Full Coverage: Communication

30.07.2004 Authoritarian governments in many countries still control the free flow of information on the internet, shows a recently published global report by Reporters Without Borders. Besides, many democratic societies in Europe and America have started exercising surveillance on internet communication for controlling terrorism.

30.07.2004 Tanzanian Internet users, whose Internet Services Providers are peering at the newly launched Tanzania Internet Exchange Point, are enjoying up to 60 times faster access to local content, said Suhail Sheriff, interim chairman of the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association.

28.07.2004 The prognosis based on the results of the results of The Internet Access Market in Croatia 2003-2008 study, conducted by the regional offices of IDC state that it is possible to expect 1,197,500 Internet users in Croatia by the end of 2004.

23.07.2004 Humanitas Centre for Development, Education and Business from Doboj launched the internet presentation of the city of Doboj environmental protection activities, on the EkoDoboj web-portal.

23.07.2004 The whole world is with Mostar today. More than a decade since it was destroyed by artillery barrage in November 1993, the “Stari Most” (Old Bridge) in Mostar will be officially reopened today, on a ceremony that will mark the completion of several years of hard work to rebuild the landmark that has meant so much to the citizens of Mostar over the centuries.

22.07.2004 Asylum seekers in Scotland who have been selected to take part in trials for electronic tagging will be tracked by satellite and mobile phone technology. They will be phoned twice a day and asked questions in their mother tongue.

19.07.2004 The Grameen Bank will further strengthen its ICT and phone network in the villages of Bangladesh with the World Bank award for ICTs.

17.07.2004 A Canadian company has been contracted to extend Sonatel, Senegal’s national telecommunications provision, into rural areas. Senegal ranks second in sub-Saharan Africa for internet connectivity, surpassed only by South Africa.

15.07.2004 Advocates for media reform have good reasons to be excited at last month’s court ruling that stopped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from de-regulating the media, says Shira Golding. A win for the FCC would have allowed mega media companies to “buy up hundreds of smaller broadcasters and to pipe the same streamlined infotainment into thousands of homes,” limiting public discourse for the vast majority of Americans.

14.07.2004 The Asian Development Bank will be supporting an ICT project in Mongolia to bring information resources within the reach of rural schools. The ICT for Innovating Rural Education project, which is also being backed by the Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology, aims to boost creativity in classrooms, build an efficient school management system and create non-formal learning opportunities. About 10,000 students in 36 schools are going to benefit from the initiative.

12.07.2004 Sweden has been in the forefront to enact a legislation on electronic signatures.

09.07.2004 Journalists are demanding the arrest of senior leaders of India's just deposed ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for their alleged role in an attack on a newspaper that has often been critical of them.

06.07.2004 In a unique international effort to take the anti-AIDS campaign to the illiterate masses in rural India, traditional artistes like potters, dancers and theater persons are weaving messages on the disease into their work.

01.07.2004 At a recent conference on women in the region, delegates asserted that the media in South Asia continues to display a feudal mindset by trivializing crimes against women, insidiously damning sex workers and perpetuating frivolous stereotypes.

01.07.2004 Policy makers from Indian government will deliberate on broadband and ICT development in a two-day ministerial conference from July 1 to 2 in Bangkok. The conference is being organised by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) to establish a framework of activities for broadband deployment in the APT member countries.