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.thinkcycle.org Many intellectual exercises are slanted copy left. So why not design? Well, now there is a non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities: www.thinkcycle.org. The site seeks to create a culture of open-source design innovations. Through it, The Open Source Research Community at …
www.moveon.org MoveOn.org is a virtual advocacy platform that offers people the opportunity to put pressure on government on matters that might be cultural, political and environmental. Started six years ago, its website claims the " MoveOn community' now numbers 2.3 million. MoveOn brings ordinary American citizens together to form electronic …
www.rabble.ca Rabble, babble. While these two perfectly rhyming words may sound trivial and informal, the Canadian website under review actually uses them as the name for two sections that are anything but non-serious. This news portal identifies itself as "News for the Rest of Us.' "They' being those up there, …
www.digitaldividenetwork.org Information is power. So are the technologies that help access and disseminate information. There has always been a gap between those people and communities who can make effective use of information and those who cannot. Now, more than ever, unequal adoption of technology excludes many from reaping the fruits …
http://earthtrends.wri.org/ It is a must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses of environmental trends and policy initiatives. EarthTrends is the information portal of the World Resources Institute (wri), a us-based environmental think tank. The site has ten …
www.indusscitech.net This website created by M A Pai, a us-based non-resident Indian scientist, may lack original content, but it is still a one-stop source for online resources on Indian science and technology. Almost all the content carried in its 13 channels
www.foodsafetyindia.nic.in Log on to this recently launched website of Union ministry of health and family welfare, government of India. It will show you what a grand understanding the government has of food safety. The crux of this colourfully pictorial website is that food safety is in
Electronic grocery shopping, whereby customers place their orders via the internet, has a potential to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (ghgs). A research done in Finland shows that emissions decreased by 87 per cent in the study area (Helsinki) when groceries were bought online, as compared to the general situation
www.nautilus.org The stark, no-nonsense design of the site gets one to the point immediately. This is the website of the us -based Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, which aims "to solve interrelated critical global problems by improving the processes and outcomes of global governance'. Details of programs, projects …
• The Public Library of Science, a non-profit, online publisher, will be launching its free online journal in October this year. PLoS Biology, its first journal, is to be a monthly that hopes to compete with prominent subscription-based journals like Nature. • Rock group Rolling Stones' upcoming European Licks tour …
http://www.inequality.org "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.' This website, maintained by a network of concerned journalists, writers and researchers headquartered in New York, starts off with a quote by Louis …
http://www.ngowatch.org Ngowatch.org is a site in the making. But there is nothing incomplete about its intentions. It will track down non-governmental organisations (NGOs): look into their agenda/s, provide information on their source/s of funding and find out how accountable they are. The NGO movement today has many facets to it. …
Online: http://wii.gov.in "My favourite actress is Kareena and my sister's name is Mini.' But why would the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) want to tell us what 16-year-old Upasna Sharma likes and dislikes? Upasna attended a Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources at the WII between 8 May and 4 June. …
www.changemakers.net Is information invariably bound to perception? Let us try and answer it in the context of the worldwide conference on water currently online at this website. The first thing a global online discussion (on till May 31, 2003; so you can still join in) would try and do is …
http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org Summer is here and with it water wars at neighbourhood taps and tanker stops. To find a way out of scarcity, visit the Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) rainwater harvesting website which encompasses the organisation's extensive research on water over the years. The neatly designed site offers plenty …
Self-Medication Australian doctors have warned Internet users against buying drugs online. They caution that many "health' websites do not provide adequate information about the medicines they retail. A recent survey of 104 e-pharmacies found that 41 sites did not offer any advice on their products. About 70 of the websites …
http://www.science.nasa.gov This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-watchers. Its purpose is to update the public on exciting developments in NASA research and help the organisation's "scientists fulfil their outreach responsibilities'. On-site scientific content is segregated to suit "kids, teachers and adults'. The …
UK Ban The uk government has proposed a crackdown on the much-hated menace of e-mail spam. It intends to check those indulging in the insidious practice of mass e-mailing unsolicited material, with tough new stipulations on how personal e-mail data can be used. The European Union has already sought to …
