For this issue, just a few snippets culled from various sources which might get you thinking and talking. Web Editor
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For this issue, just a few snippets culled from various sources which might get you thinking and talking. Web Editor |
The Internet and the Third World
From George(s) Lessard's Media Mentor:
Title: Third-World Internet
Author: David Zgodzinski
e-mail: davidz@cam.org
Detail: The Internet will be much more important to the poorer countries of the world than it is to their wealthier neighbors. It's a type of reverse colonialism. For a relatively small cost, citizens of developing countries can exploit industrialized wealthy nations for an endless supply of that precious commodity÷information.
http://www.internetworld.com/print/monthly/1996/12/thirdworld.shtml
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Thanks to Arun Tripathi for this one:
As a Multilingual coordinator of WAOE..I feel the responsibility to forward this post From the NewsScan Daily, 3 September 1999.
One excerpt from the below article...
"Web and Internet translation is a skill that require a human touch and one where high-tech has get to provide machine based automation."
MAKING THE WEB MULTILINGUAL
Web translation services are gaining in popularity, as companies face the fact
that in the future, an increasing number of online users will be from outside
the U.S. Last month an International Data Corp. report predicted that by the
end of the year, almost 60% of the world's online population will be non-U.S.
By 2003, IDC estimates that non-U.S. customers will account for 46% of worldwide
e-commerce, up from about 26% last year. The most popular languages for translation
are French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese, with Swedish, Portuguese,
Russian and Korean forming the next tier. And while Web translation still
requires the human touch, the growth of XML on the Web will help automate the
process over the next 12 to 24 months, as data tags are created that standardize
meanings from one language to another. (TechWeb 3 Sep 99)
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990902S0014
Skills for the Information Age
From George(s) Lessard's Media Mentor:
Title: Skills for the Information Age
Author: Sam Lanfranco
e-mail: slanfranco@bellanet.org
Detail: Bellanet Senior Program Specialist Sam Lanfranco questions some common assumptions regarding the skills a society needs in order to join the "Information Age". He calls for creative thinking on how information and communications technology can be used to create spaces for participation in social processes, not just channels for e-commerce or "edutainment".
http://www.bellanet.org/lanfranco-9901.htm
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The issues and other matters raised in this section of WEB are intended to derive from membersâ concerns and suggestions.
Input to WAOE-Views during the recent Annual General Meeting showed us that members are looking for opportunities to engage with important issues and ideas affecting the Web-based delivery of teaching and learning, but also that we need to do more to spell out to our members details of the organisational procedures through which they will get to know more frequently and reliably what goals the Association is pursuing, what action is being taken to realise these goals, and - most importantly - how members may make the most effective contributions to WAOE.
As a result, a new column, WAOE Policies and Procedures, has been split off from WEB Ideas and Issues. This will free the WEB Ideas and Issues column to be taken up more and more by topics of interest arising from the thinking of the members at large about their own professional practice in online education, and the role that WAOE as a whole and the sub-groups in which members are most actively engaged might play in lifting the standards and quality of Web-based teaching and learning.
If you have a concern to express, an idea to suggest, a question to raise, a point to make about online education in general and about WAOE's work in relation to online education in particular, write a short item for the WEB Ideas and Issues column and send it to the WEB Editor. On a smaller, less formal scale, you might prefer to air your views first of all in the Your Say section of WEB. Depending on the nature and volume of early responses to the Your Say item, matters raised may spark an article in the Web Ideas and Issues section of WEB, a free-ranging discussion on WAOE-Views, or a structured debate or online chat via the WAOE WebBoard.