Minja Yang, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office and Representative to India articulates all the fine points in an exclusive chat with Rumi Mallick of Digital Learning.
[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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UNESCO will launch an international community of practice on local e-Government through its ‘Information for All Programme’.
On 14 July 2006, at International Telecommunication Union Headquarters in Geneva, under the chairmanship of ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi, with the launch of the United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS), the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gathered momentum.
The UNESCO has expressed willingness to support the IT dissemination project of the State of Kerala in India, ‘Akshaya’, which is focusing on women empowerment.
China wants to give a big boost to its education sector with the help of Information and Communication Technologies -based (ICTs) distance education and e-Learning.
[This article was published in the June 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Culture is a core part of our identities as human beings, connected to our mother tongues, to our families and kinship, to our links to our ancestors. It binds us together with those whom we recognise as
An online forum, AGORA to support women’s contribution towards scientific progress has been launched by UNESCO and cosmetics company L’Oreal.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based electronic publishing initiative which aims at providing free, searchable, access to course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
The common knowledge that Microsoft is “a PC running windows” being particularly viewed in developing countries is grossly erroneous and completely out of place. However, the perception of Microsoft varies from country to country in terms of what it does. “We are the only real player that has very strong desktop presence and a very strong server presence,” concurs Peter Moore, Managing Director, Public Sector, Microsoft
