ICTD News for 14 February 2007

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CONTENTS

OPEN SOURCE
	Free Voices from the Digital Fields

EDUCATION/E-LEARNING
	How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide

HEALTH/TELEMEDICINE
	Report says e-health needed in developing world

PRIVACY/SECURITY
	Confusion over 'data snooping' laws




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OPEN SOURCE
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---- Free Voices from the Digital Fields
The Latin American Free Software networks or communities turned out to be very diverse and differ from one country to another, or even in a local level, in their organizational structures. The diversity is impressive and allowed the group to imagine how far basic information on Free Software has gone, and to some point, where ICT?s have reached in incorporating into the everyday life of the region?s people.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9314&do=gpage




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EDUCATION/E-LEARNING
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---- How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide
One pupil said previously many of them had thought a computer was "a television connected to a piano" but knew little of what practical uses it might have. Now they are confident using apps such as word processors and spreadsheet software as well as accessing the internet and using email.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9313&do=gpage




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HEALTH/TELEMEDICINE
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---- Report says e-health needed in developing world
In a Global Health Partnerships report, Crisp suggests that new technology and approaches are not yet being seen as central to international development and more needs to be done to encourage local entrepreneurs to use ICT to improve health services themselves.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9312&do=gpage




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PRIVACY/SECURITY
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---- Confusion over 'data snooping' laws
Balancing the needs of the police to investigate crimes online with the privacy of individual web users has become controversial as governments seek to extend their snooping rights in cyberspace.
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=9311&do=gpage




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