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Small nation, big effort1
08-02-2010 Small is no obstacle to do big things. Cook Islands is the first small developing country to create a comprehensive multimedia biodiversity database that helps educate its public about the socially or biologically significant species in the country.
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Image Credits: Image credits: ICT Update / A multimedia database records the biodiversity of the Cook Islands
NEWS
05-02-2010 Voxiva, a global health service provider has developed a new technology that allows patients to access information free and live healthier lives. The text4baby is designed to improve maternal and child health by sending timely and relevant health information directly to mothers' personal mobile phones.
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»  India's public-sector broadcasting to be fully digitised

»  Usual computer lessons in an unusual place
COMMENTS
05-02-2010 New technology and better communications will help innovation to drive development, and arrive at common solutions to common problems, say Gordon Conway and Jeff Waage.
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»  Tapping a billion plus people

 »  Real world contentions spill on to the net
FEATURED RESOURCE
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28-01-2010 GeSCI’s publication Building a Knowledge Society for All points out that while transition to knowledge-based economies is progressing, the gap between developing and developed countries is widening. It highlights that adequate information and communication infrastructure and the proper employment of ICTs in education can help to tackle challenges.
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Image Credits: GESCI/ Building a knowledge soceity for all
 
EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
» PhD/DBA in Development Informatics
Course Announcement
» Child rights programme
Online course,  June 1, 2010
» Towards energy efficient society
Conference and other events, Brussels,  February 23-24, 2010
 
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