Full Coverage: Communication

30.06.2005 Le 4e congrès international des recherches féministes dans la francophonie plurielle, qui a lieu tous les trois ans, fait suite à celui de Québec (1996), de Dakar (1999) et de Toulouse (2002). En 2005, il réunit plus de 250 communicatrices - des professeures, des chercheures, des doctorantes, des militantes d'organisations non gouvernementales et des groupes de femmes dont la langue de travail est le français - en provenance de plus de 20 pays. Elles feront le bilan des avancées dans la réalisation de l'égalité des sexes, des obstacles qui persistent et des moyens à mettre en œuvre pour les aplanir.

29.06.2005 The Basic Skills Agency and BBC Worldwide Interactive Learning have collaborated to produce a CD-ROM for adults on citizenship and basic skills.

29.06.2005 UNESCO's Audio-visual e-platform provides a platform for the development communication practioners to exchange their multimedia content.

28.06.2005 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services without any entry and licence fee.

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24.06.2005 Valijon and Maydagul were childhood sweethearts. They had finally overcome family pressure to become engaged, but their dreams were dashed when Valijon fell victim to drug addiction.

24.06.2005 Following practical exposure within workshop settings, to procedures for obtaining information from government such as exist under the "Freedom of Information Rules, 2004", Pakistani journalists from the provinces have reportedly sent dozens of requests for information to government departments concerned.

24.06.2005 The recent meeting of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO foresees commissioning the tsunami warning system for the Indian ocean region by July next year.

24.06.2005 Yahoo Inc., the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors.

23.06.2005 OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina launched today a country-wide public awareness campaign to enable citizens, particularly returnees, in Bosnia and Herzegovina to understand how to access social services.

21.06.2005 People around the world followed through the different media the daily developments of the tsunami tragedy and stories of those directly affected.

21.06.2005 Highlighting grass-roots response to the Global Health Epidemic,
broadcast journalists from different parts of the Asia-Pacific region will be creating a series of "HIV/AIDS Reports" in their respective countries for television programming.

21.06.2005 The world's largest school as recognised by the Guinness Book has made its foray into the media world with the launch of an Educational Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio Channel.

20.06.2005 Les membres de l'IFEX attirent l'attention sur le Code pénal algérien, que les autorités invoquent pour incarcérer les journalistes qui couvrent d'un ?il critique le gouvernement et les forces armées. Au cours de la dernière semaine, au moins quatre d'entre eux ont été reconnus coupables de diffamation pénale et trois se sont vu infliger des peines d'emprisonnement. Il y a encore des centaines d'autres affaires pendantes contre les journalistes.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), is happy to announce the training programme on “Local Language Web Hosting and Communication with Ek-Duniya” at Pune during 6-9 July 2005.

16.06.2005 Ericsson has signed a US$250 million managed capacity expansion contract with Indian operator Bharti to provide managed services and expand its GSM/GPRS network into rural India.

16.06.2005
What seems to be an apparent measure to boost the revenue from the mobile phone business, the government of Bangladesh has decided to impose a new duty on Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) effective from July in the proposed new budget.

15.06.2005 The battle for Internet has begun and India is in the thick of it. Over the next three days, Geneva is hosting a meeting of the Working Group on Internet governance (WGIG). At stake: Democracy in the cyber world, says India.

15.06.2005 The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has brought out this new publication - Christian fundamentalism and the media - that dwells on the doctrines and attitudes of a number of Christian groups and sects related to their use of the media.

15.06.2005 Giving a boost to the rural telephony, the Minister for Communications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran announced the ministry’s “One India” plan. Under this plan there will be uniform tariff for all calls irrespective of the distance.