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 …
http://www.yaw.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/index.html This web site is the brainchild of UK scientists, who have hit upon an effective method to counter the controversy surrounding the names of the nation's 50,000 known species. It is estimated that about 300,000 scientific names are used to distinguish them. To resolve this multiple name muddle, scientists …
want to know how your organisation really works? Study the flow of internal e-mails, say scientists from the us-based technology firm Hewlett-Packard. The researchers have developed a way to use e-mail exchanges to build a map of the structure of an organisation. The map shows the teams in which people …
http://www.gpgNet.net GpgNet provides a forum for researchers and policymakers to exchange information and discuss issues relating to the emerging concept of global public goods (GPG). What is that? you may ask. GPG can be broadly described as resources or services that have a fairly universal impact: on a large number …
http://www.tarahaat.com If you are a Net-savvy villager in north India, Tarahaat.com could easily become your favourite haunt on the Web. For starters, the website offers email services in 11 Indian languages. The utility of the website goes beyond traditional Net services. The Livelihood channel offers comprehensive information on how to …
Internet Games Video games on the Internet no longer spell just mindless escapism for misguided kids. Many of the most popular games today also involve role-playing, and players aren't necessarily participating to escape their daily grind. Instead they are increasingly using online games as virtual soapboxes for staging cyberspace protests. …
http://www.icij.orrg Nosy journalists are urged to take a dekko at this website of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (icij). The project is affiliated to the us-based Center for Public Integrity and acquaints the rest of the world with the the organisation's style of watchdog journalism. This popular website plays …
http://www.wotr.org The concept of water harvesting is catching like wild fire across the length and breadth of the nation. For those interested in knowing more about the concept and how to implement it, this is the right site. Watershed Organisation Trust (wotr) based in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, helps rural communities and …
http://www.unep.net This recently developed website from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) promotes the UNEP's programme of partnership and cooperation in preserving the environment. The programme seeks to bring together all specialized scientific institutions and communities under one umbrella to begin a new process of developing integrated solutions to environmental …
http://www.cmhealth.org The World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH) was launched in January 2000 by WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland. The CMH has been analysing the impact of health on development issues and producing reports and studies on health-related interventions and their influence on economic growth and …
http://129.109.73.75/SDAP/ The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston has developed a website containing a searchable database of allergy-causing proteins and bioinformatics tools for performing structural studies on allergens and the characterisation of their epitopes - protein parts that trigger immune reactions. The Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins (SDAP) could …
scientists in Britain and the us recently shook hands. No big deal, one might think, but the men in question were 4,828 kilometres apart, connected only by the internet. In a technological first, two scientists
http://www.echoupal.com Harnessing technology for the Indian farmer. That is what this unique web-based initiative of ITC's International Business Division wishes to do. Combining a broad set of online resources and a network of around one thousand kiosks, the site claims to reach rural farmers in about 6,000 Indian villages. It …
Having failed miserably to nail down one-to-one music file-sharing network provider Kazaa, a desperate American recording industry is seeking to turn the heat on the former's users. The Recording Industry Association of America (riaa) had earlier forced the first music-sharing network Napster, to shut up shop. It has now embarked …
www.mp.nic.in/gramsampark E-governance in rural administration, says the title of this website launched by the Madhya Pradesh government. The aim is to bring about connectivity among the 55,000 villages in the state. Because the site is in Hindi, it is sure to be beneficial for the villagers. It is based on …
www.knowledgebank.irri.org Now, the latest farming and production info is available to the rice industry online. This is the world's first digital extension service for the rice industry. Called the Rice Knowledge Bank, the website was launched at the International Rice Congress in Beijing on September 18. It is developed by …
The online exploits of a us couple have landed them in trouble. The husband and wife team of Donald and Mary Davis was selling "public' tracts in the Amazon on the Internet. They enlisted the support of Brazilian-born Joao da Cruz Veloso, a naturalised American, to allegedly sell bonds worth …
www.env.go.jp/policy/hozen/green/ecolabel/index.html Shoppers in Japan are getting green advice online, thanks to the website launched by the Japanese environment ministry. The site aims at helping consumers interpret product labels indicating levels of environmental friendliness. At present, there is a proliferation of eco-labels with green, blue and other marks which sport different …
Scidev.net is an exception to the internet rule book on science reportage. It makes news out of the science research in developing world. It's hard to find science news from this part of the world. Leave it to the pundits to ponder on why that's so and go to newswise.com, …
In an attempt to bridge the digital divide, Bhutan's planning commission secretariat is establishing an information network in all its 20 administrative districts (dzongkhags). The project
