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.dirtymoney.org Cut to the Chase J P Morgan Chase (JPMC), the New York mega-bank, has become the target of a raucous advertising campaign that denounces it as the most ethically unsound financial institution in the world. At the forefront of the campaign is the US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Rainforest Action …
www.live-shot.com internet hunting A new shoot 'em up venture has been launched in Texas, home of the world's most famous huntsman-statesman. Last month Texan rancher John Underwood appeared on popular American TV program Today Show to promote his controversial new website whose tagline gaily offers users a "real time on-line …
www.keralafishworkers.org The world is getting serious about its dwindling marine resources. There is a large amount of frightening data on it. But hardly do these touch the fisherfolk
www.just-drinks.com "Your best choice for drinks industry news, analysis and research,' is how this website introduces itself. Truly so, for the site provides the latest information on the drink industry: carbonated beverages, alcoholic drinks such as beer and wine, and hot beverages such as coffee and tea are covered here. …
www.indianngos.com The people who run this website prefer to call indianngos.com a social enterprise. And they describe their endeavour as a politically neutral venture. Delve a little further and this fa
www.ifiwatch.tv Faced with the bleak choice of an urban slum or a distant resettlement site, an Indian family chooses to stay and drown rather than make way for the Narmada dam. Such is the focus of one of the sixty documentaries available through
Union Ministry of Communications, India The Union minister of communications Dayanidhi Maran has elaborate plans to increase Internet usage in India. And if he has his way, many Indian netizens
www.indiatogether.org If you want to read well researched, comprehensive and non-stop reportage on issues, chances are that your newspaper or magazine will run out of column space after a while. But at indiatogether.org, the edits and opinion pieces don't have that constraint. No pop-ups, flashes or tickers, and at least …
www.jantaraj.com Need support for your opinion on an issue, but can't go around seeking signatures and supporters? Log on to jantaraj, petition online and get friends for your cause. This website wants to be the "online voice of the people of India' by taking their signatures on petitions they themselves …
www.goodnewsindia.com This website believes that there is good news in India, and those making it are thousands of unknown men, women and institutions. It aims to reassure Indians that idealism and affirmative action have not disappeared. Good intention, but partly marred by loose editing and design faults. A story on …
Nepal Wireless Networking Project Five isolated villages in Myagdi district of Nepal don't have phones or other means of communication. But Nangi, Paudwar, Ghara, Tikot, and Sikha are connected to the world via the Internet thanks to a wi-fi network (a technology for Internet connectivity through radio waves). "Yak farmers …
www.globalforestwatch.org How much forest is left in the world? How much forest are we losing? How are forests threatened? For answers to all these questions visit this website run by the World Resources Institute, a Washington-based non-profit organisation. Maps, lively interactive ones, are the website's great strength. Click on Canada, …
GOOGLE This fortnight saw another twist in the web search company Google's saga of going public with its shareholding. The company decided to stop short of filing a formal registration to sell shares. Behind the decision lay the realisation that Google would be forced to disclose basic financial details of …
