'The UNDESA GAID Annual Meeting, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 18 – 20 May, 2008 aimed to bring together partners to help implement a number of ICT projects of significant, catalysing impact. The Strategy Council and the Steering Committee met in Kuala Lumpur to chart the next steps on the path to reaching GAID’s objectives, and discussed the ways in which they could contribute to the successful implementation of the GAID Business Plan.'
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The Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools.
It was developed for UNESCO by a team of specialists working with the Institute for Informatics of the Technical University of Freiberg (Technical Coordinator, Germany), the COPINE Centre of the Obafemi Awolowo Univers more...
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UNESCO has accumulated significant experience in facilitating the development of some key software tools. These tools are distributed free-of-charge and the objective is to empower the users by giving them access to some key technology for development and knowledge sharing that most of them otherwise could not afford. The development model is based upon international cooperation and the software tools are continuously enriched, modified and updated with the co-operation of a community of experts more...
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The Global Planners Network (http://www.globalplannersnetwork.org/) has designed a capacity assessment tool.As a first step to addressing issues of capacity worldwide, the GPN launched a self-diagnostic tool to help planners assess the capacity for planning in their own countries. This tool takes planners through a structured assessment of capacity locally and it also gathers information about the global picture of capacity. Information will be fed into the GPN Congress and the WUF 4.
The too more...
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The US Senate recently passed an updating legislation intending to strengthen the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 1978 (FISA). FISA regulates the activities of foreign intelligence through the interception of electronic communications (e-communications). The law claims to be giving effect to the surveillance capabilities regarding new technologies such as e-mail, the Internet, cell phones and fiber optics that have radically changed e-communications. The law is trying to grapple with the more...
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Gems of the Earth is a network of telecenters located in rural communities of Brazil. The Brazilian NGO Gemas da Terra manages the network, providing access to training for community social entrepreneurs and technical support throughout the development of their telecenters. The Gemas da Terra Portal is written in Portuguese and can be accessed at www.gemasdaterra.org.br
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This volume examines broadband developments and policies, and highlights challenges such as connecting users to fibre-based networks or coverage of rural areas. It also outlines emerging issues that may need policy attention as we move to next-generation networks. The findings are also relevant to emerging and developing economies designing broadband strategies.
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