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.povertyandconservation.info promoting good practice This site aims to promote good environment practices by linking conservation and poverty. It is a project led by the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG). The UK-based group is an initiative coordinated by the International Institute for Environment and Development and is funded by the …
http://www.sustainabilitydictionary.com Lingo of sustainability As the movement for sustainable development continues to gain momentum, the need to understand the language used by practitioners of "green' revolution becomes more urgent. Addressing this concern, students of the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco, USA, have compiled an online dictionary to show …
A us federal court recently ordered Google to hand over some search data, including 50,000 web addresses, to the us government, although a request to hand over a list of people's search requests was denied. This request was made by the justice department to access search records to help prevent …
http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/BiodiversityGuide BIODIVERSITY AS A KEYWORD The International Finance Commission, the private sector arm of the World Bank, is on a reformation drive. Recently it issued a fresh set of regulations for companies borrowing from it (see
Nandadevi.org & mountainshperds.com riding high Lata is an address of protest and conflict. It was the village in the higher alpine pasture areas of Chamoli, Uttaranchal, where the first sparks of the Chipko movement were fired. It's the home of the bhutiyas, who lost their right to shepherding, to trade …
it was waiting to happen. After all one can trade shares, buy airplane tickets and conduct a variety of commerce via the Internet. So, the Maharashtra government's and that of several other state governments' move to computerise the state's agricultural records doesn't really evoke much surprise. What, however, appears ludicrous …
http://bbc.cpdn.org/index.php Heat it up! You contribute to climate change. You have been told that a million times before. But this time, you are being given a chance to contribute in a different way. The BBC, Britain's Meteorological Office, Oxford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, USA, have launched …
Under attack for gagging information and news, the Chinese government has reacted sharply to retort that their controls on websites and Internet service providers are no different from those used in Europe and the us. Although China does not deny that it operates a sophisticated firewall to protect the communist …
http://floss.sarai.net/newsrack It makes many jobs easy Organisations in the development sector monitor news that is relevant to their work. This can be a laborious job, especially when the news has to be monitored, marked, cut, and filed using hard copies of newspapers and magazines. However, much of this work can …
http://www.geocities.com/forestcase/forestcaseupdate.html court the court They have no website. It's a mere webpage but its brilliant. The forest case update is an e-newsletter plus a webpage containing an archive of the e-newsletter. Why should a e-newsletter be worth a review? The web-based e-newsletter is to disseminate information on cases regarding forest …
