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Technology Transforming Education: The Horizon Report

Submitted by cima on Thu, 2008-12-04 13:38.

The 2008 report from the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, which seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organization; what's coming, the challenges and trends.

Media Policy and the Next Presidency: The Time is Now

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2008-04-29 19:57.

Media advocates make suggestions on how to prepare for advancing a media/technology agenda in the new administration.

http://www.gfem.org/node/288

Gender Policy for Community Radio Stations

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2008-03-28 20:29.

The Women's International Network of the World Association of Radio Broadcasters and ISIS have just launched this statement of principles for radio stations to meet the needs of women ~ it could be a model for media outlets of all types.

The Philadelphia Story: Learning from a Municipal Wireless Pioneer

Submitted by Elsa on Mon, 2008-02-04 02:44.

This report examines how Philadelphia's municipal wireless initiative helped shape the national debate regarding the need for public broadband infrastructure and the impact the project's successes and failures had on the local community.

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/philadelphia_story

The Invisible Primary - Invisible No Longer: A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2008-02-01 20:03.

A detailed analysis of media coverage and campaign content during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primaries

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:O_0aOwiSrAcJ:www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/miscellaneous/invisible_primary.pdf+harvard+studi

The Case For Universal Broadband in America: Now!

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2007-12-01 21:56.

The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! finds that wide swaths of America have no broadband at all, or only "fraudband" that is so slow, unreliable, expensive and/or consumer-unfriendly that it cannot bring Americans the benefits of universal broadband that President Bush cited back in 2004.

Internet & ICTs for Social Justice (APC Recommendations to UN governance forum -IGF 2007)

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2007-12-01 19:39.

APC assessment of 2007 event and recommendations for moving towards the third forum in New Delhi, 2008.

http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5340227
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