Full Coverage: Communication

30.09.2005 Four South Africans have set up a social networking website to connect South Africans from all over the world.

30.09.2005 UNESCO will support a workshop on preparing a master plan for the national press in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be organised in Kinshasa from 18 to 21 January 2006 by the Ministry of Press and Information.

29.09.2005 Banglalink, a cell phone operator in the country, has introduced voice message service styled i'bubble that will enable all Banglalink subscribers to send a message as voice instead of text to all local mobile operators.

29.09.2005 The Youth Information Desk in Zenica was officially opened today, by the Mayor of Zenica Husein Smajlovic and the Executive Director of the Youth Information Agency, Jan Zlatan Kulenovic. The Youth Info Desk Zenica was established in partnership of the Municipality of Zenica and OIA B&H, with the financial support by the Open Society Institute B&H.

29.09.2005 A regional workshop on ICT for Community Empowerment through Non-formal Education (NFE) will be convened by the UNESCO Asia Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL) in Chennai, India from 3 to 7 October 2005.

22.09.2005 U.S. talk show host Bill O'Reilly remarked last week that he wished Hurricane Katrina had hit the United Nations building in New York, adding, "and I wouldn't have rescued them." Citizens for Global Solutions asks you to email O'Reilly's boss and demand he apologize for his hate-speak.

21.09.2005 The Young Global Leaders Summit: Ending Poverty brought together young people from across the U.S. to discuss how to eliminate global poverty during their lifetime--and to bring these concerns to the center of Americans' attention.

20.09.2005 The final preparatory meeting for the forthcoming Tunis Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society opens today at the Palais de Nations in Geneva with UNESCO observers participating throughout the two week event.

19.09.2005 UNESCO will support the organisation of the second World Electronic Media Forum that will be held in Tunis from 15 to 16 November 2005, in connection with the second phase of World Summit on the Information Society.

19.09.2005 This month, grammy-nominated Congolese singer and women's advocate Zap Mama, and the documentary campaign Love, Labour, Loss, will travel the U.S. on a concious-raising tour for obstetric fistula--a health condition that has debilitated over 2 million women--and that the U.N. has called, "one of the top ten stories the world should hear more about."

16.09.2005 OWSA's Ek Duniya Ek Awaaz (EDEA) Radio Programme was launched officially on September 12, 2005 in a ceremony at OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office whereas the broadcasting has started form September 14th on AIR FM Rainbow (102.6 MHz).

16.09.2005 Kosovo Prime Minister, Bajram Kosumi and Silviu Hotaran, General Manager Microsoft South East Europe discussed yesterday for the possibilities of further development of relationships between “Microsoft” and Kosovo Government, including as the first step the immediate application of Windows XP in Albanian language.

16.09.2005 A one-day debate on Infoethics takes place today at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as part of the 9th session of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council for UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

14.09.2005 Community radio(Anna radio 90.4 Mhz) is trying to empower communities and encouraging development through this cheap and ubiquitous technology

14.09.2005 A three-day Colloquium on Language Technologies starts on 14 September 2005 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

13.09.2005 Karen Banks, The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has recently issued a statement for stakeholders to sign a petetion protesting deterioration of human rights in Tunisia, with the Summit just 2 months away. The statement calls on all governments to "fully recognize the sovereignty of the situation and to bring pressure to bear on the Tunisian authorities to respect their international obligations".

13.09.2005 A quick look at results from four recent polls shows how the American people's response about withdrawing troops from Iraq depends greatly on how the question is asked. One thing is clear though: Americans don't think things are going well.

12.09.2005 UNESCO invites Member States and regional and international organizations professional and non-governmental organisations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

08.09.2005 The world needs alternative media, but it needs to be credible and more accessible, said experts— bloggers, independent filmmakers, and BBC journalists—at a panel discussion on communication ahead of the Helsinki Conference on Wednesday.

07.09.2005 The small West African Republic of Guinea has taken an important step towards guaranteeing press freedom by opening the airwaves to private broadcasters.