Best upcoming events for Journalism in Europe
Our data journalism Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is truly massive Our free online course Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools is launching 19 May, 2014. With over 18.000 participants at press time, it is the largest online journalism course to date. Through video lectures, tutorials, assignments, readings, and discussion forums, participants will learn […]
14 Reasons To Pass Immigration Reform In 2014
There are a lot of good reasons to make 2014 the year that we finally fix our broken immigration system. 1) 1 in 6 workers in the U.S. is an immigrant. Source: Immigration Policy Center 2) Comprehensive immigration reform would create 1.4 million jobs. Source: Center for American Progress 3) Every day, the U.S. loses around $36 […]
Tajikistan’s Domain Registrar hacked; Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon also defaced
Google’s primary search domain for Tajikistan had seemingly been hacked yesterday, along with other high profile domains including Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon — redirected to a defaced page.
50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses
Whether you are looking for a master’s degree program, computer science classes, a K-12 curriculum, or GED study program, this list gives you a look at 50 websites that promise education for free. From databases that organize over 1,000,000 students throughout 16 universities, to a small library of documents for those interested in history, the […]
Code.org: 2 Weeks And 600M+ Lines Of Code Later, 20M Students Have Learned An “Hour Of Code”
Less than a year ago, brothers Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi launched Code.org to help advocate for computer science in the U.S. and increase participation in STEM education by making these subjects more available in schools and classrooms around the country. Today, it seems that what started as a whisper has grown into a roar.
Electronic Commerce in Tajikistan – Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
A key trend in the development of modern civilization is consistent and continuous growth of information and knowledge and the role of these in all spheres of economic activities. In fact, many researchers refer to today’s modern society as a ‘post-industrial, ‘informational’ or society based on ‘information economy’. In the 21th century communication is not simply a […]
Surveying ICT use in education in Central and West Asia
Technology use in schools at reasonably large scale began in many OECD countries in earnest in the 1980s and then accelerated greatly in the 1990s, as the Internet and falling hardware prices helped convince education policymakers that the time was right to make large investments in ICTs. In most middle and low income countries, these processes […]
Silicon Valley Giants have joined together to create comfortable conditions for migrants.
Fwd.us (Forward us) is organization started by leaders of tech-community which deals with the problems of migrants in the United States. This community works to encourage Congress to improve the immigration system and develop immigration legislation ensuring border security, providing the opportunity to obtain citizenship for immigrant professionals. Members of the organization believe that the […]
Farhod Pulatov, JustuJu “The problem of development of Tajik sites is very slow because of the search engines”
To control traffic and not spend an extra Mb is very important when 1Mb of internet costs on average $ 0.03. The last three years the majority of providers in Tajikistan created portals and FTP for their subscribers so they can quickly and free of charge to download the files they need. How to create […]
Professional School of GNU/Linux and open source technologies will be open in Dushanbe
School administrators will make servers based on *NIX systems and generally experts on open technologies. Education and certification of students will be held in accordance with the requirements of the labor market of Information Technology (IT). The initiator of the School of GNU/Linux and open source technology is the public organization “Center for Information and […]