The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), which was founded in 1964 and operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government and two United Nations Agencies, UNESCO and IAEA, has lined up an exciting array of training programs next year. Trainers for these programs are world renowned experts in their areas of [...]

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The Canon Collins Trust has announced that it is currently managing a scholarship programme on behalf of Mrs Graça Machel. The key aim of the Graça Machel Scholarship Programme is to help provide the human resources necessary for economic, social and cultural development in the Southern African region and to develop an educated and skilled [...]

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Search Engine Journal reports that
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displayed search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its reach and now includes an option to display search results from other search engines. Users of the site now have the option to choose results from [...]

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While I was growing at Mzokoto in Rumphi, Northern Malawi, our home used to be heavily infested with termites. At that time, I used to think that termites were a problem for poor people in third world countries. I could not even imagine that residents of developed countries such as USA could also be suffering [...]

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Pambazuka reports that the European Union(EU) has set aside a total sum of 9.1 billion Euros for funding of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-based research in Africa through the EuroAfrica-ICT Strategic Partnership.

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At the ongoing PostieCon event, IZEA’s CEO Ted Murphy has announced that in January 2008, they will launch SocialSpark, a “social network” for advertisers and publishers (bloggers). This will serve as a matchmaking network for bloggers and the advertisers.
I managed to get first hand information from Jim Kukral’s blog.

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Yesterday I blogged about MyBlogLog’s recently announced Problogger contest which is limited to US based bloggers.I argued that by limiting the eligibility zone, MyBlogLog had made a serious mistake. I submitted my post to Sphinn and fortunately enough it was read by Todd Sampson, the co-founder of MyBlogLog. I am impressed with his humble response.

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Yesterday, Techcruch reported that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told reporters in Tokyo that Google wasn’t ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with search. Duncan Riley gave a number of online services in which Google is a dominant force.

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As I woke this morning, I read an interesting blog post from MyBlogLog in which they have announced that they are running a Problogger contest. Part of the announcement reads
A few weeks ago we sat in our office and brainstormed on ways we could give our members a hand in their blogging efforts. [...]

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The International Graduate Program on Environmental Science and Infrastructure Engineering at Saitama University in Japan is offering highly qualified foreign students the opportunity to pursue doctoral study and research in related fields of the following courses:

Course in Infrastructure Innovation
Course in Environmental Science

The program starts either in April or October and requires a [...]

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