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 South Korean police arrested a couple who became so obsessed with an online game that they starved their infant daughter to death. Newspaper reports said the unemployed couple from a Seoul suburb indulged themselves in the 3D fantasy game, Prius Online, which allows users to choose a career and …
Wary of social media, US defence department has finally allowed the country’s troops to use networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Department officials say the benefits of using social media outweigh the risks to security. The decision means websites blocked by the Pentagon in 2007—including YouTube—will be unblocked. However, …
In the hullaballoo over China’s plan to censor Internet, the media seems to have ignored the Australian government has similar plans. Now Google and Yahoo have joined Australian organizations calling for a “rethink” of the country’s Internet filter plans. The Australian government has announced proposals to introduce a mandatory filter …
In America’s Silicon Valley, celluloid fantasy can sometimes become a reality. For two Harvard undergraduates, Marck Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, who created Facebook, the social networking site’s early success propelled them into a world of cool nightclubs and hot dates. But the site also landed them in a legal battle …
Gimmick or otherwise, austerity is once again in fashion. People’s travels could be for a purpose or for pleasure, not so for ministers and government officials. They travel for specific purposes. The publicly stated purpose could be, and usually is, very different from their private intent. Many such travels are …
Over the last month or so, the media has portrayed Google as friendless in China. Embroiled in a censorship row with China, the search engine giant has threatened to leave the country. But now it seems that Google does have a loving sister in China. Just a few days after …
A hilarious prank led to Canada pulling the plug on thousands of websites in the first week of January. The Canadian government wiped out 4,500 websites in early January as it frantically grappled with a climate change hoax by the Yes Men. During the Copenhagen climate change conference the anti-corporate …
Canada’s second-oldest magazine has bowed to the vicissitudes of the Internet. It is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers. The Beaver was founded in 1920 as a publication of the Hudson …
http://www.hardrainproject.com/ In early 2009, a group of photographers, educators and musicians established a charity in 2009 to support campaigns against problems of climate change, poverty, the wasteful use of resources, population expansion, habitat destruction and species loss. The project takes its name from the Bob Dylan song: A Hard Rain …
From paved roads that carry crops to market to modern grain silos that reduce postharvest losses, infrastructure is critical to achieving food security. But nothing is currently having a more profound effect on farmers in the developing world than telecommunications networks. In the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, for instance, …
In this article the authors apply geodemographic consumer segmentation data in an input?output framework to understand the direct and indirect carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with consumer behavior of different lifestyles in the United Kingdom.
Facebook, the popular social networking site, offers its users a test to estimate its popularity. It is called ‘How addicted are you to Facebook’. Arnab Chatterjee is 92 per cent addicted. Chaterjee works with a private radio station and his status updates on Facebook changes every five minutes. From the …
www.turbulence.org.ukThe Oxford English Dictionary describes turbulence as “The disruption caused by movement through a non-moving element or an element moving at a different speed”. For conventional aerodynamics turbulence is a problem to be controlled and eliminated. The people who run this site have also proved to be a bother, at …
A new anti-government movement has sprung up in Iran—with supporters outside—with men posting pictures of themselves on the Internet wearing women’s head scarves as a political statement. The movement began in early December as an online backlash after the arrest of one anti-government protester, Majid Tavakoli. The Iranian news agency …
WHEN the internet took off in the mid-1990s, it was often claimed that it would improve price transparency, cut out middlemen and make markets more efficient. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence for this, just as there is for similar claims about mobile phones. Empirical data on the impact of …
In this article the author elaborates why information highway is to be treated as an infrastructure, just as roads, railways, ports, electricity etc. When transmission of information takes place along numerous media, this paper deals in particular with two modes of information highway: the internet and the mobile telephony (through …
Climate scientists are reeling from the discovery that someone has hacked into the email archive of one of their most prestigious research centres, the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, UK, custodian of the most respected global temperature record. Climate sceptics have gleefully blogged that the …
Environmental activists are taking to the Internet in a new bid to help save the world's rainforests with the help of major corporations including Starbucks Corp and Dell Inc. Campaigners plan to announce on Monday the formation of "Team Earth," a social network that includes businesses, nongovernmental organizations, students and …
Formal launching of publication and website (www.watsanbd.info) on Disaster Friendly Water and Sanitation technologies, was held under joint aegis of Concern Universal-Bangladesh (CUB) and Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) in the city's Dhanmondi auditorium of Dhaka Ahsania Mission on September 12. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) initiatives in Bangladesh have lot of …
