The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) published the 2024 Global Education Monitoring Report: Gender report – Technology on her terms in France in 2024. The report examines the impact of technology on girls' education opportunities and future technological development. It highlights ICT's potential to overcome educational barriers …
THE creator of this site thinks that the recent question marks on the Teflon frying pan are an opportunity to find a plasticless alternative. Martin Higgins from Malta is a fan of cast iron cookware. Steel fabrication, he says, also has an environmental cost, but buying one steel frying pan …
WANT to arm yourself with convincing arguments against dams? Get drawn by the persuasion of canoeists and conser - vationists. Check out this flash based website that demonstrates how dams impede flow and damage the ecology of river basins. It is created by Hydropower Reform Coalition, an anti-dam lobby founded …
Apedestrian injured by a motorist in the Californian city of Northbridge has filed a lawsuit claiming Google Inc supplied unsafe dir ections. Lauren Rosenberg filed the suit on May 28 seeking more than US $100,000 in the District Court in Utah. Rosenberg used her phone in January to download directions …
Teenagers tempted by computer games when they should be studying for the national college entrance exam in June won’t have anywhere to escape in the central Chinese city of Linchuan, where Internet cafes have closed. “All the town’s Internet cafes have closed so that youngsters can focus on studies,” said …
So cycling is your choice of sport or hobby? And you happen to be in India where it is seen more as poor man’s transport? Don’t despair. You are part of a community of thousands of bicycle enthusiasts alive and pedalling. India’s first social networking site for cyclists brings them …
WILDLIFE tourism’s underbelly was exposed in Bandhavgarh National Park last month when a vehicle with tourists craving for a nocturnal sighting of the tiger hit the animal. The influential tourists had managed to stay in the park after it closed. The animal died a few hours later in front of …
The census, or the collection of citizen data, has been a fundamental aspect of governance for most modern nations. It reminds us that modern governance has been wedded to information, even before it became fashionable to talk of the information age after the digital explosion. Different governments have sought mechanisms …
The Internet>> Addresses • Egypt Dominance of Latin characters in Internet addresses might soon end. On May 6, Egypt granted three companies approval to register names using the country’s new Arabic suffix. On May 13, Internet domains using the Cyrillic script were launched after Russia was officially assigned the .rf …
Television>> Online Broadcast • Armenia A popular independent Armenian television station plans to resume broadcast over the Internet more than eight years after it was taken off air by authorities, said the news agency Radio Free Europe. Mesrop Movsesian, the owner and director of the A1+ TV channel, said Armenians …
Google>> Breach Of Privacy • Virtual world Google admitted it wrongly gathered data from unprotected wi-fi networks over the past three years. The issue came to light after German authorities asked to audit data taken by Street View cars, engines that gather data for Google maps. Google conducted an internal …
Want to be someone who busts corporate wrong-doing? Get trained by sleuths who have been at it for 12 years: the Yes Men. The group now realizes it is time to get systematic about helping activist groups highlight corporate wrongdoings. That is what http://theyesmen.org/lab is all about. In a typical …
The government introduced the copyright amendment bill in the Rajya Sabha on April 19. The bill gives independent rights to authors, film directors and musicians and makes it difficult for Internet users to access works protected by copyright. G R Raghavender, registrar of copyrights, said the amendments are necessary as …
online activity>> Research • US Every person on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century. For analysts of digital communications this is a neat way of presenting the growth of the digital universe in 2009. Research estimates the digital universe grew by 62 per cent in 2009 to …
www.pastoralists.org Ecologists recognize that pastoralism represents a sustainable method of utilizing ecosystems such as deserts, steppes and mountains. Continued utilization of the world’s arid lands depends on viable pastoral systems. But pastoralists are under pressure due to a variety of circumstances that include population growth, environmental degradation, unsound development and …
www.urbandictionary.comMany of us would be familiar with the abbreviations, “lol” and “rofl”. If you aren’t, maybe you should check out www.urbandictionary.com. It will tell lol stands for laughing out loud, and rofl means rolling on the floor laughing. These abbreviations are now common in Internet and sms communication. www.urbandictionary.com has …
A scathing CAG audit report on Kerala's Akshaya, the country's premier e-gov initiative, shows why billions being spent on e-governance would be wasted if the bureaucracy does not learn quickly.
'Open source' is a familiar concept to many web users, providing free, well-supported software across the internet. But could the same principles be used to rapidly disseminate low-carbon technologies around the world?
Mobile is a rapidly growing and potentially major element of the future Internet, and its environment cannot be sensibly considered in isolation from fixed networks. A note on terminology: Europe uses the term Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) while the United States uses ‘wireless’ Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ‘Wireless’ is somewhat …
INTERNET>> MINING • Vietnam Google says it has identified cyber-attacks aimed at silencing critics of a controversial Chinese-backed bauxite mining project in Vietnam. It said a ma licious software was used to infect “potentially tens of thousands of computers” of mostly Vietnamese-speaking users around the world. Infected machines were used …
THERE is a missionary zeal about this website. Entrepreneurs are urged to take part in contests to save water. The winner gets $30,000 in cash. The inaugural 2010 Imagine H20 Prize for Water Efficiency was awarded to Fruition Sciences. The winning idea: a web application that alerts grape farmers when …
