14 research outputs found
Community Democratization of Telecommunications Community Cooperatives in Argentina: The Case Of TELPIN
A telecommunications community cooperative (TCC) is an autonomous association of individuals, which join forces to solve common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned enterprise, democratically governed and managed. In Argentina, TCCs were created by community conscious members to fill in for the State role when it was unable to provide telephone service in remote areas, generally marginalized from services provision. In 1989, the State telephone enterprise was privatized. From 1992 onwards, TCCs replaced the large private telephone enterprises, since these were not interested in providing non profitable services in remote or low-populated areas.
TCCs provide telephone and Internet services, by dial-up and/or broadband (ADSL) connections, as well as IP telephony, to their target populations at significantly lower costs than the large traditional firms (TelefĂłnica and Telecom). Most of them offer also free community services, such as courses on information and communication technologies (ICTs), free Internet access to public schools, libraries, and public facilities (police stations, hospitals, etc.).
This work focuses on a particular case study: TELPIN, the Pinamar Telecommunications Cooperative. Telpin was created by a group of Pinamar neighbors, most of them founders of the local community, in 1962. Since then, it has become the largest and most successful Telecommunications Cooperative in Argentina
Online Conferences for Professional Development
Online conferences (OCs) offer a compelling set of economic and pedagogical
benefits for teaching, learning, personal, and professional development.
In this chapter, we provide examples and a model to guide development of
this professional development application of e-Iearning. The cost-effectiveness
of oes, coupled with the capacity to provide time-flexible participation
on a global scale, convinces us that OCs will continue to playa vital and
increasing role in quality professional development activities. Similar to faceto-
face conferences (F2FCs), effective oes must focus on relevant and timely
information dissemination, provide opportunities for interaction leading to
knowledge creation, and support the development of learning communities.
In their broadest sense, OCs and F2FCs have two major goals. The first is to
create knowledge through personal, organizational, and community learning.
The second is to develop social networks that can later be used to create
valued collegial relationships and extend learning beyond the conference.
The method used by OCs to achieve these goals is an intense network-mediated
interaction. The interaction takes place over a limited period of time
using a comhination of synchronous, asynchronous, and illlmersive technologies
on a global scale. OCs are economically and pedagogically attractive
because of their "anywhere and anytime" characteristics with low production
and participation costs. In this chapter, we review characteristics and qualities
of OCs, provide examples of successful OCs, and outline a model of relevant
qualities affecting OC learning outcomes. The unique and promising role of
this form of professional development in the current and emerging networked
society is explored
Practitioners\u27 News - Winter 1991-1992, Volume 19, Number 2
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ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education
In This Issue
Wireless Outlook 2012
802.11n Wireless in the Enterprise- The Next Big Change
The University of Tulsa: A Wireless Campus
Advertorial: Deploying Media Switching Systems for Educational lnstitutions
Faster Wireless LAN Connections May Help Support Voice & Video Traffic
Wireless at Syracuse
Expectation Versus Experience: The Realities of Life on the Wireless Road
lnstitutional Excellence Award Honorable Mention UC Mobile
Interview
President\u27s Message
From the Executive Directo
From Ingsoc to Skynet it is not only science fiction: From novels and science fiction to quasi-reality
The contribution will provide an overview on the following side effects of tangible and intangible impact of cyber technologies with specific focus on the oversupply of information (info-obesity), resulting in its devaluation and loss of trust to professional media; monopolization in the field of communication, information and digital technologies (mainstream communication, freedom of speech); the transformation of the Internet from a space for the free exchange of ideas into a tool for supervision and management (the betrayal of IT revolution) , with Internet companies turning into digital giants, moving from digital platforms to digital ecosystems and annexing not only cyberspace, but also real sector industries (monopoly and dominant position); the massive decrease in the level of critical thinking and the emergence of waves of information epidemics of national and global levels (mainstream communication, limited contraposition, fake fake-news); post-truth in its heyday, with public perception shaped more by means of addressing feelings and personal opinion rather than actual facts, with fakes, clickbaits, hypes and other tools introduced to form post-reality in the political and media culture; changing the system of values – with the new normal (semantic shifts, etc), new ethics putting personal free will and freedom of choice under question; traditional cultural regulators of social relations (covid 19 example) and processes being displaced by automated social algorithms (increasing role of algorithms and ML); blurring the borders between the real and the digital world, wide spread of simplified virtual mock-ups and simulacra; mass collection of data for managing people's behaviour (evaporation of privacy, data protection), formation of an appropriate economic imperative to direct the development for business, society and states; increasing the level of conflict in society (between individuals and groups – haters, discrimination) and between states (XXI Century warfare, soft concerns)
ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education
In This Issue
Convergence Concepts Come Together Curt Harler
Planning Convergence at FSU
Columbia University\u27s Formula for the Future
Assessing and Managing Privacy and Security Risks
The Human Side of Convergence
Convergence: A Work in Progress
The Reinvention of USU lT
Book Review
Interviews
President\u27s Message
From the Executive Directo
Lilly Endowment Inc. - 1999 Annual Report
Contains board chair and president's message, program information, community development, religion, and education grantee profiles, grants list, and financial statements
Social interaction in an online cross-disciplinary research conference
This research study investigated the social interaction in an online cross-disciplinary research conference. The research study followed an online conference of researchers from disciplines of social sciences, law, and humanities. The online conference was initiated by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and was hosted by Centre for Educational Technology (CET) at University of Cape Town (UCT). The main aim of the research study is to identify social interaction enablers and inhibitors in an online cross-disciplinary conference. The Internet is being used for numerous purposes, such as extending one's social networks, participating in online communities, finding a marriage partner, learning, and developing successful business relationships. An online conference uses the Internet for social networking. The study followed an interpretive research approach and combined critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the social presence indicators template (SPIT) as its analytical framework. The focus of the study was on the analysis and interpretation of the online conference text messages (artefacts) to identify enablers and inhibitors of social interaction. The social interaction enablers identified in the study included sharing and seeking of information, social presence, time and geographical confidence and flexibility, facilitation, prescribed/relevant topics and increased confidence and reduced evaluation anxiety. Inhibitors of social interaction were lack of community, prescribed topics, minimal activities, lack of non-verbal and social cues and clarity of topics. The social interaction enablers that were not identified in the literature were prescribed/relevant topics and collaboration and lobbying. Lack of community, clarity of topics, prescribed topics and minimal activities were identified as inhibitors of social interaction in the study but were not identified in the literature. In addition, the research found that some social interaction enablers were also found to be inhibitors. A revelation in the research study was that prescribed topics both enabled and inhibited social interaction. While some participants contributed towards these topics, others did not. Although the study focused predominantly on a cross-disciplinary research conference the findings reported in this study could have useful applications on online social interaction in general. The study has found out that an online conference arguably has merits over a face-to-face conference, but these benefits can only be optimised when social interaction is deliberately fostered through convergence of the online conference tool, facilitation, and topic design
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