Fighting for gender equality: What’s it like being a woman today?
Posted on | March 10, 2010 | No Comments
A recent event in New York marked the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, an important framework for achieving gender equality around the world.
During the event, which was organized by UNICEF, Donnady Coquilla Lao, a youth advocate from the Phiippines, argued that the gains in gender equity had not lived up to expectations, and that it’s important to increase the awareness of gender equality among kids. When she was asked to name one thing that she thought would make a big difference when it comes to gender equality, she suggested an international Day of the Girl – so that “all girls would realize how important they are”.
In the video above, UNICEF asks women and girls around the world the question: “what is it like to be a woman or girl today?”
Read more here.
Source: UNICEF.
Written by Fanny Johansson
Mobile phones for Development cooperation
Posted on | March 8, 2010 | No Comments
MKFC Stockholm College and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences call for everyone interested in developing new mobile solutions to join in online collaboration to innovate and develop new approaches and solution to the use of mobile technology in MLearning, MHealth and MBanking.
The Nordic countries as knowledge nations have the responsibility to enhance democracy and human rights. Today this is made possible with the extended use of information technology and especially citizens using social media. This creates the main pillars for a sustainable society, promoting growth, welfare and peace. New social media extends the capacity of lonely humans to communicate.
Social media is extended to the global communities all around the world with rapidly growing rate of mobile phones. Mobile phones provide people in remote locations and in developing countries the possibility to gain access to greatest equalizing tool ever invented: the Internet. Through online communities we can explore, share, create awareness and participate to realize our dreams and common causes. The social media can make communication and the flow of information transparent and include all kind of actors working for the same causes.
Read more at our mobile for development sites
http://mymobilemylife.org Website/
http://mmmlife.ning.com Community/
Read the report on how to use mobile learning and other services in developing countries
Post a comment or e-mail alamdar(at)mkfc.se if you are interested in develop new mobile solutions.
Documentaries from MKFC Student Maria in Kenya
Posted on | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
This is a documentary of the environment of Baringo district in Kenya made by Maria Kreshel a ChangeMaker student at MKFC.
See more documentaries at Marias Youtube Channel.
Tags: Baringo district > ChangeMaker > Kenya
Chile relief efforts coordinated from Kenya, using online mapping tool
Posted on | March 4, 2010 | No Comments
Within an hour of the massive earthquake in Chile, relief efforts were coordinated from as far away as Kenya – 12,000 km from the location of the quake. How is that possible? The answer is a crisis group called Ushahidi and its effective online mapping tool, reports BBC.
Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was originally developed during the post-election violence in Kenya in 2008, to effectively map incidents of voilence based on reports submitted via the internet and mobile phones. The online mapping tool is designed to collect reports from citizines using both e-mail, SMS and Twitter. All that is needed for the relief efforts to work is basically a computer and a fast internet connection.
Now, the same system is being used in Chile, and the basic idea is that emergency services will be able to use the reports that citizens send in so that relief efforts can be more effectively targeted. The tool was also used in the Haiti disaster.
Read more here.
Source: BBC.
Written by Fanny Johansson
World food security and the global economic crisis
Posted on | February 25, 2010 | No Comments
This presentation, based on the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2009, deals with world food security and the global economic crisis. More people are hungry today than at any point since 1970, according to estimates from FAO, and around 1.02 billion people were undernourished in 2009.
Source: FAO.
Written by Fanny Johansson
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