Full coverage: Information & Media

30.01.2008 Salah satu isu ICT adalah isu finansial ekonomi, yaitu apakah suatu negara, atau komunitas diuntungkan oleh adopsi ICT? Atau apakah suatu bangsa makin miskin atau makin sejahtera, dengan ICT, dan bagaimana itu terjadi.

30.01.2008 Masih banyak CSO yang belum memanfaatkan teknologi informasi sebagai salah satu alat pendukung aktivitasnya. Entah karena belum mengenal teknologi informasi dengan baik, entah karena kondisi yang belum memungkinkan.

24.01.2008 Development Alternatives, an Indian NGO working to create sustainable livelihoods, is organising a training programme on Organisation Development from February 12-14 at TARAgram in Madhya Pradesh. The course aims to equip the civil society organisations with necessary skills for social action.

24.01.2008 A slowdown in economic growth could spur global unemployment by 5 million persons in 2008, with unemployment rates touching levels never seen before, predicts the International Labour Organization’s annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report. The report also notes South Asia as having the highest share of vulnerable jobs and workers without a voice at work.

23.01.2008 A Dalit-centric policy framework can help the disadvantaged community to have a greater say in local and national programmes and their implementation, says a report released this month by the people’s campaign Wada Na Todo Abhiyan.

17.01.2008 Kansalaisjournalismi kukkii Kenian virallisen median vaietessa. Kenialaiset aktivistit hyödyntävät tapahtumien raportointiin tehokkaasti sosiaalista verkkomediaa.

17.01.2008 A new video-telecommunications system jointly set up by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the US government in Afghanistan's capital Kabul has enabled over 600 prisoners currently held by US forces to be in regular contact with their relatives.

15.01.2008 A family-run newspaper in India gives marginalised women the opportunity to tell their own stories by making them reporters. Launched in 2003, Mahila Paksh was borne out of the need to focus on women’s concerns and help them get justice.

14.01.2008 The Harry Chapin Media Awards were created in 1982 to encourage the media to tell stories of hunger and poverty. These global awards recognise work on causes of economic poverty and forces leading to self-reliance of poor. The current deadline for submitting entries is February 1, 2008.

11.01.2008 Taking a critical look at the 2004 Tsunami and its lessons, Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book by TVE Asia Pacific explores how the public and citizen media and disaster managers can work in cohesion to help communities be better prepared for natural calamities.

11.01.2008 The Awards were organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD).

Aida Opoku-Mensah, Director of the ICT, Science and Technology Division of UNECA, who said that the AISI Media Awards were introduced in 2003 to encourage more informed coverage of the information society and ICT for development issues in Africa as part of UNECA's Information Society Outreach and Communication Programme, announced the winners of the eight award categories.

07.01.2008 Fare pace: odio
a cura di L. Kocci e L. Venturelli
Fondazione Venezia per la ricerca sulla pace
Altreconomia - Terre di Mezzo editore, 2007, pp. 200, €18

"Fare pace in un tempo in cui guerra e violenza sembrano essere sempre e dovunque". È quello che racconta e documenta l'Annuario geopolitico della pace - giunto alla sua settima edizione - mettendo sotto i riflettori tutto quello che la "grande informazione" lascia in ombra: 12 mesi di azioni di pace e fatti di guerra, i conflitti cancellati, i dopoguerra dimenticati, la pace tentata e realizzata, le violenze sulle donne, le questioni di genere, la corsa al riarmo, le campagne per il disarmo, la speranza della nonviolenza.

03.01.2008 Pune based Hemant Kanitkar was known for using puppets to spread social awareness in his state Maharashtra and other parts of India. His death, due to prolonged illness at a rather young age, has left a void that will be difficult to fill up.

02.01.2008 UNICEF Germany’s ‘Photo of the Year’ of a 40 year old groom with a child bride in Afghanistan raises global concerns about child marriages, widely condemned for their sexual abuse and violation of human rights. The bride in the photograph has just turned 11.