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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 23:38:50 -0500
From: "Edward J. Valauskas"
Dear Reader,
The July 1999 issue of First Monday (volume 4, number 7) is now available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/
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The Virtual Agora: Online Ethical Dialogues and Professional Communities by Alan Tidwell
The Greek agora, or market place, was where citizens met to discuss and debate topics of importance. The agora has been resurrected in electronic form, giving voice to many. Like the agora of old this largely unmediated forum provides important new avenues for debate. Examined here is the use of World Wide Web technology in fostering and sustaining ethical debates within and between professional communities..
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/tidwell/
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IMES: An Integrated Monitoring & Evaluation System on the Internet by John E. Psarras, Athanassios P. Papakonstantinou and Kostas S. Metaxiotis
Within the last decade many projects have been implemented in order to provide Technical Assistance (TA) to countries, which have initiated their transition from centrally planned to market economies (such as some countries in Eastern Europe). The pace and the degree of success of this transition, which these economies and - most important - their societies are undergoing, will certainly have an impact on the global economy, politics, social security, democracy and peace.
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) exercises assist these TA projects in achieving their objectives, by providing management with information on the projects' implementation, so that structured decisions can be taken, if and when needed. In this framework, it became obvious that an overall M&E database system was needed.
An Integrated Monitoring & Evaluation System (IMES) was developed for the needs of the European Commission (DG1A).Its main objective was to improve management reporting, by extracting relevant information on the performance of projects from various monitoring and evaluation reports and by producing overall statistics at NIS (New Independent States) level.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/kostas/
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Digital Diploma Mills: A Dissenting Voice by Frank White
Professor David Noble's series of three papers, which appeared in 1997-98 under the uniform title, Digital Diploma Mills, has provoked widespread debate and controversy. Noble contends that technology in general, and Internet/Web-based technologies in particular, are instruments of social control that neither faculty nor students want. Noble is leading the battle to wrestle technology from the grips of conniving university administrators and greedy corporate CEOs. Is Dr. Noble right? Partly. While I support his defense of faculty rights, I challenge his biased and ill-informed opinions about distributed learning technologies and I worry that he may be alienating potential faculty and student allies. Professor Noble seems convinced the battle is won. In my view, the victory parade is premature.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/white/
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Letter from San José: The Internet Global Summit, June 1999 by Steve Cisler
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/cisler/
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FM Interviews: David Chaum
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_7/chaum/
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