Full Coverage: Capacity building

30.09.2005 Indian technology students start Rural Information Kiosk in the north Indian village of Rajasthan which will assist villagers in accessing knowledge from the Internet. A student of Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Rakesh Anugula tells more about the initiative.

30.09.2005 New Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is holding a training programme on library, information management and documentation from Octoer 25 - 28 in New Delhi.

29.09.2005 Ethiopian and Swedish terminologists will cooperate through an agreement recently reached between the National Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ethiopia (NATIE) and the Swedish Centre for Terminology (TNC).

28.09.2005 Ruchika Negi of the Women's Feature Service finds that five community groups in the north Indian mountain villages of Garhwal and Kumaon are helping people to access government schemes, fight corruption and discuss their everyday problems via the community radio. These five groups are working to create knowledge network societies in remote villages, where both newspapers and television have no reach.

20.09.2005 Gujarat women who have been affected due to the withholding of funds by the state government have petitioned the government and urged it to release UN funds meant for rehabilitating women affected by the 2001 earthquake. The government had stopped funds to SEWA citing financial irregularities and many other allegations.

19.09.2005 Education in Uganda. AIDS in Kenya. Tsunami relief in Sri Lanka. Genocide in Sudan. Five high school students from the U.S. led projects around a single goal--fighting global poverty--and have been honored by NetAid. Read their stories.

14.09.2005 Tackling the problem of illetracy in Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh,the residential camp run by an Indian charity, the MV Foundation, and is designed to rehabilitate the lives of 200 girls who are former child labourers.

14.09.2005 Mark your calendars for the second annual Washington, D.C. Green Festival to be held September 24-25. An array of green events from theme workshops, more than 50 exciting and inspirational speakers, and 350 green business exhibitiors will provide attendees with fun and cool ways to march towards a greener economy.

13.09.2005 The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) has set up a community radio station - Apna Radio - which will broadcast local advertising and local non-political news.

13.09.2005 Changemakers, a global online community committed to finding the best solutions to pressing social problems, has launched their latest initiative--seeking market-based strategies that improve the lives of low-income individuals around the world.

09.09.2005 The Chinmaya Mission, Nagapattinam, has started "Chinmaya Jothi", a three-month free computer training course for the students of the tsunami-affected areas.

08.09.2005 Mrs Usharani - a knowledge worker of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) - from Embalam, which is a village in the south Indian state of Pondicherry, has bagged yet another award for her work in providing educational services to school drop outs as well as adults through the Adult Education programme in the region.

05.09.2005 Hundreds of U.S. teens across the country are organizing various 9-11-focused activities turning the fourth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center into a celebration of community caring. The events they've created are meant to support less fortunate groups in their communities and to show that young people care.