Mois : janvier 2008

South African Research & Documentation Centre

Linked with Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi, and with The Gender and Media Project.

Vision: SARDC is an independent regional information resource centre which seeks to enhance the effectiveness of key development processes in the SADC region through the collection, production and dissemination of information, and enabling the capacity to generate and use information.

Frontpage and latest News;
Economic Development;
Governance /sustainable democracy;
India Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa IMERCSA; http://www.sardc.net/imercsa/environment.asp?action=env
BOARD Members;
News Features;
Contact (scroll down).

About: Mission: SARDC’s objective is to improve the base of knowledge about economic, political, cultural and social developments, and their implications, by making information accessible to governments and policy makers, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, regional and international organizations, development agencies, parliaments, and media.

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the women’s international perspective

Linked with Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi.
The Women’s International Perspective, The WIP, is a comprehensive news website of women contributors that reports world news, opinion, and commentary. Our mission is to provide quality news from the unique perspectives of women that is accessible worldwide and free to our readers.

Homepage and News;
Sitemap;
Education;
Economy;
Politics;
Science;
Technology;
The World;
Authors;
Archives: Past WIP Contributor Articles;
Address: The WIP, 563 Figueroa Street, Monterey, CA 93940, USA,
+1 831 274 8884, e-mail;
Contact.

About: … The WIP is a balanced media source that promotes diversity and is not associated with any particular religion, political party, or cultural affiliation. As a worldwide collective of women writers, The WIP is an opportunity to eliminate the tremendous under-representation of women journalists and offers a greater diversity of background and opinion than typically found in one online news publication.

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Strengthening the media’s ability to report on gender and development issues in the SADC region

Linked with Pilirani Semu-Banda – Malawi, and with Daughters for loan under fire.

Small Grants on Gender Reporting in Southern Africa:

In 2003 SARDC-WIDSAA offered small grants to enable Journalists to research and write articles that reflect the range of perspectives related to gender policies and their effect among communities, the rural poor, and governments in the region. The grant is part of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency’s (Sida) support to WIDSAA phase III’s work in the SADC region.

gender beat checklist;
key gender instruments;
gender & media project of SARDC/journalists;
recent publications;
mail-contact.

Why Gender and Media: Gender is a common thread that runs through every issue, whether one is addressing issues of poverty reduction, HIV and AIDS, health, education, human rights, democracy and elections, good governance, or development. In southern Africa the multiplicity of debates on gender and development within the SADC region, as well as the rapid change in issues and approaches to the work being done in this field, pose a huge challenge for regional integration, governance and economic emancipation … (full text).

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Linked with Harry B. Coonce – USA, and with Family Tree for Mathematic Scholars.
The goal of the Mathematics Genealogy Project is to compile information about all of the mathematicians in the world and make the information available online. Nearly 97,000 mathematicians’ names are currently included in a searchable database … Also included for each entry are the mathematician’s dissertation title and advisor (« parent »), doctorate-granting institution, and the names of the mathematician’s own graduate students (« descendants »). (full text).

Extrema (top 50 advisors);
Links (math websites);
FAQs;
Posters;
Address: Mathematics Genealogy Project, North Dakota State University, P. O. Box 5075, Fargo, North Dakota 58105-5075;
Data Submission by our website;
To send data to the Mathematics Genealogy Project in paper form, please use the following address: Harry B. Coonce, The Mathematics Genealogy Project, P. O. Box 457, Vernon Center, MN 56090;
Contact.

About/Mission: The intent of this project is to compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world. We earnestly solicit information from all schools who participate in the development of research level mathematics and from all individuals who may know desired information.

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Dialogue with the Islamic World (also in german, turc, arabic)

The Arabic word « qantara » means « bridge ». The Internet portal Qantara.de represents the concerted effort of the (german) Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education), Deutsche Welle, the Goethe Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) to promote dialogue with the Islamic world. The project is funded by the German Foreign Office.

Homepage in english (with Newsletter on right column down);
Politics;
Society;
Culture;
Dialogues;
Slide Shows;
Links;
Contact-Address: Redaktion Qantara.de, c/o Deutsche Welle Online, Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 3, D-53113 Bonn, Germany, E-Mail.

About – The Associates:
1) The Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education);
2) Deutsche Welle DW (your lik to Germany);
3) The Goethe-Institut;
4) The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa – Institute for Foreign Relations):

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