The private yet very important room! The toilet is one room that every human being -- regardless of race, social status or gender -- can never avoid. To most people, visiting the washroom requires high degree of secrecy. Yet, often, this secrecy is seldom given priority especially in public places.

The frequent power cuts and lack of Source: TechSoup Glossary and GenderIT.org">internet

has affected the coverage of the seventh edition of the World Social Forum. The following are voices of journalists on the ground at the Kasarani Media Centre, in Nairobi. Read the exclusive comments by journalists on the ground.

Nairobi and the Swiss resort of Davos are set apart not only physically – ideologically too the Davos economic forum’s belief in conventional Trickle Down is a world apart from the WSF’s faith in building Another World.

At the World Social Forum the International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI) entered in a dialogue with the Italian Minister for Development Co-operation, Patrizia Sentinelli, about the involvement of social movements in policies that may result from the agreement to be signed today to convert Kenya's debt with Italy, worth 44 million euros.

Pambazuka News is offering coverage from the the WSF at Kenya here. Fahamu's Flickr photos of the event are here Bloggers posts on WSF-Kenya (via Technorati.com, are coming up here. And Google.news has some (mainstream, but sometimes interesting) perspectives here.

Check this blog by Jose Sorian titled "la historia de Internet en ALC por sus protagonistas" at http://interred.wordpress.com/. Thanks to Adolfo Dunayevich of APC for putting out the link. Some other links on that blog's blog-roll: Convergencias de gente en la red; LANIC - Historia de Internet en ALC; and recuerdos de la red.

Premier technological institute IIT Bombay is to launch the Indian chapter of Creative Commons during its annual Technology Festival of India, later this month (January 2007). The Creative Commons (CC) is a global non-profit working to expand the range of creative work available for others "legally to build upon and share."

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Greetings! Lauren writing from the AMARC 9 World Assembly in Amman,Jordan. It has been a privilege to be present here among the global and regional AMARC family and the many local community radio activists and journalists. I wish to share very good news from the Community Radio sector of India....