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Estoy participando en un concurso organizado por la NASA y necesito sus votos para poder llegar al top 10 y clasificar para el premio de $20,000

Este es mi proyecto
http://contest.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/1837

Para poder votar deben registrarse en la pagina del concurso
http://contest.techbriefs.com/register/registers

Recibiran un email con el cual su cuenta se activa, luego entran con su login y password, y regresan a la pagina del proyecto, en la parte inferior aparece un boton para votar.

Este domingo 17 de junio salio un reportaje sobre mi proyecto, en el suplemento mi empresa del comercio en la seccion el foco.
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The United States government bears great responsibility for keeping our environment clean and Americans healthy and safe. And while science is rarely the only factor in public policy decisions, this input should be objective and impartial.

In recent years, however, scientists who work for and advise the federal government have seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies have systematically limited public and policy maker access to critical scientific information. To document this abuse, the Union of Concerned Scientists has created the A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science.

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In May 2005, the women of Kuwait successful won the right to vote by secretly using their BlackBerry digital assistants beneath their burkas to email Kuwait’s all-male legislature. This fall, Rock the Vote and Facebook teamed up to enable young people in the U.S. to register to vote through Facebook, the leading online social networking site. In myriad ways, through stealth or sunlight, people around the world are creatively using new digital media to connect with one another and affect their communities.

The interactions that people are having with one another through Web sites, mobile phones, chat rooms, personal digital assistants, iPods, and other gadgets and gizmos has transformed society from the information age to the connected age. These digital tools, called social media, are important not for their wizardry, but because they are inexpensive and easy to use and allow individuals and small groups to bring about big changes. Connectedness does not come from technology but is facilitated and strengthened by it.

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Athar Osama argues that despite big new initiatives, ICT's reputation as a major driver of development is so far undeserved.

The information and communication technology (ICT) 'revolution' has been hailed as the enabling force for developing countries to become more active participants in the global economy. Institutions like the United Nations and World Bank support the creation and funding of ICT strategies to help such countries leapfrog stages of economic development.

But developing countries must first solve tough, often unglamorous, problems like illiteracy, social mobility, government inefficiency and corruption, and a lack of economic opportunities if they are to realise the potential of ICT for development.

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The three core beliefs of the Pirate Party are the need for protection of citizen's rights, the will to free our culture, and the insight that patents and private monopolies are damaging to society.

Ours is a control and surveillance society where practically everyone is registered and watched. It is not in the best interests of a modern judicial state to impose surveillance on all its citizens, thereby treating them as suspects. Democracy presupposes a strong protection for citizen's rights.

Copyrights were created to benefit society by encouraging acts of creation, development and spreading cultural expressions. To achieve these goals, we need a delicate balance between common demands of availability and distribution on one hand, and the demands of the creator to be recognized and remunerated on the other.

We claim that today's copyright system is way out of balance. A society where cultural expressions and knowledge is free for all on equal terms would benefit the whole of the society. We claim that widespread and systematic abuses of today’s copyrights are
actively counter-productive to these purposes by limiting both the creation of, and access to, our own culture.

Privatized monopolies are one of our society's worst enemies. They lead directly to price-hikes and large hidden costs for citizens. Patents are officially sanctioned monopolies on ideas. Large corporations fight each other in a race to file more and more patents they can use against smaller competitors to prevent them from competing on equal terms. The goal of any monopolist is not to adjust prices and terms to what the market will bear, but rather use their ill-gotten rights as a lever to raise prices and set lopsided terms on usage and licensing. We want to limit the opportunities to create damaging and unnecessary monopoly situations.

Trademarks are primarily useful as consumer protection devices. We feel trademarks mostly work fine today, and do not suggest any changes here.

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Las tres principales creencias del Partido Pirata son la necesidad de protección de los derechos de los ciudadanos, la voluntad de liberar nuestra cultura, y el entendimiento de que las patentes y los monopolios privados están dañando a la sociedad.

La nuestra es una sociedad controlada y bajo vigilancia donde prácticamente todo el mundo está registrado y en observación. No está en el mejor interés de un estado judicial moderno imponer la vigilancia a todos sus ciudadanos, de ese modo tratándolos como sospechosos. La Democracia presupone una protección fuerte de
los derechos de los ciudadanos.

El copyright fue creado para beneficiar a la sociedad fomentando actos de creación, desarrollo y difusión de expresiones culturales. Para conseguir esos objetivos, necesitamos un delicado equilibrio entre las demandas comunes de disponibilidad y distribución por una parte, y el reconocimiento y remuneración de las demandas del
creador por la otra. Nosotros reivindicamos que el sistema actual del copyright se ha salido de este equilibrio. Una sociedad donde las expresiones culturales y el conocimiento sean libres para todos en términos iguales beneficiaría al conjunto de la sociedad. Nosotros reivindicamos que los abusos generales y sistemáticos del copyright actual son activamente contraproducentes a esos propósitos al limitar tanto la creación de, y el acceso a, nuestra cultura.

Los monopolios privados son uno de nuestros peores enemigos. Ellos llevan directamente al aumento de los precios y a un enorme coste escondido a los ciudadanos. Las patentes son monopolios de ideas oficialmente concedidos. Enormes corporaciones se pelean unas con otras en una carrera para archivar más y más patentes que poder usar contra competidores más pequeños para prevenirles de competir en igualdad de condiciones. La meta de cualquier monopolista no es ajustar los precios y términos en que el mercado vaya a adoptar, sino más bien usar sus derechos obtenidos deshonestamente como una palanca para subir los precios e imponer términos a su favor en cuanto a uso y autorización. Queremos limitar las oportunidades de crear daños y situaciones de monopolio innecesarias.

Las marcas registradas son ante todo útiles como medios de protección del consumidor. Nosotros creemos que las marcas registradas en general funcionan bien actualmente, y no sugerimos ningún cambio en este punto.

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Technologists are at odds over how to bridge the digital divide. What one group calls the ultimate solution, another dismisses as "the scam of the century".

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Los tecnólogos no se ponen de acuerdo sobre la manera de cerrar la brecha digital. Lo que un grupo llama la mejor solución, otro lo descarta como “la estafa del siglo”.

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In a few short years the web has become so familiar that it is hard to think of life without it.

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En pocos años, la red se ha hecho tan familiar que es difícil imaginar la vida sin ella.

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The Internet and other new ICTs are changing radio in the developing world. But far from making it less relevant, they are opening up hitherto unimagined possibilities:

. Broadcasters who used to have to travel for hours or even days to find a public library to research a programme, now have instant access to the Internet;

. National, regional and global radio news agencies are making world news and alternative perspectives available to even the most remote communities;

. The radio/telecommunications combination is helping to keep communities together, despite the distances imposed by migration.

The cases presented in this book are among the first examples of the convergence of radio and new ICTs for development, and the book underscores the significant potential of the combination. In this convergence, radio promises to take on even greater significance and value. For this reason, we believe that radio is the one to watch.

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El tema principal de este libro es la combinación de Internet y la radio, que ofrece un rango potencial y nuevo de posibilidades para los proyectos de comunicación para el desarrollo. Sus 17 capítulos examinan algunos proyectos que incorporan radio e Internet y los agrupan en tres amplias categorías que ocasionalmente se superponen:

. Proyectos que crean o apoyan a redes de radiodifusoras.

. Proyectos en los cuales la emisora de radio sirve como portal o como un intermediario comunitario, proporcionando un acceso mediado pero significativo y eficaz, al potencial de conocimientos e información que se encuentran en Internet.

. Proyectos que utilizan la combinación de radio e Internet para facilitar la comunicación con las comunidades emigrantes, proporcionando un acceso mediado pero eficaz al potencial de comunicación de Internet.

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Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones argue that enhanced citizen engagement is essential in making technology work for the poor.

Moves to combat poverty through innovations in science and technology are being hampered by a reliance on top down imposition. In this report Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones of the Institute of Development Studies argue that innovation should be citizen led, with development and use of technology designed around specific local needs.

The science races are on. After decades of relative neglect, science and technology are again seen as vital tools for international development. Governments, companies and philanthropists are racing to help poor people benefit from research and development in rich countries. But the two races that generate most excitement - the race to global economic success and the race to find a universal fix for the problems of developing countries - raise some difficult questions. Where will they take people? How will they maintain their momentum? Who will win the prizes and who will be left behind?

This pamphlet explores the pros and cons of these two races and argues that we need a third - a (slow) race to make investment in science and technology work for the poor. We need to start seeing citizens as contributors to the success of technology. We need to work towards ensuring that their voices our heard. This means innovation along trajectories that respond to local needs. It means regulation that is attuned to local concerns. And it means putting citizens at the heart of our view of development. We need to start a slow race to citizens' solutions.

The Slow Race

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Melissa Leach y Ian Scoones afirman que para que la tecnología dirigida a los pobres funcione es esencial un creciente compromiso ciudadano.