Foundation for People Empowerment

Location

Event: FOSSilize - a three-day-camp with fun & learning/sharing of free and open source software   (FOSS)

Theme: Building Capacities and Empowering Humanity through the use of Free and Open Source Software to connect, cooperate, and collaborate – the FOSS way.

15 July: Dimapur, Nagaland (Contact:  The Morung Express, Dimapur. Phone:03862-236871. Email: morung@gmail.com)

16-17 July: Jakhama, Nagaland (Contact: Dr Abraham Lotha, Vice Principal, St. Joseph's College: 9436831695, stjosephc@gmail.com)

Climate change is one of the issues that is going to challenge the mankind in the days to come. People around the world are concerned about the ill effects of climate change. Governments and civil society organization around the world has started working on combating climate change through various methods.

November 6-13, at the beautiful campus of International Institute for Rural Reconstruction, Silang, Cavite, the Philippines, a 150+ gatherings of open source users and believers from Asian countries ended successfully; each one of the participants were champions in their respective fields from NGOs, SMEs and freelancers. And the participants came from Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vietnam.

Abhishek Bachchan promotes m-learning in the Idea advertisement. It is cute and timely!

Citizen Journalism (CJ) and application of new media technology are the new age of communicating issues that impact lives of people on a daily basis. This message on plural and a more democratic media emerged out of a series of recently concluded CJ training workshops. Organised by Babul Gogoi, a proponent of new media, and supported by Panos South Asia (PSA), Impulse NGO Network (INGON) and Foundation for People’s Empowerment (FPE), the workshops were held on July 27 and 29 in Guwahati and Shillong respectively.

Citizen Journalism is act of citizen playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. It has put democracy back in people's hands.