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 Haryana government recently announced that it would be mandatory for all NGOs in the state to have their individual websites by June 30 if they have to qualify for further grants. They will also have to put all relevant information online. On March 23, 2007, Kartar Devi, minister for …
Has the time come to scrap the Internet and start anew? Some think so. Internet is 40-plus and growing. It faces many challenges today in terms of connection speed and data storage. Increasing mobility of devices and a lack of security threaten the reliability of the network. Scientists in the …
Another world www.worldmapper.org This website presents a view of the world based on different subjects of interest. From inequalities and injustices to natural calamities, it has a collection of world maps classified under various subjects. It shows
A report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International released on March 29, unveils the sinister role that global Internet service providers have played in China to help the government curb freedom of expression. The report, "Undermining Freedom of Expression in China: The role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google', says these …
Acting together http://www.OneClimate.net The uk chapter of the OneWorld Network has launched an interactive website on climate change. Designed as an online platform, the portal allows people to create their own space on web and interact on climate change issues. Users can post pictures, videos, reports and podcasts. "It's our …
An open-access portal to provide information about climate change will soon hit cyberspace. Climate experts who attended a workshop on community-based adaptation to climate change in Dhaka in February came to an agreement to launch the portal. The aim is to share ideas, said Saleemul Huq, director of the climate …
>> Viacom on March 13 slapped a billion-dollar lawsuit against Google and its affiliate YouTube in New York. It accuses the video-sharing website of massive copyright infringement. It alleges that almost 160,000 unauthorised clips of Viacom's programmes are available on YouTube, which recently said it would remove more than 100,000 …
ONLINE No ecology without equity, it is said. And vice versa. The North-South debate on environment and development revolves around this very maxim. The portal, www.choike.org, presents the Southern perspective on this, presenting works of NGOs and social movements. The portal serves as a platform from which organisations can disseminate …
The Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr) has recently purchased access rights to contents published in the uk-based Cochrane library's website. It contains evidence to assist decision-making related to healthcare, including reviews, clinical trials and results of research worldwide. The contract is for three years and the database is available …
>> The Iranian government has banned the website www. baztab.com. The site linked to former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezai, has recently published articles criticising the economic policies of president M Ahmadinejad's government and its decision to hold a conference questioning the veracity of the Holocaust. But it also has …
While scientists are more or less agreed on the anthropogenicity of climate change, there are a number of models to measure the problem's gravity. The site under review investigates the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a
Iraq's beleaguered people have an unlikely ally in the search engine Google. Its online satellite map, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive violence in Baghdad. As sectarian strife has worsened, some Iraqis have set up websites to help others avoid death squads. One tip
Bulletin board http://environmentalresearchweb.org The site under review has information on a range of environmental issues from waste management to global warming to renewable energy. Run by the Bristol-based Institute of Physics (IOP), UK, it combines news articles on current issues with opinion pieces, links with environmental journals, a comprehensive database …
This month, the history department at Middlebury College, a small private institution in New England, voted to ban students from citing Wikpedia in academic work. Other us academic institutes also forbid students from using Wikipedia as their central source. But a search of court decisions by the New York Times …
The site under review introduces us to the work of the Gender and Space Project. Undertaken by the Mumbai-based Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research, the project focuses on gender as a category to examine the ordering and experience of the city and its varied spaces, particularly public spaces. …
The auto rickshaw, the common person's transport in Indian cities, often hamstrung by poor public transport system, is becoming an unconventional yet cost-effective advertising tool. Recently many websites have put up their ads on these ubiquitous vehicles. "Advertising on the back of auto rickshaws has been a tremendous experience for …
Jimmy Wales, the founder of the Web encyclopedia Wikipedia says his planned Internet search engine, Wikiasari, could rival Google and Yahoo. He told the Times of London that his search engine, planned to launch with Amazon.com, will use the same user-based technology as Wikipedia. The commercial version of the search …
www.amanpanchayat.org arm yourself with info If you want to get yourself updated on your rights and legislation that could help you, www.amanpanchayat.org is the website. It provides a comprehensive listing of conventions, rights, laws and acts. Included in the list are new laws ranging from the National Rural Employment Guarantee …
