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Eduardo Avila at Global Voices notes the introduction of a blogging contest for Peruvian high school students, sponsored by the...
This week's Data chart of the week from Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li's Groundswell project features use statistics of social networks in different regions. Commenting on this chart from...
True it's a couple of years old, but I just ran across Siria Gastelum's portrait of Mexican libraries in Críticas Magazine. Describing the Red Nacional de Bibliotecas Públicas (RNBP), Mexicio's national public library system, Gastelum writes that...
How do you say YouTube in French? Well, YouTube... but many would also be quick to note DailyMotion. Another Internet video platform, DailyMotion shares many similarities with youTube, but as Joy Marcus notes in an interview with beet.tv, some notable...
Going through the archives of the excellent Global Voices citizen journalism website, I saw this post by Renata Avila. Renata describes a pair of projects underway in Guatemala -- one developing library services for...
Rocketboom, one of my favorite vlogs, did an interview with the founders of the Barefoot Foundation a few days ago. This is a great piece about bringing sustainable energy to villages in India. The Barefoot Foundation seems to take a microfinance-style approach, similar to that of the Grameen Foundation...
Here is what the SIG-III members have been up to as we head into the 2007 Annual Meeting of ASIS&T:
SIG III Newsletter
Volume 7 Number 3 October 2007
In This Issue:
SIG of the Year Award
SIG III events at...


