Keeping an eye on the Earth

The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft have recently launched a website which collects climate data, by actively encouraging EU citizens to actively contribute their observations about the environment, reports BBC.
Water and air quality data from the member countries are displayed on an interactive map, and official data from the EEA as well as the [...]

Join the conversation

Sponsored by the Media and Communications Branch of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Conversations for a Better World is a shared blog dealing with health, population, and gender issues. The aim is to encourage people from all over the world to exchange different ideas and viewpoints on some of the most important issues of [...]

1 billion mobile devices will access the Internet in 2010

This is an example of mobile use from Grameen Foundation AppLab Uganda Launch
Many people, especially in developing countries will visit Internet the first time in a mobile instead of a computer in 2010 according to IDCs prediction. we’re not yet talking about “the death of the PC”; far from it, as 2010 will see [...]

Global Citizen Media guides related to HIV and AIDS

Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities.
Kabissa is writing about their new two guides about Grass Roots media and Citizen media connected to HIV [...]

Treating traumatised women and their families in DR Congo – Doctor Mukwege visits Stockholm and MKFC Stockholm College

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Congo has experienced one of the worst humanitarian crises since World War II, and even though the war formally ended 6 years ago, fighting persists in Eastern Congo where women and girls are paying a particularly high price. Sexual violence is being used as a devastating weapon of war and the [...]