Liza Cabrera

Nominate your hero

The nomination for 2013 Trust Women Hero Award is on from September 2 to 27, 2013. Nominations may be sent through the Trust Women site  The Hero Award celebrates people whose bold thinking and high impact work enables women to know and advance their rights. Nominees are judged on their leadership and the impact, scalability, and groundbreaking nature of their work. The 2013 Hero Award will be presented at the

2013 Conference on ICTs in Agriculture, Food and Environment

The 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2013) will be held on September 19-22, 2013 in Corfu Island, Greece. HAICTA 2013 aims to bring together professional, experts and researchers working on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment. The conference is organised by the Hellenic Association for Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture Food and Environment (HAICTA) with the support

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The World Water Week will be held  in Stockholm on September 1-6, 2013. With the theme, “Water Cooperation – Building Partnerships”, this event aims to help link practice, science, policy and decision making, and enables participants to exchange views and experiences, form partnerships and shape joint solutions to global water challenges. Plenary sessions, seminars, workshops, and awarding ceremony will be held during the event. Click here to see programme. Over 200

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Held during UN Week from September 22-24, the Social Good Summit  is a three-day conference at New York, USA where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. It unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our greatest challenges. The most innovative technologists, influential minds and passionate activists will come together with one shared goal:

Call for Papers World Water Week 2013

On September 1- 6, the 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm will once again gather water professionals, government officials, researchers and business leaders in the Swedish capital to seek common solution to the most pressing global challenges relating to water and development. This year under the theme “Water Cooperation – Building Partnerships”. For more details: http://www.worldwaterweek.org/

World Environment Day

June 5 is the World Environment Day. The theme for this year’s celebrations is Think.Eat.Save. Think.Eat.Save is an anti-food waste and food loss campaign that encourages you to reduce your foodprint. World Environment Day is an annual event aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. The event began in 1972 and has grown to become one of the main vehicles through which the

Living in a multicultural world: Blog contest

Calling all bloggers! You are invited to join the blog contest about multiculturalism and win an invite to the 5th CAUX – Initiatives of Change conference on ‘Learning to live in a multicultural world (LLMW): Building trust for action across generations’ on 1-6 July 2013 in Caux, Switzerland. This competition is open to participants at least 18 years old and the submission deadline is May 31, 2013. To enter the competition: 1. Write a blog