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Geeks for world peace

Dec 6, 2004 |

Here's a great use for your favourite young techie: NetCorps Canada International offers young Canadians the opportunity to participate in exciting volunteer information and communication technology internships in developing countries....NetCorps Interns are placed...

H20’s rotisserie discussion tool

Dec 6, 2004 |

I did some treasure hunting today on H20, an innovative online exchange sponsored by the Berkman Center for the Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. H20's self-description says it: aims to apply Internet technologies to the underlying aims of the academy --...

E-commerce comes to Canada

Dec 5, 2004 |

After years of being marginalized by the online marketplace, Canada is finally getting access to a wide range of online retailers -- thanks to Borderfree, a service owned by Canada Post. Borderfree lets online retailers easily sell their products in international...

Evaluating civic engagement projects

Dec 5, 2004 |

A recent discussion on DO-Consult turned to the question of how we can evaluate the success of electronic citizen engagement projects. One list member pointed out that the issues probably aren't too different from the challenges of evaluating off-line engagement...

Online training course for eModerators

Dec 2, 2004 |

The UK's Hansard Society is offering a training course for eModerators. The course begins on January 17, 2005, and will take place entirely online. It runs over a five week period, during which participants will need to spend about 5 hours per week online. It will...

Government RSS, push and pull

Nov 19, 2004 |

Wired has a story on how the US government is using RSS as a tool for communicating with the public. This is great news, since RSS is a nice way of bridging "push" and "pull" (remember how trendy that distinction used to be?) The Wired story links to RSS Gov, a web...

Beyond the electronic whiteboard

Nov 18, 2004 |

As seen on Cairns: Nothing too new about electronic whiteboards as a collaborative tool (see, for example, this experiment from Colorado). But the InterWrite MeetingPad creates a new range of options. It's a wireless, handheld tablet that uses Bluetooth to communicate...

Another setback for political science

Nov 17, 2004 |

Yesterday I finally received my doctorate. The actual piece of Latin-inscribed paper showed up at my door care of Fedex (classy move, Harvard!), officially licensing me in the practice of political science. Yesterday was also the deadline for submitting proposals for...