Events
We would like to invite our learned and esteemed partners to actively participate in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regional e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD), scheduled from 4th till 24th April 2011. The e-discussion is a preliminary brainstorming session for preparing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan status report on challenges and opportunities faced by the region in promoting...
With great pleasure and expectations, we would like to invite our learned and esteemed partners to actively participate in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regional e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD), scheduled from 4th till 24th April 2011. The e-discussion is a preliminary brainstorming session for preparing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan status report on challenges and opportunities faced...
The aim of June 2nd Day is to make all the people involved in tourism industry sensitive about the concept of Responsible Tourism. The first edition has been organised on June 2nd 2007 under the theme: "No to Sexual Tourism, borderless crimes".
This first edition was also organised in different countries in the world: Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal & Niger.
International...
DiploFoundation is pleased to invite officials and professionals from the ACP (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific) Group of States to register for a training workshop on Internet Governance (IG) issues and information and communication technology (ICT) policies in national, regional and international processes.
This training workshop will give participants an overview of the multidisciplinary field of IG (...
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22...
The e-Bario Knowledge Fair is a regular conference, held in Bario, Malaysia, that showcases the use of ICTs for rural development and is conducted in conjunction with the local community, bringing together researchers, practitioners and policy makers with the residents of Bario and the wider Kelabit ethnic community.
The course aims at enhancing the capacity of local decision-makers and sanitation professionals to make the most enlightened decisions and investments in the area of urban sanitation. It provides analytical tools to understand the financial and institutional framework of the sanitation sector, taking into account the needs of urban poor communities.
Content and Structure:
Module 1: Introduction...
Indigenous knowledge systems differ, fundamentally, from the knowledge systems that underlie technology development. Numerous initiatives aim to enable diverse remote communities to share their wisdom and practical know-how using conventional digital technologies but often overlook the very systems that these communities use to organize and make sense of the world. Further, many indigenous...
The 2011 ICREES Summer School will address the participatory methodologies available to social researchers to analyze environmental change, specifically in the fields of water, land and climate (common pool resources). The school will explore what methodological and conceptual tools can be used to integrate multidisciplinary research on complex social-ecological system.
This Summer School is...
This conference will focus on the use of space technologies for hydrologic disasters & climate change research. ICAST will raise awareness on the applications of space-borne sensors for hydro-meteorologic extremes, water resources management and climate change studies. This conference will improve international collaboration on scientific and technical research on emerging issues of the...