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 …
• Kriti Infoplace, a development documentation centre has released its annual diary-cum-people's movement chronicle for 2006. Recording the most prominent and pertinent campaigns for water, human rights, environment, the diary provides a comprehensive report on the year gone by. • Japanese Internet providers and police have joined forces to prevent …
http://www.focusweb.org North versus South With the privileged North calling the shots in global development policies, the view of South remains neglected. Keeping this in mind,
THE major outcome of the second World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) was sealed even before the summit for-mally began in Tunis, Tunisia. On November 15, 2005
Internet's root servers are essentially massive directories: they match an internet address with a physical location and route a user's request accordingly. They also keep track of registered website names, as well as newly approved extensions
while the us and virtually the rest of the world slugged it out over the control of the Internet, www.renewamerica.com, a resolutely neo-conservative website, carried an article entitled
• Japan's environment ministry is drafting a law that would require owners of "potentially dangerous animals, such as crocodiles and pythons,' to have microchips implanted in their pets. The cylindrical chips, about a centimetre-long, would carry information that would enable the authorities to trace the owners if the pets go …
• The Gujarat government will connect over 6,000 villages by March 2006, under the e-gram project, the panchayat minister of the state informed the state assembly in the first week of April. • The Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium in Kochi, Kerala, which recently hosted a one-day international cricket match between …
www.aboriginalaustralia.com COLONIALISM VINDICATED "We don't own the land, the land owns us,' is the declaration on the mast head of the site under review. But don't go by such lofty statements. Run by the Alice Springs-based, Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre, the site takes us on a guided tour of …
www.praja.org Check the governors Here's an initiative that helps us come to terms with cantankerous babus. It helps one track complaints against civic authorities online. Initiated in 2003 by the Mumbai-based voluntary organisation Praja, the website was initially meant for the Mumbai only. Now the endeavour has been extended for …
www.vitalgraphics.net SANS all politics This site is meant to educate the uninitiated about the basics of climate change. "Most people have heard about climate change, they might even express a real concern about it, but how many would actually consider it a threat?' it asks. The site informs what the …
www.indiadisasters.org A GOOD HELP This is arguably the first Indian website to deal with disasters. And www.indiadisasters.org covers a broad canvas: from hooch tragedies to the recent tsunami. Even the growing number of accidents that take place during the various festivals in India find a place in the site. The …
www.ebay.com/rethink Want to dispose off your old personal computers (PCs) but do not know how to do it without harming the environment? Click on to www.ebay.com/rethink. The site, promoted by the US auction portal eBay Inc, offers advice on how to resell, recycle or donate used electronics. It also links …
