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Hello:

The Don Snowden Program here at the University of Guelph is planning
a conference for October. It will focus on communication technology
for participatory rural development, esp the Canadian context. There
will be a 3 week online pre-conference followed by 2 days at the U of
G.

What we are aspiring to do is set the Don Snowden legacy [Snowden was
the critical developer of participatory video through his experiences
in Fogo Island, Newfoundland] into the modern Canadian context of
telecommunications. This would mean revisiting some of what we've
learned from the past - Fogo, the Challenge for Change program, Farm
Radio Forum, etc. and trying to find ways to integrate what works with
the new potentials offered by rural telecommunications.

We are communicating with people to see what sort of responses,
recommendations and interests they display to this intiative. I'd
welcome any comments.

Please feel free to forward this message to any colleagues who may be
interested.