capacity building

30.09.2005 Indian technology students start Rural Information Kiosk in the north Indian village of Rajasthan which will assist villagers in accessing knowledge from the Internet. A student of Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Rakesh Anugula tells more about the initiative.

30.09.2005 New Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is holding a training programme on library, information management and documentation from Octoer 25 - 28 in New Delhi.

29.09.2005 Ethiopian and Swedish terminologists will cooperate through an agreement recently reached between the National Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ethiopia (NATIE) and the Swedish Centre for Terminology (TNC).

14.09.2005 Tackling the problem of illetracy in Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh,the residential camp run by an Indian charity, the MV Foundation, and is designed to rehabilitate the lives of 200 girls who are former child labourers.

09.09.2005 The Chinmaya Mission, Nagapattinam, has started "Chinmaya Jothi", a three-month free computer training course for the students of the tsunami-affected areas.

08.09.2005 Mrs Usharani - a knowledge worker of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) - from Embalam, which is a village in the south Indian state of Pondicherry, has bagged yet another award for her work in providing educational services to school drop outs as well as adults through the Adult Education programme in the region.