http://connect.educause.edu/browse/content/lib_item/4928,4973,5316 http://connect.educause.edu/browse/content/lib_item/4928,4973,5316 http://connect.educause.edu/educause/images/e_rss.png events, concepts, and conversation from EDUCAUSE The EDUCAUSE Podcast Crew EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Our podcasts provide information about a range of topics including Leadership, Policy and Law, Teaching and Learning, Emerging Technologies, Open Source, Research Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, and Digitial Libraries. http://connect.educause.edu/browse/content/node/691/list/feed Recent library resources tagged with Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; and Informatics. en http://connect.educause.edu/display/35533 A huge industry has been created responding to the perceived social malady, the "Digital Divide". This paper examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers. The paper goes on to present an alternative approach — that of "effective use" — drawn from community informatics theory which recognizes that the Internet is not simply a source of information, but also a fundamental tool in the new digital economy. http://connect.educause.edu/display/35533#comments Digital Divide First Monday Informatics ISP Contributed by Organizations or Campuses Articles, Papers, and Reports HTML Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:12:13 -0600 drupal 35533 at http://connect.educause.edu http://connect.educause.edu/display/35460 Chinese education officials this week will launch a grid-computing project they say might one day cover 200,000 students at 100 universities around the country. The China Education and Research Grid, managed by the Chinese Ministry of Education, will initially include 12 universities and will be capable of 6 trillion FLOPS (floating point operations per second) by 2005. The power of the grid is expected to increase to 15 trillion FLOPS. Al Bunshaft, vice president of sales and development for grid computing for IBM, which is building the new Chinese grid computer, said it will be used for a University of Hong Kong Web-based language instruction application, video software developed by Peking University, and a suite of bioinformatics applications. The Chinese grid will not be as large as some, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation's TeraGrid, but Bunshaft said it could become the largest grid for remote learning. http://connect.educause.edu/display/35460#comments Grid Computing High-Performance Computing Informatics Contributed by Organizations or Campuses Articles, Papers, and Reports HTML Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:50:16 -0500 drupal 35460 at http://connect.educause.edu