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ICT-WEB Alert

September 2014

  1. AbbreviationZ.com

    Launched on 2001, AbbreviationZ.com is the largest human-edited acronyms and abbreviations directory on the internet with more than 350,000 entries classified by over 120 different categories and sub-categories. The new innovative meta-search feature allows users, who are searching for acronyms and abbreviations definitions on the local AbbreviationZ.com directory, to locate additional meanings on the internet by using a meta-search engine, which is based on proprietary natural-language-processing algorithms, that lookup and parse multiple search-engines simultaneously.


  2. Arthapedia

    Arthapedia is a portal for facilitating understanding of the Indian Economy and its governance by explaining the concepts used in the economic policy domain in India. This portal is managed by government economists of India (known as Indian Economic Service (IES) Officers) and is intended to cater to the requirements of their counterparts in other countries as well as to academicians, economists, policy practitioners, financial journalists, students and to any interested citizen, both within the country and abroad.


  3. Agropedia

    agropedia is a digital knowledge repository with the open platform for learning and sharing information related to Indian agriculture. The content is semantically catalogued and easy to find. This agricultural encyclopaedia is being designed as a sub project of the knowledge management initiative of National Agricultural Innovation Project(www.naip.icar.org.in) in support of agriculturalextension and outreach.


  4. DigitalGreen

    Digital Green builds and deploys information and communication technology to amplify the effectiveness of development efforts around the world to affect sustained, social change.


  5. e-choupal

    ITC's Agri Business Division, one of India's largest exporters of agricultural commodities, has conceived e-Choupal as a more efficient supply chain aimed at delivering value to its customers around the world on a sustainable basis.


  6. e-Sagu (ICT-ARD)

    The ICT-ARD is carrying out teaching , research and devlopment with an aim to build ICT-based systems and methodologies to accelarate indian agriculture and rural development.


  7. Knowledge Transfer Networks (KDI)

    From here you can find out more about KTN's nd the KTN Platform; it's free-for-members-to-use tools including: online conference calling, presenting and sharing; business collaboration system and powerful newsfeeds.


  8. Electronic Literature Organization: ELO

    Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another.


  9. ICTP Open Access Archive

    The ICTP Open Access Archive of the Science Dissemination Unit allows scientists from anywhere to post on-line, at no cost, their scientific work and scientific CV in electronic format.


  10. LiveScience

    LiveScience is an original content site focusing on the innovative and intriguing in Science and Technology. Aimed at the intellectually curious, it covers news, views and scientific inquiry with an original, provocative point of view. With articles by respected science journalists and contributors, LiveScience looks at new discoveries, intellectual adventures and the idiosyncrasies of the world that surrounds.


  11. ScienceBlogs

    ScienceBlogs is the web's largest conversation about science. It features blogs from a wide array of scientific disciplines, with new voices coming on board regularly. It is a global, digital science salon.


  12. Discovery Net

    The DNet project aims to design, develop and implement an advanced infastructure to support real-time processing, interpretation, integration, visualization and mining of massive amounts of time critical data generated by high throughput devices.


  13. Education World

    Consists of a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet, original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts.


  14. European Science Communication and Information Network: ESCIN

    The European Science Communication and Information Network (ESCIN) aims to improve the appreciation and understanding of basic and applied scientific research among Europe's citizens and opinion-formers.


  15. KnowledgeBoard

    A self-moderating global community thinking and collaborating on subjects around (but not limited to) Knowledge Management and Innovation in the worlds of business and academia.


  16. Mathematics Online

    This site provides links to a large number of Open Access Lecture Notes and a smaller number of Open Access monographs. For historical reasons it concentrates mainly on analysis and associated subjects, but submissions in other fields are welcome.


  17. Scholar Universe

    Scholar Universe is the web's fastest growing collection of accurate, regularly updated, and richly linked profile content covering faculty members, published authors, professional researchers and their organizational affiliations.


  18. CORDRA (content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture)

    An open, standards-based model for how to design and implement software systems for the purposes of discovery, sharing and reuse of learning content through the establishment of interoperable federations of learning content repositories.


  19. Career.edu

    A new non-profit job board organized specifically for the international academic community. United Kingdom is the newest member of their academic network.


  20. Design Build Network

    Design Build Network lists many industry suppliers for the design, construction and outfitting of new buildings. It also lists industry events and conferences and has a growing glossary of industry terms.


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