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.
Links collection
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
.
And finally, if you're not tired yet, you can always search the
Google
for information on this topic.