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 …
www.commondreams.org POLITICIZING the InterNET The people who run this site say, "We are committed to being on the cuttingedge of using the Internet as a political organizing tool
Protests were expected when authorities shut down St Petersburg's European University, one of Russia's most respected higher-learning institutions. But their scale seems to have exceeded authorities' worst expectations. With their building now off-limits, students and faculty have fallen back on Internet forums, and blogs to coordinate their efforts. "A university …
It is difficult to attribute anything aesthetic to computer viruses, spam mail and other cyber threats. But that's exactly what Message Labs has done. In the second week of March, the uk- based Internet security firm exhibited a collection of graphical representations of computer threats. The exhibition was held at …
www.h-net.org SOCIAL SCIENCE PORTAL This is the site of an international consortium of scholars and teachers. It is run by the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, but H-Net officers, editors and subscribers come from all over the globe. Among the site's most important …
In his 1992 book How the World Was One, Sir Arthur C Clarke described a dream he once had: one day, cnn founder (and then owner) Ted Turner is offered the post of the President of the world, but he turns it down politely
the Encyclopaedia of Life is a click away. First 30,000 pages of the 10-year-old project, which aims to document information on all species, includes data on classification of the species, their history, ecology and geographical range. Developers of the project say researchers and students will benefit from the data bank, …
The European Commission has emerged the clear winner in a lengthy battle with the world's most powerful software maker. On February 27, Europe's antitrust regulator levied a
Information and communication technology (ict) determines growth. This includes cell phone, Internet and broadband service that aids rapid communication and trade ict boosts productivity and efficiency in business. For example, Thailand had a 10 per cent rise in employees using computers which brought in 3.5 per cent higher productivity. Higher …
in an increasingly virtual world information and communication technologies (ict) are being seen as a solution to almost every problem. Access to them has become a barometer of development. Computers and access to Internet per thousand population decides the country's hierarchy in the development pyramid. A village with a computer …
The Russian Federation is now a "superpower' of spam email. According to the multinational computer security firm Sophos, Russia is the second-most-prolific country after the us in producing junk emails. "One in 12 junk mails generated worldwide originates in Russia,' the firm's quarterly update on spam email noted. The us …
>> Arab countries have agreed to allow punishment of satellite channels deemed to have offended Arab leaders or national or religious symbols. At a meeting in Cairo called by Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a charter was adopted allowing authorities to withdraw permits from offending channels. The charter calls on broadcasters …
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/home.html THE MIDDLE PATH There are many countries with malnourished and starving people; there are also some with overweight and obese people. This paradox has always dogged humankind. But the situation has assumed alarming proportions of late. With the Third World drawn willy-nilly into a globalization, the poor have become …
The superintendent of cyberspace wants to be independent. A recent meeting of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann) in Delhi sought to end the us control over its operations. The body that oversees issuing Internet addresses is accountable to the us under a joint project agreement (jpa) …
AGNIMIRH BASU Bertrand de la Chapelle is the Special Envoy for the Information Society, French Foreign and European Affairs Ministry. A recent meeting of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers in New Delhi discussed how to make Internet governance more global. Chapelle, who attended the meet, talks to …
Google has thrown a lifebelt to its floundering rival Yahoo! by proposing a partnership between the two Internet search rivals as a way to escape Microsoft's us $44.6 billion takeover bid. Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt telephoned Yahoo!'s founder, Jerry Yang, to propose working together. The message was leaked to …
Work has begun to repair three damaged undersea fibre-optic cables that were severed in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf on January 30 and February 1. The cause of the cable break is yet to be confirmed and speculations are there that a ship's anchor was to blame. The …
http://www.business-humanrights.org HAWK'S EYES ON BUSINESS Corporate social responsibility has become a buzzword in industry. Business organizations these days take great pains in emphasizing the ethical side of their activities, with many even having corporate social responsibility departments. One tends to wonder, however, how genuine this concept is. Is it a …
The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. The software major aol, which owns the browser now, will cease supporting after February 1. Users will not receive security or software updates after that date. In the mid-1990s, the browser was used …
