Full Coverage: capacity building

28.03.2008 Bunkar Vikas Sanstha in Chanderi town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has changed the lives of weavers by helping them earn better incomes. Once bound by poverty and exploited by traders, the community now aspires to use media tools to create more livelihood opportunities.

25.03.2008 Under its World Ahead Programme, Intel Corporation will supply a thousand personal computers to schools across 64 districts in Bangladesh. Ensuring cost-effective Internet connectivity with the help of other agencies is also one of the objectives of the programme.

24.03.2008 Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) invites nominations from South Asian countries for the Manthan Award 2008 to recognize the best e-content for development. The Manthan Award, after its four years of interventions in India, has now decided to cover Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

21.03.2008 A Kenyan company has launched a project called Digital Village Constituency Cluster geared to expand the countryÂ’s ICT reach to connect the rural population. Each cluster will have minimum of eight digital units serving commercial, developmental and educational activities within a 15 km radius.

07.03.2008 E-Commerce Asia Summit 2008 is the most prominent forum in Asia attended by major international players and decision makers in e-commerce. Organised by Terrapin from April 9-11, 2008 in Singapore, the summit will be a comprehensive information, solution and networking event to bring fresh air into the Asian e-commerce marketplace.

07.03.2008 Indian IT company Infosys Technologies is improving the efficiency of the country's agro supply chain, by enabling farmers' access to technical data and images, region-specific weather updates and market information, such as daily sales volumes and average prices.

07.03.2008 Indian IT company Infosys Technologies, in collaboration with an international development organisation, is improving the efficiency of the country's agro supply chain. The ICT-enabled application enables farmers to access technical information like data and images, access to region-specific weather updates and market information such as daily sales volumes and average prices.