| Workshop: Community Broadcasting |
 At this workshop, Mr Alonso from UNESCO explained the meaning of community radio and also its importance in the society. He described community radio as a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. More… |
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| Workshop: ICT @ Social Entrepreneurship |
 A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Since there is no dirth of social problems in India, the workshop on Social Entrepreneurship during the three day Manthan gala was a good platform More… |
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| WSA E-Content Summit, India |
 Alongside the Manthan Award South Asia 2008, Digital Empowerment Foundation organised various Roundtables on a host of themes. That also included WSA e-Content Summit. Click more to see all of the reports in on place for our web visitors. More… |
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| ICONECS III: E-Content in Localisation and Inclusion |
 Technology cannot claim to have solved its purpose if it is unable to reach the local level and include as many in its fold as it can. Therefore, it has to break barriers which block its path of reaching out to as many as possible. There are many who are working towards the goal of making technology accessible to as many. More… |
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| ICONECS III: E-Content in News and M-Content |
 Technology, if used in the right way, will not just provide news and information to large populations, but create a situation where people will have unlimited scope for being informed anywhere, anytime. We just need to make use of the high level of mobile penetration and make content through computers more accessible. More… |
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| ICONECS III: E-Content in Health and Environment |
 The session on ‘E Content in Health and Environment’ was dedicated to the importance of ICT and digital content in health services delivery with affordable quality and accessible content and services, at the same time, overcoming time, geographical, economic and social limitations.More… |
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| Round Table: ICT @ Health for the Masses |
 Health has always been a cause of primary concern in our country, especially in a scenario where large populations do not have access to proper health care facilities. The roundtable conference on ‘ICT @ Health for the Masses’ discussed issues pertaining to problems in health sector and how they can More… |
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| Round Table: Content and Accessibility in Education |
 NIOS Chairperson Professor M C Pant set the tone for discussion as he put forward his point of view that the country is facing the challenge of less number of educational institutions in addition to the issue of creditability and quality of education. He recommended that in such a situation, ICT solutions can make educational content accessible. More… |
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| ICONECS III: E-Content in Culture and Entertainment |
 How technology can give a stimulus to efforts in the area of culture and entertainment came as a wonderful eye-opener during the ICONECS session on E-Content in Culture and Entertainment during Manthan Award South Asia Conclave 2008. Various presentations from countries like Bangladesh, More… |
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| Round Table: Inclusive Governance through Digital Panchayat |
 In a country where most of the population resides in villages, one cannot ignore the fact that empowering the villagers would lead to a developed India. Digital panchayats could be viable platforms to that end. Therefore, the roundtable on Inclusive governance through digital panchayats and constituencies was a More… |
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| Round Table: ICT for Drinking Water and Sanitation |
 Availability of water has become a matter of concern today and it is not for reasons not known to us. Thus, the roundtable Conference on Information Communication Technology for Drinking Water and Sanitation saw participation by experts in the field who have been working to improve the situation More… |
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| ICONECS III: E-Content in Governance and Business |
 Governance and business go hand in hand and are the two most important driving forces for any country. Therefore, it is inevitable that the ICONECS session on ‘e-Content in Governance and Business’ saw eminent personalities and experts from these fields making presentations and explaining how they were making use of ICT tools and digital content to boost development.More… |
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| ICONECS III: E-Content for Learning and Education |
 e learning is the unifying term to describe the fields of online learning, web-based training, and technology-delivered instruction, the convergence of the Internet and learning, or Internet-enabled learning, the use of network technologies to create, foster, deliver, and facilitate learning, anytime and anywhere. More… |
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