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11.02.2008 UNDP tukee muun muassa Kongon peruspalveluiden parantamista ja paikallishallinnon kehittämistä neljän seuraavan vuoden aikana noin 390 miljoonalla dollarilla eli 270 miljoonalla eurolla. Tavoitteena on "löytää pysyviä ratkaisuja haasteisiin, jotka vuosikymmeniä jatkunut kriisi on aiheuttanut", sanoo UNDP:n Kongon-maajohtaja.

11.02.2008 Jakarta, SatuDunia. Menurut perkiraan Departemen Kesehatan, hingga akhir 2007 lalu, terdapat kurang lebih 7.000 wanita positif HIV/AIDS, dan berpotensi menularkan penyakitnya kepada bayi-bayi mereka. Potensi penularan tersebut sungguh memprihatinkan dan memerlukan penanganan serius semua pihak.

11.02.2008 Jangan terkecoh pada beberapa upaya korporasi perusak lingkungan yang dengan tidak segan-segan mengeluarkan banyak dana lewat jasa ‘manis’ Public Relations mampu menyulap diri jadi Pecinta Lingkungan. Dibalik semuanya, itu hanyalah media taktik efektif mereka dari usaha pencucian dosa-dosa lingkungannya terhadap publik.

11.02.2008 Semula banyak pihak yang berharap COP 13 mampu memberikan arahan bahkan mandat bagi muculnya solusi persoalan perubahan iklim yang lebih adil antara negara-negara maju dengan negara berkembang. Namun nampaknya harapan itu gagal diwujudkan.

11.02.2008 Hari ini (11/2) rencananya, koalisi masyarakat sipil akan 'menyerbu' kantor ADB di Jakarta. Aksi itu dilakukan untuk menentang pembahasan draft Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) ADB pada tanggal 12-13 Februari 2008. Selama ini proyek utang ADB dinilai justru memiskinkan masyarakat dan merusak lingkungan hidup.

11.02.2008 IMF and World Bank Program Failed at Africa. That fact is signal for Indonesia and other third world to against IMF and World Bank Program.

08.02.2008 Diperlukan keberpihakan pemerintah kepada kaum petani di Bali agar mereka dapat ikut bermain di wilayah pariwisata yang menjadi urat nadi perekonomian Bali. Mestinya pemerintah memfasilitasi para petani agar bisa mengakses kebutuhan pangan ke pasar pariwisata. Kalau ini bisa dilakukan maka diyakini petani akan lebih sejahtera.

07.02.2008 Maailmanpankin uudeksi pääekonomistiksi valittu kiinalainen Justin Yifu Lin on erikoistunut kehittyvien maiden talouteen ja maaseudun kehityskysymyksiin. Hänen toivotaan paitsi tuovan Maailmanpankkiin ymmärrystä kehitysmaiden maaseudun ongelmista myös syventävän pankin yhteistyötä Kiinan kanssa.

07.02.2008 The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was the largest single event in international debate on information and communications technologies (ICTs) during the past ten years. It absorbed a great deal of the time and resources of international organisations, governments, civil society organisations and businesses over a four-year period (2001 to 2005). It produced four documents setting out aspirations for the information society. It provided a framework for international discussion of infrastructure finance and internet governance. But it received only limited public attention and failed to bridge the paradigm gap between the worlds of information technology and international development. Sixteen months after it ended, its impact – on all parties – seems to be receding as technology and policy debate move on to meet new challenges.

07.02.2008 The main objective of the project is to enable rural women entrepreneurs and women organizations that promote enterprise development to explore ways and means of exploiting ICTs for community economic empowerment.

Vision is a woman who is economically empowered and able to access and apply ICT’s to promote her enterprise. The focus of the project is on building capacity of grass root women to access and utilize ICTs for enterprise development.

07.02.2008 Today,we have to describe events elsewhere because as all too often happens, key decisions that will affect the continent are happening elsewhere. Unless something fairly radical happens in the next 12-18 months, the development of mobile content revenues on the continent will be shaped by the “hand-me-down” attitudes and technologies of other

07.02.2008 Oggi, 6 febbraio, è stata inaugurata a Roma la nuova sede per l'Europa della Campagna del Millennio dell'Onu. Dopo l'apertura delle sedi regionali per l'Africa e per l'Asia, anche in Europa si apre la sede che avrà il compito di rilanciare la strategia europea per il raggiungimento degli Obiettivi del Millennio. "L'Italia è uno dei paesi G7 e G8, uno dei fondatori dell'Unione Europea eppure rimane uno fra gli ultimi paesi europei in materia di politiche di sviluppo" - sottolinea la direttrice della nuova sede, Marina Ponti. "La Campagna europea è partita dall'Italia nel 2003 ed ora torna a Roma per sostenere i partner italiani in un momento di difficoltà politica che rischia di ritardare ancora di più il rispetto degli impegni presi dall'Italia per combattere la povertà".

06.02.2008 Just as mobile markets in Africa seemed to be consolidating and the price for new entrants was going off the scale, a new wave of competition is breaking. Africa’s two newest mobile operators – HITS and Warid Telecom – are both concentrating on what analysts would call the “low cards in the pack” in order to get a foothold before tackling larger territories. Both come from re-invested oil money earned in the Gulf and have ambitions to play on a larger stage

06.02.2008 InternetNews provides real-time news updated throughout the business day, covering IT issues and Internet-related technologies, Internet trends, browser statistics, e-commerce statistics, advertising statistics, demographics and surveys.

06.02.2008 Krisis pangan adalah masalah klasik bangsa ini, sebuah ironi bagi negara agraris yang tanahnya subur dan gemah ripah loh jinawi. Kebutuhan pangan Indonesia telah tergantung pada impor. Untuk itu, satu cara yang harus dilakukan, kedaulatan pangan adalah jalan keluar krisis pangan di Indonesia.

05.02.2008 During the course of the last 15 years, information and communications technology (ICT) indicators have become increasingly popularised and prominent in mainstream discourses. In the advocacy arena, indicators provide the groundwork for effective lobbying and policy-making at different levels of mobilisation. To address inequalities in access to ICTs – what is commonly referred to as the “digital divide” – it is essential to identify where there are inequalities, and how exclusion is manifested, in order to specifically target solutions.

05.02.2008 Changing an economy through introducing ICT is akin to trying to set up a whole row of spinning plates. Without infrastructure, you can’t get media, services and applications. Without media, services and applications, you can’t get critical mass. Without critical mass, there’s no-one to e-mail or exchange videos with, so why bother? And that’s before you get on to all the “nice things” that might happen if African governments delivered their services better.

05.02.2008 Pathways to Green Publishing, an event organised by the Delhi based Tata Energy and Research Institute on April 5, 2008, invites stakeholders to a dialogue on sustainable publishing practices. The conference aims at find innovative solutions to the environmental hazards that are linked with the printing, paper and printing industry in India.

05.02.2008 Kenttäkokeet niin sanotulla kultaisella riisillä aloitetaan tänä vuonna Filippiineillä, kertoo Kansainvälinen riisintutkimusinstituutti IRRI. Kultainen riisi pyritään saamaan viljelyyn viimeistään vuonna 2011.

05.02.2008 Tyttöjen ja naisten koulutuksen ja hyvinvoinnin asettaminen etusijalle on sekä taloudellisesti että sosiaalisesti kannattavaa, kertoo tuore raportti.