Full Coverage: Capacity building

29.07.2005 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Italian government on Thursday signed an agreement in Maputo, that establishes mechanisms of multilateral financing for a project to develop Mozambican human resources in the sphere of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

26.07.2005 A toolkit to help policy makers and senior executives in developing countries on how and when to start successfully e-government projects was recently published by UNESCO and IndiaÂ’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) as a contribution to promote transparency in public administrations and democratic processes.

22.07.2005 In an attempt to tackle the problem of poverty and increase their technical knowledge base, the Rwandan government will focus on developing its Information and communications technologies (ICTs) capacity.

21.07.2005 The National Convention of Professional Development Workers is taking place in New Delhi in India on 29-30 October 2005. Development professionals will debate and discuss issues like globalisation, poverty and human rights at the convention.

20.07.2005 Computer Aid International is donating computers from developed countries to developing countries, from London for example, to various states in Africa are used to provide education and other facilities to the people who otherwise cannot afford a computer.

20.07.2005 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO)country office in Africa expressed its support to the ongoing capacity building endeavours of the country.

20.07.2005 Our Media is a network of over 400 activists, media persons, researchers who work on strengthening the media and information/communication technologies (ICT's) that support social justice, human rights, community autonomy and grassroots empowerment. The last date for entries/proposals is August 31, for its international meet to be held in Bangalore on 5-9 December.

20.07.2005 The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) will be co-hosting a conference in Alexandria, Egypt, from 10 to 11 November 2005 that will showcase the important contributions libraries make in the information society.

20.07.2005 he Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Arjun Singh launched a portal on a wide range of educational supports such as scholarships, fellowships, freeships and educational loans etc. here today. The portal www.educationsupport.nic.in will serve as a ready reference/single window source of information relating to scholarships etc. available in India.

19.07.2005 Il existe deux faits saisissants au sujet des universités africaines et de la largeur de bande. Le premier est que l’université moyenne en Afrique possède la même largeur de bande globale qu’un simple utilisateur de l’Amérique du Nord ou de l’Europe. Le deuxième est que l’université africaine moyenne paie 50 fois plus pour cette largeur de bande que les universités d’Europe ou d’Amérique du Nord, qui jouissent d’une capacité beaucoup plus grande.

15.07.2005 Within the framework of its mandate to promote the preservation of cultural heritage, UNESCO, in collaboration with Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), the HEART Trust/NTA and the Institute for the Connectivity of the Americas, (ICA), will hold a 5-day regional workshop on the Digitization of Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries in Jamaica, July 18-22, 2005.

15.07.2005 Enterprises must learn in order to survive and grow. The success of organisations, says Etienne Wenger, “depends on their ability to design themselves as social learning systems” ...

08.07.2005 UNESCO sponsored international three-day symposium, opens today in Vienna, Austria. The conference focuses on the development of information design as a distinct profession and area of expertise.

06.07.2005 Under the auspices of its regional project “Local Self-Government and Decentralization in SEE”, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Skopje published "How to Improve Development at Local Level" Handbook.

04.07.2005 Lismas Julius, an IT Trainer at the Sengerema Community Multimedia Centre in Tanzania, one of the CMCs supported by UNESCO is giving communities in developing countries access to information and communication services.