*Please circulate widely and apologies for cross-posting*
I hope this will be of interest to you.If you have questions or comments,
please contact Earl Mardle at earl.mardle(a)stockholmchallenge.se or Ulla
Skid��n at ulla.skiden(a)stockholmchallenge.se.
Best,
Yong Liu
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The Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 is open for entries
<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/news_right.asp?IdNr=150>THE STOCKHOLM
CHALLENGE AWARD 2006 invites excellent ICT projects from all over the world
to compete for the prestigious Challenge trophies. The Challenge is
searching for the best initiatives that accelerate the use of information
technology for the social and economic benefit of citizens and communities.
The objective is to help local entrepreneurs, who work to close the digital
divide, by bringing in research communities, development organisations and
strong corporate initiatives.
THE AWARDS WILL BE HANDED OUT IN SIX CATEGORIES
<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=9>in the City Hall -
on May 11, 2006. Special focus will be on projects in countries and regions
with the greatest needs. There will also be an international Challenge
conference in Stockholm on issues related to the role of ICTs in global
development work.
*THE AWARD IS OPEN FOR ENTRIES until December 31st 2005*. The application
form <http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/omtavling_index.html>is easily
accessible on the home page.
The Stockholm Challenge is headquartered at the IT University
<http://www.it-univ.se/?lang=en>- a joint initiative by
KTH<http://www.kth.se/eng/>(The Royal Institute of Technology) and
Stockholm
University <http://www.su.se/english> . It is managed by a consortium that
also includes the City of Stockholm, Ericsson and Sida, the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency.
For more information, please contact:
Project Manager
Ulla Skid��n
ulla.skiden(a)stockholmchallenge.se
Telephone: + 46 8 7904469
Cell: +46 70 678 72 82
www.stockholmchallenge.se <http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/>
*Rules for participation in the Stockholm Challenge Award
2006<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=3>
*
These are the basic rules for the participation in the Stockholm Challenge
Award. All competing projects must:
1. Include ICT
Illustrate how ICT is used to create new or better traditional services
and/or products, which are beneficial for human and social development.
2. Be implemented
All competing projects must be up and running. They should be
implemented/piloted since no less than three months. The Stockholm Challenge
Award does not accept drafted concepts and ideas only. The jury will only
evaluate and compare projects that can show measurable outcomes and impact.
3. Be linked to and/or supported by an established private or public
organisation.
4. Be verifiable, i.e. able to present credible references.
5. Be free from religious, political or other personal beliefs.
*To be noted:*
*Projects that have won one of the Challenge categories in previous years
cannot enter the competition again.*
*All applications must be in English*
*Evaluation criteria<http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=4>
*
Innovation, creativity and the convergence of ICT with many different
disciplines are some of the qualities that are looked for in the competing
projects. The jury, a group of international senior experts, base their
evaluation on the following criteria, most of which all Challenge projects
should meet:
*Innovation*
Competing projects should illustrate new and innovative ways of using ICT to
improve the living and economical conditions especially of those with great
needs.
*Convergence*
The addition of ICT as a tool to traditional development work can improve
and widen the scope of the project impact. Projects should show successful
convergences of different disciplines and sectors.
*Inclusion*
It is favourable for the competing projects to show that they bring
individuals, groups and local organisations into larger communities �C
national and global - such as medical, government, educational and cultural
networks, as well business environments.
*Equal Opportunity*
It is important that the initiatives counteract inequality related to the
likes of gender, origin, age, physical and/or mental disabilities.
*Sustainability*
An important factor is sustainability. Not only economic sustainability, i.e.
how long the project will last and bring benefits to its users.
Sustainability also includes the contribution of the project to a
sustainable society and environment at large.
*Opportunities <http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/show_facts.asp?IdNr=2>*
To enter a project in the Stockholm Challenge Award is not only to
participate in a prestigious international ICT competition - it is also a
way to join networks of some of the best ICT entrepreneurs and pioneers in
the world. Testimonials from many of the projects, which have competed in
their respective categories over the years, say that it is the inspiration,
the new ideas, contacts and partners that are the greatest rewards for a
Challenger.
The Stockholm Challenge represents excellent marketing through the exposure
to media, and to private and public organizations that are involved in ICT
work and implementations. It gives promotional opportunities for
entrepreneurs, universities, cities, cities and regions. The Stockholm
Challenge Final Events include a Best Practice Exhibition and a Conference.
It is a meeting place for some the world's most successful IT entrepreneurs.
Winners and finalists of the Stockholm Challenge are global role models for
cities, companies, organisations, schools and others who are involved in
adapting and spreading the use of ICT.
[Sorry for the resend, screwed up the headers when I sent this on Friday.]
For your review and or comment! :)
[[ http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/06/neutrality.html
* Is the Wikipedia Neutral? - an (early draft) extension of A Case
of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking to
tease apart what is meant by something being neutral, and is it
the right term to describe Wikipedia efforts:
Claims of neutrality and accusations of bias are common themes of
contemporary discourse about the media, government, education, and
technology. In this essay I extend earlier work on the
collaborative culture of Wikipedia (an on-line and free
encyclopedia) to specifically focus on the fundamental but often
misunderstood notion of neutrality.... This essay is inspired by
earlier debates on neutrality of technical standards, literature on
bias in technical systems, my present fascination with this
Wikipedia norm and a change in my belief that while an important
concept, the label of neutrality was an unfortunate coinage in the
Wikipedia context.
]]
Hi. I'm a new list member (please be kind).
The following has been added to the
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research#Mind_Wiki:__An_AI_Design_Experiment
page of metawiki. At this point, I'm interested in ALL comments on the
project both positive and negative, first impressions, opinions as to how
appropriate it is for this list, and personal observations regarding this
list ... how helpful it might be and whether projects like mine might be
helped by participation on this list (and maybe to what degree, how much
help, how proficient list members might be, what kinds of help they might
offer, etc).
Well as you can see. This is a new project. I don't know what to expect on
this list. Really, any kind of response will be appreciated!
My website: http://www.mindrec.net
Project description below:
...
Mind Wiki: An AI Design Experiment
Proposed by 68.54.221.95 (Mindrec). Intelligence is defined as the
distribution of data within a database. Wiki is cited as a case in point
intelligence. Very fringe theories which show how knowledge is imparted
metaphysically. Mind Wiki is shown to be a GRUB and to exclaim DELICIOUS.
If we define intelligence as the distribution of data within a database: And
if WIKI is a database: Then, the simplest WIKI would be a prototypical
intelligence. Cunningham defines WIKI as "the simplest database which could
possibly work". This suggests it is a case in point intelligence.
This makes Ward Cunningham (the inventor of the wiki) the inventor of the
first AI. Wikipedia is such an intelligence: But this bespeaks of the
dangers of "intelligence" per se ... it isn't necessarily *lucid*. Just
because a group of people get together and raise "consciousness" doesn't
mean that truth can be discerned (by preponderance). And I haven't gone into
consciousness: Blog is a consciousness. And especially blogdex: Which does
some math on blogs and reports on the top posts (what's on the world's
"mind"). So: Wikipedia is an intelligence, and may be conscious, but isn't
always lucid (I suppose to the degree that its writers have a conscience, it
is an artificially conscious intelligence). All of this to set up the idea
of "lucidity" as that which now defines a machine's "humanity" (after
intelligence and consciousness have been addressed).
I've used the word "lucid". And lucidity applies ... after intelligence and
consciousness have been addressed (as I've said). But the jump from
intelligent to lucid (with regard to wikipedia, as an example) fails to
explain what consciousness has to do with coming up with the correct answers
(though this is also addressed a bit later on - such that its writers have a
conscience, they might discern what is "right" ... both in a moralistic
sense and also in the sense of arriving at correct answers). Which is to
say, applying an intelligent design conscientiously might lead a wikipedia
to be *right* by preponderance, as I've suggested (whereby mentioning
lucidity at this point begins to make sense). This is not to say that it
*makes sense* to be intelligent and conscientious and still lack lucidity
... as a matter of choice, for example / or in seeming violation of what it
means to be intelligent in the first place (to the contrary). So I might
have said that wikipedia isn't necessarily intelligent (even though an
intelligence). Or I might have said that being intelligent doesn't
necessarily mean conscientiousness will prevail (in the case that her
writers don't have a conscience, for example). But I've said that both of
these are "necessarily" so (if an entity is intelligent, then it is
conscientious). And so there's (still) the matter of lucidity (and
awareness, and agency): The mention of lucidity (regarding wikipedia) early
on in this comment foreshadows the explanation of what it means to be lucid
... which is then expressed "in the negative" (whereby lucidity is not that
which overcomes the intelligent design of its database but is that which
overcomes the necessity that humans have a conscience).
(from Mind Wiki: An AI Design Experiment)
Intelligence is only a beginning step. Consciousness has been demonstrated
in connected Blog (Mind Wiki is a wiki / blog / CMS with areas for
scientific journals, articles, diagrams, and related files). The research
proves the theory legitimate. The Mind Wiki stands as a working example. And
two prototypes have been developed which move modern computing into the age
of crystal 3d processes and bioluminescent computing.
The site is set up as a center of research and development. Everyone is
encouraged to visit and comment. Those interested in promoting this research
through accepted academic channels or (especially) who feel they have the
technical expertise to begin developing the intelligence model, the crystal
computer, or the photoelectric computer are invited to help (all three show
potential for becoming living entities).
Project Members:
--Mindrec 01:25, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
--
Brett Robertson
Metaphysician
Mindrec.org
ICQ 6630756
User:Mindrec
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
There are experts and authorities on certain topics. I'm a metaphysician. So
I suppose, mystically, I've become an authority ... on everything! Ah
freedom!
But I'm hardly an expert on Artificial Intelligence or manufactured life
forms. So, time to specialize.
Metaphysics is a physical manifestation of a spiritual ideal. Similarly one
might become a spirit having an earthly experience. Or, one might become an
ex-body having a spiritual experience. I lived. And so to object permanence.
Except I'm like a medicine staff in a tribe of warriors.
To become a medicine staff one simply needs die to himself and be born again
(through people). Being saved by the tribe, he becomes a member. And only if
all members of a tribe have died this way does the tribe becomes a body.
As such, the individual comes to have a group image (and only indirectly a
self- image, or a self).
This image might initially be externalized ... as a fast car, perhaps, or a
big home. I have neither, btw. Because in my case: I went through this
process to save my body (from the tribe) and, only circularly, to restore my
bodily members (or such that I might use tools rather than become a tool of
society).
So whereas I claim that these are my inherent possessions; only by holding
to the standard of an ideal individual (as a control mechanism) was I able
to overcome work (trance) and play (glamour) ... and heal (or persevere: In
the sense that medicine might be thought of as an addiction to something
external and whereby one lives only through consuming; I healed from
medicine, itself ... becoming as a tool within my own imagination whose
artistic manipulation allows that I now own the means of my own production.
Utopia)! I understood this as re- creating god (and it was recreational
rather than sporting).
I did this to translate language. Which, I learned in school. Even though
others might, on the other hand, use imagery to do the same (in the sense
that symbolic understanding is, as on the other hand, illusion ... mockery,
mimicry, mummery, miming, and impressions).
I established an earthly king (envision a monarchy) rather than idolizing
(so, as opposed to capitalistic greed): I didn't dress like my heroes in Jr.
High (nor are war "heroes" heroes of mine ... neither police). And I
established an earthly icon, the twins (or an ideal, Greece and Rome) in
order to translate metaphysical language (which would otherwise be the
babble of legion) into metaphysical knowledge: I didn't become half of a
mating pair (nor an eunuch).
In these ways thinking isn't, for me, an act of denial and wish fulfillment.
It isn't unconscious. I didn't kill my father, marry my mother, nor descend
into hell in order to save them. I didn't earn my phallus (nor succumb to
fallacy). And so nursery rhyme, myth, legend, and fairy tale (that is,
superstition) is replaced by sophistication.
Warriors become civilized in this way. Barbarians become domesticated.
Devils give way to kings (and god kings). And I become the trinity:
Omniscient (ONE individual), omnipotent (ONE of a group), and omnipresent (I
come to regard ONE whole).--Mindrec 02:01, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
from:
mindrec.net
--
Brett Robertson
Metaphysician
Mindrec.org
ICQ 6630756
Hi,
The research group was created after the edition of last quarto, so it
has not been introduced. I think it would be interested to write a
little something to explain what is the research group aiming at, what
are his current fields of research and how to join etc...
Is there someone who could do that ?
If so, here might be just the right place for doing so :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WQ/4/En/4
Greetings
Anthere
Call for Participation
2005 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WIKIS (WikiSym 2005)
Oct 16-18, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
http://www.wikisym.org
WikiSym 2005 features keynotes by Ward Cunningham (inventor of the
wiki), Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia), and Robert Hass (former
U.S. poet laureate). The program offers a research paper track
providing the best in current wiki research, as well as workshops,
tutorials, demos, and social events. Everyone who is involved in
using, researching, or developing wikis is invited to participate!
WikiSym 2005 is co-located with ACM OOPSLA and is an ACM sponsored,
archival, peer-reviewed conference. The proceedings will be available
at the conference and through the ACM digital library.
For more information, please see our website at
http://www.wikisym.org or our conference wiki at http://wiki.wikisym.org
For what it's worth -- unless we already have a scheme for producing bibtex
-- here's my bibliographies and annotations (basically [1]) on 7 of the
papers. Unfortunately, many of the papers are still not present; also,
anyone know when the streams will be up? [2] still says "None available as
of yet. Check back after the first day of the WikiMania program.".
[1] http://reagle.org/joseph/plan/search.cgi?query=wikimania
[2] http://freematrix.us/radio/wikimania
Hi,
Just something that occurs to me as I write up my dissertation - I
keep on thinking it would be nice to be able to cite some basic
figures to back up a point I am making, eg. how many times Wikipedia
is edited on a given day or how many pages link to this policy page -
as I asked in an email to the wikipedia-l list, which has mysteriously
vanished from the archives (August 11, entitled "What links here?"). I
realise these could be done by going to the recent changes or special
pages and counting them all, but I'm basically too lazy to do that -
we're talking about thousands of pages here, right? I'm also thinking
this is something that many people would be interested in finding out
and writing about. So what I'm asking is that to help researchers
generally, wouldn't it be an idea to identify some quick database
hacks that we could provide - almost like a kate's tools function? Or
are these available on the MediaWiki pages? If they are, and I've
looked at some database related pages, they're certainly not so
understandable from the perspective of someone who just wants to use
basic functions. You might be thinking of sending me to a page like
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Links_table - but *what does it mean?*
Can someone either help me out, or suggest what we could do about this
in the future?
Cheers,
Cormac