Announcements

Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year – or $2.5 billion a day – while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 percent. ‘Public Good or Private Wealth’ shows the growing gap between rich ...

The Vietnam Sustainability Forum (Jan 17-18, 2019) aims at providing an international exchange platform for global leaders and stakeholders (policymakers, academics, businesses, entrepreneurs, and NGOs) to present and discuss worldwide initiatives, practices and visionary trends about sustainability. The ultimate goal is to achieve the long-lasting ...

Open Knowledge International has announced the launch of our latest report Advancing Sustainability Together? Citizen-Generated Data and the Sustainable Development Goals. The research is the result of a collaboration with King’s College London, Public Data Lab and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. More details ...

The 1st APNIC Hackathon at APRICOT 2018/APNIC 45, with support from RIPE NCC, was a great success, with 24 participants from eight different economies working collaboratively on IPv6. The 2nd APNIC Hackathon, with the theme “A DRUM” (Addressing Delegation, Routing and Usage Measurement), will be co-located ...

The survey aimed to get a clearer picture of the systemic infrastructure within which information security trainers and capacity builders work today. Research was structured around consultations with practitioners supporting human rights organizations, in different professional roles, circumstances and contexts. The investigation focused on identifying existing resources and frameworks ...

The research provides a holistic overview of the key changes that affected Northern Chin society from pre-colonial times up to now in villages close to Hakha town where State penetration was stronger than in more remote areas. The study sheds light on the overlapping and ...

The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to make up to 100K equity-free investments to provide early stage (seed) finance to for-profit  technology start-ups that have the potential to benefit humanity. If you’ve got a start-up registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries and have a working, ...

Summer School: Mekong Water Governance will be held on 21-25 January 2019 This intensive one-week Summer School aims to build multi-scholar and critical thinking skills for water governance in civil society, state and young academic practitioners. The key areas of focus are dimensions of transboundary impact ...

Seven fellowships, including one librarian position, will become available on the following dates: 1)　September 1, 2019 2)　October 1, 2019 3)　January 8, 2020 4)　January 16, 2020 5)　March 1, 2020 Applicants must be productive scholars of high reputation under 65 years of age at the time of the fellowship appointment; those over 65 ...

The EarthRights School (ERS) is a training program for civil society advocates from Myanmar and the Mekong region who are working on environmental and human rights issues. The theme of the seven-month program is “Community Leadership for Earth Rights.” The curriculum integrates storytelling and legal ...