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Day 5 of the WTO's Ministerial Conference, Bali, 3 December 2013. (Photos may be reproduced provided full attribution is given.)
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I saw this crazy trike in Columbus today. Each of the seven riders' drive trains are connected with a shaft and u-joint. But I'm wondering why there are only five cupholders.
Free poster in German (Deutsch)
E-CONFERENCE - In 2007 Planeta.com hosts an online conference focusing on Tourism and Migration. If you have a website, help us promote our coverage by adding a link to
www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/migration.html
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ANNOUNCEMENT
In 2007 Planeta.com hosts an online conference focusing on Tourism and Migration which will highlight timely news and innovative work around the world.
www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/migration.html
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE - The Tourism and Migration E-Conference is Planeta's 18th formal e-conference. The format will differ from previous events in that dialogue will run over six months.
January/February - Dialogue among co-sponsors and those who register early.
March/April - Additional participants will be allowed entry in March and April.
May/June - Participants will conclude the dialogue by preparing recommendations and announcing individual and collaborative projects.
BACKGROUND - Tourism enterprises are increasingly considered as as providing an alternative to migration and a vehicle to alleviate poverty in developing economies by creating jobs. Likewise, tourists are staying longer in places -- blurring the distinction between tourism and migration. The Tourism and Migration E-Conference will address these issues and allow participants time to prepare recommendations and announce individual and collaborative endeavors.
REQUIREMENTS - Active participants are asked to have a professional interest in tourism or migration. You don't have to be an expert in both topics. Active participants will be required to post an introduction and to post at least two messages per month. An account on the Planeta Forum is necessary for active participation, though the posts can be read by all.
SPONSORS - Sponsorship opportunities are available.
YOUR TURN
CALL FOR PAPERS - Planeta.com is seeking ordinal essays and recommended links to resources elsewhere on the Web. If you care to contribute an article or suggest a link, consult our writers' guidelines.
www.planeta.com/ecotravel/search/guide.html
CREATE A BUZZ - If you have a website, help us promote our coverage by adding a link to
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QUESTIONS
We ask participants to reflect upon the following questions:
What is the difference between slow travel and migration?
How effective is tourism in creating jobs and providing an alternative to migration?
What role do long-term foreign residents play in educating visitors?
Are investments in tourism training and infrastructure a viable outlet for migrant remittances?
To what degree does tourism development displace local people?
REFERENCES
Tourism and Migration
www.planeta.com/ecotravel/tour/migration.html
Forum
forum.planeta.com/viewforum.php?f=60
Forum Guidelines
www.planeta.com/worldforum.html
Conferencing in the Virtual and Natural Worlds
www.planeta.com/web/conferences.html
Conference Index
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International Conference on a Decade of Progress after Fukushima-Daiichi: Building on the Lessons Learned to Further Strengthen Nuclear Safety, held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 8 November 2021.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Moderator: Naga Munchetty
Organized by:
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
In cooperation with the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/ Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA)
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive NuclearTest-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) World Health Organization (WHO) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Opening Remarks:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
Takeshi Hikihara, Ambassador and Resident Representative of Japan to the IAEA
Mike Weightman, Conference President (United Kingdom)
Lydie Evrard, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security
Gustavo Caruso, Scientific Secretary
Hajimu Yamana, Japan Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation
Students at FerMUN: Model UN conference, ITU, Geneva, 9 - 11 January 2013.
© ITU / M. Jacobson - Gonzalez
The conference „Digital Backyards Japan“ has been initiated by smal.jp and berlinergazette.de. It took place during three days of January 2013 (10th-12th) in northern Japan at the Sapporo Media Arts Lab. The aim was to explore future forms of networking in the field of knowledge production.
The awareness towards the digital monopolism of companies based in Silicon valley is growing all over the world. Also in Japan. But what are alternatives to Google and Facebook? The conference „Digital Backyards Japan“ claims: The answer can not be yet another internet giant of Japanese origin to rival Google and Facebook. A real alternative would be to empower diversity.
The resources for alternatives to an increasingly centralized internet landscape lie dormant in Japan's diversity itself: tinker garages, corporate hotbeds, grassroots hubs, institutional labs, hacker bedrooms, editorial outposts etc. In those digital backyards various stakeholders in the field of knowledge production have been pursuing their innovative work over the last decades. However its potential has not been exhausted yet.
What can be done about this? The conference invited open minded bloggers, entrepreneurs, researchers, cultural workers, journalists and programmers to explore synergies between their work. Here they discussed: Why do we network in the first place? What do we see as emerging trends? What are up and coming web services? What is the potential of decentralized strategies?
The motivation of the conference is to think and network beyond the given (e.g. infrastructures) and the dominant (e.g. cultures). Above all it is about exploring dormant potentials: How can Japan's digital backyards catalyse networking cultures in a sustainable way? How can they revitalize a country in deep crisis? And how can they help to connect Japan anew with world society?
„Digital Backyards Japan“ was a kick off event for more meetings in Japan/Asia and a follow up of a Berlin summit in October 2012. The spontaneous proliferation of the conference enables a fruitful process of cross-regional learning from: Insights from the debates in Europe are shared in Japan/Asia and vice versa.
documentation of the Berlin conference:
berlinergazette.de/digi-yards-documentation
program of the Berlin conference:
berlinergazette.de/digital-backyards
Photo Credit: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi (Mayer Planning Office/ City of Sapporo, SMAL), Chris Piallat (Alliance '90/The Greens), Krystian Woznicki (berlinergazette.de)
The sixth annual Creative Writing Conference took place on campus the first weekend in April. Conference alumna and fiction writer Sarah Crossland returned as a faculty member, a first in conference history.
Speaker at FerMUN: Model UN conference, ITU, Geneva, 9 - 11 January 2013.
© ITU / M, Jacobson - Gonzalez
Scenes from the Foreign Schools sessions at the 2018 FSA Training Conference in Atlanta, GA on Nov 26, 2018
Visit to ITU's ICT Discovery Museum by participants of FerMUN: Model UN conference, ITU, Geneva, 9 - 11 January 2013.
© ITU/ M. Jacobson-Gonzalez
Community researchers from the Harmony Project in Cincinnati attend the conference’s opening reception.
Conference delegates involved in the panel discussion on "Advance in utilisation of satellite data for nowcasting and limited area modelling".