UNESCO Courier articles from February 2000

UNESCO Courier archives from February 2000

WHEN TIBETAN EYES ARE SMILING.
February 1, 2000... Mohan Bir Thapa [o] Thanks to ingenious and inexpensive surgery, a Nepalese doctor has brought vision to thousands of people in Tibet, which suffers one of the world's highest rates of cataract blindness I While staying at a small...

THE ELECTRONIC GAP.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... In the United States, business journals, market gurus, economics professors and highly paid consultants talk incessantly about the coming global boom, the transformation of the workplace, the technology revolution and the knowledge explosion....

BLACK AND BLUE, LIBYA'S LIQUID LEGACY.
February 1, 2000... Amy Otchet [o] Libya is mining water to feed its Great Man-Made River but is still not sure how to use this precious resource Years can roll by without a single shower raining on much of Libya's Sahara-one of the world's most...

WILL EDUCATION GOTO MARKET?
February 1, 2000... Nico Hirtt [o] The World Trade Organization has launched a process that could open up to competition the expanding and highly protected world market in education. What issues are at stake? Most of us see education as first and foremost...

Small media, new voices.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... For centuries journalism has, when performing at its best, been the craft through which skilled writer-reporters working for organizations financially powerful enough to afford expensive print, recording and broadcasting infrastructures have...

Technology as liberator.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... John Kohut [o] The technological revolution is helping to give voice to the voiceless Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of media offerings, from the proliferation of magazine titles, to the hundreds of cable...

Jerusalem's cub reporters.
February 1, 2000... Claudine Meyer [o] Israel's proliferating community TV stations are becoming a power in the land. The enthusiasm of their staff helps to compensate for lack of funding The Hebrew expression Lev Hair means the "heart of the city". It...

The global media boom.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The so-called information age, marked by the triumph of the Internet, started in the early 1980s and really took off in the latter half of the 1 990s. In 1981, only some 200 people were connected to the Internet. The turning point came in 1986,...

Romania: computer-generated freedom.
February 1, 2000... Mirel Bran [o] Romania's media landscape has been revolutionized as a profusion of national and Local newspapers have broken a state monopoly that Lasted for 40 years 'It's only midday and I've already sent 10 emails to my...

Senegal: Oxy-Jeunes is in the air!
February 1, 2000... Abou Yayoba [o] Young people in a poor suburb of Dakar fought hard to get a radio frequency. Since their station started broadcasting in June 1999, it has vien many ordinary citizens a chance to speak their mind 'I wish I could listen...

Sri Lankan expats find a guardian angel.
February 1, 2000... Ethirajan Anbarasan [o] A Paris-based radio and television channel keeps Sri Lankan Tamils abreast of news from home while helping them adapt to life abroad Rasaiah Yoganathan, a 40-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil, arrived in Marseilles last...

Algeria Dot-Com.
February 1, 2000... Djallal Malti [o] Algeria-Interface uses the Internet to put out 'completely impartial news' about Algeria People had dreamed about publishing unbiased news of the crisis in Algeria but saw no easy way to do it. Until the Internet came...

India: the information deficit.(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2000... Indian media expert Sevanti Ninan [*] regrets that the absence of community media is depriving rural Indians of information they need UNESCO Courier journalist What is the status of community radio, newspapers and television in India?...

New media, new rules.
February 1, 2000... John V. Pavlik [o] The Internet is challenging the media establishment, empowering the public and redefining the role of journalists in society About midnight on February 4, 1999 22-year-old West African immigrant Amadou Diallo stepped...

New media, new headaches.
February 1, 2000... Aidan White [o] Is the Internet really the democratic force it is made out to be? For much of the 1990s journalists have tended towards Mark Twain's wry observation, "I'm all for progress, it's change I don't like." But the rapid...

FOR EAST EUROPE'S WOMEN, A RUDE AWAKENING.
February 1, 2000... Elisabeth Kulakowska [o] Women are starting to react to the fallout from eastern Europe's economic transition which has hit them hard, bringing growing poverty, social decline and prostitution In Romania and Russia, they have started...

DUBROVNIK REBORN.
February 1, 2000... Maja Nodari [o] Seriously damaged by the conflict in former Yugoslavia, the great medieval city on the shores of the Adriatic has been restored in record time "My wife and her mother died without ever seeing our family home again,"...

INDONESIA: LEARNING THE ROPES OF PRESS FREEDOM.
February 1, 2000... Jose Manuel Tesoro [o] Tight government control over the Indonesian media has ended, but there is still no social consensus about how far press freedom really goes I To see just how much Indonesia has changed since the fall of its...

http://www.thehungersite.com/.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Each day, indifferent parts of the world, 24,000 people die of hunger-one every 3.6 seconds. Three out of four of them are children under five. This independent site allows you to make a donation of food via the UN World Food Programme to...

SERBIAN FILM-MAKER GORAN PASKALJEVIC.(Interview)
February 1, 2000... The director of a dozen feature films internationally acclaimed for their blend of lyricism and realism talks about the background of his latest film, which deals with 'the eclipse of human consciousness' caused by war When there's a war...