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1. Language, culture & the virus: A guide to Africa's AIDS slang
HIV has hit our lives, our families, our economies; it also shapes the way we talk. IRIN/PlusNews looks at how the virus and its impact translates into everyday speech from the streets of Lagos to the townships of Johannesburg, and finds that despite the billions of dollars spent on positive communi...
Date: Jun-19-2008
Contributed by: Laura Lopez Gonzalez, PlusNews

2. The Cambodia Communication Institute (CCI)
The Cambodia Communication Institute (CCI) was set up in 1994 as the first media training centre in the nation, intending to assist in the reconstruction and development of the communication sector. The IPDC, with the cooperation of the governments of Denmark and France, implemented the project of d...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

3. Namma Dhwani Community Media Centre
Namma Dhwani means Our Voices in Kannada - the local language in the State of Karnataka in India. Namma Dhwani is a community media partnership between the community of Budikote and the NGOs VOICES and MYRADA, with the support of UNESCO. In 1999 a baseline survey conducted to assess information need...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

4. International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)
Fostering Media Development. Building Democratic Societies - Community Media. Community-based media ensure media pluralism, diversity of content, and the representation of a society’s different groups and interests. Community media encourage open dialogue and transparency of administration a...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

5. Team Teaching English with International English Speaking Volunteers at Watphrathatwittaya School
Since 2003, Teachers from PTY (Watphrathatwittaya) and English speaking volunteers from Openmindprojects (Nong Khai, Thailand) have worked together to improve English teaching for PTY students. (Novices aged 13-18). It’s a small school with 150 students from very poor backgrounds with limited acad...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

6. UNU - Global Virtual University
Under the auspices of the United Nations University (UNU) the Global Virtual University (GVU) is a consortium of universities that work together to enhance learning for environmental sustainability. Through a range of online study programmes and courses offered by partner universities, the mission o...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

7. IFAP Success Stories - Open Source Software brings a new lease of life to libraries in Palestine
A few old computers, some freely available Open Source Software (OSS) and a little knowledge was all that it took to create a high-speed network that pleased staff and astonished students at Yusuf Ahmed Al-Ghanim Library, the Main Library at Birzeit University in Palestine’s West Bank. On returni...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

8. IFAP Success Stories - Our City, Our Voices: Immigrant Newscasts in the Digital Age
The goal of our initiative, called “Our City, Our Voices”, was to do a series of workshops about audiovisual production with recent and immigrants from Latin America. Many of the participants were undocumented and many of those were from small villages in rural Mexico. Immigration to Philadelphi...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

9. The e-Dialogues research project
The e-Dialogues research project attempts to push internet communication technologies (ICTs) to be forces of light rather than dark. They are designed to stimulate substantive dialogue between leading academics and diverse audiences, including the public policy community. Our objectives are to stimu...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Anuradha Bhattacharjee

10. The Calico Museum of Textiles
The Calico Museum of Textiles at Ahmedabad, India, is the premier textile museum of the country, and one of the most celebrated institutions of its kind in the world for its distinguished and comprehensive collection of textiles and artefacts. The Calico collection along with those of Sarabhai Found...
Date: Jun-15-2008
Contributed by: Shambhu Ghatak