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• How citizens, groups and communities are or could be linked with information and communication technologies (ICT)
• Designing and developing ICT with and for citizens, groups and communities

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is pleased to announce a unique fellowship opportunity: the Spring 2007 Emerging Leaders International Fellows Program.  The program provides leadership training through applied research and professional mentorships for young scholar-practitioners in the nonprofit sector. 

The research topic for applicants to the spring program, including the program’s Diversity Fellowship, is community foundations.  A limited number of fellowships for research on diaspora philanthropy or corporate philanthropy are also available for applicants based outside the United States. Please note that only research proposals that address the topics of community foundations, diaspora philanthropy or corporate philanthropy will be given consideration.

To learn more about the program, qualifications, and application guidelines, please visit the Center’s website at www.philanthropy.org and click on “International Fellows Program”.   If you have any difficulty accessing our website, we will be happy to send the information as an attachment.  Printed brochures will be available upon request.

For the first time the Archive provides online access to all journal content, from Volume One, Issue One in March 1665 until the latest modern research published today ahead of print. And until December the archive is freely available to anyone on the internet to explore.

Spanning nearly 350 years of continuous publishing, the archive of nearly 60,000 articles includes ground-breaking research and discovery from many renowned scientists including: Bohr, Boyle, Bragg, Cajal, Cavendish, Chandrasekhar, Crick, Dalton, Darwin, Davy, Dirac, Faraday, Fermi, Fleming, Florey, Fox Talbot, Franklin, Halley, Hawking, Heisenberg, Herschel, Hodgkin, Hooke, Huxley, Joule, Kelvin, Krebs, Liebnitz, Linnaeus, Lister, Mantell, Marconi, Maxwell, Newton, Pauling, Pavlov, Pepys, Priestley, Raman, Rutherford, Schrodinger, Turing, van Leeuwenhoek, Volta, Watt, Wren, and many, many more influential science thinkers up to the present day.

After December 2006 subscribers to our subscription packages (S, A and B) will enjoy privileged online access to the archives. Private researchers will also be able to access individual articles for a small fee per download. To request further information please contact the Royal Society at sales@royalsoc.ac.uk or view package pricing which includes ordering information.

We invite you to apply for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s annual Access to Learning Award. This award recognises excellence in providing access to information through computers, at no cost to the user. The recipient will receive an award of up to US $1 million.

The award is administered by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP).

Deadline for the 2007 award is 31 December 2006.

To apply, go to http://www.inasp.info/ldp/awards/

Philadelphia’s city council has unanimously voted in favor of building a 135 square mile mesh wireless network, which will blanket the city in wireless internet access.

If everything goes according to plan, the network should be up and running by the summer of 2007, which will make Philadelphia the largest city ever to be fully blanketed in a wireless network.

“Philadelphia is a city of many firsts and this is a first as well,” commented councilwoman, Blondell Reynolds Brown after the vote was held. “It’s the first time a large municipality is saying we’ll take an aggressive role in ensuring that the digital divide is bridged.”

EarthLink, the ISP commissioned with constructing the ambitious project, will begin installing equipment in June, then conduct a three to four month technical trial over a 15 square mile testing area.

Atlanta-based EarthLink plans to invest $22 million in the project, over the course of its 10-year contract, and will charge about $20 per month for unlimited broadband internet access. Qualified low-income households will be able to get access for as little as $9.95/month, and EarthLink has promised to lease network capacity to rival ISPs so as to introduce some fair pricing competition into the mix.

source: (May 14, 2006) Telecommunications Industry News

The program, which Intel has dubbed "World Ahead," aims to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to 1 billion people who can't get online, while training 10 million teachers to use technology in education.

The Santa Clara, California-based company said it would back those goals with $1 billion of spending over five years.

MEXICO CITY, March 30, 2006 – Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today announced the Intel “Discover the PC” initiative aimed at providing full-featured PC technology to help people discover the benefits of personal computing. As part of the initial implementation of this effort, Intel and Telmex will collaborate to expand the use of technology in Mexico by making a new type of desktop PC available to first-time computer users.

“The Discover the PC initiative is part of Intel’s longstanding and comprehensive approach toward sharing the benefits of personal computing with those who have traditionally had neither the access nor the means to use technology,” Otellini said. “Intel is proud to be part of the effort to deliver the benefits of computing more broadly to people.”