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The Internet and Rural & Agricultural Development:

 

An Integrated Approach

Recently, telecentre.org launched the 'Mission to Movement', a coffee table book to depict the work of Grameen Gyan Abhiyan (ealier known as Mission 2007) in India. The book has 4Ms, namely, Mission 2007: Concept and formula, Multi-stakeholders approach, M S Swaminathan and Mission to Movement. The book also enumerates ten (10) step to replicate Mission in other countries. The following is a note from the Author

According to a Policy Brief by ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific), telecentres have the potential to play a key role in disaster risk management at the community level.  Described as community centres that provide public access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as telephones, computers and the Internet, their rapid adoption across the globe has been accompanied by a surge of additional services (e.g. e-learning and training, e-government and financial services) that respond to the needs of the local demand.

University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition free online university
dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education.

This tuition free university embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring tuition free and university-level studies within reach to millions of people across the world.

Information and livelihoods
by Radha Rao in Internet Governance Blog — Nov 18, 2009 04:11 PM
An article by Prof. Subbiah Arunachalam (Distinguished Fellow, CIS) in GISW 2009 (Global Information Society Watch, 2009)

Social Learning for classroom

The following is a study of three organizational models for new interactive, multi-media classrooms for a global energy company. These classrooms will be deployed in multiple to form a Houston based Learning Center with additional support spaces and amenities. Classroom and conference facilities of this type are an increasingly common requirement for most research and technology based corporations. They not only enhance communication and collaboration between the diverse expertise of their employees and clients, but also serve as a recruiting tool for highly competitive prospective candidates for employment.

:: The Organization

When the 3rd Knowledge Exchange Conference involving various sectors and areas involved in CeC operations ended in 2006, a network named PhilCeCNet was born. It sprang from a desire to harmonize the efforts of various CeC initiatives, to share knowledge and experiences, and to achieve a commonality of direction and operations for maximum impact.

PhilCeCNet, short for Philippine Community eCenter Network, is a multi-sectoral partner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) in the implementation of the Philippine CeC Program.

It is a learning and collaborative community of CeC stakeholders contributing to the achievement of the Philippine CeC Program vision and delivery of its mission, thereby ensuring responsive, efficient, valuable and sustainable CeCs.

Microsoft Telecenter guide web site cookbook

Super Paper
Learning management systems (LMSs) have dominated the teaching and learning landscape in higher education for the past decade,1 with a recent Delta Initiative report indicating that more than 90 percent of colleges and universities have a standardized, institutional LMS implementation.2 LMS-related decisions continue to rank among the most pressing IT issues for campus leaders and administrators, as explained in EDUCAUSE Review’s "Top-10 IT Issues, 2009," which lists several challenges associated with LMS implementations, including:

The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation started its work 20 years ago in the thematic areas of coastal systems, biotechnology, biodiversity, ecotechnology, food security and information, education and communication. The approach was based on strategic and participatory research, capacity building, networking and partnership building, based on the principles of social inclusion in access to technologies which help to enhance income and environment. Research and outreach strategies were devised to bridge the rich-poor and gender divides in the areas of information, knowledge and skill empowerment

ICT-in-Education Online Community

What Matters represents a new direction for McKinsey Publishing. To our long tradition of client-driven research we’ve added a new tradition: knowledge derived from convening some of the best thinkers from around the world.

What is a Social Entrepreneur?
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.

In recent years there has been a virtual explosion in the field of social entrepreneurship. According to Ashoka, one of the pioneering organizations in the field, Social entrepreneurs are, "..individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change."

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