Conference

 Journalists and citizens in Africa using digital media to empower themselves and their communities are encouraged to register for the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) in Grahamstown, South Africa, on July 7.

Journalists and citizens in Africa using digital media to empower themselves and their communities are encouraged to register for the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) in Grahamstown, South Africa, on July 7.

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) are co-convening this gathering of approximately 500 maternal health experts and their allies in a global technical and programmatic meeting focused on maternal health.

The Global Maternal Health Conference (GMHC) 2010 aims to build on the existing momentum around MDG5 to coalesce and catalyse the maternal health field.

Highway Africa is an annual conference hosted by Rhodes University (School of Journalism and Media Studies) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with the support of several partners, development agencies, and sponsors. According to the organisers, the media arena has seen unprecedented expansion of global media networks paralleled by the explosion of the internet, centred on the World Wide Web, as a major media platform.

AMARC is pleased to announce that the tenth World Assembly of Community Radio Broadcasters will be held from 8 to 13 November 2010 in Ciudad de la Plata, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This will be the first Global conference of community broadcasters to be held in South America, where community radios were born 60 years ago.

This conference is organized to raise awareness and get a clear idea of what women’s current position is concerning the influence of the worldwide economic crisis on the position of women. All crises have their dangers and disadvantages, but each and every crisis also entails creativity and new opportunities.

This conference aims to produce information and recommendations on actions that will enhance gender equity as the turning point for economic development in the world.

Sponsored by: International Training Centre for Women (MNO–ITW).

WIDE´s 2010 Annual Conference will be hosted by AUR (Karat Coalition member organization) co-organised with KARAT coalition. The WIDE Annual Conference will allow migrant women and other women from Europe, CIS countries, Latin America, Asia and Africa to come together, to share experiences and actively learn from each other

1. Aim of the Conference

The main objectives of the Conference are:

2nd Science with Africa Conference

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its regional and international partners are inviting submissions of papers for the second “Science with Africa” Conference, entitled "Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship".

 The Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy (PALAMA), in association with Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), will be holding a one-and-a-half day conference entitled “Proactive and Responsive Service Delivery 2010 - 2015” on 20 and 21 May 2010. The objective of this conference is to provide individuals of the same seniority from both the public and private sector an opportunity to engage on a number of issues specifically related to the important issue of service delivery.

The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) is hosting a high profile public lecture by a world renowned scholar on the role of the state in development, Prof Atul Kohli.

Tens of millions of domestic workers world-wide, and hundreds of thousands in South Africa, suffer exploitation and abuse. Confined within an invisible and poorly regulated segment of the labour market, they are mainly unorganised and without knowledge of their legal rights.