Reconstruction of the original Watson Crick double helix DNA model

This model of DNA was reconstructed 23 years after it had first been put together by Jim Watson and Francis Crick at the Cavendish Labs Cambridge. Farooq Hussain, then at the Department of BioPhysics, King's College, University of London, was led to find a majority of the pieces of the original model in tea chests that had been sent to the University of Bristol, Department of Chemistry, by John Kendrew, of the Cavendish Labs. The project was carried out only after Crick and Wilkins and Watson and Crick had confered regarding the authenticity of the components of the model and the historical interest in the specific features of the original model.

The completed model together with a model of Linus Pauling's triple helix structure for DNA were donated to the Science Museum in London, England.

Reconstruction of the original Watson Crick double helix model of DNA

Commercial Internet eXchange Router

A routing exchange map between CIX router connected member network service providers (at first PSInet, UUNET/Alternet, and CERFnet) and ANS, the for profit operator of the NSFNET. ANS was created and owned by IBM, MCI and Merit, a non-profit organization of the University of Michigan. ANS was a for profit privately held corporation and held de facto monoply control over which network service providers were able to exchange traffic with other NSFNET connected networks. By establishing the CIX and its router member networks were no longer dependent on ANS in order to be able to exchange traffic with one another.

The CIX Router and documentary records of the CIX have been aquired by the Smithonsian Museum of American History, Washington D.C.

Kendra Initiative

The Kendra Initiative is a media and technology, academic and industry alliance participants in 40 plus countries. The mission is to foster an open distributed marketplace for digital media (films, music, images, games, text, etc). Kendra Initiative is currently engaged in developing and trialing prototypes whilst promoting support. Its goals are to:

• Simplify and streamline buying and selling digital content by driving industry adoption of open protocols.
• Enable interoperability between service providers, media applications and devices - every link in the content value chain.
• Build a system where consumers can use any device or application to browse, search and purchase from the globally distributed collection of content catalogues.
• Create a more pleasurable buying experience for consumers and increase reach and revenue for content owners.

By bringing together content creators/owners and specialists from industry and academia the Kendra Initiative is constructing a framework that will enable all organisations and individuals in the content distribution industry to exchange ideas and build this system.

i-School

Supporting the work of partner organizations with the collection and distribution of new and refurbished computer and networking equipment.to provide kids with access to the global knowledge base via Internet connected computers. To improve, enrich and expand their individual education, growth and development with the use of information computer and telecommunications (ICT) technology.

To assist those that have computer equipment to donate to be refurbished for use with groups that have a need for laptops, pcs and printers to implement projects. We are building a registry of sources supply of ICT equipment and groups who have projects in need of it.

Visit this group for information on recycling computers for development projects.

SteP Up - Sao Tome e Principe Union for Promotion

STeP UP works with grassroots-level organizations that are legally recognized by the local authorities, promoting the principles of self-help development. STeP UP develops and facilitates projects for the improvement of the communities where these organizations are based. The projects focus on education and training in agriculture,the environment, health, and income-generation.

Working with these local organizations, STeP UP develops specific projects, seeking appropriate solutions to the identified problems and using the organizations as the implementing agency. The projects are submitted to individuals and to local and international funding agencies for support.

STeP UP's goal is to enable these local organizations to become independent self-sustaining.

Caribbean Internet Forum

The CIF working group seeks to establish priority areas and specific actions relating to the development of an appropriate Caribbean Internet governance framework and regional infrastructure. To build synergies between various regional centres of interest and capability and to share resources.