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The UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development hosted by the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) is pleased to announce that the third International Conference on Technologies for Development: What is Essential? will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on 4-6 June 2014. The conference – held in English – will offer a high...
African Heads of States and Governments gather in Addis Ababa for the 14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union at a time when the continent faces a huge digital divide. African women are disproportionately affected by this divide.
The Summit's theme “Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development” is...
Mass Media in Bhutan primarily refers to the radio, Kuensel (the national newspaper), cinema halls, television and Internet. These are the main media disseminating information and serving as sources of entertainment. Although different forms of media were introduced since the launching of socio-economic development in the 1960s, television and Internet services were introduced only in June...
In April 2004, Mountain Forum staff and other stakeholders from around the world congregated in Kathmandu for a Strategic Planning Workshop. Through this workshop and he global survey carried out earlier, the task was to define the direction that MF should take in the future.
One of the main issues to come up was that MF must reach out to the grassroots more effectively. A key reason for...
The Tansen Community Multimedia Center (CMC) initiative is part of a regional innovation and research project initiated by UNESCO to study the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for poverty reduction. The project is looking for ways in which ICTs can be used to empower and strengthen the voices of the poor.
Community multimedia centres are an extension...
The Mountain and Plains Spatio-Temporal Database Informatics Initiative (MaPSTeDI) is a collaborative effort between the University of Colorado Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and Denver Botanic Gardens to convert their separate collections into one distributed biodiversity database and research toolkit using online mapping applications. The three participating museums are all...
The Mountain Forum was created a decade ago, in 1997, as the result of the Rio Earth Summit. It was set up as a unique global network for information exchange, mutual support and advocacy of equitable and ecologically sustainable mountain development and conservation. Since its inception, it has become a network or networks for sustainable mountain development.
Studies reveal that the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) makes up 2% of all global emissions - the same amount as the airline industry. By 2012, 4.5 billion people will have access to a mobile phone - the majority will be those live on less than USD 2 a day and be the most likely to be affected by climate change. Planting the Knowledge Seed - Adapting to climate change...
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