These are the views and suggestions of Perry4Law that have been shared with the Department of Information Technology (DIT), India and Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR). Digital Preservation involves a systematic and sustained management of digital information, content, media, etc for a durable period. Digital Preservation requires a different outlook as compared to other traditional information. Invent of an updated and better version of more...

The Glimpse Foundation just partnered with National Geographic to create a mainstream media product that celebrates and informs about the work of young people abroad. All of the content is User-generated and professionally edited. Glimpse is an opportunity for youth to make their global experiences carry a positive social impact - on a mass media scale.

Every year 230,000 young Americans go abroad to study, live or work. Whatever the reason for the journey, each person comes back with a stor more...

ArchNet is an exciting project developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in an exemplary collaboration of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is a private, non-denominational, international development agency with programmes dedicated to the improvement of built environments in societies where Muslims have a significant presence.
ArchNet is envisaged as a borderless network of institutions contributing to, more...

The video clip is the music video of Abdur Rakman, produced by J. Alam and Likon, young team members of Machizo. The song expresses the word and story of romantic love parallel to indirect expression of human life. It is having deep affection and appeal for help to overcome life difficulties with symbolic character of Radha. However the song is composed by the singer with local motif and language of Mymensing region. Abdur Rakman is famous boiati ( singer ) Hatil village of Muktagacha Upazila.

This online audiovisual platform aims at promoting the international distribution of television content from South to North and from South to South. While providing independent filmmakers and producers with an effective promotional and marketing tool, it offers a rich programme source to broadcasters, festival organizers and other interested institutions.

Here you will find high quality and recent short fiction films, documentaries and TV magazines that are public service oriented, innovative more...

UNESCO "supports creativity and innovation in local content production in radio, television and new media" reveals Rosa Gonzalez, Programme Specialist at UNESCO. The context: "Culture takes diverse forms across time and space. This diversity is embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of the identities of the groups and societies making up humankind. As a source of exchange, innovation and creativity, cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. In this sense, more...

This gives a proposal action research in using ICT, especially multi-media in creating a local employment and also document cultural activities on a long term basis as part of our village level, panchayat raj governance and PURA project. Even if funding do not come our way, we might be carrying it out on a limited way.

Cet article rédigé et publié par Mediatrotters s'intéresse à la notion émergente de jeux vidéo sérieux. Le concept de "Serious Games" consiste à exploiter les techniques et les possibilités des jeux vidéo pour les appliquer au monde du développement, favoriser les changements sociaux ou former et sensibiliser certaines catégories de personnes à un thème bien précis.

Selon Doug Whatley, CEO de l’entreprise BreakAway Games, les "jeux sérieux" utilisent le divertissement - et more...

If you're 13 to 19 years old and live in England, Mediabox can give you the opportunity to develop and produce creative media projects for film, television, radio, online and multi media platforms. Mediabox is for you to express your opinions, ideas and views, gain new skills and get your voices heard. What's on offer? Mediabox offers three different types of grants ranging from £100 to £80,000 to create and distribute youth-led media projects that express young people's ideas and/or views in more...

The iCommons (Creative Commons International) website carried an article by Fouad Riaz Bajwa on the first Cultural Free and Open Source Software project from Pakistan licensed under a Creative Commons License "DANKA-Live Your Culture". The article titled "A (sub)cultural revolution in Lahore" introduces the first online Cultural Events Guide of Lahore City DANKA (http://www.danka.com.pk) that is now expanding to other cities and is available for open replication to other parts of the world that more...