Content update - E-Learning

1. Invitation for the third EA-TLF
2. Visitors see services provided to families displaced by conflict in northern Uganda
3. Report of World Bank Ex. Brd Ad Hoc Group on the Conduct of Paul Wolfowitz
4. Towards the digital library: findings of an investigation to establish the current status of university libraries in Africa.
5. Evaluating INASP-Health: Final Report
6. Community Learning Resource Centres in Siay District
7. Multilingual ICT education in cyberspace
8. E-learning course: Armed Conflict, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
9. Our Media Learning Center
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1. Invitation for the third EA-TLF
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101394?intcmp=700
The third East African Telecentre Leaders Forum (EA-TLF) is going to be held in Kenya organised by UgaBYTES and Kenya Network of Telecentres. The event is planned to run in two phases; the online and face-to face sessions. The online sessions will be guided by ...
Contributed by Bernard Ochieng Oluma on 15 May, 2007

2. Visitors see services provided to families displaced by conflict in northern Uganda http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101426?intcmp=700
Two high-level visitors, one a Korean celebrity and the other a Japanese Parliamentarian, recently travelled here to observe firsthand the situation of children and women affected by conflict in northern Uganda and to participate in a Child Health Days campaign ...
Contributed by Bernard Ochieng Oluma on 15 May, 2007

3. Report of World Bank Ex. Brd Ad Hoc Group on the Conduct of Paul Wolfowitz http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101458?intcmp=700
The World Bank has made the entire report of this ad hoc group of its Executive Board available online. The report concludes that Mr. Wolfowitz violated World Bank rules and had a de facto conflict of interest when he directed that a salary increase be made to ...
Contributed by John Daly on 15 May, 2007

4. Towards the digital library: findings of an investigation to establish the current status of university libraries in Africa.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101782?intcmp=700
The term digital library is used to refer to a library where some or all of the holdings are available in electronic form, and the services of the library are also made available electronically  frequently over the Internet. Over the past fifteen years libraries ...
Contributed by John Daly on 17 May, 2007

5. Evaluating INASP-Health: Final Report http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101791?intcmp=700
Since its inception, INASP-Health's activities have grown to include an Advisory and Liaison Service, bi-monthly Health Information Forum (HIF) meetings, the HIF-net at WHO email discussion list, the INASP Health Links Internet gateway, the Health Library Partnerships ...
Contributed by John Daly on 17 May, 2007

6. Community Learning Resource Centres in Siay District http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101804?intcmp=700
Ugunja Community Resource Centre, a local based non-government organisation in Western Kenya established Community Learning Resource Centres in the year 2004. This project was initiated to decentralize activities of the organisations, which are involved closer ...
Contributed by Bernard Ochieng Oluma on 17 May, 2007

7. Multilingual ICT education in cyberspace http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101826?intcmp=700
This article presents an effort made by a consortium of universities and research centres in Asia to address the problem of 'digital language divide' through the establishment of a World Language. The information collected from such a study has implications on ...
Contributed by Mahmud Hasan on 17 May, 2007

8. E-learning course: Armed Conflict, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1101959?intcmp=700
This course offers an introduction to the law or armed conflict, or international humanitarian law, as it is known. It critically examines the role of law in armed conflict and demonstrates how law can guide the conduct of hostilities, mitigate the consequences ...
Contributed by Frank Elbers on 19 May, 2007

9. Our Media Learning Center
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1102122?intcmp=700
Our Media is a non for profit multimedia (video and audio) hosting service provider. The project maintains an online "Learning Center" including practical information and learning modules about how to produce content for the Web, such as video, audio, text and ...
Contributed by Thomas BEKKERS on 21 May, 2007