Full Coverage: Capacity Building
December 2006
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12/28/2006
The World Bank highlights the post-Tsunami progress in South East Asia and narrates the challenges in one of the largest re-construction efforts in the world.
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12/27/2006
Across the world, natural disasters are growing in number and destructiveness, and their human toll is escalating. In the past twenty years alone, more than 4 billion people have been affected by natural catastrophes – from floods, cyclones, and tsunami, to earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Emergency Relief] [Shelter & Housing] |
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12/26/2006
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Related: [India] [Development] [Fisheries] [International Cooperation] [ICT] [Internet] |
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12/26/2006
For activist Nirmala Purandare, training barefoot teachers in Maharashtra does not stop at education. It’s an attempt to usher in a social revolution
Read moreRelated: [Development] [Education] [MDGs] |
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12/22/2006
A five-day training programme on computer applications and its effective usage in advocacy and communications at rural level was organised for the field functionaries of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) at New Delhi from 18 – 22 December, 2006.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld South Asia Related: [South Asia] [MDGs] [Youth] [ICT] [Internet] [Knowledge] [Media] Image: Photograph by the trainee
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12/20/2006
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), IBM and Oracle today announced a joint research initiative to help Asia-Pacific countries share and create strategies, blueprints and policies for adopting the right blend of open standards and technology services. The goal will be for more countries to develop universally compatible applications and networks to make internal and external government services and transactions more automatic, affordable and efficient.
Read moreRelated: [Asia and the Pacific] [International Cooperation] [ICT] |
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12/11/2006
The 'We Can' campaign that is a South Asian campaign to end violence against women is holding a national meet in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneshwar. The National Change Maker Assembly is being attended by nearly 300 partners and will disseminate information on the campaign and highlight issues relating to violence against women.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [India] [Human Rights] [Gender] Image: © Heifer International
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12/08/2006
INTRAC - International NGO Training and Research Centre - is running a number of courses which include Gender Analysis and Planning between 17-19 January 2007 and Evaluating Empowerment from 31 January - 2 February 2007. For more information, email
training@intrac.org
Read moreFrom: ELDIS Related: [ICT] Image: © International Labour Organisation
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12/08/2006
In Douala, Cameroon, last month the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution), Europe’s largest dispute resolution body, delivered a three-day Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution to 32 lawyers and barristers, representing eight African countries from the Telecommunications sector.
Read moreRelated: [Africa] [International Cooperation] [ICT] Image: African Continent
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12/08/2006
African organisation Fahamu has called for expression of interest from organisations using mobile phone technologies for social justice work in Africa. This is also applicable to those who plan to use the mobile phone for human rights work in the continent.
Read moreRelated: [Africa] [Human Rights] [Communication] [ICT] [Civil Society] |
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12/08/2006
The NPR Kroc Fellowships have been announced for young journalists who plan to work in public radio and are completing college or have graduated from college in the last one year. Though no journalism experience is required, the candidates should demonstrate drive and potential. The last date for applications is December 31, 2006.
Read moreRelated: [Education] [ICT] [Media] Image: Be a radio journalist
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12/08/2006
The 'We Can' campaign was launched in 2004 in South Asia to end all forms of violence against Women. The aim is to challenge and change deeply-entrenched gender-biased societal attitudes and practices that endorse gender discrimination and violence. This media kit describes in detail the gender relations, discrimination, forms of violence and the progress of the 'We Can' campaign.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Civil Society] Image: Poster Women
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12/06/2006
The Educational Technology Research Symposium will take place in Austin, Texas in the US from February 05-06, 2007. The event will provide a venue for educational technology researchers to present formal papers in educational technology areas. The registration fee for the Symposium also will entitle Symposium registrants to attend the TCEA Annual Convention and Exposition, Into the Next Dimension, February 7-9, 2007 at no extra cost.
Read moreFrom: Digital Divide Network Related: [United States] [Education] [ICT] |
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12/06/2006
The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and is limited to 40 people. Application deadline is December 1, 2006 and the course lasts from Feb 12, 2007 till March 17, 2007.
Read moreFrom: Digital Divide Network Related: [ICT] [Education] Image: Mobile library in Zimbabwe © Book Aid International
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12/04/2006
A poverty-stricken tribal community that had migrated to Bangladesh centuries ago has found a voice through the innovative use of ICTs. Bangladesh NGO Youth Community Multimedia Centre (YCMC) that disseminates community-related information through cable network in Sitakund had an interesting experience with the Tripura tribal people in Bangladesh hills.
Read moreRelated: [Bangladesh] [Culture] [ICT] [Civil Society] |
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12/04/2006
Nobel Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, announced at the ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006 opening ceremony at Hong Kong that Grameen will team up the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and other partners, including Cisco Systems, QUALCOMM and a newly formed consortium, Enclusion, to launch a virtual, global 'ICT Empowerment Network' as part of their collaboration through the Connect the World initiative.
Read moreRelated: [Bangladesh] [Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China] [Poverty] [ICT] [Civil Society] Image: Mohmmad Yunus of Grameen Bank
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12/04/2006
On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, that falls on 4 December, the UN will seek to improve accessibility by persons with disabilities to the Internet, cell phones and other information technologies. Speakers and experts will discuss e-accessibility at a panel discussion at the UN office on Monday, December 4, 2006.
Read moreRelated: [Human Rights] [ICT] [Internet] |
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12/01/2006
El Centro de Rehabilitación de Ciegos de Lima (CERCIL), tiene el agrado de convocar, a través de su Programa de Capacitación e Inserción Laboral de la Población Ciega, “Proyecto Ágora”, a quienes estén interesados en capacitarse, y mejorar sus condiciones de empleabilidad, promoviendo equidad, e igualdad de oportunidades.
Read moreFrom: RISOLIDARIA Perú Related: [Peru] [Disability] [Social Exclusion] Image: Bernhard Smid
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