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Wednesday | 23 May 2012

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‘Smart Rickshaw’ mobile app wins innovation prize

18-05-2012 India’s Aadhar Bhalinge is the winner of m2Work, a World Bank-sponsored online challenge seeking the best ideas for spurring the job-creation potential of mobile phones.
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Related topics: [Innovations] [Mobiles] [Economy]

» Supporting food security through remote sensing technology

» Climate Smart Agriculture Learning Platform launched for South Asia

COMMENTS

Internet governance must ensure access for everyone

21-05-2012 With the Internet becoming such a powerful medium through which individuals exercise a range of human rights, it is crucial to address who and what shapes the Internet today, says United Nations Special Rapporteur on cultural rights, Farida Shaheed.
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Related topics: [Policy] [Information] [Internet Governance] [Access to knowledge]

» The Promise of Social Media for Humanitarian Action?

» Apple: Think Different about your dirty energy

SPOTLIGHT

Burkina Faso's rural women empower themselves with radio

08-05-2012 Thanks to radio debates, women in rural Burkina Faso are, for the first time, getting a more active role to play in their community. more...

Related topics: [Community Radio] [Capacity building] [Gender]

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50 years of Information Technology

15-05-2012 This brief roundup by Online IT Degree presents a timeline of information technology’s development and influence from the 1950s. It demands that the reader keep an open mind about what defines “information technology,” which today includes everything from video games to smartphones to the Internet.
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