As the online Forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev list who have been proposing examples of application they were aware of. Let’s see what’s new around the table:
mDevelopment
Launched in the late [...]
The IAALD-AFITA-WCCA Conference in August 2008 in Japan highlighted the importance of mobile communication to bridge the digital divide. In the final declaration about “Theme 1″ of the conference – Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas – one of the panel prediction was:
“mobile phones will be used as workstations and effective Web2.0 platforms“
I totally agree with [...]
A strong image won the 2008 World Press Photo. It was shot in Iraq by the British photographer Tim Hetherington for Vanity Fair.
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Mongolia is a very interesting country. Both on the geographical and the social point of view. Human relationships are so important there that everything relays on mutual support. Why?
Here is my explanation. The country is huge, more than 1.5 million square km (five times Italy and almost half of West Europe) while the population is [...]
International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October
Free Burma! International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without [...]
It is time to use the power of the web to sustain who is fighting a very difficult situation: Myanmar is dealing with repression from the dictatorship.
I strongly invite everyone who is reading this post to read blogs from Myanmar, watch videos on youtube, forward this call to friends. Let us orient the Internet traffic [...]
Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕) is 22 years old and lives in Beijing, China. Her husband, Hu Jia, works to uphold the human rights of Chinese AIDS patients. Unfortunately the local authorities do not accept his need for freedom and react arresting and keeping him in jail for long time.
Zeng does not accept this discrimination and decided [...]
Here is the 2007 World Press Photo winning image. It was shot by Spencer Platt of Getty Images.
Any comment?
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My friend Claudia is living in Ramallah where the situation is really difficult. She wrote me: “There is now a danish artist working in Ramallah, and his one minute film on the rush hour in Ramallah is a jewel. Really do check it out at: http://www.mystictruths.net/day7.html“
Look at these two kids playing http://www.mystictruths.net/day17.html These images and [...]
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, founded in 1976 by Yunus, won the Nobel Prize for Peace “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”.
From the Nobel Prize website.
As announced some months ago, the new IMARK e-learning module about “Building online communities and networks” has been released. It is free and open to everyone who wants to learn more about how to create an online community.
Now it has been rated by the Asian Development Bank Institute and comments are VERY positive! The module [...]
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