Full Coverage: Communication

28.04.2005 L'Échange international de la liberté d'expression (IFEX) lance aujourd'hui une nouvelle publication qui vise à fournir aux activistes du monde entier qui oeuvrent en faveur des droits de la personne les outils essentiels qui leur permettront de faire campagne plus efficacement, afin de mieux défendre la liberté d'expression et la liberté de la presse.

28.04.2005 Amila Akagic is President of the Linux User Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Akagic talked to OneWorld SEE about the promotion and use of free and open source software in Bosnia, and about the activities of the Linux User Association.

27.04.2005 World Intellectual Property Organization's recent meeting in Geneva initiated a new intellectual property development agenda that holds the potential to shift some of its focus to the needs of the developing world.

26.04.2005 The oldest and biggest tradional Linux conference in Croatia, CLUC/DORS 2005, was held from April 20-22 at the School of Electronics and Computer Sciences in Zagreb.

25.04.2005 Le 28 avril à Montréal a lieu un événement visant à approfondir certains enjeux liés au développement d'une démocratie en ligne au Québec et ses impacts sur la population, un dossier qui persiste à retenir l'attention d'une toute petite poignée de féministes québécoises. La société de l'information et de la communication gagnera-t-elle à continuer d'être conçue sans vous?

25.04.2005 The curious origins of the photographs which exposed the human rights violations in Abu Ghraib provide a reminder of the powerful but indefinable role of images in shaping opinion.

20.04.2005 The Anaconda Award grand prize went to Victor Churay, a young Bora Indian from northern Peru, for his documentary The Search for Blue. Churay’s story tells how he used the secrets of the jungle taught to him by his father to inspire his art, which expresses the myths, stories, dreams and aspirations of his community.

19.04.2005 Reporters Sans Frontiers conteste le bien-fondé de la décision prise par les autorités taïwanaises, le 10 avril 2005, d'interdire la présence sur l'île de deux importants médias officiels chinois, l'agence de presse Xinhua et le quotidien "People's Daily".

19.04.2005 Major Indian companies have ventured into rural areas to tap villagers for their services and products through information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the Internet and portals.

13.04.2005 Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith is donating the royalties from his latest novel, The Girl Who Married a Lion,--a set of folk tales gathered mainly from the Ndebele people of Zimbabwe--to people living with AIDS in one of Zimbabwe's poorest regions. The book is expected to raise more than $193,000.

13.04.2005 Radio journalists saved many lives in Ghazni city, Afghanistan, after news of a collapsing dam on March 29 was broadcast by the local radio station. A report from Radio Ghaznawiyaan allowed people to flee from Khwaja Omari and Ghazni City before the dam burst.

12.04.2005 Murali Shanmugavalen of Panos writes a letter to The Economist over its March 12 article, ‘The real digital divide’, which advocates using mobile phones to bridge the digital divide. Murali argues that the digital divide is not only about online connectivity in rural areas, but is part of an overall development divide. Read The Economist article and Panos' letter.

12.04.2005 Families living on the banks of River Ghazni in Afghanistan are thanking a local radio station for saving their lives when the old Sultan Dam burst late last month. News of the collapse was broadcast during a morning show, allowing town residents time to evacuate; shops and homes were swept away but no lives were lost.

11.04.2005 In less than 90 days, the leaders of the world's eight most powerful nations will meet in Scotland, and helping to raise Africa out of poverty will be tops on the agenda. A small African bus departed for the conference from South Africa at the end of March, collecting messages from Africans to Messrs. Bush, Blair, and company as it traverses the continent.

07.04.2005 Uzbek authorities have started criminal proceedings against the international NGO Internews, which supports the development of independent media around the world. Analysts see the move as part of a wider crack-down by the government on pro-democracy forces in light of recent political transitions faced by neighboring Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan.

06.04.2005 MTV Italy's ‘No Excuse 2015’ Campaign calls upon Italian youth to urge their government to keep its promises on the Millennium Development Goals.