Full Coverage: Capacity building

31.08.2005 China's plans to attract "overseas Chinese" researchers to help drive its scientific progress are being undermined by the "irresponsibility" of those being hired, a senior US-based Chinese mathematician has warned.

31.08.2005 Nigerian techies are developing the Solo, a computer that can withstand the dust, heat, and unreliable power supply common in their part of the world, and hoping the tropicalised PCs can connect greatly underserved Nigerians in rural areas with the rest of the country and the world.

26.08.2005 La lutte contre la pauvreté est l’un des cinq objectifs prioritaires du Fonds de justice sociale de l’AFPC (FJS). Il était donc tout naturel qu’il s’associe aux nombreux organismes qui pilotent la campagne mondiale « Abolissons la pauvreté », lancée en 2005.
Dans le cadre de cette campagne, le FJS financera une quinzaine de projets de lutte contre la pauvreté au Canada. Y a-t-il, dans votre milieu, des initiatives antipauvreté qui bénéficieraient du soutien du FJS? Si

26.08.2005 A rural bank in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, run by illiterate village women, has provided women with a stable livelihood, even during periods of drought. The village women negotiated with a national bank and convinced officials to initiate the bank for the women.

26.08.2005 Four doctors and a technician from Afghanistan are in the south Indian metro of Chennai getting training on telemedicine to enable them to reach out to ailing Afghans in rural and farflung areas. The doctors say that there are no facilities to reach out to those in rural areas or to get in touch with specialists in other countries.

26.08.2005 UNESCO Bangkok's Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit hosted and trained officials from the Nepal Ministry of Education (MoE) as part of the Flash Report Method on conducting annual school census at the AIMS office, UNESCO Bangkok.

25.08.2005 In cooperation with the "Universidade de la Republica Oriental de Uruguay”, UNESCO Montevideo and the National Library of Uruguay will organise in Montevideo, Uruguay from 29 August - 2 September 2005, a training course for MERCOSUR countries on the creation of digital libraries.

23.08.2005 The high levels of coordination and interdependence required in coalition groups often make people wary of joining them. In a series of articles, Advocacy Institute addresses the problems/or benefits of membership.

22.08.2005 Quand, dès l'âge de la maternelle, des enfants s’assoient pour la première fois devant un ordinateur équipé d’un logiciel en kiché, leur langue maternelle maya, les leçons dépassent de loin la maîtrise de connaissances élémentaires en informatique. Les élèves apprennent que leur langue et leur culture autochtones occupent une place essentielle dans leur société.

22.08.2005 Microsoft India and the Tamil Nadu government on Monday signed an MoU, under which the former will help set up an 'Information Technology academy' in the city to provide comprehensive training programme to nearly 20,000 teachers in the state for a period of five years.

11.08.2005 The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, is conducting a ten-week course - HIV/AIDS Counseling and Psychosocial Interventions – for people working in the field and those living with HIV/AIDS. The course begins on November 14, 2005 and ends on January 21, 2006. The last date for applications is August 30, 2005.

09.08.2005 Two documentary films on women and ICT that were produced in the framework of UNESCOÂ’s pilot project 'Putting ICT in the Hands of the Poor', are now available online. They examine the information needs of poverty stricken communities in South Asia, with a special focus on gender issues.

05.08.2005 First Equal is India's first online jobs site that caters exclusively to Dalits, the so-called lower classes, and provides them with information on private sector jobs. The site claims to target only the Dalit job-seekers and aims to promote voluntary affirmative action by the Indian corporates.

02.08.2005 Thousands of women in Eritrea lost their husbands during the two-year border war with Ethiopia that ended in 2000. Left as the sole breadwinners of their families, war widows in the small village of Abardae are tackling a role traditionally reserved for men in this deeply conservative society.

01.08.2005 Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has employed such technologies that there is complete computerisation of all its activities in the operation stage.

01.08.2005 The Indian President Dr.Abdul Kalam’s expressed his views on gender mainstreaming in the Police at the 2nd National Conference for Women in Police 2005, at Mussoorie, on July 27, 2005. The theme for his address was “Police – Can it evolve a secure and harmonious society?” The text of the address follows...