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UNESCO: International Centre for South-South Co-operation in Science, Technology and Innovation

Submitted by admin on Wed, 23/07/2008 - 04:24.

The International Centre for South-South Co-operation in Science, Technology and Innovation was inaugurated in Kuala Lumpur in May 2008. The centre functions under the auspices of UNESCO.

It facilitates the integration of a developmental approach into national science and technology and innovation policies, and provides policy advice. In parallel to organizing capacity-building and the exchange of experience and best practices, the centre conducts research and tackles specific problems in science, technology and innovation policy-making in developing countries.

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UNESCO: Telecentre.org joins UNESCO's Open Training Platform

Submitted by admin on Thu, 17/07/2008 - 11:03.

Telecentre.org is a community of people and organizations committed to increase the social and economic impact of telecentres around the world. It now joins the Open Training Platform (OTP), a UNESCO-powered hub to free and open learning for development. Both Telecentre.org and OTP are the Flagship Partnership Initiatives of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).

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IHT: Bringing Bangladesh into the Internet age

Submitted by admin on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 05:28.

In Bangladesh, where less than 1 percent of the population has Internet access and where the rare broadband connection is prohibitively expensive, bridging the digital divide may require new approaches.

A group of Bangladeshi expatriates think they have found one that could work - a plan to bring affordable Internet access to their homeland through a blend of high-end wireless technology and social entrepreneurship.

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Climate Action: EU to promote use of ICT in energy conservation

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/07/2008 - 04:03.

The European Commission announced Tuesday that it would promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy, starting with buildings, lighting and the power grid. “To meet Europe’s energy efficiency goals by 2020, we need a high-growth, low-carbon economy. Research and rapid take-up of innovative energy efficient ICT solutions will be crucial to lowering emissions across the whole economy,” said Viviane Reding, European Union (EU) commissioner for information society and media.

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Climate Action: ICT's smart answer to climate change

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/07/2008 - 03:54.

Earlier this month the Global eSustainability Initiative (GESI) and the non-profit organisation Climate Group published a report entitled 'SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age'. Presenting results from an analysis of the direct carbon footprint of the ICT sector, the report examines global emission reduction opportunities and strategies to overcome barriers hindering the full realisation of such.

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BBC News: Europe votes on anti-piracy laws

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 06:15.

Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels.

The powers are in a raft of laws that aim to harmonise the regulations governing Europe's telecom markets.

Other amendments added to the packet of laws allow governments to decide which software can be used on the web.

Campaigners say the laws trample on personal privacy and turn net suppliers into copyright enforcers.

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UNESCO: Open Training Platform evaluated

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 05:41.

After 15 months operating at the service of learning needs for development, UNESCO's Open Training Platform (OTP) has been visited 80 000 times, counts now over 2400 learning resources shared by 1700 members from 770 development stakeholders worldwide.

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APC: Of empty purses and tattered pockets: Stitching funding back into gender and ICT

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:13.

Thandiwe Mathenjwa, a 43 year-old single mother of 11 from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, opened up a discussion on financing for ICT at the UN in this year's session of the Commission on the Status of Women. She's part of a self-help, income generating group called Fancy Stitch, a supplier of artistic greeting cards, picture frames and clothing. Her voice, image, work and experience - her digital story - kept the policy and finance debate away from abstraction and rooted in women's realities.

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NY Times: Casting a Wider Net

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/07/2008 - 11:45.

Several leading lights of the Internet world believe that access to broadband is a civil right, like water, roads and sewage treatment, and have renewed their call for making such access a national priority. To further their goal, they have introduced a Web site, internetforeveryone.org.

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IHT: An exchange for broadband capacity?

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/07/2008 - 11:40.

There are exchanges where you can buy and sell stocks, futures, pork bellies, wine and even pollution allowances. Why not an exchange for the trading of digital bits and bytes?

"That is my dream," said Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency based in Geneva that sets international communications standards.

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