tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post9052842703848061854..comments2024-03-28T03:11:22.839-07:00Comments on PHILANTHROPY 2173: Clouds and Infostructure*Lucy Bernholzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-51983917644942400792010-03-29T09:05:19.460-07:002010-03-29T09:05:19.460-07:00First of course we need that infostructure and tha...First of course we need that infostructure and that has been one element of our work in Eastern Europe which advocated for affordable broadband deployment.<br /><br />http://www.p-ced.com/1/projects/ukraine/national/<br /><br />A year later this arrived in the form of Nortel wireless technology and in the very campus where we'd proposed a faculty for social enterprise, Microsoft recently introduced one of their innovation centers.<br /><br />JeffJeff Mowatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350496673678288137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-60325658735755792372010-03-27T14:50:42.938-07:002010-03-27T14:50:42.938-07:00Cloud Computing, in my opinion, will help us all w...Cloud Computing, in my opinion, will help us all work smarter at our nonprofits. We'll be able to work from home (saving office space<br />commuting time, and fast food and packaging waste)<br /><br />And create virtual workspaces and pass documents back and forth. (Like Pbwiki.com, which I have used at nonprofits, or google docs, also have used for nonprofits).<br /><br />Cloud computing is going to be the dividing line between nonprofits that get it, and nonprofits that stay stuck in the stone age.<br /><br />Mazarine<br /><br />http://wildwomanfundraising.comMazarinehttp://wildwomanfundraising.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-24534265172290028722010-03-22T10:13:59.335-07:002010-03-22T10:13:59.335-07:00Thanks for writing in. Judging by the hype, tablet...Thanks for writing in. Judging by the hype, tablets are going to change everything. Assuming folks can get their hands on them. This <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/technology/22apps.htmlstory" rel="nofollow">story</a> in today's NYT also reminds us that these new technologies are not distributed evenly, quickly or equitably. Some very thoughtful folks, such as Yochai Benkler and Jonathan Zittrain, both at Harvard, have pointed out that the mobile access to the web is not as open or even as desktop access has been. The devices and the apps all represent new and different "doorways" - not all of which are equally open. There is definitely much to be excited about in the cloud - and many concerns. <br /><br />Jonathan Zittrain's very important book - http://futureoftheinternet.org/ <br /><br />and Benkler's comments on the "Faustian" bargain that mobile may represent- <br /><br />http://publius.cc/capital_power_and_next_step_decentralization/091609Lucy Bernholzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-86878468652316900742010-03-22T05:28:41.271-07:002010-03-22T05:28:41.271-07:00Great post, I think it neatly encapsulates a very ...Great post, I think it neatly encapsulates a very real shift that's underway. It's also interesting to think of what new hardware tools "the cloud" may be enabling, and how that might heighten the shift. The iPad is a first shot across the bow of the long-predicted shift to tablet technology, and cloud computing could make it viable. Tablets may become as omnipresent as smartphones one day, providing a cheaper platform from which to work with data (than laptops) and a more robust platform from which to receive and consume data (than smartphones). I wonder what new ways of working that might generate.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291214253525586697noreply@blogger.com