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Access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) is expanding but the majority of people in developing countries are still excluded, says APC in a new book launched last week in the run-up to the first ever United Nations world conference on the information society. The book is available for free download, in English, Spanish and French (PDF format).
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From: Association for Progressive Communications
Related topics/regions: [Communication] [ICT] [Knowledge] [Civil society]
The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and OneWorld South Asia are organising a workshop to familiarise women journalists working in the field of environment and human rights with the utility of Internet-based technologies with a view to improving their skills.

Related topics/regions: [South Asia] [Capacity building] [Gender] [ICT] [Media]
A new educational website that will help high school students prepare for the vocabulary section of the new SAT exam, is developed.
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Related topics/regions: [Education] [Communication] [ICT]
Newsletter of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign, an international organisation of groups working for cyber-liberties, who are determined to preserve civil liberties and human rights on the Internet.
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Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [ICT] [Internet]
Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software.
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This catalogue contains a range of resources in the form of books, CD-ROMs, online publications, websites and articles from e-journals that aim to provide teachers, senior school managers, curriculum developers and administrators with guidelines and strategies for integrating ICTs effectively into teaching and learning.
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From: UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Related topics/regions: [Education] [ICT] [Media]
The Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA) has developed a database of ICT projects in Latin America, providing information on over 300 projects. Significantly, it delivers content in the four spoken languages of the region.
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Related topics/regions: [South America] [Capacity building] [ICT]
This paper focuses on scalability, sustainability and collaboration aspects in building infokiosk or knowledge center, summarising viewpoints from an e-discussions, Video Conference and the Task Force Reports emerged out of the National Policy Makers’ Workshop held in July 2004 in New Delhi. This Workshop envisaged the launch of Mission 2007, a nation-wide movement facilitating the setting up of knowledge centers/ info kiosks in each of India’s 600,000 villages by the year 2007.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [Capacity building] [Poverty] [ICT] [Civil society]


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