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Updated on 2009-11-20
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Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), supported by a group of subject matter expert comprising representatives from Industries, Academia and Governmental Organizations, has conducted, in the context of the Emerging and Future Risk Framework project, an risks assessment on cloud computing business model and technologies. The result is an in-depth and independent analysis that outlines some of the information security benefits and key security risks of cloud computing. The report provide also a set of practical recommendations.
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Video: Chrome OS For Dummies
Still not sure why Google is building its own operating system? It created this animated video to try to explain why the Web needs a new OS, and why that OS should be Chrome.
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Global Information Society Watch 2009
The Global Information Society Watch report focuses on information and communications technologies and how they are being implemented in different countries across the world. The purpose of the report is to stimulate a collaborate approach to policy advocacy, and to create a common platform where disparate experiences can be shared. Ultimately, GISWatch hopes to impact on policy development processes in countries, regions, and at a global level.
The report includes several thematic reports covering areas such as intellectual property rights, knowledge rights, open standards and access to educational materials and libraries, as well as an institutional overview and a reflection on indicators that track access to information and knowledge. There is also an innovate section on visual mapping of global rights and political crises.
48 country reports analyse the status of access to online information and knowledge in countries as diverse as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Switzerland and Kazakhstan, while regional overviews (Africa, South Asia, European Union, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America) offer a bird’s eye perspective on regional trends. -
The China-Africa Toolkit - South African Institute of International Affairs
In the run up to the fourth Forum on China Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) meeting in November, the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) has published the China-Africa Toolkit. The toolkit aims to enhance African policy-makers' understanding of their Chinese counterparts' perspectives, motives and methods. It provides selective data and analysis which can be used to inform particular decisions, and is supplemented with references to other relevant resources.
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Google adds World Bank data to search results | Webware - CNET
Since Wednesday, Google has been tapping into data from the World Bank to provide key details and interactive charts on specific topics along with its own search results. The goal is to better help you search for and compare certain types of public data.\n\nThe World Bank is providing Google with facts and figures on 17 key indicators, including population growth, fertility rate, gross national product, and energy use.\n\nEnter one of the 17 indicators into a Google search. You can phrase it as the specific indicator, for example, "population world," or type it as a natural question: "What is the population of the world?"\n\nAt the top of the search results, you'll find a thumbnail chart along with the latest statistics. (According to the World Bank, 72.4 percent of the U.S. population is on the Internet as of 2008.) Click on the chart or accompanying link, and up pops a larger interactive graph where you can visually compare the U.S. with other countries by clicking on their check boxes.
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Times Higher Education - Learning to share
Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zoe Corbyn weighs up the ramifications for journals, while Matthew Reisz asks how books will fare.
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Information Communication & Technology (ICT) in Education for Development
This paper aims to explain the current state of how ICT is being used in education and how it can better benefit current and future users. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be an extremely powerful enabler in efforts to bring positive and sustainable development to countries around the globe. Today, almost a full decade into the 21st century, we live amidst an unprecedented revolution in the advancement of ICT. We are also, however, surrounded by widespread poverty, and social and economic inequalities are the norm. Considered as a powerful tool to promote social and economic development, education has become a primary focus of the recently forged Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) community, especially in the Least Developed Countries. One way of ensuring equitable development targeted at the very poorest is through universal social protection, including education, health and income.
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Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
In this report the Committee for Economic Development examines higher education through the lens of openness. Their goal was to understand the potential impact of greater openness on colleges and universities. Like other service industries such as finance or entertainment, higher education is rooted in information-its creation, analysis, and transmission and the development of the skills required to utilize it for the benefit of individuals and society. But finance and entertainment have been transformed by greater openness while higher education appears, at least in terms of openness, to have changed much less. Their aim, in this report is to identify some of the potential gains from making higher education more open. They also make a series of concrete recommendations for policy makers and for institutions of higher education that should help harness the benefits of greater openness.
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So: is e-learning really failing in higher education? An answer « Tony Bates
This is the last in a series of ten blogs on the topic: 'Is e-learning failing in higher education?' Tony's blogs on this topic were prompted by his dissatisfaction with the Canadian Council on Learning's report on 'The State of e-Learning in Canada.'
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Investing in cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue
The newest World Report of UNESCO is focused on cultural diversity as a source of renewal for public policies in service to development, social cohesion and peace.\nCultural diversity is addressed in terms of dialogue, dynamics, and the new specific challenges it may pose for languages, educational systems, news and entertainment media and the business world.\nBased on the analysis of recent initiatives, concrete examples, case studies and successful practices, this report advances a number of pathways worth exploring for renewing development strategies in favour of poverty eradication, environmental action and sustainable, human-centred governance.\n\nThe World Report aims to address the manifold aspects of cultural diversity, critically review common notions and assumptions, and propose policy-oriented recommendations on topics as diverse as identities and dialogue, the future of languages and intercultural education, media pluralism and cultural industries, the business world, local knowledge, biodiversity, sustainable development, governance and human rights.\n
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Open Ed at Creative Commons
The OpenEd Community site is for anyone interested in open education. It provides information, organisation contacts, reports, guidance on how to license educational work etc.
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10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists
Twitter's new Lists feature is all the rage right now. There are probably already millions of lists, and that number is growing by the minute (or second). So what are people using all these lists for? Are people creating lists just for the sake of creating lists? Savvy individuals are looking for ways to use lists to further their personal/professional agendas, and while we are all still learning how to harness the power of this new feature, here are a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing.
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IRRODL special issue on "Openness and the Future of Education" Vol 10, No 5 (2009)
IRRODL just released a special issue on Openness and the Future of Education.
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From Agri-clinics to FarmerNet: applying mobile phone and internet to support rural farmers
Rural farmers are producers and also consumers in the food security equation. They are part of the 4 billion ‘bottom of the pyramid’ global community who earn less than 1500$US a year. Their actions - production, harvest and marketing - are critical determinants of the global food security. Information plays a critical role at every stage of this action chain.
In the modern world, information transfer to and from the rural farmer hinges upon the tools of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) where telecentres and mobile phone applications constitute major part. -
Manual for monitoring and evaluating education partnerships
What makes education partnerships effective? This manual aims to help practitioners working in any sort of coordination, management or governance capacity to monitor and evaluate education partnerships from start to finish by providing them with a set of principles and tools.
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Higher ambitions: the future of universities in a knowledge economy
The higher education blueprint, Higher Ambitions, by the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (UK) sets out a course for how universities can remain world class, providing the nation with the high level skills needed to remain competitive, while continuing to attract the brightest students and researchers.
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Avoid "Death by PowerPoint" with the Pecha Kucha Method - Helping LIS educators develop effective online teaching practices
The invention of PowerPoint software made it possible for great strides in the way people present information to others. Unfortunately, it's also borne the reputation for great snores when lecturers are allowed to blather on from slide to slide ad infinitum.\nA technique that is being practiced to prevent "Death by PowerPoint" is the pecha kucha method of presentation delivery. Named after the Japanese word for "chit-chat", pecha kucha (pronounced "peh-CHA-k-cha") sets specific perimeters for slides and presentation: 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide.
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INHEA Editorial series - Building Capacity in Africa: The Need for Coherent Policy and Informed Action
The power of knowledge in the globalized economy has been unequivocally recognized, and with this realization efforts to revitalize higher education and other knowledge systems around the world have been stepped up. This trend is clearly evident in Africa.\nThere have been different approaches by a variety of players to build capacity in Africa. Some have focused on select disciplines or fields (such as reproductive health or engineering), others on institutional units or sub-units (such as faculties of teacher education or departments of botany), and still others on whole institutions (centers or universities). In the last decade or so, the emphasis has been placed largely on full institutional approaches, guided by the recognition that only a coherent and comprehensive institutional and sectoral orientation provides a meaningful impact.\nCurrently, initiatives to selectively and preferentially nurture certain fields and disciplines deemed necessary to build capacity in the region-as largely determined by the specific interests of the respective "major" stakeholders-are now growing in importance.
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The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave
The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.\nGoogle Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
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