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 …
catch me if you can. This may no longer be the catch phrase for those who circulate copies of films they have downloaded from the internet. Macrovision, a California-based firm, is soon launching a fool-proof copy-protection system that would embed detailed information about the buyer into any movie they download, …
ENERGY MINE Let's assume you have nothing to do with the demand or supply of energy. But one morning you wake up and feel an urge to find out about the strategic importance of the port of Djibouti in West Africa to Eritrea. Suppose you get curious about the presence …
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS If you have been effectively treated for tuberculosis or an ear infection, you may have to try three or more antibiotics before you find one that works. What will be the fall-out of a nuclear attack? Are there any practical solutions to global warming? Do fuel-cell …
For Internet savvy farmers Few Indian farmers know the actual price and stock level of their produce in the market or mandi before they come to sell. Too many people, vested interests and the sheer spread of the markets makes it difficult for them to decide the right product mix …
Gloom and doom with a sense of humour is how this website describes itself, and it couldn't have been said better. Packed with interactive features, this is one web magazine that knows how to hold its readers and entice them to return. Games, an :sk Umbra' column, and interestingly, a …
The tenet group has set up n-Logue, specifically to provide telecom and Internet services to the small towns and villages. Do you think this makes business sense? Oh yes, it does! Our company
The world wide web has a huge resource of information available to tap. But precisely because of its size, it is also extremely hard to search for the relevant information. Now scientists have found that the web spontaneously organises itself into communities and a new search algorithm could speed up …
The diffusion of infotech happens at varying speeds at various levels. The speed at which the technology spreads its reach in an industrialised country is 243 times the speed at which it can impact a village in a developing country. R A Mashelkar, director-general of the Council of Scientific and …
Recent computer simulations have shown that the Internet is surprisingly robust on a global scale. This means that even if up to 99 per cent of its connection
with every passing day thousands of people set out on a quest for knowledge taking the Information Superhighway route. But an increasing number are having trouble staying off the net. After getting hooked on the Internet they are battling an addiction just as serious as those who compulsively shop, steal, …
march witnessed the end to a us $5 billion dream of connecting people across the globe. And the aftermath will be felt over the next couple of years. For, when Iridium
Imagine yourself enjoying the exhilaration of an African safari in the comforts of your living room. With a state-of-the-art Internet facility, it is now possible for animal lovers to view live the wild inmates of Africa's four famous natural reserves, including the Kruger National Park. To put it simply, a
for the netizens in India there is some great news. A new website on health has been launched as part of an Indo-Canadian project. The website, www.galaxyofhealth.com , is being spearheaded in India by Vikram Sharma. A Canadian software solutions company will provide the infrastructure. The idea behind the project …
About fixing the Y2K bug Is the millennial fever too much for you to resist? Are you already imagining all the havoc that the Y2K bug will cause to computer systems across the world? Also, do the spiritual aspects of the turn of the millennium arouse your interest? You can …
this was the message received by hundreds of thousands of e-mail users across the world on Friday, March 26. It had come with the subject "Important message from...' followed by the name of a familiar person, and contained a Microsoft Word document named "list.doc'. As soon as the document was …
Easy dissemination of information and global access are two of the Internet's key strengths. Ironically, these are also its biggest weaknesses. Anyone any corner of the globe can sneak into important government files and documents, and then do whatever they want with these. Hackers, as these Internet fiends are called, …
ORDINARY postal services, now commonly referred to as 'snail mail', took a back seat with the advent of electronic or e-mail. Users with e-mail facility prefer to by-pass the various irritating hurdles 'snail mail' is prone to with a single key-stroke on their computers. But in this age of faster-than-eye …
Stars on the Net The biggest cosmic event of the year, the meteor showers was not as impressive as most experts had us believe. A few meteors here, a few there and then it was over. But star gazers with a Net connection can still freak out, provided you hit …
