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Here is come advice on building WAP sites– ’cause you know you’ll want to when you find out that it’s free and easy.

1. Ensure that the most relevant information is at the top of the page so it’s easily accessible to users.  It’s painful to scroll down forever on your mobile phone.

2. Ensure you keep your WAP site to a minimum of pages.  Most people won’t click more than a few times on your WAP site so you don’t want to bury your blog three or four pages down.

3. Go light on the graphics.  WAP sites are less about presentation and more about information.  Using fewer graphics will ensure quicker load times.  As a result people will remain on your WAP site longer and be happier for it.

4. Use Swift to build your WAP site.  It’s free and easy.

GREEN Foundation’s Ramachandrappa shows Ramegowda how to transplant chili and tomato saplings that he purchased for Rs. 0.25/sapling from Narayanaswamy in Marasahalli, Karnataka. At Ramegowda’s farm in Bhanavasi, Karnataka, Ramachandrappa shows the importance of using jevamrutha, an organic fertilizer, during transplanting.

(This is a howto video distributed across the Digital Green agricultural extension system, see more at http://www.digitalgreen.org)

The festival of harvest, Sankranti, as celebrated in Bhanavasi, Karnataka. Cows are decorated and stampede through a bonfire. This clipping is distributed to nearby villages using DVDs across Microsoft Research India’s Digital Green (http://www.digitalgreen.org) agricultural extension system.

The moving diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr Jeffrey Sachs while visiting some projects in Africa that make a real difference in combatting poverty. Their visits illustrate not only the necessity but also the feasability of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, agreed on by all the member states in 2000.

As the forum where the voice of all nations — great and small — can be raised and heard the UN (minus the Security Council) is the hope for the world and must be the agency through which all major international problems will be resolved.

Also watch “Fight Terrorism? End Poverty?”

In this video, Midge Ure, Save the Children Ambassador and Band Aid Trustee travels to Sierra Leone a year after his involvement in Live8 and Make Poverty History to see whether the promises of world leaders – particularly the promises on free healthcare – have reached the world’s poorest. On his journey he discovers that even small fees for healthcare are beyond the means of the world’s poorest. As a result, they avoid seeking help until it’s too late.

Every year, a quarter of a million children die in Africa, simply because they can’t afford to see a doctor or a nurse. Save the Children UK is campaigning for free healthcare for the world’s poorest children. The lives of hundreds of thousands of children in Africa could be saved each year by abolishing fees for healthcare. What’s more, it would cost relatively little.

Save the Children UK estimates that the lives of 285,000 children in Africa could be saved every year by abolishing healthcare fees. Thousands more children would lead healthier lives without healthcare fees pushing their families into poverty.

To find out more about Save the Children and their campaign for free healthcare in Africa, visit www.savethechildren.org.uk

For more videos on human rights, sustainable development and environmental issues visit the OneWorldTV open documentary platform – http://tv.oneworld.net

South Africa has the highest number of people affected with HIV, with about 5 million people in that country being HIV+. The only real applied treatment for HIV at this point is currently the use of antiretroviral therapies (ARVs) which allow those infected with HIV to live normal lives. This piece documents the efforts of various organizations in facilitating the use of PDAs, or Palm Pilots, in tracking those receiving ARV in the Free State.

Podcast courtesy of Rana Ghose.

Life in northern Uganda implies living within what essentially amounts to genocide. Since 1987, the Lords Resistance Army has been engaging in activities to overthrow the Ugandan government, with innocent civilians bearing the brunt of their brutal tactics, often via the forced kidnapping and recruitment of child soldiers. This piece documents how one organization, Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) has been training those released from captivity to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to rebuild their livelihoods.

Produced by Rana Ghose.

This short film documents a training workshop in Zanzibar, Tanzania organized by the Association for Progressive Communication. The three day workshop trained over 40 people from throughout eastern Africa on how to build and maintain wireless networks for their own projects, and among other skills, taught them how to make their own wifi antennas out of fruit tins.

Podcast courtesy of Rana Ghose.

2006. Length: 7:22. English/French with English subtitles.

Between November 28 and December 2, 2006, over 100 telecentre practitioners met in Porto Novo, Benin for the Telecentre Leaders Forum. The aim of the gathering was to develop a spirit of networking, learning and collaboration within the African telecentre movement, but also to share and address common challenges, and to gain practical skills. The forum was unique not only for the breadth of participants and the context they work within, but also the participatory methodology used to determine the agenda throughout the five days. This piece illustrates both this process and what happened over those five days.

Produced by Rana Ghose.

Podcast courtesy of Telecentre Video.

2006. Length: 16m51s. English/French with English subtitles.

Between November 28 and December 2, 2006, over 100 telecentre practitioners met in Porto Novo, Benin for the Telecentre Leaders Forum. The aim of the gathering was to develop a spirit of networking, learning and collaboration within the African telecentre movement, but also to share and address common challenges, and to gain practical skills. The forum was unique not only for the breadth of participants and the context they work within, but also the participatory methodology used to determine the agenda throughout the five days. This piece illustrates both this process and what happened over those five days.

Produced by Rana Ghose.

Podcast courtesy of Telecentre Video

2006. Length: 12m11s. English/French/Arabic with English subtitles.

Between December 5 and 7, 2006, telecentre stakeholders from North Africa and Middle East met in Cairo, Egypt as part of an ongoing telecentre.org study on the status of telecentres in the region. Thirty-five participants from key initiatives and development partners attended the workshop, which marked telecentre.org’s entry into the region. Participants agreed to network within the region, as well as to connect with other telecentres around the world. Activities that emerged from the workshop include the translation of telecentre.org site into Arabic, the creation of an Arabic version of Telecentre Times (http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes /), and content development and telecentre training.

Links of interest:
http://www.telecentre.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentres

Produced by Rana Ghose.

Podcast courtesy of Telecenter Video.

2006. Length: 12m11s. English/French/Arabic with English subtitles.

Between December 5 and 7, 2006, telecentre stakeholders from North Africa and Middle East met in Cairo, Egypt as part of an ongoing telecentre.org study on the status of telecentres in the region. Thirty-five participants from key initiatives and development partners attended the workshop, which marked telecentre.org’s entry into the region. Participants agreed to network within the region, as well as to connect with other telecentres around the world. Activities that emerged from the workshop include the translation of telecentre.org site into Arabic, the creation of an Arabic version of Telecentre Times (http://www.ugabytes.org/telecentretimes /), and content development and telecentre training.

Podcast courtesy of Telecenter Video

Part 2

In 1998 war broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since then, ountless millions of people have been displaced, denied an education or access to health care. As many as four million people have lost their lives.

Podcasts courtesy of OneWorldTV.

More than 20 years since the discovery of the AIDS virus, and despite huge advances in the prevention and treatment of the disease, AIDS is still decimating communities across Africa. This is the story of one such community.

Podcast courtesy of OneWorldTV.

More than 20 years since the discovery of the AIDS virus, and despite huge advances in the prevention and treatment of the disease, AIDS is still decimating communities across Africa. This is the story of one such community.

Podcast courtesy of OneWorldTV.

In the first of a series of mini-films, Excellent Development explains how its approach to creating development through conservation is benefiting communities in Kenya.

In addition to exploring each individual element of the charities holistic approach to soil and water conservation, these films also offer a valuable insight into how Sand Dams, a key element of Excellent Development’s approach, represent an effective and necessary small-scale approach to strengthening communities’ long-term sustainability.

Whilst being critical to improving water supplies, food production, health and incomes for communities in semi-arid Kenya, sand dams are also a grassroots answer to fighting climate change, a benefit recently reinforced by the release of the government commissioned Stern Report.

Podcast courtesy of IICD.

Podcast Courtesy of IICD.

Podcast courtesy of Telecentre Network.

Podcast courtesy of Telecentre Network.

Podcast courtesy of Telecentre Network.