Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/opensource/paradigmshift_0504.ht...
Sandip, thanks for the link to Tim O'Reilly's article at: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/opensource/paradigmshift_0504.ht...
The Internet is indeed the new "operating system", and it could bring in more meaning to the life we live. Free Software philosophy is at the heart of these developments, and here is another relevant post I caught from the india-egov list:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [India-egov] Net-savvy activists are more vigilant Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:58:28 +0000 From: Sameer Sachdeva sachdeva_sameer@yahoo.co.in Reply-To: India-egov@yahoogroups.com To: India-egov@yahoogroups.com
Net-savvy activists are more vigilant
ANI[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2004 03:22:31 PM ]
WASHINGTON: Civic activists who have access to the Internet are more vigilant and can serve the society better, according to a study co- authored by Dr Debbie Denise Reese, an educational researcher at the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future in the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University, and researchers at Virginia Tech and Penn State.
The finding is important because it shows that people use the Internet to make a difference in their communities. Reese notes that the consequence for education is that people can use the Internet to have a positive effect on their school systems.
The researchers tried to collect data to draw conclusions about how people's level of education and levels of their being extroverts affected their activism towards community service.
People who were more informed and educated were more active in their community and used the Internet to conduct civic business. The more extroverted and educated people also believed that they could have an effect on how things operate in their community.