Home
Ads by Google
23 Nov 09
The global gender gap report 2009
Through the ‘Global Gender Gap’ Reports, for the past four years, the World Economic Forum has been quantifying the magnitude of gender based disparities and tracking their progress over time. The aim is thus to achieve parity of participation and opportunity while facilitating diversity of thoughts, opinions and approaches. This Report will serve to highlight the countries that have made continued, often remarkable, progress over the last year in closing the distance to parity and will act as an urgent call for action towards the work that still needs to be done elsewhere to fully harness the skills and talents of one half of humanity.
How to present with Twitter and other backchannels
Presenting with Twitter can be challenging. Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere.
Olivia Mitchell has written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate. There’s no sign up required. Just click and read.
7 things you should know about Google Wave
Google Wave is a web-based application that represents a rethinking of electronic communication. Users create online spaces called “waves,” which include multiple discrete messages and components that constitute a running, conversational document. Users access waves through the web, resulting in a model of communication in which rather than sending separate copies of multiple messages to different people, the content resides in a single space. Wave offers a compelling platform for personal learning environments because it provides a single location for collecting information from diverse sources while accommodating a variety of formats, and it makes interactive coursework a possibility for nontechnical students. Wave challenges us to reevaluate how communication is done, stored, and shared between two or more people.
Schools kill creativity
An excellent talk from 2006 by Sir Ken Robinson.
Democracy in the Commonwealth: a report on democracy in the Commonwealth eighteen years after the adoption of the Harare Commonwealth Declaration
The Commonwealth must do more to promote democracy and get tough on autocratic regimes, even if that means publicly "shaming" some of its members, said a report to be presented to its political leaders on Monday.
Many Commonwealth governments fail to "encourage, or even countenance, open political competition" and instead use state apparatus to repress dissent, said the report, commissioned by the club's policy think-tank and an electoral reform group.
In September, the 53-nation Commonwealth suspended Fiji after the leaders of a 2006 coup failed to make steps to return the country to democracy -- a rare sanction from the group which generally uses back-door diplomacy to persuade members to behave.
This subtle approach meant it was easier for "wily autocrats manoeuvre to deflect demands for reform," said the report, written by democracy experts from Britain, Ghana and Pakistan.
The Commonwealth -- mostly made up of former British colonies -- should publish regular democracy "health checks" for each member state, inviting the judiciary, media and non-governmental groups to contribute, it recommended.
Rather than just acting against countries that have undergone coups or obviously rigged elections, the Commonwealth should speak out against regimes which are more subtle in their repression.
"The Commonwealth can play an important role in monitoring such processes and shaming those governments who fail to respect the association's basic political values," said the report.
Promoting democracy "should not be just one among a number of Commonwealth objectives," it said. "It must become, and be recognised as, the defining characteristic of the association."
Education for a Smarter Planet: The Future of Learning CIO Report on Enabling Technologies
This IBM® Redguide™ publication is a supplement to the Future of Learning: Executive Insights Report. It provides an in-depth investigation into three enabling technologies and provides actionable guidance to aid CIO strategic and investment planning efforts. Specifically it discusses the value and role of consumer IT, open technologies, and cloud computing in the future of education. In addition, this guide provides real-world examples of the how these technologies work.
Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), supported by a group of subject matter expert comprising representatives from Industries, Academia and Governmental Organizations, has conducted, in the context of the Emerging and Future Risk Framework project, an risks assessment on cloud computing business model and technologies. The result is an in-depth and independent analysis that outlines some of the information security benefits and key security risks of cloud computing. The report provide also a set of practical recommendations.
19 Nov 09
Video: Chrome OS For Dummies
Still not sure why Google is building its own operating system? It created this animated video to try to explain why the Web needs a new OS, and why that OS should be Chrome.
Global Information Society Watch 2009
The Global Information Society Watch report focuses on information and communications technologies and how they are being implemented in different countries across the world. The purpose of the report is to stimulate a collaborate approach to policy advocacy, and to create a common platform where disparate experiences can be shared. Ultimately, GISWatch hopes to impact on policy development processes in countries, regions, and at a global level.
The report includes several thematic reports covering areas such as intellectual property rights, knowledge rights, open standards and access to educational materials and libraries, as well as an institutional overview and a reflection on indicators that track access to information and knowledge. There is also an innovate section on visual mapping of global rights and political crises.
48 country reports analyse the status of access to online information and knowledge in countries as diverse as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Switzerland and Kazakhstan, while regional overviews (Africa, South Asia, European Union, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America) offer a bird’s eye perspective on regional trends.
18 Nov 09
The China-Africa Toolkit - South African Institute of International Affairs
In the run up to the fourth Forum on China Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) meeting in November, the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) has published the China-Africa Toolkit. The toolkit aims to enhance African policy-makers' understanding of their Chinese counterparts' perspectives, motives and methods. It provides selective data and analysis which can be used to inform particular decisions, and is supplemented with references to other relevant resources.
Taking OER remix to new levels: WikiEducator, Connexions and Mediawiki - WikiEducator
With generous funding support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is pleased to announce that we are able to take OER interoperability and remix potential to new levels.Collaborating with OER projects which subscribe to licenses which meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition, WE aim to provide educators with greater freedom of choice to mix and match the best of two OER worlds, namely "producer-consumer" models with more traditional work flow approaches and commons-based peer production. This is an exciting project to build import export capability between the Connexions and WikiEducator/Mediawiki platforms.
17 Nov 09
Offline online courses « Tony Bates
On 10 November, 2009, it announced that it will develop 40 courses over the next two years that will be delivered entirely via flash drives that contain similar structure and functionality to the college's typical 12-week, asynchronous online courses but without the need for a constant online connection. For these new courses, students will need an Internet connection only to submit assignments and participate in online discussions. The remainder of course work can be completed offline.
Copyright Watch | Global Transparency in Copyright Law
The details of copyright law used to be important for only a few in the creative industries. Now, with the growth of the Internet, we are all authors, publishers, and sharers of copyrighted works.\nOur dream was to build a user-friendly resource of national copyright laws to help citizens of the world undertake comparative research. We wanted to raise awareness of the importance of balanced copyright law in the information society, and draw attention to points of commonality and of difference in countries' laws and legal traditions. We also wanted to create an information sharing resource, where copyright watchers could post information about proposed amendments to their own copyright laws, and understand the changes in others.\nWe hope that Copyright Watch will be a resource maintained and driven by the Access to Knowledge community and that copyright monitors in each country will help to keep this information up to date and relevant.
16 Nov 09
Climate change in Africa
This book outlines current thinking and evidence on climate change, uses case studies to look at issues ranging from natural disasters to biofuels, and addresses what future there might be for Africa in a carbon-constrained world. Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact such change will have on Africa's development prospects. Global warming above the level of two degrees Celsius would be enormously damaging for poorer parts of the world, leading to crises with crops, livestock, water supplies and coastal areas. Within Africa, it's likely to be the continent's poorest people who are hit hardest. In this accessible and authoritative introduction to an often-overlooked aspect of the environment, Camilla Toulmin uses case studies to look at issues ranging from natural disasters to biofuels, and from conflict to the oil industry. Finally, the book addresses what future there might be for Africa in a carbon-constrained world.
Sponsored Links
Top Tags
- 209col,
- 130odl,
- 123web2,
- 123icts-in-education,
- 121oer,
- 119ict,
- 97higher-education,
- 96development,
- 83cellphones,
- 80copyright,
View All Recent Tags (28)
- 19col,
- 10higher-education,
- 9oer,
- 8odl,
- 7icts-in-education,
- 6ict,
- 5development,
- 5openaccess,
- 5food-security,
- 4education,
- 4climate-change,
- 4web2,
- 3twitter,
- 3copyright,
- 2ict-security,
- 2opencourseware,
- 2conference,
- 1gender,
- 1commonwealth,
- 1statistics,
- 1tvet,
- 1cellphones,
- 1teacher-education,
- 1LMS,
- 1it,
- 1health-education,
- 1monitoring&evaluation,
- 1media
Public Tags (93)
amy monaghan's Public Lists (4)
Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »
Join Diigo