Full Coverage: culture

28.09.2009 Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to get my vote for book of the year. The publishers have also taken trouble with old-fashioned virtues of design.

03.04.2008 DENVER/RAYBURN 2123 IN SECOND LIFE, Apr 2 (OneWorld) - U.S. lawmakers held the first-ever hearing simulcast in a 3D virtual world Tuesday, probing experts about the opportunities and dangers posed by new online communities.

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22.02.2008 Blogging, internet chat rooms and sites have become the safest ways for gay Africans and Arabs to meet, while keeping their identities secret. Caution is after all crucial as homosexual acts are illegal in most countries in Africa and the Middle East.

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18.12.2007 UNICEF along with Google and One Laptop per Child has recently launched “Our Stories” project. By sharing stories online, children of the world will be able to understand different countries, their cultures, religious traditions and languages.

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22.10.2007 Rare manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs will all be available online thanks to an agreement signed between UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. The World Digital Library will also aim to build digital library capabilities in developing countries.

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11.06.2007 International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) 2007 Conference will be held in Warsaw, Poland on 17-20 June 2007. The conference will have participation from dedicated academics and practitioners involved in innovation management as well as short paper presentations and workshops.

03.05.2007 Members of the UN Committee on Information at New York headquarters have supported the use of a wide menu of media technologies for clear and coherent convey of messages on development, peace and human rights to the people of the world.In fact, UN meetings can now be viewed live as webcasts anywhere in the world.

09.01.2007 Washington, D.C., December 11, 2006 – Tumaini Letu (Our Hope), a film about three women caring for children orphaned by AIDS, was named Best Short Documentary at the 2006 New York AIDS Film Festival. Produced by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), the festival aims to utilize visual media to prompt social action in the fight against AIDS.

15.12.2006 The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 is a new prize, launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Stockholm Challenge. It is designed as an integral part of the Stockholm Challenge 2008 and will open in four of the ordinary six ICT4D categories: Culture, Economic Development, Education and Public Administration. The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 opens on 1 January 2007 and will be accessible both from the Stockholm Challenge website and from the GKP portal.

15.12.2006 The World Social Forum (WSF) has come a long way from its modest origins in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001. In January 2007 Nairobi, Kenya, which will host the 7th edition of the WSF, will bring the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and others desend on the continent from across the world.

15.12.2006 A growing number of journalists are being imprisoned around the world for publishing their work on the Internet, with one in three cases made up of individuals whose work appeared primarily on the web or by e-mail, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found.

06.12.2006 Social Web? What's that? Sometimes Mimi likes to push the envelope, and to encourage her gentle readers to sit back and reflect on the latest advances in technology that are now - or soon will be - affecting African civil society. The social web, also called Web 2.0 by trendsetters, represents a new era of the Internet in which people no longer go on the web expecting to merely access information provided by others. Everyone can now comment on what they read, change it, rate it, and put up information of their own - all using new user-friendly web interfaces. Read more...

04.12.2006 A poverty-stricken tribal community that had migrated to Bangladesh centuries ago has found a voice through the innovative use of ICTs. Bangladesh NGO Youth Community Multimedia Centre (YCMC) that disseminates community-related information through cable network in Sitakund had an interesting experience with the Tripura tribal people in Bangladesh hills.

28.11.2006 The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has urged governments to take a new approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs) to reflect the needs, customs and views of indigenous communities in developing nations.