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Survey: How Project Managers Manage International Development Projects

The Politecnico di Milano University, in collaboration with the Project Management Institute (PMI), is administering a survey to analyse how project managers working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) manage international development projects. The results will be distributed among all the participants.

To download the questionnaire, refer to http://goo.gl/4C49Z.

Decent Work and A Living Wage: Slogans for Our Time

The ideologues of business have started a systematic and sustained campaign against the wages and the laws that protect workers. The job crisis is central to their campaign and deregulation is their leading mantra. Opinion pieces, columnists and letters in the business press appear as voices of the same choir conducted by single-mindedness to attack the alleged rigidities of the labour market and other regulations that undermine so-called economic freedom.

ICT4RD: Introducing Speaking Books to Rural Communities

The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), Africa’s largest mental health support and advocacy organisation, made a presentation on the topic, ‘Rural Health Education Using an Audio Visual Technology’, earlier this week at the SANGONeT ICT4RD Conference in Johannesburg.

Technology for Africa

Tech4Africa is a web and emerging technology conference, committed to bringing global perspective to the African context. This platform would like to play a role in igniting the talent and skill of a generation of Africans in reach of mobile phone and global market. Founder of Tech4Africa, Gareth Knight, maintains that, “Africans can help themselves and they are just as smart and motivated as anyone else.”

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The Freedom of impressions

On Saturday, I attended a workshop at Constitutions Hill organised by Congo Renaissance (CoRe), a platform of Congolese living in South Africa in commemoration of the World Press Freedom happening the following day, Sunday 3rd of May.

Worldwide the World Press Freedom day is considered as a day of action to encourage and develop initiatives in favor of the freedom of the press; a day to remind governments to respect their commitments to press freedom; and a day to alert the public and to increase awareness of the importance of freedom of the press.

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