Full coverage: Knowledge

28.02.2006 Projekti e-Riders është i dizajnuar që të fuqizojë kapacitetet e organizatave të shoqërisë civile në Maqedoni që të paraqesin porositë e tyre, të promovojnë pjesëmarrjen e qytetarëve në çështje publike, të krijojnë koalicione dhe të shërbejnë komunitetet e tyre më mirë.

26.02.2006 Education is an engine for the growth and progress of any society. It not only imparts knowledge and skills, and inculcates values, but is also responsible for building human capital which breeds, drives and sets technological innovation and economic growth.

26.02.2006 Educomp Solutions Ltd launched smart class programme .These digital classrooms are controlled by a knowledge centre set up in the school premises, which would serve as a repository of content. With a storage capacity of almost 106 gbs, the server will route the desired content to the respective classrooms through a campus-wide cable network. The teachers can use digital resources like graphics, animations, 3-D images and video clips extensively.

22.02.2006 World Intellectual Property Organization technical assistance is "thoroughly inadequate", the world's leading international consumers organisation said in a new report that demands "a wholesale review" of the organisation's advice to developing countries.

16.02.2006 Students from NYC discuss their reactions to last month's State of the Union speech. Find out how they feel about America's future and what they think about immigration, foreign policy, free market failures and, of course, education.

14.02.2006 If Kerala is to succeed in raising its standards of education to global levels, the State's general education system should be ICT-enabled as soon as possible, says Director of the State Institute of Education Technology (SIET) Babu Sebastian.

10.02.2006 Finance minister P Chidambaram allocated Rs 22,268 crore for the ministry of human resource development in Budget 2005-06, with the bulk of the money, Rs 12,536.53 crore going to the department of elementary education and literacy.

10.02.2006 The Second Gyanmela (Knowledge Fair) took over through enthusiasm and spontaneous participation in Sreefoltola, a remote village at the Southern part of Bangladesh, where in altogether twelve schools from various villages of Rampal participated through puting up stalls that could successfully uphold their knowledge and skill in using the ICTs

07.02.2006 It is time to face up to the fact that achievement of the MDGs can only result if gender equality is achieved. In India, several years of persistent efforts by various stakeholders has failed to yield appreciable results in any area of women’s lives. Data shows that discrimination against women remains the reality in different aspects of women’s lives – and even progress in the limited indicators in the MDGs reflect these disparities. What is the road ahead?

06.02.2006 When noted social activist Anna Hazrae came visiting to Agra for inaugurating the Fifth Annual Regional meeting of OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) on 23- 24 January, 250 strong audience from the South Asian region at the Jaypee hotel couldn’t contain their excitement. As they say this grand old man of India rarely comes visiting. And when he speaks he has a plethora of issues to address to. OWSA’s Annual Regional meeting gave him such a platform where he applauded OWSA’s initiative of bringing people’s voices from the South Asian Region.

06.02.2006 Quality of education, quotas for weaker communities and illogical college fees were debated at a session on `Access and social justice in higher education' held as part of the International Education Meet (IEM). P.V. Indiresan, former director, Indian Institute of Technology-Chennai, said that in his long innings at that institution, where some of the best young brains in the country enrolled, he could not find any correlation between caste and genius.

02.02.2006 La Asociación Nacional de Empleados Públicos (ANEP) acusó este jueves a la "oligarquía arista" de desatar una campaña de "amenazas, chantaje y coacción" para intentar acallar al arzobispo de San José, monseñor Hugo Barrantes, que ha denunciado que Costa Rica ha sido secuestrada por una clase económica y política "poderosísima", que emprendió el camino del neoliberalismo.

01.02.2006 La sixième édition du Forum Social Mondial (FSM) a déjà commencé. La lancée s'est donnée à Bamako, au Mali, le 19 janvier. Cette fois-ci, le FSM est polycentrique et décentralisé, et il sera effectué dans trois villes de différents continents : Bamako (Mali/Afrique), Caracas (Vénézuéla/Amériques) et Karachi (Pakistan/Asie).