Associations

• The organisation I am most involved with is Asha for Education. I am currently a volunteer of the Asha Cornell chapter.
• Other such organisations close to my heart are the Breakthrough Science Society and the U Help India.
• Linked here is the zipped material for a mini-course on mathematics and biology that I co-taught with Sharmistha Majumdar at the sixth grade of Decatur Middle School, Watkins Glen, NY during May-June 2005.

Mostly Blogs

• Geomblog.
• Lance Fortnow's blog.
• Scott Aaronson is Shtetl-optimized.
• Micheal Nielson.
• Blog by some volunteers at Asha Seattle
• Popular writings in physics at arXiv.

Photography

• A great reference for all : Photo.Net. Some specific articles :
  • Photo.Net bulletin board discussion about old equipment.
  • Article about older equipment. Should get some of these some day soon :)
  • Manuals of classic cameras and manual of Nikon FE.
  • Another excellent site for camera-lovers.
  • Evaluating photos.
• To use the older manual primes with your Nikons :
  • Nikonians discussion
  • Roland Elliot converts them to be used for AF Nikons.
• Articles from Apogee Photo.
• John Brownlow's site on street photography.
• Freeman Patterson, the Canadian legend, is one other author/photographer I find very inspiring.
• Guy Parson's page has a number of interesting articles and tips.
• More articles from Canon archives.
• Don Haynes' page, an excellent hub for photography articles.
• Ellensplace, another hub for photography articles.

Some organisations and links in development studies

• Material from Ashutosh Varshney's course.
• Science and society series on Science.
• Collection of classic essays on education.
• Department of Woman and Child Development, Government of India website.
• India Together is an excellent development news portal and has a series of very well-written articles.
• Indev, a development networking initiative by the British Council of India.
• Oxfam, Education Now
• Unicef: state of world's children, the current report.
• Asha's Learning Network initiative. Remember to check out the excellent brochure on the page with inputs from all the different groups.

Material on digital divide

• FOYM
is the webpage of FOYM which works on providing internet and computer access to schools in rural areas.
• GeekCorps
• Digital Divide Network
• Bridges
• Dotforce
• White papers by Dr.Sugata Mitra on experiments conducted in rural India about web-access to children.
• Global digital opportunity initiative.
• IICD.
• Markle foundation.
• UN ICT Task force
• World economic forum initiative .
• Global information infrastructure Commission. It has a report dated March 14, on the education and e-governance in India linked from here
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• And finally, if you're not tired yet, you can always search the Google for information on this topic.