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08 January 2004

PanAfrica: UN to Set Up Working Group On Internet Governance. SEQUEL to the successful hosting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations (UN), would soon set up a working group on Internet governance. [AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom]
9:57:46 PM

Democratic Evolution ... or Virtual Civil War?. E-democracy pioneer Steven Clift has posted (for him) an unusually pessimistic assessment of how business-as-usual politics may swamp the potential of the Net to re-engage people in political processes. He spoke on Democratic Evolution or Virtual Civil War? at WSIS... [Designing for Civil Society]
9:56:32 PM

Learning from experience - some practical issues. learning from doing= learning from a particular type of action.

i have found the opening comments very interesting.
At the sharp end of the 'doing' bit are people have have'done' and want validation of their 'doing' through a research degree programme/high level academic certification. i am particularly interested in the riches and difficulties arising from the research degree supervision of, simply put, political activists, sometimes called ( a special case of) 'returning professionals'. one 'problem' can be that such people 'know' the outcomes of their study even before they have gone through a research question clarification process, and, in the extreme, may remain immune to the latter, exerting the primacy of their direct, special(exclusive) experience above all other forms of knowledge inquiry... ... [Eldis Community: Action research discussion forum]
9:55:54 PM

Community networking conference, Brighton UK March 2004. The Community Informatics Research Network that met recently in Prato, Italy, has now announced details of a conference in Brighton, UK, next year. Australian-based Larry Stillman posted to a number of lists, and I have taken the slight liberty of... [Designing for Civil Society]
2:22:46 PM