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Computers and Internet: sources of social exclusion or engines of education and human development?

Mon, 2009/09/21 - 22:23 — Marco
Date: 
09/17/2009
Type: 
Talk
Language: 
English
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This is the talk I gave at the Congress on Free Education, Software and Knowledge in Santo Domingo. Here you can download the whole talk in PDF format (see below for the original format) . During the talk, I discussed the following topics:

  • What is software anyway?
  • Do computers and Internet unite or divide?
  • Do they help educate and empower, or do they divide and estrange?
  • What is the contribution of Universities to the effects of these technologies? What could it be?

and gives some general guidelines on how to deal with the related problems.

Note: The original, editable slides in OpenDocument format are not online simply to save bandwidth, because that file is much bigger than the PDF version. If you need the other file, just contact me at marco - at - digifreedom - dot - net.

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