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Information Cleansing, Canadian Style

Since early July, Canada's government, under conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper - has been systematically scrubbing its websites of information regarding global warming and the Kyoto Protocol treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions, following the lead of the George W. Bush administration in the United States. (Bill Berkowitz, IPS, 16 August 2006)

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34363

(Added: Thu Aug 24 2006   Hits: 310)

"Educate a Woman, You Educate a Nation" - South Africa Aims to Improve its Education for Girls

Education in Africa for women has faced a hard tide with a history of conservative patriarchal customs that have caused tribal cultures to many times marginalize girls education, placing it at the bottom of the list. Traditions of early marriage, women focusing on family management and less access to the use of information from today's technology has created gender gaps in certain areas of Africa, especially the northern regions (WNN, 28 August 2007).

http://womennewsnetwork.net/2007/08/28/%e2%80%9ceducate-a-woman-you-educate-a-nation%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-south-africa-aims-to-improve-its-education-for-girls/

(Added: Tue Sep 04 2007   Hits: 167)

Case study on the Environmental Information Network of Ghana

The Environmental Information Network (EIN) Project of Ghana uses ICT to link the databases of two national environmental agencies. The database is publicly available for free use. Local and international researchers, government agencies and other environmental organisations can use its information to support decision-making, intervention strategies, and awareness campaigns about environmental protection, and they can also contribute to this knowledge pool.

http://www.bridges.org/iicd_casestudies/ein/index.html

(Added: Sat Mar 15 2003   Modified: Tue Sep 11 2007   Hits: 556)

Center for Indigenous Knowledge Systems, India

The centre carries out research, training programmes and production of educational material about Indigenous knowledge systems in India.

http://www.ciks.org/index.htm

(Added: Fri Oct 26 2007   Hits: 107)

Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Systems

This centre focuses on research, monitoring, documentation, and coordination of indigenous knowledge systems in Ghana. The Centre is based in Accra and has affiliates in the USA, and local communities in Ghana.

http://www.cfiks.org/

(Added: Fri Oct 26 2007   Hits: 95)

Civil society need not speak English

In Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, international donors found it difficult to find non-governmental organisations relevant to their purposes. Because donors were uncomfortable with the local conditions and regional traditions, they simply overlooked possible contacts. (Urs Geiser, Magazine for Development and Co-operation, August 2006)

http://www.inwent.org/E+Z/content/archive-eng/08-2006/foc_art3.html

(Added: Fri Dec 15 2006   Hits: 316)

Education for All by 2015: Will we make it?

This sixth edition of the EFA Global Monitoring Report assesses the extent to which the Millennium Development Goals in Education are being met (UNESCO, 2007).

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001547/154743e.pdf

(Added: Thu Jan 03 2008   Hits: 96)

Fishing with New Nets: Maori Internet Information Resources and Implications of the Internet for Ind

This paper surveys Internet information resources relating to the Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and examines issues that arise when indigenous peoples' culture is placed in a digital networked environment. By Alastair G. Smith, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

http://www.isoc.org/inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_1.HTM

(Added: Thu Jul 25 2002   Modified: Wed Oct 11 2006   Hits: 418)

Freedominfo.org

freedominfo.org is a one-stop portal for critical resources about freedom of information laws and movements around the world. The site describes best practices and lessons learned, compares campaign strategies, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates globally.

http://www.freedominfo.org/

(Added: Wed Sep 20 2006   Hits: 287)

How to write about Africa

A satire: "In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates." (Binyavanga Wainaina, Granta, January 2006)

http://www.granta.com/extracts/2615

(Added: Fri Sep 01 2006   Hits: 341)

On the one laptop per child movement

The one laptop per child project aims to make laptops widely available to children in developing countries. Is it utopianist folly, some form of western naive semi-colonial oppression, or in fact a radical political act? (Tom Coates, Plasticbag.org, 20/2/08)

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2008/02/on_the_olpc_movement/

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UNESCO Education for all Global Monitoring Report 2008

The world has made significant progress in recent years in enrolling more children in school, UNESCO says in a new report, but it adds that much more need to be done to meet the UN's ambitious Millennium Development Goal on education.

http://www.unesco.org/education/gmr2008/press/Full-report.pdf

(Added: Mon Dec 03 2007   Hits: 68)