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Cyber Quiz-7: Providing the Internet Service: The World of the Internet Service Providers _____________________________________________________________________________________The following six quizzes in the cyber quiz series have already been published:Cyber Quiz-1: The Internet Cyber Quiz-2: The World Wide Web Cyber Quiz-3: Check Your Email Cyber Quiz-4: Browsing the Web Cyber Quiz-5: Have Data

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Check the Cyber Quiz Group on Yahoo! ( http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberquiz) - an online think tank on ICTs - created by me on May 28, 2004 and owned by me since then. Dr D.C.Misra January 21, 2005

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Cyber Quiz: Book Review-3: Keniston and Kumar (eds.) (2004): IT Experience in India: Bridging the Digital Divide, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London, Sage, 194 pp __________________________________________________________________ This rather slim volume* on India’s information technology (IT) experiences in bridging the digital divide is a collection of 10 updated papers by eminent contributors

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CYBER QUIZ – 6: Check the Blog: A Tribute to the Word of Year 2004 WELCOME TO YEAR 2005! And wish you All, A VERY, VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. And, as promised, here is my NEW YEAR MYSTERY PRESENT- The First Cyber Quiz of Year 2005. Read it. Enjoy it. And be HAPPY. Dr D.C.Misra January 1, 2005 _____________________________________________________________________ CYBER QUIZ – 6: Check the

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Dear All, On the last day of the year, here is the fifth quiz in our continuing endeavour to create world class literature on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in our mainstream CYBER QUIZ series. Enjoy it. Check this Forum on New Year's Day - January 1, 2005, and find a specially designed quiz for the NEW YEAR - a tribute to the year which will become history in some 15 hours

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: Management-9: Ezine- 5: Capital Ideas: Chicago GSB Check “Capital Ideas” of The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB) at http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/news/capideas/ Dr D.C.Misra December 24, 2004.

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: Management-8: Ezine- 4: stanfordknowledgebase Check “stanfodknowledgebase” of Stanford Graduate School of Business, “An information source for thoughtful teachers,” at http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/knowledgebase.html Dr D.C.Misra December 24, 2004.

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: Management-7: Ezine- 3: HBS Working Knowledge Check Harvard Business School Working Knowledge at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/. Dr D.C.Misra December 24, 2004.

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: Management-6: Ezine-2: Knowledge@Wharton Check Knowledge@Wharton, the ezine of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/ Dr D.C.Misra December 24, 2004.

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch: Management-5: Ezine-1: Sloan Management Review Check Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) Sloan Management Review at http://www.sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/. Dr D.C.Misra December 24, 2004

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_____________________________________________________________________________________ Dear All, My Best Wishes to You for A Very Merry Christmas. And what follows is my Christmas present! Read it and enjoy it this festive season. Feedback is always welcome. Dr D.C.Misra December 23, 2004. P.S. There will no doubt a New Year Cyber Quiz. But can you guess the topic?__________

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Cyber Quiz: List 33: India's Top 50 Most Trusted Service Brands 2004 ______________________________________________________________________ 1.LIC 2. State Bank of India 3. BSNL 4. ICICI Bank 5. Bank of India 6. Reliance Indiamobile 7. Airtel 8. Central Bank of India 9. Punjab National Bank 10. Indian Bank 11. Indian Oil Corporation* 12. Indian Airlines 13. LIC Mutual Fund 14. Tata Indicom 15.

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Cyber Quiz: List 32: India's Top Ten Brands 2004 _______________________________________________________ 1. Colgate 2. Lux 3. Rin 4. Dettol 5. Tata Salt 6. Ponds 7. Fear & Lovely 8. Britannia 9. Vicks 9. Bata 11. Pepsodent ________________________________________________________ Note: The list consists of 150 brands. Here we give heretop ten brands only. Source: The Econonic

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch 25: Blogdex: The Weblog Diffusion Index Blogdex, a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory, tracks diffusion of information in the weblog community. The project is based on the premise that "Ideas can have very similar properties to adisease, spreading through the population like wildfire. The goal ofBlogdex is to explore what it is about information, people, and

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Cyber Quiz: OPR-19: Review of Herring et al. (2005): Conversations inthe Blogosphere According to Herring et al (2005),* the "blogosphere" (the universeof weblogs or blogs) has been claimed to be a densely interconnected conversation, with bloggers linking to other bloggers, referring to them in their entries, and posting comments on each other's blogs.This empirical investigation shows that

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Cyber Quiz: Website Watch 24: BROG – Blog Research On Genre Check this website for a number of useful papers on weblogs or blogs. Among those available for download are the following: 1. Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniquesand Challenges for Visualizing FOAF (draft, forthcoming) http://www.blogninja.com/vsw-draft-paolillo-wright-foaf.pdf 2. Weblogs as a Bridging Genre (2005)

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Cyber Quiz: News: Cyber Quiz 1: The Internet and Cyber Quiz 2: TheWorld Wide Web No.1 and No.5 on Tech Republic DownloadsCyber Quiz 1: The Internet (made available on December 3) and CyberQuiz 2: The World Wide Web (made available on December 10) are nowNo.1 and No.5 on TechRepublic as this month's Hottest Downloadswith 5674 and 1382 downloads respectively.(Source: http://techrepublic.com.com/

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CYBER QUIZ: i4d Quiz-10: Open Source by Dr D.C.Misra ______________________________________________________________________ Proprietary versus Open Source continues to be a raging debate for last more than a decade. Both sides have passionate advocates and they have their advantages and disadvantages. As a result both sides continue to exist though fiercely challenging each other. Nevertheless,

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CYBER QUIZ-3: CHECK THE EMAIL Wish you all a Happy and Prosperous Diwali. On the eve of the festival of lights in northern India, called Diwali or Deepawali, when Delhi, the capital of India, is all lit up, here is the third quiz in our main series of quizzes called CYBER QUIZ on EMAIL (the first two quizzes in this series were on the INTERNET and the WORLD WIDE WEB). Enjoy the quiz and

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_____________________________________________________________________________________ Hundley, Richard O., Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, and C. Richard Neu (2003): The Global Course of the Information Revolution: Recurring Themes and Regional Variations, Santa Monica, CA, RAND Corporation, pb xliv+174 pp, available: http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1680/ (accessed: October 29, 2004).

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This* is the first of a series of three articles by Nandan M.Nilekani,CEO of Infosys on governance and information and communication technologies (ICTs).Nilekani presents a refreshing perspective to view governance from the triad of efficiency,effectiveness and equity, call it a 3E perspective, in which information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a significant role.The 3Es are

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This is an ongoing survey of the state of freedom of information in countries which have adopted comprehensive national laws on access.This version was originally released in September 2003 and amended in April-May 2004 to include four additional countries.This report,third in the series to an updated global survey, shows that more than 50 countries by now have guaranteed their citizens the right

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What have the following words in common: mobile phone(1945),cyborg (1960),byte(1964),microchip(1969),double click (1984),virtual reality(1987),applet (1987),URL(1992),dot commer(1997),text message(1998)and Google(1999)? Well,they all could be said to be annual champion words, characterising the year indicated in parentheses! This is the second language report*, the first having been

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Regular Internet users are significantly more politically active than others,finds a recent study* undertaken by Pippa Norris of John F.Kennedy School of Government,Harvard University,Cambridge,MA(Pippa_Norris@Harvard.edu/www.pippanorris.com)as a part of UNESCOWorld Report. She found the overall score on the mean Political Activism Index,designed by her on four dimensions and 21 parameters,was

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There is a remarkable omission of any book on information and communication technologies (ICTs) from the latest list of bestsellers on science. This glaring omission stares at your face blankly when you look at the list in the light of the oft-repeated assertion that we are living in the information age or in an era of ongoing ICT revolution.What happened then to the deluge of books on ICTs in

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It is rightly believed that, unless the information and communication technologies (ICTs) are made available in local languages, the ongoing information and communication technology (ICT) revolution will remain incomplete and its benefits will reach only a small section of society who have access to the English language. The scenario is, however, undergoing a fast change.Efforts are being

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Congratulations and Good Luck, Kshitij, Harpreet, Rahul and Shreevatsa. ________________________________________________________________ “Only extra-ordinary people can produce extra-ordinary results and to create extra-ordinary people, we need to start investing in them when they are young.” -- G. Ventakesh, CTO, Sasken Communication Technologies ________________________________________________

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The 16th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2004), the premier worldwide high school computer programming competition. will be held in Athens, capital of Greece, for eight days from September 11th to 18th, 2004. This is two weeks after the completion of Olympic Games in Athens. The goal of the IOI is " to bring together, challenge, and give recognition to young students from

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I never knew that some thing like National Cyber Olympiad (NCO), exclusively devoted to information technology (IT), existed in India. The Science Olympic Foundation, New Delhi (Chairman: Dr. Narindra Virmani, Former Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University, Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh) (http://www.sofworld.org/html2003/aboutus.shtml), a non-profit organisation set up in 1998, which

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Balasubramaniam, Giri Pickbrain (2001): know IT better, Kolkata,India, Macmillan. First Edition 91 pp. Rs 106/- ISBN 0333 935454 Available: http://www.macmillanindia.com/macnewmain.htm (accessed July 1, 2004). This is an excellent book, a gold mine for information technology (IT) quiz lovers. Claimed to be India’s first IT quiz book, and India-oriented, it consists of 500 carefully designed

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New Delhi, Tuesday, June 29, 2004 YAMUNA: i4d QUIZ Cyber Quiz by D.C.Misra for I4D Magazine Good morning! I have started regularly contributing a Cyber Quiz Column in I4D, a monthly magazine devoted to information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) published from NOIDA (U.P.), India. So far my following 4 quizzes have appeared in it: 1. i4d Quiz – 1 :

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The CYBER QUIZ, defined here as quizzes on different aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), has been conceived in three major streams, named after India's major rivers, as follows: GANGA: CYBER QUIZ Volume I: The Foundations Volume II: The Applications YAMUNA: I4D QUIZ BRAMHAPUTRA: eGOV QUIZ Volume I: India - The Union Volume II: India - The States

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Cyber Quiz-1: The Internet is now available at http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ictsouthasia Dr D.C.Misra

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Good Morning! And welcome to the brave new world of CYBER QUIZ! This an ambitious, rather very ambitous blog. It attempts to develop quizzes, based on research, on various aspects of rapidly developing information and communication technologies (ICTs),whose knowledge is becoming increasingy essential for a 21st century citizen, irrespective of age, gender and where he resides in this world.These

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