Full Coverage: Culture

22.12.2006 The Queeria Group promoted last Tuesday, December 20, the Friends:Prijatelji calendar, created as activist response to the violence and injustice to which the persons different from the socially dominant behavioural patterns are exposed.

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 The ACTIVE Local Youth Organization, working at the “Georgi Dimitrov” State Secondary School in Skopje, organizes the “High-School Open Theatre” manifestation. On Thursday, December 7, starting at 18:00 hours, theatrical plays, monologues, performances and musical plays will be staged at the “Georgi Dimitrov” high-school.

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 background note to the Indonesia Guide

04.12.2006 The Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) condemns the decision of the organizing committee of the New Festival of AuteurÂ’s Film to remove from its programme The Palace of the Sun, Lou YeÂ’s film in Chinese-French co-production.

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.