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Report on Information and Communication for Development
Policy and Research Programme on Role of Media and Communication in Development Final Project Report April 2010 – March 2012 Grant Reference Number: AG4601 MIS Code: 732-620-029 Contact: James Deane, Head of Policy [email protected] BBC Media Action Bush House, PO Box 76, Strand, London WC2B 4PH Telephone +44 (0) 207 557 2462, Fax +44 (0)207 379 1622, E-mail: [email protected] www.bbcworldservicetrust.org 2 BBC Media Action Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media and Communication in Democratic Development INTRODUCTION This is the final report of the Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media and Communication Development. It provides a narrative overview of progress and impact between April 2010 and March 2012 of the DFID funded Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media in Development, building on an earlier report submitted for activities carried out between April 2010 and March 2011. In 2006 the Department for International Development (DFID) allocated £2.5 million over five years for the establishment of a 'Policy and Research Programme on the Role of Media and Communication in Development' to be managed by BBC Media Action (formerly the BBC World Service Trust). The Programme ran from July 2006 through to March 2012, including a no-cost extension. A small additional contribution to the Programme from the Swedish International Development Agency was received over the period (approximately £300,000 over the period 2009- 2012). In November 2011, DFID reached agreement with the BBC World Service Trust (since January 2012, renamed as BBC Media Action) for a new Global Grant amounting to £90 million over five years. -
HAIL: an Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006
Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship All Computer Science and Engineering Research Computer Science and Engineering Report Number: WUCSE-2006-36 2006-01-01 HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006 Charles M. Kastner This thesis examines in detail the Hardware-Accelerated Identification of Languages (HAIL) project. The goal of HAIL is to provide an accurate means to identify the language and encoding used in streaming content, such as documents passed over a high-speed network. HAIL has been implemented on the Field-programmable Port eXtender (FPX), an open hardware platform developed at Washington University in St. Louis. HAIL can accurately identify the primary languages and encodings used in text at rates much higher than what can be achieved by software algorithms running on microprocessors. Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research Part of the Computer Engineering Commons, and the Computer Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Kastner, Charles M., " HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006" Report Number: WUCSE-2006-36 (2006). All Computer Science and Engineering Research. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/187 Department of Computer Science & Engineering - Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1045 - St. Louis, MO - 63130 - ph: (314) 935-6160. Department of Computer Science & Engineering 2006-36 HAIL: An Algorithm for the Hardware Accelerated Identification of Languages, Master's Thesis, May 2006 Authors: Charles M. Kastner Corresponding Author: [email protected] Web Page: http://www.arl.wustl.edu/projects/fpx/reconfig.htm Abstract: This thesis examines in detail the Hardware-Accelerated Identification of Languages (HAIL) project. -
Central African Republic Mid-Term Implementation Assessment
CCeennttrraall AAffrriiccaann RRee p puubblliicc MMiidd--tteerrmm IImmppllee mmeennttaattiioonn AAsssseessssmmeenntt Mid-term Implementation Assessment: Central African Republic Introduction 1. Purpose of the follow-up programme The second and subsequent cycles of the review should focus on, inter alia, the implementation of the accepted recommendations and the development of the human rights situation in the State under review. A/HRC/RES/16/21, 12 April 2011 (Annex I C § 6) The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process takes place every four and half years; however, some recommendations can be implemented immediately. In order to reduce this interval, we have created an update process to evaluate the human rights situation two years after the examination at the UPR. Broadly speaking, UPR Info seeks to ensure the respect of commitments made in the UPR, but also, more specifically, to give stakeholders the opportunity to share their opinion on the commitments. To this end, about two years after the review, UPR Info invites States, NGOs, and National Institutions for Human Rights (NHRI) to share their comments on the implementation (or lack thereof) of recommendations adopted at the Human Rights Council (HRC) plenary session. For this purpose, UPR Info publishes a Mid-term Implementation Assessment (MIA) including responses from each stakeholder. The MIA is meant to show how all stakeholders are disposed to follow through on, and implement their commitments. States should implement the recommendations that they have accepted, and civil society should monitor that implementation. While the follow-up’s importance has been highlighted by the HRC, no precise directives regarding the follow-up procedure have been set until now. -
25 Handbook of Bibliography on Diaspora and Transnationalism.Pdf
BIBLIOGRAPH Y A Hand-book on Diaspora and Transnationalism FIRST EDITION April 2013 Compiled By Monika Bisht Rakesh Ranjan Sadananda Sahoo Draft Copy for Reader’s Comments Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism www.grfdt.org Bibleography Preface Large scale international mobility of the people since colonial times has been one of the most important historical phenomenon in the human history. This has impacted upon the social, cultural, political and economic landscape of the entire globe. Though academic interest goes back little early, the phenomenon got the world wide attention as late as 1990s. We have witnessed more proactive engagement of various organizations at national and international level such as UN bodies. There was also growing research interest in the areas. Large number of institutions got engaged in research on diaspora-international migration-refugee-transnationalism. Wide range of research and publications in these areas gave a new thrust to the entire issue and hence advancing further research. The recent emphasis on diaspora’s development role further accentuated the attention of policy makers towards diaspora. The most underemphasized perhaps, the role of diaspora and transnational actors in the overall development process through capacity building, resource mobilization, knowledge sharing etc. are growing areas of development debate in national as well as international forums. There have been policy initiatives at both national and international level to engage diaspora more meaningfully since last one decade. There is a need for more wholistic understanding of the enrite phenomena to facilitate researchers and stakeholders engaged in the various issues related to diaspora and transnationalism. Similarly, we find the areas such as social, political and cultural vis a vis diaspora also attracting more interest in recent times as forces of globalization intensified in multi direction. -
Shadow NGO Report on Turkey's First Report on Legislative and Other
Shadow NGO Report on Turkey’s First Report on legislative and other measures giving effect to the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence for submission to the GREVIO Committee September 2017 Prepared by: Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Association, Foundation for Women’s Solidarity Women’s Solidarity Foundation Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways (WWHR) Equality Monitoring Women’s Group Association for Women with Disabilities Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Foundation Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence Endorsed by: Istanbul Convention Monitoring Platform1 - 1 The list of the 81 Members of İstanbul Convention Monitoring Platform can be found at Annex 1. 1 Foreword This shadow report was prepared in collaboration with women’s organizations in Turkey for the evaluation of the implementation of Istanbul Convention in Turkey by GREVIO committee this year. The report was drafted by 8 and endorsed by 81 women’s and LGBTIQ organizations to outline the emerging issues related to violence against women and the defects and malpractices with regards to the implementation of the Convention. Under the coordination of Purple Roof Women’s Shelters Association, we first started to come together to share tasks and agree on the time plan in order to prepare the report till the end of May, which was the deadline for the submission of the state report. However, as we found out later, Turkey delayed the submission till July without informing the CSOs, thus we had to decide to proceed to draft the NGO report without seeing the state’s report. -
Pakistan Connection Diasporas @ BBC World Service Audience
Pakistan Connection Diasporas @ BBC World Service Audience Research Report Authors: Marie Gillespie, Sadaf Rivzi, Matilda Andersson, Pippa Virdee, Lucy Michael, Sophie West A BBC World Service / Open University Research Partnership 1 Foreword What does a shop owner in Bradford have in common with a graduate from Princeton USA, a construction worker in Bahrain and a banker in the City of London? All are users of the bbcurdu.com website, and all are part of the global Pakistani diaspora. The term diaspora is used to describe the global dispersion of migrant groups of various kinds. Diasporas are of growing economic, political and cultural significance. In a world where migration, geopolitical dynamics, communication technologies and transport links are continually changing, it is clear that culture and geography no longer map neatly onto one another. Understanding diaspora groups inside and outside its base at Bush House, London, is ever more important for the BBC World Service, too. Diaspora audiences are increasingly influencing the way the BBC conceives and delivers output. For example, over 60% of the weekly users of bbcurdu.com are accessing the site from outside the subcontinent, and this proportion is rising. The same trend has been observed for other BBC language websites. (See BBC World Agenda, September 2008.) The research presented here is based on a unique partnership between BBC World Service Marketing Communication and Audiences (MC&A) and The Open University. It was funded primarily by MC&A but it was also generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) though the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Research Programme, which funded a project entitled ‘Tuning In: Diasporic Contact Zones at BBC World Service’ (Grant Award reference AH/ES58693/1). -
Implications of the BBC World Service Cuts
House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Implications of the BBC World Service Cuts Written evidence Only those submissions written specifically for the Committee and accepted by the Committee as evidence for the inquiry into the Implications of the BBC World Service Cuts are included. 1 List of written evidence 1 Gilberto Ferraz Page 4 2 Corinne Podger 6 3 Rosie Kaynak 7 4 Keith Perron 8 5 Jonathan Stoneman 11 6 Keith Somerville 13 7 Sir John Tusa 19 8 John Rowlett 23 9 Jacqueline Stainburn 24 10 Richard Hamilton 25 11 Elzbieta Rembowska 26 12 Ian Mitchell 27 13 Marc Starr 28 14 Andrew Bolton 29 15 Patrick Xavier 30 16 Ailsa Auchnie 31 17 Catherine Westcott 32 18 Caroline Driscoll 35 19 BECTU 37 20 Rajesh Joshi, Rajesh Priyadarshi 40 and Marianne Landzettel 21 Clem Osei 44 22 Sam Miller 45 23 The Kenya National Kiswahili Association (CHAKITA) 47 24 Mike Fox 50 25 Kofi Annan 51 26 Geraldine Timlin 52 27 Nigel Margerison 53 28 Dennis Sewell 54 29 Voice of the Listener & Viewer 56 30 Kiyo Akasaka 60 31 Neville Harms 61 32 M Plaut 64 33 Graham Mytton 65 34 National Union of Journalists 67 35 National Union of Journalists Parliamentary Group 76 36 Trish Flanagan 78 37 Ben Hartshorn 80 38 Naleen Kumar 81 39 Jorge da Paz Rodrigues 83 40 BBC World Service 84 41 BBC World Service 89 2 42 Marc Glinert 100 43 Andrew Tyrie MP 101 44 BBC World Service 103 3 Written evidence from Gilberto Ferraz (Retired member of the World Service, in which served for 30 years) PROPOSED CLOSING DOWN OF THE BBC PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SERVICE The announcement of the closure of the Portuguese Language Service to Africa is lamentable and wrong for the following reasons: 1. -
A Comparative Analysis of Saudi Women's Educational Experiences
University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs Education ETDs Spring 4-9-2019 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SAUDI WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN GRADUATE ENGLISH PROGRAMS IN TWO INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS: SAUDI ARABIA AND THE UNITED STATES Kholod Sendi Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_llss_etds Part of the Adult and Continuing Education Commons, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Higher Education Commons, and the International and Comparative Education Commons Recommended Citation Sendi, Kholod. "A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SAUDI WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN GRADUATE ENGLISH PROGRAMS IN TWO INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS: SAUDI ARABIA AND THE UNITED STATES." (2019). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_llss_etds/107 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Education ETDs at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Kholod Sendi Candidate Language Literacy and Sociocultural Studies Department This dissertation is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication: Approved by the Dissertation Committee: Dr. Lois Meyer, Chairperson Dr. Ziarat Hossain Dr. Bee Chamcharatsri Dr. Feroza Jussawalla A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SAUDI WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN GRADUATE ENGLISH PROGRAMS IN TWO INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS: SAUDI ARABIA AND THE UNITED STATES by KHOLOD SENDI B.A., English Language, Taif University, 2009 M.A., Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico, 2014 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Educational Linguistics The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May, 2019 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am thankful to my dissertation chair, Dr. -
Clinical Psychologist
the psychologist vol 28 no 10 october 2015 www.thepsychologist.org.uk Out of this world A special feature takes psychology into alien territory letters 782 what would you say to an alien? 800 news 788 psychology in deep space 804 careers 840 eye on fiction: the alien in us all 808 looking back 816 close encounters 812 Contact The British Psychological Society the psychologist... St Andrews House 48 Princess Road East ...meets Leicester LE1 7DR 0116 254 9568 [email protected] www.bps.org.uk The Psychologist What would you say to an alien? 800 www.thepsychologist.org.uk Jon Sutton talks to Douglas Vakoch, clinical www.psychapp.co.uk [email protected] psychologist and Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for tinyurl.com/thepsychomag Extraterrestrial Intelligence 800 @psychmag ...features Research Digest www.bps.org.uk/digest Psychology in deep space 804 www.twitter.com/researchdigest Nick Kanas considers issues and Advertising countermeasures Reach 50,000 psychologists at very reasonable rates. Eye on fiction: Display Aaron Hinchcliffe The alien in us all 808 020 7880 7661 We asked for your favourite alien [email protected] entity, and what their depiction Recruitment (in print and online says about our own psychology at www.psychapp.co.uk) Giorgio Romano 020 7880 7556 Close encounters of the [email protected] psychological kind 812 Christopher C. French considers September 2015 issue 53,489 dispatched explanations of UFO sightings, alien 804 encounters and even abductions Printed by Warners Midlands plc on 100 per cent recycled ...looks back paper. -
Special 75Th Anniversary Issue
NIEMAN REPORTS SUMMER/FALL 2013 VOL. 67 NO. 2-3 Nieman Reports The Nieman Foundation for Journalism Harvard University One Francis Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 VOL. 67 NO. 2-3 SUMMER-FALL 2013 TO PROMOTE AND ELEVATE THE STANDARDS OF JOURNALISM 75 TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Special 75th Anniversary Issue Agnes Wahl Nieman The Faces of Agnes Wahl Nieman About the cover: British artist Jamie Poole (left) based his portrait of Agnes Wahl Nieman on one of only two known images of her—a small engraving from a collage published in The Milwaukee Journal in 1916—and on the physical description she provided in her 1891 passport application: light brown hair, bluish-gray eyes, and fair complexion. Using portraits of Mrs. Nieman’s mother and father as references, he worked with cut pages from Nieman Reports and from the Foundation’s archival material to create this likeness. About the portrait on page 6: Alexandra Garcia (left), NF ’13, an Emmy Award-winning multimedia journalist with The Washington Post, based her acrylic portrait with collage on the photograph of Agnes Wahl Nieman standing with her husband, Lucius Nieman, in the pressroom of The Milwaukee Journal. The photograph was likely taken in the mid-1920s when Mrs. Nieman would have been in her late 50s or 60s. Garcia took inspiration from her Fellowship and from the Foundation’s archives to present a younger depiction of Mrs. Nieman. Video and images of the portraits’ creation can be seen at http://nieman.harvard.edu/agnes. A Nieman lasts a year ~ a Nieman lasts a lifetime SUMMER/FALL 2013 VOL. -
World Law Bulletin, January 2004
The Law Library of Congress WORLD LAW BULLETIN January 2004 Directorate of Legal Research 1 W.L.B. 2004 Highlights: Anti-Terrorism Statute − Colombia Association Agreement − EU/Syria Copyright on the Internet − Israel Debate on Islamic Scarves − France Former President Guilty − Nicaragua Legislative Agenda − United Kingdom Terrorist Organization List − China Textbook Revisions − Kuwait Women’s Right to Marry − Pakistan Special Attachment: Fight Against Antisemitism: French Response Law Library website for U.S. Congress only: http://www.loc.gov/law/congress Email service: Contact [email protected] to be added to the W.L.B. email distribution list James Madison Memorial Building; 101 Independence Avenue, S.E.; Room LM 240; Washington, DC 20540-3001 Reception: (202) 707-5065 – FAX: (202) 707-1820 WORLD LAW BULLETIN Note for the Reader The WORLD LAW BULLETIN is a monthly awareness service prepared by over twenty foreign law specialists and other members of the staff of the Law Library of Congress. Selections are edited by Constance Axinn Johnson and Wendy Zeldin. This and past issues are available online at: www.loc.gov/law/congress. This issue may be cited as: 1 W.L.B. 2004. The selections presented in the WORLD LAW BULLETIN have been chosen for their special significance to the U.S. Congress, either as they relate to a particular or general legislative interest, or as they may have a bearing on issues affecting the United States and its interaction with other nations. Selections should in no way be interpreted as an indication of support or preference for any legal or political stance. -
Desarrollo De La Radio En El Marco Político-Militar De Principios Del Siglo XX
DATOS DEL PFC TEMA: CIENCIA, TECNOLOGÍA Y SOCIEDAD TÍTULO PROYECTO: DESARROLLO DE LA RADIO EN EL MARCO POLITICO-MILITAR DE PRINCIPIOS DEL SIGLO XX AUTOR: REBECA VELASCO LÓPEZ TITULACIÓN: INGENIERÍA TÉCNICA DE TELECOMUNICACIÓN (TELEMÁTICA) TUTOR: RAFAEL HERRADÓN DÍEZ DEPARTAMENTO: TSC DIRECTOR: RAFAEL HERRADÓN DÍEZ PRESIDENTE: JUAN BLANCO COTANO VOCAL: RAFAEL HERRADÓN DÍEZ VOCAL SECRETARIO: MARÍA MAGDALENA GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN FECHA DE LECTURA: 28/09/2017 Desarrollo de la Radio en el Marco Político-Militar de Principios del Siglo XX AGRADECIMIENTOS A lo largo de este proyecto, son muchas las personas que han contribuido en su desarrollo. Unas veces con ideas, que en un principio sonaban absurdas y otras con una simple llamada de teléfono porque habían visto una película o un documental que hablaba de la radio. Pero no sólo se ha tratado de información, cuanto más baja era mi moral, más fuerte era su apoyo. Siempre encontraban alguna forma de que viese la parte buena. Especial atención a mi familia, a mi madre sobre todo. Esas llamadas a altas horas de la noche, donde conseguía sacarme una sonrisa pese a mi desesperación. El Innombrable, así es como lo hemos bautizado en casa. Lo empecé, lo perdí, lo dejé aparcado, lo volví a coger, y así hasta hoy. Gracias por aguantar mi mal humor cuando me quedaba atascada y no sabía por dónde continuar. Gracias porque sin ti este proyecto no sería una realidad, porque sin ti, seguramente yo nunca hubiera puesto un pie en esta Escuela. De Económicas a Telecomunicaciones, menudo cambio, quien me lo iba a decir. Eres mi referente, y espero algún día poder inculcar esos mismos valores que tú nos has enseñado a mis hijos.