ACJP at World Sumit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia
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Ambedkar Center for Justice and Peace |
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ACJP NEWSLETTER |
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November, 2005 |
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Volume 1, Issue 2 |
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The "World Summit on the Information Society" was held recognizing the revolution in Information and Telecommunication world; and how this revolution has fundamentally changed the way people think, behave, communicate, and earn their living. This world summit was held in two phases. The first summit took place in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 and the second summit was held in Tunis, Tunisia from 16 to 18 November 2005. We as a Non-Government Organization participated in this summit. This summit was important to us since it was focusing largely on the issues of public concern, drew high level of political participation, including the Heads of States and Governments and provided a forum to discuss our issues, internationally. These kind of discussions with government and non-government organizations makes people aware not only the developments of a country but also, of the problems prevailing, sometimes even getting a helping hand to solve issues specific to one country. Yogesh Varhade, Pankaj Meshram, Smitha Dandge, and Niranjan Waghmare attended the summit. The main focus of this summit from our group was to make other governments and private organizations aware of the practice of "Racism due to birth" that has been prevalent in India for thousands of years. Efforts were made to make organizations empathize with the most marginalized and tribal people, and provide solutions using Information and Communication Technologies to help uplift their economic conditions. Recommendations were made by ACJP on how e-learning can be an easy solution, to solve the problem of illiteracy amongst the indigenous people, who |
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account to 90-95% of the illiteracy rate and teach them few simple e-business technologies thereby, uplifting their economic conditions as well. A great deal of encouragement was received by many government and non-government organizations to support our movement. I hereby, request you all to unite and help us to make this movement, which was dreamt by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar more than 50 years ago, a reality. In the news
ACJP begins Golden Anniversary Celebrations of the Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din in North America. Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din was celebrated with a bang by Ambedkar Center for Justice and Peace (ACJP) in Detroit (Michigan) USA. The celebrations marked the beginning of the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of the Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din that will conclude in October 2006. International president of ACJP, Mr. Yogesh Varhade announced that special programs and celebrations will be arranged throughout the coming year in observance of the important Golden Jubilee Celebrations. ACJP donated $2000 to the Tsunami Victims in India. Sakya Maitreyi, Convenor for Human Development Council, a network in Pondicherry was given charge to organize Tsunami Relief Program by Dr. Velu Annamalai, JB Siddhartha Educational Trust, Chennai. The budget details for the same were submitted to ACJP last month. As part of relief activities in four Tsunami affected villages Aaladimedu, Vambapet, Vanathampalayam and Moorthikuppam in Pondicherry region; the relief material such as uniform, notebooks, school material for students and sarees for widows were distributed . |