Digital Access to Research Workshop of the UN Technology Bank held at SUST

A two-day Workshop on Digital Access to Research held on 6-7 November at SUST Research Centre, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, SUST, Sylhet. The workshop was organised by the United Nations Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (UNTBLDC). It was the 2nd workshop of UNTBLDC in Bangladesh. The 1st one was held on 30-31 October at BUET, Dhaka.

The purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness about the Research4Life platform and to provide training on how to access and use the platform. Research4Life is the collective name for five research programmes viz. HINARI, AGORA, OARE, ARDI and GOALI,  managed by WHO, FAO, UNEP, WIPO & ILO, which provide developing countries with free or low-cost access to academic and professional content online including e-Books.

Digital Access to Research Workshop of the UN Technology Bank held at SUST

Digital Access to Research Workshop of the UN Technology Bank held at SUST

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The Department of Information Studies and Library Management, EWU celebrates Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2019

Ahasan, Dhaka

The Department of Information Studies & Library Management, East West University, Bangladesh celebrated the Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2019.
The celebration took place this year from 24 to 31 October, under the theme “Media and Information Literate Cities: Voices, Powers, and Change Makers”.

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A five-day-long ASIS&T 2019 annual meeting ends on 23rd October

Prodip Roy AALIA (DCP)

November 3, 2019

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) previously named as American Society for Information Science and Technology held its 82nd annual meeting at Crown Conference Centre in Melbourne, VIC., Oct. 19–23, 2019. The theme was INFORMATION…ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANY TIME, ANY WAY.

The event details can be found at https://www.asist.org/am19/

The Opening and Closing Plenary sessions focused on the conference theme ‘ anyone ‘ and ‘ anywhere ‘ Mikaela Jade delivered the opening plenary presentation on ‘ Mixing Reality for Cultural Proliferation, ‘ where she shared her industry experience that successfully engages indigenous women in technology. Similarly, the closing plenary presentation entitled ‘ Changing the Paradigm: Building a Learning Health System Through Disruption Collaboration, ‘ given by, Helena Teede where she highlighted the importance of providing information at the right time and in the right way.

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