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).
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.
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.
Martus, created by the non-profit technology company, Benetech, is a free, accessible, open source social justice and human rights monitoring software.
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.
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.
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 Indias 600,000 villages by the year 2007.