The Brooklyn Food Coalition presents the Brooklyn Food Conference, May 12, 2012, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. It will be a day of Workshops, Expo, Youth Summit Policy Roundtable, Demos, Music, Art, Meetups – and good HEALTHY food. Where? Brooklyn Tech, 29 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Admission is free.
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From ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) – posted by Sanjana Hattotuwa – In May this year, a colleague and I went to Nissankamallapura, Pollonnaruwa to strengthen online journalism capacities of a group trained in community radio production and had a decent production studio conveniently adjacent to an ICTA Nenasala. This groups was very interested in using [...]
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Distributed Social Networking has immense potential as a disaster preparedness tool. Particularly so if wireless mesh networks are part of our emergency communications systems – and if we assume that any likely emergency system in the United States will be, in most places, community-based rather than government-based. (There are, no question, some state and local [...]
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