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The World Bank has "assembled a large number of resource materials and links to web sites related to the use of the Internet in education and for community and youth development" at this website. You will find the following topics appealing to Policy Makers, Community Learning Centres, School Leaders, and Youth.
http://www.worldbank.org/worldlinks/english/html/resources.html
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Founded by Secretary General Kofi Annan's United Nations ICT Task Force GeSCI's mission is to collaborate with local partners to improve education, empower communities and accelerate socio-economic development, thereby supporting achievement of the MDGs by 2015, through the widespread deployment of ICTs in schools. GeSCI's Vision is to catalyse, support and partner with national/regional e-schools initiatives that bring ICTs to large numbers of schools and use ICTs to support effectively educational and community goals.
http://www.gesci.org/
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20,000 computers will use open source (OS) productivity software by March 2006, making Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) one of the world's largest public agencies to make the switch to OS.
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This map shows the spectrum frequencies allocated by country. It is particularly useful for travelers. The interactive map allows you to know which cell phone frequency is currently used in a specific country. It can help identify whether a particular cell phone could operate in these countries, assuming there are roaming agreements between providers.
http://www.ctia.org/public_policy/statistics/polmap/index.cfm
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Reporters Without Borders announces its third annual worldwide index of press freedom. Such freedom is threatened most in East Asia (with North Korea at the bottom of the entire list at 167th place, followed by Burma 165th, China 162nd, Vietnam 161st and Laos 153rd) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia 159th, Iran 158th, Syria 155th, Iraq 148th).
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11712
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