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07.05.2008 Zimbabweans are increasingly harnessing new technologies -- notably cell phones and the internet -- to challenge the ever more dictatorial nature of Mugabe's regime.
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From: Global Voices Online
Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] [Governance] [ICT] [Freedom of expression] [Communication]
Nigerian lawyer Oby Nwankwo will participate in an upcoming Roundtable.
07.05.2008 NEW YORK, May 6 (OneWorld) - Women's rights advocates in the United States have launched a novel global initiative aiming to help millions of women across the world who face violence at the hands of men.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Knowledge] [Gender] [Capacity building]
Image: Nigerian lawyer Oby Nwankwo will participate in an upcoming Roundtable. © Peace X Peace
02.05.2008 ASSOCHAM, India’s apex industry body is organising a global telecom summit on May 23-24, 2008 in New Delhi, India.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Media] [ICT] [Communication] [Information & media]
01.05.2008 Rural health practioners in Alaska are being facilitated through videoconferencing to cater to the needs of the mentally ill.
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Related topics/regions: [North America]
25.04.2008 With BBC World Trust launching its most ambitious project called ‘English in Action’, Bangladeshis will soon be able to learn a truly global language on television and mobiles.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [ICT] [Communication] [Education]
24.04.2008 IBM is toying with the idea of providing information to rural users on toll-free numbers. Its pilot project in southern India will provide information on healthcare services, small businesses and micro-finance.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [ICT] [Communication] [Health]
Kristine Pearson / Photo credit: GKP
22.04.2008 Kristine Pearson, chief executive of Freeplay Foundation, is the creator of the wind-up and solar-powered Lifeline radio, the first such initiative in the humanitarian sector.
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Image: Kristine Pearson / Photo credit: GKP
21.04.2008 A community radio show by college students in Chennai in southern India is bringing alive characters from neighbouring slums to help women deal with issues of health and education.
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Related topics/regions: [ICT] [Communication] [Health] [Youth] [Education]
21.04.2008 A non-profit media project is organising Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28, 2008.
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American Government textbook.
18.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Knowledge] [Climate change] [Environment] [Education]
Image: American Government textbook. © Friends of the Earth
18.04.2008 Using Mobile Phones in Advocacy Campaigns, a strategy guide by MobileActive contains innovative ideas on using mobile phones for active civic engagement.
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Related topics/regions: [Media] [ICT] [Communication] [Information & media]
18.04.2008 Partners in Media Asia Pvt. Ltd. is organising India Radio Forum on May 30, 2008 at Mumbai, India.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Media] [ICT] [Communication] [Information & media]
ZigZagmag.net logo / Photo credit: BBC
18.04.2008 Building on the popular culture of blogging, BBC’s ZigZagmag.net has created an interactive online space to enable aspiring Iranian journalists generate high quality content for a variety of BBC platforms.
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Related topics/regions: [Middle East]
Image: ZigZagmag.net logo / Photo credit: BBC
Jagori logo / Photo credit: Jagori
18.04.2008 Indian NGO Jagori, a women’s training and resource centre is organising a two week training programme at Kangra, Himachal Pradesh in northern India.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Gender] [Youth] [Capacity building]
Image: Jagori logo / Photo credit: Jagori
Krassimir Simonsky, Deputy Chairperson of the State Agency of Information Technologies and Systems / Photo credit: Tsvetelina Nikolaeva
17.04.2008 Bulgaria has received a grant of 300 million euros from the European Union for the development of its information and communication technologies.
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Related topics/regions: [ICT] [Communication] [Economy] [Capacity building]
Image: Krassimir Simonsky, Deputy Chairperson of the State Agency of Information Technologies and Systems / Photo credit: Tsvetelina Nikolaeva
17.04.2008 As part of Public-Private Partnership, Ericsson and UNDP have entered into a three-year agreement to help raise the living standards in rural areas of China.
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Related topics/regions: [ICT] [Communication] [Poverty] [Capacity building]
Connecting communities / Photo credit: UNESCO
16.04.2008 In a step to integrate rural areas with mainstream world, the government of Nagaland, a state in north-eastern India, will distribute community TV sets to villages.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [ICT] [Communication]
Image: Connecting communities / Photo credit: UNESCO
eINDIA logo / Photo credit: eINDIA
16.04.2008 Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is organising eINDIA2008 from July 29-31, 2008 at New Delhi, India.
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Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Knowledge] [ICT] [Communication]
Image: eINDIA logo / Photo credit: eINDIA
Botol Susu Bayi
15.04.2008 Dalam sebuah diskusi di Warung Daun Cikini beberapa waktu lalu oleh ICW, Sudaryatmo dari YLKI mengungkapkan, kontroversi seputar Enterobacteri Sakazaki seharusnya tidak perlu terjadi apabila semua informasi seputar proses pemberian registrasi dan juga hasil dari reguler inspection yang dilakukan oleh BP POM bisa diakses oleh publik.
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Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Civil rights] [Human rights] [Refugees] [Food]
Image: Botol Susu Bayi
Book cover / Photo credit: Sage
11.04.2008 Using Edu-tainment for Distance Education in Community Work is a guide to creating distance education radio, TV and internet programmes in the Edu-tainment format.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Media] [Information & media] [Volunteering] [Education] [Capacity building]
Image: Book cover / Photo credit: Sage

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