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Hunger Pains: Pakistan's Food Insecurity

Citizen’s Agenda for Africa’s Development

Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals

Summit on the Millennium Development Goals 2010

The Open Book of Social Innovation 1

Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?

Monitoring Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights through ILO Conventions

Innovative Farmer Advisory Systems Using ICT

Annual Energy Outlook 2010

Q&A Session: Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General, Tuiloma Neroni Slade: week of 2 August 2010

Global Research Report: Africa

Web 2.0 Wonders

New US Development Strategy

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'BRICI' countries to drive digital revolution: study

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"The Boston Consulting Group said more than 610 million people in the "BRICI" markets currently use the Internet regularly but that will grow to 1.2 billion by 2015 -- over three times more than the United States and Japan combined."Annual growth will be between nine to 20 percent, driven predominantly by young users who 'will form the digital-market eco-systems that will be in place for generations to come"', the US-based management consulting firm said."AFP via Google hosted news, September more...

Added by John Daly on September 05, 2010

e-Health in Peru: A Country Case Study

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"The rapid growth rate of mobile telephony could be a great opportunity for the deployment of mobile health applications, not only for health care workers but also for the general public. Under the current disease monitoring system, it can take up to one month (or more) for a notification from a remote area to reach the central level. A disease monitoring system used by the Navy leverages the already existing telephony infrastructure (fixed, mobile, or satellite) to increase the reach of its more...

Added by John Daly on September 02, 2010

ICT Update numéro 56, août 2010 : Irrigation

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D’après la FAO, l’irrigation peut quadrupler les rendements. L’installation d’un système d’arrosage fiable toute l’année permet aux paysans de récolter durant la saison sèche et de cultiver des variétés à forte valeur pour accroître leurs bénéfices et amortir leurs investissements. Vu le faible pourcentage d’exploitations irriguées dans les pays ACP, les TIC occupent une place essentielle dans la promotion, le développement et l’entretien des nouveaux systèmes d’irrigation.DANS CE NUMÉRO« Le more...

Added by Jim Dempsey on September 01, 2010

ICT Update magazine, new issue: Irrigation

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ICT Update issue 56, August 2010: IrrigationFigures from the FAO show that irrigation can increase crop yields by up to 400%. Developing a reliable system to water the land all year round gives farmers the chance to plant crops in the dry season, and grow high-value crops to increase profits and recoup investment costs. But with only a small percentage of available farmland being irrigated in ACP countries, ICTs are now becoming crucial to the promotion, development and maintenance of new more...

Added by Jim Dempsey on September 01, 2010

Report on EU Latin-America cooperation - Relevant aspects on the establishement of Latin-America Technology Platforms

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This report is a preliminary analysis on the potential of different Latin American countries to set up cooperation mechanisms (Latin American Technology Platforms) on Future Internet, ICT Components and systems on the basis of the experience gained in Europe through the European Technology Platforms.

Added by Zunia on August 30, 2010

"Social networks can warn of disease after disasters"

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A professional discipline called 'operational biosurveillance' has emerged over the past 12 years to address this need for rapid identification of communicable diseases entering populations, especially in post-disaster situations. The discipline harnesses the power of the Internet and social networking to monitor social indicators of infectious disease crises and issue early warnings. Praecipio International, has been at the forefront of operational biosurveillance across the globe — from more...

Added by John Daly on August 26, 2010

Gestion intégrée pour une agriculture durable : réduisons l’écart de connaissances

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Le Centre technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale ACP/UE (CTA) organise le séminaire annuel CTA 2010 sur le thème « Gestion intégrée pour une agriculture durable : réduisons l’écart de connaissances ». Ce séminaire international se tiendra à Pretoria, Afrique du Sud du 22 au 26 Novembre 2010. Pour plus d’information, consultez le lien vers le site du séminaire : http://annualseminar2010.cta.int. Il est maintenant possible de s’inscrire en ligne et l’appel à proposition est disponible sur more...

Added by André Vugayabagabo on August 05, 2010

Youth, Rural Development and ICT: ARDYIS Essay Contest Extended to 15 August 2010!

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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA), in collaboration with FARA, Yam-Pukri, CAFAN, AYF, ANAFE, PAFPNET, has recently launched an essay writing contest on “Youth and ICTs in Agriculture and Rural Development”. The deadline to apply is extended to 15 August 2010. The essay contest is open to young people aged 18 - 25 years old, from urban or rural areas of Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific countries. Win up to 1,500 Euros, make your voice heard and improve more...

Added by Ken L on July 26, 2010

ICT indicators database - mobile tariffs in Latin America and the Caribbean

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DIRSI is pleased to announce that its database of "Indicators of Affordability and Access to ICT in Latin America and the Caribbean" is now publicly available.By launching this tool we seek to make available information used by DIRSI researchers in their studies on ICT access in the region. Our goal is to provide useful quantitative information in a clear way to the various stakeholders in the field.This first series of data includes values for 13 indicators related to prices and markets of more...

Added by bruce girard on July 08, 2010

Young Researchers Fellowship in ICT policy

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DIRSI is inviting young Latin American researchers to submit applications to the Fourth edition of the Young Researcher Fellowships program. Three fellowships of US$6,000 are available to support research within the network's current themes: Bandwidth for All, Mobile Opportunities 2.0 and New Indicators on ICT Access and Use.Eligible applicants are young researchers (born in 1975 or after) conducting their academic activities in Latin America. Proposals must be submitted by 30 July 2010 and the more...

Added by bruce girard on July 08, 2010

ICT Update numéro 55, juin 2010 : Coopératives

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Le paysan qui adhère à une coopérative en tire de nombreux avantages. Le regroupement des récoltes permet de vendre en grosses quantités, d’exiger un meilleur prix et de se montrer plus ferme vis-à-vis de l’acheteur. La mise en commun des ressources permet aussi d’acheter des équipements hors de la portée dún paysan individuellement. Les coopératives investissent dans des machines de conditionnement ou de transformation, bien sûr, mais aussi et de plus en plus dans les technologies de more...

Added by Jim Dempsey on June 23, 2010

ICT Update Issue 55, June 2010: Cooperatives

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Working together in a cooperative has many advantages for farmers. Collating their harvested crops means they can sell in bulk, demand better prices and have greater bargaining powers with buyers. Pooling resources also creates the opportunity to buy expensive equipment, such as food-processing and packaging machinery. Many cooperatives now also invest in communications technology to help train farmers, find new markets, improve management processes and deliver information services to their more...

Added by Jim Dempsey on June 23, 2010

Call for Proposals: Impact 2.0: Collaborative technologies connecting research and policy

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Impact 2.0: Collaborative technologies connecting research and policy seeks to develop a body of knowledge about the use of Web 2.0 in policy-oriented research and design in Latin America and to identify, document and promote good practices and emerging opportunities related to the use of collaborative technologies for linking research to policy.In order to achieve this goal Impact 2.0 has two components. The first includes three pilot projects which seek to combine to combine current theory on more...

Added by bruce girard on June 10, 2010

Public policies for the information society: a shared vision?, by Massiel Guerra and Valeria Jordán (26 pages)

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For the region countries, to achieve public policies about information and communication technologies (ICT) has constituted a learning process that with more or less ups and downs continues until today. In order to understand how this development has occurred in the region, part one of this document starts by identifying the reasons why ICT have been made a public policy objective, as well as the main characteristics that distinguish ICT policies and the determinants of the progress in digital more...

Added by Programa Sociedad de la Información on June 08, 2010

Crisis Mapping and the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

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Since 2004, the US government has increased its emphasis on complex, civil-military operations. In addition to the changing nature of civil-military humanitarian response procedures, an adaptable and resilient volunteer force of technicians, social scientists, physicians and imagery specialists also has emerged along side the U.S. Government, bound together under a voluntary organizational structure called the International Network of Crisis Mappers. The “CM*Net” response to the 2010 Haiti more...

Added by Louelin Dwyer on June 04, 2010

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