capacity building

30.08.2005 Nigerian techies are developing the Solo, a computer that can withstand the dust, heat, and unreliable power supply common in their part of the world, and hoping the tropicalised PCs can connect greatly underserved Nigerians in rural areas with the rest of the country and the world.

26.08.2005 Four doctors and a technician from Afghanistan are in the south Indian metro of Chennai getting training on telemedicine to enable them to reach out to ailing Afghans in rural and farflung areas. The doctors say that there are no facilities to reach out to those in rural areas or to get in touch with specialists in other countries.

26.08.2005 UNESCO Bangkok's Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit hosted and trained officials from the Nepal Ministry of Education (MoE) as part of the Flash Report Method on conducting annual school census at the AIMS office, UNESCO Bangkok.

25.08.2005 In cooperation with the "Universidade de la Republica Oriental de Uruguay”, UNESCO Montevideo and the National Library of Uruguay will organise in Montevideo, Uruguay from 29 August - 2 September 2005, a training course for MERCOSUR countries on the creation of digital libraries.

22.08.2005 Quand, dès l'âge de la maternelle, des enfants s’assoient pour la première fois devant un ordinateur équipé d’un logiciel en kiché, leur langue maternelle maya, les leçons dépassent de loin la maîtrise de connaissances élémentaires en informatique. Les élèves apprennent que leur langue et leur culture autochtones occupent une place essentielle dans leur société.

01.08.2005 Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has employed such technologies that there is complete computerisation of all its activities in the operation stage.