Movimiento Laicos para America Latina (MLAL)/Qalauma, El Alto, Bolivia (2 posts)

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Movimiento Laicos para America Latina (MLAL) is an Italian NGO working worldwide to promote sustainable change. In Bolivia, it focuses on food security issues and human rights, including the development of Qalauma, a new centre for young offenders, which is based on the Brazilian restorative justice prison model APAC (Association for the Protection and Assistance to the Condemned). MLAL is responsible for t more...

This is one abstracts, relative to a e-book, conmemorative XXIV Anniversary from Cultural Center for Audio Visual Exchange, Network and Foundation, where argues and repositioning emergent roles for education, childhood and youth in empowerment process, for update local contents and heritages, following examples and good practices, in internalizing humanistic, democratic and creative values, coming from previous generation.

The text remarks the role of edutainment, beginners and amateurs, in e more...

The benefits of ICT are understandably required to be utilized in the Indian context. However, nothing concrete and constructive has been done in this regard and e-courts in India are still a dream and not reality. Even though we have formally declared the National E-Governance Plan (NEGP) that includes e-courts as a mission mode project yet we are far from establishing effective e-courts in India. Even the Legal Enablement of ICT Systems in India has not yet taken place effectively despite Indi more...

'This paper is intended to provide task managers and World Bank Group clients working on Social Safety Net (SSN) programs with practical and systematic ways to use information management practices to mitigate risks by strengthening control and accountability mechanisms. It lays out practices and options to consider in the design and implementation of the Management Information System (MIS), and how to evaluate and mitigate operational risks originating from running a MIS. The findings of the pap more...

This paper concerns the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a
strategy for reinforcing democratic processes - broadly defined as “electronic democracy”
practices - and focuses on the use of ICTs in participatory democracy initiatives.

By considering the experience of the e-Participatory Budgeting in the city of Belo Horizonte (Brazil), the aim is to understand some of the possible prospects and limitations offered by ICTs in participatory processes at the local more...

Introduction: 'This contribution is designed to help bridge the gap between practices of the communication for development practitioners and telecommunication experts who provide services to rural areas. Improvements in technology and reductions in costs have focused new attention on the provision of rural telecommunication services, particularly in developing countries. Until very recently, communication for development practitioners have seldom looked at rural telecommunication services as dev more...

World Museums is a popular photography group (80+ members and more than 500 photos) on Flickr. The focus of this group will be museums around the world. Show us places you've visited. If you work with a particular museum, show us what goes on behind the scenes or how you connect with the community. Bonus points for photos that have a caption!Museums looking for Best practices/worst practices Exhibitions.

'Updating data collected from Internet exchanges around the world, professor Andrew Odlyzko, director of the University of Minnesota’sInterdisciplinary Digital Technology Center,reported late last week that Internet traffic rates in the US and globally are continuing to grow at a rate between 50% and 60% (largely unchanged from recent years) -- rapid growth that nonetheless belies dire predictions of an escalation that would clog today’s networks......Last November, Nemertes Research release more...

Escoger la persona idónea para desempeñar el cargo de Coordinador Informático en Instituciones Educativas es muy importante. Ofrecemos esta lista de verificación para clarificar las principales funciones que debe desempeñar y las capacidades que en las áreas humana, tecnológica, pedagógica y técnica, debe demostrar para garantizar el éxito de su labor.

En el Modelo de integración efectiva de las TIC en procesos de enseñanza/aprendizaje en Instituciones Educativas, propuesto por la FGPU, el Coordinador Informático juega un papel fundamental. Este documento ofrece un panorama amplio tanto de las funciones que para el éxito del proceso debe desempeñar en la Institución, como de las capacidades que lo deben caracterizar (humanas, tecnológicas, pedagógicas y técnicas).