From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Sat 28 Aug 2004 - 15:11:34 EEST
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:32:39 -0500
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From: Steven Clift <clift@publicus.net>
Subject: [DW] PR - Open Society Announces ICT Toolset Winners
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Speaking of radio, this Internet-connected network of local radio
stations are quite an interesting story:
http://www.unesco.or.id/activities/comm/media/59.php
You also might enjoy this project in Minneapolis that is giving away
500 mini-radio FM transmitters: http://projects.walkerart.org/radio/
Simply plug in to your headphone jack and share your music with
radios perhaps as far away as the next house!
Steven Clift
http://www.dowire.org
From:
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/news/ict2003proposals_200
40801
ICT Toolsets Announces Winners of 2003 Grant Competition
August 23, 2004
In the fall of 2003, the ICT Toolsets initiative accepted submissions
in response to an international request for proposals (RFP). More
than 230 proposals were received from 44 countries.
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2003 ICT Toolsets Request for Proposals: Funded Projects
Project name: LiveSupport
Organization: MDLF/CAMP (http://www.mdlf-camp.net)
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Project Description:
LiveSupport will be an open source radio automation system that will
allow stations to manage their daily broadcasts through an intuitive,
end-user-centered multi-lingual interface. LiveSupport will be
accessible over the Internet, allowing for remote management of on-
air radio broadcast.
As a studio tool, LiveSupport will take care of all fundamental
broadcast operations and needs, such as playlist management,
scheduling, accurate transmission logs, support for a range of audio
formats, and seamless inclusion of Internet audio streams into on-air
programming.
As a remote broadcast management tool, LiveSupport will take full
advantage of the Internet by allowing users to manage files stored
locally or in the LAN, the WAN, over WiFi connections or satellite
uplinks. It will also be able to play files from a central server
over a satellite TCP/IP connection. Anything that LiveSupport can
reach in a network environment can be scheduled and played or shared
with other LiveSupport systems. As such, LiveSupport could become
invaluable in the developing world.
LiveSupport aims not only to become an open source project that will
match the functionality available in the most widespread commercial
radio automation tools, but also to revolutionize the concept of
TCP/IP based audio distribution.
Project name: Community Wireless Networking, Phase III
Organization: Urbana-Champaign IndyMedia Center
(http://wireless.cu.groogroo.com/index.html)
Location: Urbana, Illinois (USA)
Project Description:
The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CWN) is building and
implementing a mesh-style community wireless network that allows
anyone within range of the Network to receive Internet access, free
from monthly fees, using off-the-shelf wireless hardware. CWN’s
software is open-source (under the GPL license) and open-
architecture.
Over the past three years, the Community Wireless Network has gone
through three distinct phases of development: Phase I – initial
research and experimentation; Phase II – initial software development
and prototype network rollout; and Phase III – software refinement
and scalable network implementation (the current phase).
The software consists of a "mesh" routing daemon, an innovative "ad
hoc" name service, a user interface, software for high-reliability,
and on-line software upgrades. CWN’s routing daemon will be a major
innovation in the open-source "mesh" world. It will be the first open-
source implementation of Hazy Sighted Link State (HSLS) routing. HSLS
enables exceptional scalability in the wireless environment, and yet
it has an uncomplicated implementation.
CWN’s grant from OSI will allow the organization to complete a
scalable prototype in Urbana, Illinois. Once tested there, CWN will
form partnerships with two to three wireless groups in the South for
prototype implementations of the mesh in a developing world setting.
Project name: Project Planning for a Clinical/Patient Management
Application
Organization: Ninth Bridge, a project on Engender Health
(http://www.engenderhealth.org)
Location: International
Project Description:
OSI’s grant to Ninth Bridge will fund a planning project toward the
development of an open source clinical/patient tracking application
to meet the needs of health care providers caring for HIV/AIDS
patients across the developing world.
Currently, large numbers of front line care providers in this sector
are without basic patient tracking/management capabilities.
Considering the staggering burdens under which these typically under-
resourced providers work, this lack of basic patient data management
capabilities is a further drain on their efficiency and
effectiveness. These management practices also severely curtail any
ability to collect and use data for information sharing, trends
analysis, and advocacy and policy-making purposes. Commercial and
some open source solutions exist, but these have been developed
primarily for U.S. markets, and are overly directed at insurance
reporting and billing processes that are not appropriate for the
developing world.
Ninth Bridge will undertake to thoroughly assess, in collaboration
with the community of intended users—focusing on sub-Saharan
Africa—the range of tools currently available, as well as the unmet
needs and opportunities in the area of clinical patient management.
The final report will not only provide a comprehensive list of
existing tools, but will define the application requirements and
functionality primarily through engagement with front line health
workers and their supporters in HIV/AIDS affected areas.
Project name: PeerMaster and NetFlow
Organization: Packet Clearing House (http://www.pch.net)
Location: San Francisco, California (USA)
Project Description:
OSI is supporting Packet Clearing House in the development of open-
source software tools which assist Internet service providers (ISPs)
in optimizing the routing of their traffic, reducing the cost and
increasing the performance of Internet service as delivered to the
public.
The "PeerMaster" toolset functions as a kind of "matchmaking service"
for ISPs, allowing the individuals within each ISP who are
responsible for negotiating network interconnections to find each
other quickly and easily, and facilitating the interconnection
transaction. The NetFlow analysis portion of the toolset goes one
step further, analyzing ISPs' traffic flow and prioritizing the other
ISPs, other countries, and other regions with which the ISP has the
greatest degree of mutual traffic, allowing them to make better-
informed network interconnection choices. Lack of an open-source
toolset has previously made these functions unavailable to all but
the four or five largest international carriers, and it is our hope
that this toolset will begin to extend the same operational
efficiencies and economies to the parts of the Internet which can
most benefit from them.
In addition to software development, OSI's grant will allow PCH to do
outreach and training, to ensure that these open-source tools reach
the engineers and analysts who will best be able to employ them in
reducing the cost of Internet service in developing regions.
Project name: Legal Aid Center Case Management Tool
Organization: Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation
(http://socialrights.org/spip/rubrique1.html)
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Project Description:
The Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation (IBRF) will build an open
source software solution for the case management needs of non-profit
legal advice centers in Bulgaria. This will provide an alternative to
restrictive proprietary software at present being used for this
purpose. The project will also create the conditions for civil
society organizations in Bulgaria to cooperate with each other and
with similar organizations elsewhere through better communication and
increased Internet visibility.
IBRF will also work with the Open Society Institute–Sofia on creating
a version of the software to be used in the Bulgarian public
defender’s office. Further, the software will be integrated into a
Bulgarian Linux distribution by Interspace, a Bulgarian
technology/media organization, which will also assist with the
training and installation of the distribution and accompanying
software at legal aid centers.
You can access this page at the following URL:
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/news/ict2003proposals_200
40801
©2004 Open Society Institute. All rights reserved. 400 West 59th
Street | New York, NY 10019, U.S.A. | Tel 212 548-0600
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