This first posting of my “Theories of Development” course. Run by Jock McCollough, an erudite and well-mannered man, this bring together a class of students with a variety of backgrounds and experience.
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Watching Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece "Ran" has been an experience. His movies are never what you expect and his endings never happy. His uniqueness, at least in my eye, is his ability to decentralize the movie over several characters that is in direct opposition to the Hollywood style of a single protagonist.
See his wikipedia entry for more on this master director. He easily ranks amongst of the top of my panthenon of directors that include Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick.
Red Beard and Yojimbo come highly recommended as movies to watch. Next on my list of Akira Kurosawa's classics is Rashomon. Once I'm doing watching his movies (see list below), I shall move on to accomplishing my ultimate movie watching goal; simply to watch all of
Wikipedia's Top 100 movies of all time
? Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
? The Most Beautiful (1944)
? Sanshiro Sugata Part II aka Judo Saga 2 (1945)
? The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (1945)
? No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
? One Wonderful Sunday (1946)
? Drunken Angel (194 
? The Quiet Duel (1949)
? Stray Dog (1949)
? Scandal (1950)
? Rashomon (1950)
? The Idiot (1951)
? Ikiru aka To Live (1952)
? The Seven Samurai (1954)
? Record of a Living Being aka I Live in Fear (1955)
? The Throne of Blood aka Spider Web Castle (1957)
? The Lower Depths (1957)
? The Hidden Fortress (195
? The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
? Yojimbo aka The Bodyguard (1961)
? Sanjuro (1962)
? High and Low aka Heaven and Hell (1963)
? Red Beard (1965)
? Dodesukaden (1970)
? Dersu Uzala (1975)
? Kagemusha aka Shadow Warrior (1980)
? Ran (1985)
? Dreams aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
? Rhapsody in August (1991)
? Madadayo aka Not Yet (1993)
Making Links 2005 - "Putting technology to work in the community
sector"' was held on 14 and 15 November 2005 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Organizers included Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), Community Information Strategies Austrlia (CISA), Tri Commiunity Exchange (TRICOMM) & Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations (AFAO).
The focus of the conference was for attendees viz-a-viz
participating NGOs and community workers to gain an understanding of the application of Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in community work, as well as the fundamental tools for website development. The conference was also intended to have speakers share their experiences of employing ICTs for community building and improved service delivery. Observing sector trends, speaker presentations - for more details refer to the Program Guide attached - were geared to three major sub-themes; those of Community building and social capital
stream, NGOs and IT stream, and Web development for NGOs.
Making Links drew a diverse group of people from around
Australia, including those as far afield as Darwin, and from New Zealand who were there to speak, listen, network, and learn. Our goals for attending Making Links were two fold. Primarily to learn about innovative uses of ICT for NGO service delivery and in building Social capital, in line with what we are doing at EWB Australia.
Secondly, to network with fellow ICT4D specialists from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences working on a multitude of interesting projects.
Passionate as we are about Information and Communication
Technologies for Development, it was easy to generate enthusiasm for the audience about our exciting ICT4D projects. These include the Uluru Children's Home (UCH) in Alampara, India, Digital Divide Data (DDD) in Laos, and the nation wide Connectivity For Refugees (CFR) projects.
While we are at it, we thought to draw your attention to
"Connecting Up 2006", a related conference that promises to be equally informative if Connecting Up 2005 in Adelaide was anything to go by. Keep an eye peeled on our newsletters for an update.
In attempt to understand the regulatory situation in Sri Lanka for a private entity
to deploy a 2.4 GHz WLAN network, I have had to peruse the Spectrum Policy
Report
Download
SL_Report.pdf
