography maintained by the Manchester Uni.’s School of Env. and Dev. is very useful. See:

Development Informatics: Working Papers – IDPM Working papaers (School of Environment and Development – The University of Manchester).

My other favourites are those to be found at Stanfords CDDRL (http://cddrl.stanford.edu/publications/) but the bibliography is not as extensive as Manchester’s.

The Canadian Citizen Lab (out of UofT) has become a necessary locus for work related to privacy, but other topics are also featured (see https://citizenlab.org/publications/).

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