2nd Annual Forum of the Water Community Bangalore, 23 - 25 July; contact for more information 3rd Annual Forum of the MCH Community Udaipur, Rajasthan; 17 & 18 March 2008 read more
Visioning Workshop of the Disaster Management Community New Delhi; 13-14 February 2008 read more
2nd Annual Forum of the Work & Employment Community Patna, Bihar; 20-22 February 2008 read more
Local Initiatives Show the Way to Welfare 26 May 2008 An e-discussion group of stakeholders, called Solution Exchange… noted that if suitably empowered, village local governments… can contribute to food security… read more
A Mild Dose of Power 12 January 2008 Today, with about 12,000 active thinkers and contributors from nook and corner of the country, Solutions Exchange, the mega knowledge management programme of the world body, has been helping India find its own solutions… read more
Solutions for Every Problem 8 January 2008 UN’s Solution Exchange acts like a development face book for grassroots NGO workers through its 11 communities… read more
Solution Exchange 5 December 2007 Interview with Anand Kumar and Gitanjali Sah representatives of UN Solution Exchange, part of the team organizing a 2-day workshop taking place on 6-7 December 2007 in Auroville... read more
Solution Exchange for the ICTD Community is Holding a Two-Day Visioning Workshop on 6th & 7th December 2007 Workshop at Auroville December 2007 Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is actively participating in the ICTD Visioning Workshop through its Founder and Director Osama Manzar and Sr. Program Officer Syed S. Kazi… read more
YMCA To Launch Campaign ‘Lakshya’ To Fight AIDS 2 December 2007 (Hindi version); 30 November 2007 (English version) United Nation’s Solution Exchange initiative for the AIDS Community of Practice in India, in collaboration with YMCA, Nagpur, is organizing a regional aids workshop on WORLD AIDS DAY… read more
Indian Masses Have Inherited Wisdom 26 October 2007 Knowledge and skill inherited by the Indian masses is leading countrymen to progress phenomenally, said Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narotam Mishra, at the inaugural session of the 2nd annual ‘decentralization community’ seminar... read more
Knowledge Is the Key to Development 26 October 2007 The knowledge is rural areas is available in abundance; it is time to make it available. In this regard, the effort of solution exchange’s decentralization community is highly commendable… read more
Mid-Day Meal Scheme: Focus on Nutritious Food 1 September 2007 Lack of awareness and access are two important reasons for low intake of vegetable and fruits among schoolchildren in six villages of Medak district… read more
A 'Solution eXchange' for Indian Agricultural Practitioners 25 August 2007 In India, agricultural development practitioners have used ICTs (mainly email discussions) to share experiences among the community on sustainable agricultural extension systems… read more
Concern over Growing Gap in Growth Rates 18 August 2007 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative Daniel Gustafson on Friday expressed concern over the increasing gap between the country’s economic and agricultural growth rates… read more
Information Technology in
Developing Countries: A
Newsletter of the IFIP Working
Group 9.4 and Center for
Electronic Governance, Indian
Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad
Spreading the ICT Revolution in Rural India: Experiences and Examples August 2007 Article is a compilation of the discussion on ‘Spreading the ICT Revolution in Rural India: Experiences and Examples’ that was carried out by the ‘ICT for Development Community in India’ on Solution Exchange, a UN initiative for development practitioners in India... read more
Ladies and Gents 26 July 2007 Will the countryside be free of open defecation over the next 5-years? Does doubling of rural sanitation coverage from a humiliating low of 22% to an all-time high of 44% in the recent past confirm such a claim…read more
UN To Share Best Practices with MLAs 25 August 2006 The UN has entered into a knowledge-partnership with Andhra Pradesh assembly's legislators' forum for human development and the millennium development goals" as part of efforts to share best practices and bring collective knowledge to find solutions to development challenges… read more
UN Initiative to Aid National Development Efforts in India 18 May 2006 Structured to help development practitioners share their experiences and support India's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Solutions Exchange works by the formation of communities of practice through electronic mail groups… read more
The NACP-III E-Consultation: Reaching out through the Internet December 2005 Every individual’s knowledge adds a new dimension and offers a fresh perspective on development challenges. Your contribution matters in ushering in ‘the change’… read more
Wider Choices, Smarter Development 24 October 2005 Solution Exchange, a unique experiment by the United Nations, provides an impartial platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas among development practitioners… read more
India Launches e-Consultation on AIDS Control Plan 19 July 2005 India Tuesday launched an e-consultation with civil society on the AIDS control programme. This is the first time India will be consulting civil society for inputs into its national AIDS control policy, said S.Y. Quraishi, project director of National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)… read more
You Can Help Make AIDS Policy 18 July 2005 Do you strongly believe that the National AIDS Control Programme, Phase I and II, of Naco have failed to meet their target? And instead you have "great" solutions for the government when designing a strategy for NACP-III to make it successful… read more
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