Full coverage: Capacity Building

31.07.2007 The fast-growing GeoWeb is helping people across the world by providing simple tools that allow people to draw on digital maps and annotate them with text, images, sound and videos, literally making anyone a mapmaker on the web.

31.07.2007 New Delhi based organisation Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), announces a five-day refresher workshop on how to use the environment to eradicate poverty in rural India, from 19-23 November, 2007 at the Anil Agarwal Green College New Delhi 110062, India.

31.07.2007 Indian state Gujarat, which lies on the west coast, is celebrating a successful school enrollment drive that started five years ago to ensure all children, especially girls, are enrolled in schools. Through community mobilisation in 18,000 Gujarat villages the initiative has met with sizeable success.

31.07.2007 The tribals of Ranchi, the capital of the east Indian state of Jharkhand are bringing out handwritten newspapers to highlight the problems faced by them and raise issues that are overlooked by major newspapers. Through newspapers they also try to create awareness among people about government welfare programmes.

30.07.2007 Former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam encourages the media to encompass a classical model of mass media and national development.

30.07.2007 CMS, a Delhi based research and advocacy organisation is coordinating a film festival on environment and wildlife documentaries – 4th CMS VATAVARAN- Environment and Wildlife Film Festival to promote space for environment issues in the public media. The festival is slated for from 12 to 16 September 2007 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

27.07.2007 South Asia Partnership International (SAPI) is organising the South Asian Regional Conference on Invisible Faces of Violence on Women in Politics: Breaking the Silence, from 18-20 September 2007 at Hotel Soaltee Crown Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal.

27.07.2007 South Asians in Media and Marketing Association (SAMMA) is the first national platform in the US that brings together South Asians working in the media and marketing sectors together on September 28-29, 2007 at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York City.

26.07.2007 WiMAX India 4th International Conference is going to be held on August 24, 2007 in New Delhi, India. The conference in its fourth year will provide a platform for business users and wireless industry suppliers to meet and focus on Innovations' in Wireless Communications.

26.07.2007 Indian Council of Medical Research is organising a 10-week training program on Bioethics at St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India from 20 August 2007 - 27 October 2007. The program will include a foundation course in bioethics, elective course in research ethics or clinical ethics, or ethics in social science research related to health.

26.07.2007 SIDAn tutkimuksen mukaan vajaa puolet Saharan eteläpuolisen Afrikan maista kohtaa heikkouksia matkapuhelinverkkojen kattavuudessa. Tilanteen kohtentamiseksi tutkimus ehdottaa muun muassa vapaata pääsyä infrastruktuuriin sekä operaattorin maantieteelliseen sijaintiin liittyvän lainsäädännön kehittämistä.

25.07.2007 Indian civil society The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation (NJKF) is inviting applications for the Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award. The Award seeks to recognize social entrepreneurs who are pragmatic visionaries and the winner will be announced in December at a ceremony coinciding with the India Economic Summit.

25.07.2007 Gagandeep Kaur, a freelance journalist reports on a first of its kind business school - Mann Deshi Udyogini - which has been formed by a rural women's cooperative bank in association with the HSBC Bank. The business school aims to empower rural women on managing small enterprises.

25.07.2007 The Gujarat-based Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Ministry for Panchayati Raj to monitor the implementation of the ministry's projects for strengthening grassroots organisations and for implementing self-governance.

24.07.2007 CanSupport is a Delhi based registered organisation that works on providing palliative care to cancer patients in collaboration with the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at AIIMS. For fundraising, they are staging a play by the noted actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Shah Pathak, 'DEAR LIAR', at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi on 11 August 2007.

24.07.2007 Panos South Asia will reward the 12 best Bangladeshi print and broadcast journalists who are eligible for cash prizes of BDT15,000 (about US$220) each, for investigative reporting on HIV and AIDS.

23.07.2007 With all the three existing landfills in the National Capital Territory of Delhi running out of capacity and the Delhi Government announcing new sites for fresh landfills, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), a nodal environmental body, said landfills were not a solution for the capital city's solid waste crisis.

23.07.2007 Indian development organisation Development Alternatives is holding a workshop on Participatory Livelihood Assessment Techniques in Madhya Pradesh , India on 13-15th September 2007.

23.07.2007 A washerman from the state of Jharkhand, central India, has been writing on local issues for the last twenty years. His efforts have resulted in a weekly handwritten newspaper, popular among its readers.

17.07.2007 Nandula Raghuram, a biologist at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) in India, is giving budding biotechnologists a solid foundation for a biotech career by providing them with a teaching laboratory that is low-cost.