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Djamila Kerim

Djamila Kerim is a member of the communications team at the Development Gateway Foundation in Washington, DC. She is also pursuing her MBA at the School of Management and Communication in Geneva. Kerim is currently working on her final paper focusing on microfinance area. She uses dgCommunities for both her research and her personal interests. She thinks that dgCommunities is an amazing tool which brings people in the world together to share their interets and their knowledge. According to Kerim, “dgCommunities helps to break down barriers between people by willing them to share their opinions and best practices, even if they have different views and I think it’s the starting point for effective development.”

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dgCommunities is a collaborative space for professionals working to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development worldwide. Share knowledge, tools, contacts, and more with members in 200 countries. Each online community is centered on specific themes and guided by experts in the field. Thousands of information resource links are included, plus valuable member services.

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Education
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Technology and Development
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› Information and Communication
  Technologies for Development
› Nanotechnology for Development

Disaster and Conflict
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› Afghanistan Reconstruction
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Free Web-Based Learning Resources Advanced by Cape Town Declaration

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, launched in January 2008 in South Africa, calls for universal access to free web-based learning materials to transform education through the use of the Internet. Translated into more than 15 languages, the Declaration grew out of a meeting of educators, foundations and internet pioneers in Cape Town in fall 2007 organized by the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation. More ››