http://www.stockholmcollege.se Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:13:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/03/10/fighting-for-gender-equality-whats-it-like-being-a-woman-today/ 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 ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/03/08/mobile-phones-for-development-cooperation/ 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. http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/03/05/documentaries-from-mkfc-student-maria-in-kenya/ 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 ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/03/04/chile-relief-efforts-coordinated-from-kenya-using-online-mapping-tool/ The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009View more presentations from FAOEconomics. 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 ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/02/25/world-food-security-and-the-global-economic-crisis/ MHealth Alliance (picture source) and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa. At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/02/23/mobile-health-solutions-for-west-africa/ In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos. Kevin Kelly has been publisher of the Whole Earth Review, exec editor at WIRED, founder of visionary nonprofits, and writer ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/02/22/kevin-kelly-tells-technologys-epic-story/ 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 ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/02/19/keepin-an-eye-on-the-earth/ MKFC Stockholm College is working to realize Education for All (EFA) and to make the educational activities sustainable (ESD). "In this regard, EFA provides the basic foundation for building more just societies focusing on rights, empowerment and development, but it does not go far enough. This is where ESD reinforces EFA ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/02/17/learning-for-a-sustainable-world/ New technology has always played a big part in changing education and the ways in which we learn. And perhaps more so now than ever. BBC has explored three new, unique initiatives in education technology. The first example is from Bangladesh, where a scheme called The Janal Service gives anyone with ... http://www.stockholmcollege.se/2010/02/11/new-technology-changing-the-ways-in-which-we-learn/