Full Coverage: policy initiatives in ICT

31.08.2007 Professor at IIT Delhi's computer science and engineering department is designing an information sharing model to integrate the verification process of government departments.

31.08.2007 The second Internet Governance Forum is taking place in Rio de Janeiro from 12 to 15 November, the participants of the event will gather in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on Monday, 3 September to discuss the details of the agenda and programme of the four-day meeting in Brazil.

31.08.2007 Scientists at IBM said they had moved closer to achieving the feat by learning how to steer single atoms in a way that could create building blocks for ultra-tiny storage devices.

31.08.2007 In a major relief to mobile operators, the Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has excluded many revenue streams, including income from the sale of mobile handsets on a standalone basis, while calculating annual gross revenue (AGR).

30.08.2007 An Indian origin scientist at Purdue University has demonstrated a new technology to dramatically improve computer chip cooling.
The technology uses tiny "ionic wind engines" to increase the "heat-transfer coefficient," or the cooling rate, in chips by as much as 250 percent.

30.08.2007 Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, unveiled an online music store, a gaming service and four new multimedia handsets in a move to take a greater share of consumer spending from mobile operators.

30.08.2007 The government of an Indian state, Rajasthan has started putting in place a plan to make Jaipur a WiFi city by providing wireless Internet access throughout the city, as was announced by the Chief Minister in the budget speech earlier this year.

30.08.2007 e-Krishi centre in an Indian state of Kerala is making people of Malappuram district more happy in Onam festival by offering them cheap goods than any other place.

29.08.2007 The brand new website,ErasmusPC has been launched which is an International Network for Culture and Cities. Its aim is to gather ideas and to formulate and promote initiatives relating to urban and cultural development.

29.08.2007 One of the largest providers of business application software, SAP AG a German software firm, has doubled the number of customers in India to 2,000 in the past year and reaffirmed plans to invest $1 billion in the country to boost growth.

29.08.2007 Algeria and the United States have ratified a second agreement which is extending over the next five years, to cooperate in science and technology.

27.08.2007 Global Alliance for Youth and development (GAID) is organizing a Global Forum on Youth and ICT for Development: Youth and ICT as Agents of Change, at Geneva International Conference Center in Geneva, Switzerland from 24 to 26 September, 2007. The forum aims to help the youth in exploring and exploiting ICT for the advancement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

27.08.2007 United Nations officials called on top Chinese executives to utilize information technology to improve the plight of poor people and to fight against poverty, illiteracy and disease in their home country and around the world.

27.08.2007 The Intel Foundation partnered with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation has granted a donation of US 60,000 (Rs.25 lakh) towards women's education and empowerment in India.

27.08.2007 Researchers in Canada have revealed that computer analysis of existing drugs may be a key to fight new infectious agents and antibiotic-resistant pathogens like deadly tuberculosis strains and staph 'superbugs', making it easier to tackle sudden outbreaks. They said that the use of such "emergency discovery" technology could save time, money and lives during a sudden bio-terrorism attack.

27.08.2007 A group called iPhoneSIMfree.com said it had developed a piece of software that, allows the iPhone to use rival mobile services such as T-Mobile, a widely followed technology blog Engadget.com has reported.

24.08.2007 Asia Pacific survey, on mobile banking opportunities, has come up with a report titled, ‘Mobile Opportunities for the Financial Sector’. The survey which was conducted in five countries found that one of every three Indians with a bank account is ready to switch to another bank, offering free mobile banking. Indian users are found more aware of mobile banking than those in other countries.

24.08.2007 The Commission has adopted a proposal to select systems for mobile satellite services at European level. If adopted by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Telecom Ministers, this new selection mechanism will allow innovative services, such as mobile TV, broadband data and emergency communications to develop smoothly throughout Europe as of 2009.

24.08.2007 The researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL, London, have found, with the aid of a computer game that how the brain response to fear changes as a threat gets closer.

24.08.2007 Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is extending the Competition deadline to 9 September 2007. The Competition is part of GKPÂ’s ongoing programme in the area of youth-led social enterprises. It is fully web-based and open to applicants worldwide until the (extended) closing on 9 September 2007. 100 winners selected by an international online jury will be announced on 20 October 2007.