Mobile phones keeping elections honest in Africa? (3)
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(Tweeted by ckreutz) CNN reports that the use of mobile telephones to monitor elections has been effective in countering electoral manipulation and corruption in Africa: LONDON, England (CNN) — The humble mobile phone is driving a new revolution which some experts hope could bring fairer elections and democracy to some African states. During the 2006 local government elections in Senegal, Radio Sud used reporters and correspondents with cell phones to call in what they saw. ...
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via: Smart Mobs (drop this source • show all sources) • help relevance: Democracy (tell me more...) rate it: | (Tweeted by ckreutz) CNN reports that the use of mobile telephones to monitor elections has been effective in countering electoral manipulation and corruption in Africa: LONDON, England (CNN) — The humble mobile phone is driving a new revolution which some experts hope could bring fairer elections and democracy to some African states. During the 2006 ...
Juicy stuff on Digital Media & Learning Competition Hub (1)
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The awardees of the Digital Media and Learning Competition are beginning to report on the Digital Media and Learning Competition Hub. Some juicy stuff! For example, Always With You: An experiment in Hand-held Philanthropy: Our project is a partnership between Interactive Filmmaking, UN HABITAT, Microsoft Research India and the Environmental Youth Alliance. As a partnership, sometimes things take a little longer than expected, so while we are not yet off schedule, we were delayed in ...
http://www.smartmobs.com/2008/06/12/attention-multitasking-learning/ (2)
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I’ve been engaged in thinking about attention in the classroom for a while. I’ve collected resources, I’ve conducted a few experiments in the classroom. I came across this post on “Multitasking and the End of Learning,” which I thought I’d share. I’m not interested in doing away with Wi-Fi in the classroom — not in the kind of classes I teach — but in engaging students in learning how to train their attention A few ...
Twitterer/streaming video broadcaster evicted from Olympics | Smart Mobs (2)
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(Thanks, Jeff! Via Valleywag) I met this intrepid traveller/documenter/world citizen journalist in Copenhagen at Reboot. Activist Twitterer noneck (aka Noel Hidalgo) was in Tiananmen Square on Saturday for a free-Tibet protest. After he Twittered the event and broadcast it live over Qik, Chinese authorities deported him.
Matt Balara video interview with Howard Rheingold: on design (2)
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Smart Mobs » What I plan to say at De Montfort University commencement (5)
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I have been asked to give a brief address when I am awarded the “Doctor of Technology” degree Wednesday, at De Montfort University. Here’s what I am planning: Brief remarks by Howard Rheingold at De Montfort University, July, 2008 I’ll give you the advice part at the very beginning. Then you can decide for yourselves how much attention to devote to the rest of my very short remarks. My advice is this: Pay attention to ...
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Thomas said:
reading shared items via google reader is a great example of "paying attention to irrelevant details"
Syllabus for my Berkeley virtual community course (1)
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