Global Knowledge Partnership, Conference Announcement
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1- Panos /GKP Media Awards 2004 - 'Information Society' Journalism Awards Highlight Potential of ICTs for Democracy |
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2- APC WNSP/GKP Gender and ICT Awards 2005 - Applications are now open! |
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3- Can ICTs make a difference in reducing poverty? - The Chennai Statement on Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT Policies and Practices is now open for comments |
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4- Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT-Policies Practices - Joint publication by MSSRF and SDC |
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5- Towards building Communities of Practice (CoPs) for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) |
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 'Information Society' Journalism Awards Highlight Potential of ICTs for Democracy
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A columnist from the Philippines, an Indian national based in Singapore writing for a Kenyan newspaper, a Hanoi correspondent for the Saigon Times and a news-wire journalist reporting from Nigeria are the winners of the 2nd Panos /GKP Media Awards.
The winners were selected by an international jury for journalistic work that explored issues around the theme - 'Transparency, good governance and democracy - does information technology increase accountability?'
Co-ordinated by the Panos Institute (London) and the GKP, the awards aim to encourage and bring international recognition to thoughtful and incisive reporting on developing countries' progress to becoming 'Information Societies'. The four winners will each receive US$1,000.
Find out more about the winners and their articles at www.globalknowledge.org/mediaawards2004 |
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Gender and ICT Awards (GICT) 2005 - Applications are now open! |
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Applications for the GICT Awards for 2005 are now open to civil society organisations, community-based groups, women's organisations and networks and social movements based in the Asia Pacific region.
The GICT Awards is an initiative of the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Program (APC WNSP) www.apcwomen.org and the GKP. The awards aim to honor and bring international recognition to innovative and effective projects by women to use ICTs for the promotion of gender equality and/or women's empowerment.
Two winners will be awarded a cash prize of USD8,000 each.
To find out more, go to www.globalknowledge.org/gict2005. To apply, go to www.genderawards.net. The closing date for applications is April 30, 2005. |
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Chennai Statement on Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT Policies and Practices - Your comments are invited |
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The statement was recently debated at a panel discussion on Promoting WSIS-MDG Synergies: Up-scaling Pro-poor ICT-Policies and Practices, The Chennai Statement, hosted by GKP, MSSRF and SDC. The discussion, a side event at WSIS Prepcom II in Geneva, was highly successful, with participants providing substantial input and positive feedback.
The Chennai Statement presents the insights of development practitioners and policy makers who met for a MSSRF/SDC* sponsored expert group meeting in Chennai in November 2004. It is intended to serve as an input into the on-going global debate on the role of ICTs for development, particularly in view of the poverty reduction oriented agenda for the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society ( WSIS) Principles and Action Plan in the context of t
We now invite you to share your opinions or thoughts on the Chennai Statement. To submit your input, please click here. The input will be shared with the GKP Poverty Reduction Cluster group led by MSSRF and FDC**, and SDC.
* M.S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
* * Foundation for Development Cooperation, Australia |
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Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT-Policies Practices - New publication by MSSRF and SDC |
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ICTs can make a difference in reducing poverty and reaching the MDGs. This potential contrasts, however, with the relatively modest pro-poor ICT implementation level. What key barriers impede the implementation of declarations? How can we multiply, upscale and replicate successful pilot projects?
This study on 'Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT-Policies and Practices', a joint publication by MSSRF and SDC provides answers to such pertinent questions. The study, presented recently at a side event at WSIS Prepcom II in Geneva, contributes to a multi-dimensional poverty reduction agenda for the implementation of the WSIS Principles and Action Plan, to be closely linked to the MDGs.
The publication can be downloaded here |
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Towards building CoPs for achieving the MDGs - OneWorld South Asia's Fourth Annual Regional Meeting |
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OneWorld South Asia is organising the meeting from March 3-4, 2005 in New Delhi, India.
The meeting seeks to involve multiple partners to facilitate interaction and help build new CoPs and also give a major fillip to the numerous CoPs already in place in a more organised fashion through the effective use of ICTs. Several development experts, including academicians, practitioners and policy makers from the region are expected to deliberate during the two-days meeting. Nearly 400 delegates from South Asia are expected to deliberate during the meeting on various MDGs and identify the niche for ICTs towards building the CoPs for achieving the MDGs.
For more information, go to http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/101014 |
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For more information, contact us at:
Global Knowledge Partnership Secretariat
Lot L2-I-4, Enterprise 4,
Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil,
57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 603-8996 2379 Fax: 603-8996 2382
Email: gkps@gkps.org.my
Website: www.globalknowledge.org |
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