From geert at xs4all.nl  Sun Apr  1 10:01:41 2012
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 10:01:41 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> survey
Message-ID: <DC20165F-8757-42B1-A0C6-AA8F7F25D0D7@xs4all.nl>

From: Lu Xiao <luxiaoist at gmail.com>

Sorry for cross-listing.

We are looking for people holding academic positions to participate in a
survey.

The survey is designed to help us understand the potentials of  
Wikipedia as
a venue for academic publishing.The research is being carried out  
under the
terms of the University of Western Ontario Code of Conduct, it will not
lead to any sales follow-up; no individual (or organization) will be
identified in our reporting.

If you currently hold an academic position, we would be grateful if you
could spare approximately 10-15 minutes to complete this survey.

As a token of our gratitude, for each completed survey we will make a
charitable donation of CAD$2 to the United Way. If you have any  
questions,
please contact Lu Xiao at lxiao24 at uwo.ca.

To start the survey please click ONCE on the link below:

http://hci.fims.uwo.ca/limesurvey/index.php?sid=62768&lang=en

Please complete the survey by April 20, 2012.

Thank you very much for your time, we greatly value your input.

Sincerely,

UWO Wikipedia Research Team






From majava at ifi.uio.no  Mon Apr 23 20:18:49 2012
From: majava at ifi.uio.no (Maja van der Velden)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:18:49 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Free Wikipedia on Telenor phones in Asia
Message-ID: <71C71EE2-0397-40C8-A746-20266B59EB49@ifi.uio.no>

Hi,

I was today at the Norwegian Go Open / Wikipedia Academy meeting today on Oslo.

Jimmy Wales arrived in the afternoon and received a pop star welcoming.

Later the Norwegian crown prince arrived as well the the Norwegian minister of international development. The Director Digital Services of Telenor (Norway's largest telecommunications company) announced that Telenor and Wikipedia had signed a deal providing free (no data traffic costs) access to Wikipedia for all of Telenor's 140 million customers in Asia. The plan is that this will be expanded to other Telenor customers in other countries. 

We all watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x7GBOsl1OU At around 1 min. 20 you see the Bangladeshi kids take an oath ...








From majava at ifi.uio.no  Mon Apr 23 22:09:01 2012
From: majava at ifi.uio.no (Maja van der Velden)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:09:01 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Free Wikipedia on Telenor phones in Asia
In-Reply-To: <71C71EE2-0397-40C8-A746-20266B59EB49@ifi.uio.no>
References: <71C71EE2-0397-40C8-A746-20266B59EB49@ifi.uio.no>
Message-ID: <F632568F-5F3A-450A-81D9-B54ED37C1611@ifi.uio.no>

(sorry - hit the 'Send' instead of 'save As Draft' button - here is the complete message)

Hi,

I was today at the Norwegian Go Open / Wikipedia Academy meeting today in Oslo.

Jimmy Wales arrived in the afternoon and received a pop star welcoming.

Later the Norwegian crown prince arrived as well the the Norwegian minister of international development. The Director Digital Services of Telenor (Norway's largest telecommunications company) announced that Telenor and Wikipedia had signed a deal providing free (no data traffic costs) access to Wikipedia for all of Telenor's 140 million customers in Asia. The plan is that this will be expanded to other Telenor customers in other countries. 

We all watched this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x7GBOsl1OU At around 1 min. 20 you see the Bangladeshi kids take an oath ...

Also the minister spoke. He had the same message as the Telenor director - open source mobile IT will bring development, bring down poverty, support access to knowledge, and bring democracy. 

Jimmy Wales did not say anything new in his keynote, which started and ended with his "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge" vision. Nice to know was that now 470 million users access Wikipedia every month. He is a happy man. First the Orange deal in February - Orange is a French telecom - which will bring free Wikipedia to 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East, now Telenor. The question to ask is: how many of these 210 million customers have an Internet-enabled phone? Wales showed us his Ideos phone, which is Internet-enabled and cost 'only' 80 $. He is convinced that the price of such mobile phones will come down quickly.

It was the ICT4D discourse of the 90s being re-invented as the "mobile revolution of the 2010s". (Maybe we need another Incommunicado meeting - Geert!).

Maja

Telenor partnership makes Wikipedia free on mobile: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/28/telenor-partnership-makes-wikipedia-free-on-mobile/
Orange to provide Wikipedia free in Middle East and Africa: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/24/orange-wikipedia-mobile-devices-free
Jimmy Wales phone: http://www.huaweidevice.com/resource/mini/201008174756/ideos/
Incommunicado: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/projects/project-archive/incommunicado/










From nathaniel.stern at gmail.com  Thu Apr 26 13:10:42 2012
From: nathaniel.stern at gmail.com (Nathaniel Stern)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:10:42 -0500
Subject: <CPOV> Fundraising for Tweets in Space!
Message-ID: <21883B3E-D79D-4BE8-B499-F35FB99049D5@gmail.com>

Hi Everyone:

Greetings from the Wikipedia Art gang (Scott Kildall and myself)! We were really happy to be a part of the CPOV book and to have such a great time with many of you in Europe and India. We're writing now to tell you about our latest collaboration, which we hope to be another social media sensation. We're asking you to spend a couple of minutes taking a closer look at the project, via our fundraising campaign on Rockethub, and perhaps share it with your readers (facebook, blog, twitter, reddit, whatever!). Feedback (and donations) of course welcome! 

http://rkthb.co/7291

"Tweets in Space" will beam Twitter discussions from participants worldwide towards GJ667Cc: a planet 22 light years away that might support earth-like biological life. Anyone can take part, simply by adding #tweetsinspace to their tweets during two performance times in September, when we'll be doing live projections at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in New Mexico, and dispatching messages into the cosmos. This differs from every past alien transmission in that it is not only a public performance, but also performs a public: it is a real-time conversation between hopeful peers sending their thoughts to everywhere and nowhere. Our soon-to-be alien friends will receive unmediated thoughts and responses about politics, philosophy, pop culture, dinner, dancing cats and everything in between. By engaging the millions of voices in the Twitterverse and dispatching them into the larger Universe, "Tweets in Space" activates a potent discussion about communication and life that traverses beyond our borders or understanding.

Thanks in advance,

nathaniel and scott
http://tweetsinspace.org/
http://wikipediaart.org/