WATPA: FW: The Content Digital Divide

WATPA was sent this email. Does anyone know anything about this project?
Any comments?

Thanks,
Norm

-----Original Message-----
I would like to very briefly introduce you to the digital divide Kindersite
Project.

The digital divide Kindersite's mission is to commission, test and deliver
the
'best' community appropriate digital content to use for the introductory
process
to technology for digitally disadvantaged communities.

As Professor Howard Besser, co-Director UCLA/Pacific Bell Initiative for the
21st Century says in The Next Digital Divides, "The huge gap in the
appropriateness
of online content to under-served populations threatens to greatly increase
social
disparities".

Andrew Benson Greene, National Coordinator, iEARN Project, Sierra Leone,
wrote
to us, saying, "Since WSIS in Geneva, many high-tech gadgets have been
assembled
in Palexpo, but there has been few opportunities for the Sierra Leone
community
to reap the benefits".

This mission will be completed by gaining an understanding of what
constitutes
appropriate introductory content for a community through a testing process
using
the Kindersite platform.

The outcomes desired are that individuals and communities will understand
from
the first introduction what the meaning of the new technology can be on an
individual
level and why they should engage and investigate the new tool.

The commissioning of content will be completed on a local level with the
purpose
of stimulating growth in locally-based content providers.

The existing Kindersite research and delivery platform that addresses the
introduction
of technology to early learners has already been partially completed and
proven
in the field. http://www.kindersite.org

To achieve thus huge task the digital divide Kindersite needs to build a
large
coalition of partners (individuals and organizations) who are prepared to
aid
and support the project in achieving its global mission and is now looking
for
expressions of support for Members of a Board, Trustees, Advisors, Funding,
Implementing
Partners and Coalition Partners etc.

Further information including a fuller description can be found on the
Kindersite
website at: http://www.kindersite.org/digital.htm

Please note: Only if you reply or request information/progress updates will
you
receive additional messages. If you do NOT reply then you will receive NO
further
emails, you will be unsubscribed.

Joel Josephson, Director
Kindersite Project
Joel_josephson@kindersite.org
http://www.kindersite.org
Received on Tue Mar 9 22:52:38 2004