Full coverage: Knowledge

31.01.2006 The women of the Tistung village in Nepal have formed the Tistung WomenÂ’s Association, according to reports from a researcher, Mr.Ekaram Singh. The panel of women has been constituted with the objective of raising awareness among the locals on health, education and culture.

29.01.2006 Senior ministers of the Indian government told a group of international investors that India was committed to more reforms in the education sector to ensure that there was no shortage of skilled manpower to sustain an annual growth rate of over 8 per cent in the coming years

21.01.2006 Three critical developments in the nineties have shaped the on-going development discourse - the emergence of the knowledge economy and knowledge societies, formation of the WTO and ratification of the MDGs at the UN millennium summit. All the three initiatives were intended to strengthen the development agenda and improve the condition of the people who are still out of the development framework. Today if we gauge the progress of these three initiatives the result varies-this view was express by Dr.Nilay Ranjan and Dr.B.Shadrach of Oneworld south Asia in a paper presented at Hong Kong.

19.01.2006 The Annual Status of Education Report was conceived by an educational NGO as a citizenÂ’s audit when it embarked on its survey of 9,252 rural schools in 28 states, with villages chosen at random. The purpose was to understand how rural populations viewed existing facilities and infrastructure and whether these were being efficiently used.

13.01.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) organised a participatory knowledge management workshop with the one hundred fourty five newly inducted fellows of the Jamsetji Tata National Virtual Academy (NVA) on Jan 3-4, 2006 at Hyderabad. The workshop was to fecilitate knowledge exchange between grassroots workers and experts.

10.01.2006 Nasscom president Kiran Karnik called upon the government to accord the same status and importance to higher education as is being given to primary education.Suggesting ways to do so, Mr Karnik said a national mission on higher education could be set up as the National Literacy Mission.

09.01.2006 Speakers at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas have favoured use of knowledge, expertise and skills of Indians living abroad for a meaningful and mutually beneficial contribution to the development of India through information and communication technologies (ICT).

09.01.2006 The Andhra Pradesh Government seeks to leverage the knowledge resources of the overseas Indian community in State-level projects in the social sector through a proposed Diaspora Knowledge Network.

08.01.2006 'WomenÂ’s representation in local government is creating a politics of presence, concludes an evaluation report of the project for associating elected women representatives in the southern states of India. The project aims to strengthen the collective assertion of political power by women; to bring in, with greater effectiveness, the concerns and ideas of women into governance' writes L.C.Jain in the Asian Age.

05.01.2006

05.01.2006 Singapore's National Library through its portal and its digital library has extended access to its more than 500,000 e-books to book lovers all over the world.

05.01.2006 In the six-day long international "Katha Asia International Utsav" starting from Friday, internationally acclaimed writers, activists, academics, translators and scholars will speak on "Writing the City. Transforming the City." Students, teachers and housewives would participate in the story-telling and open discussions

04.01.2006 The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Textile Management is organising a national conference on "Digital Libraries: from Technology to Culture" on January 7, 2006.