Full Coverage: Communication

28.02.2006 A pregnant woman at home alone in her remote village in Sierra Leone unexpectedly went into a difficult labor and, with no access to a doctor or medical facilities, a minor medical emergency could have taken a tragic turn.

26.02.2006 The efficacy of the system of providing information under the Right to Information Act depended much on public awareness on the legislation.

24.02.2006 "Welcome to Radio Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 - the one stop entertainment solution for all...," chirps the attractive voice of a radio jockey. A swank new FM channel in New Delhi or Mumbai? No, the innovation of an impoverished Bihar villager that has got people hooked. The radio station, beaming from Mansoorpur village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, has been giving music, local news and views for the last three years. For hundreds in and around the area it is 'the' station to tune into rather than national stations.

24.02.2006 As the world’s societies and economies depend increasingly on the Internet, after three decades, the Internet and other global networks are approaching a crossroads. Leading Internet architects believe that the premises on which the Internet was built need rethinking, in order to preserve and expand opportunities for innovation and economic growth. The window of opportunity is now, for international cooperation and coherent policies to help shape a global Internet, that meets the needs of as many users as possible, is robust and secure, and that can scale itself to evolving requirements.

24.02.2006 World's GSM umbrella body, the GSM Association, and Intel are jointly providing laptop computer users with automatic access to HSDPA and other GSM-based technologies and the ability to connect and roam across global mobile networks.

23.02.2006 In what could spell bad news for the use of copyrighted material on the Internet, a US District Court judge, A Howard Matz, has ruled that the free availability of Perfect 10's adult entertainment thumbnail images on Google's image search "likely" amounts to copyright infringement.

23.02.2006 Google, the US-based Internet giant, has once again landed in a controversy in China, with the government on Wednesday saying it has completed a probe into charges that the company operated in the country without proper licence.

23.02.2006 Have you ever heard of a FM station launched with just Rs 50? Well, there's one running at Muzaffarpur in Bihar. Though the owner, Raghav Mahto, earns little money from it, his station is growing in popularity.

23.02.2006 An award-winning photojournalist Nick Danziger travelled to eight of the world's poorest countries Armenia, Bolivia, Cambodia, India, Honduras, Niger, Uganda and Zambia and there photographed many people especially children who are living in extreme poverty, suffering from hunger or who are victims of injustice and inequality. World Vision hosting exhibition of these picture tob raise awareness about Millennium Development Goals and to emphasize their impact on the development of children in various cities of Asia. Delhi will host it on 22nd - 24th March 2006 at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia, New Delhi.

23.02.2006 The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has earmarked a whopping Rs 20 lakh in its annual budget for starting an FM radio service.

23.02.2006 Posters, fact-sheets, teacher's guides, and children's books are just some of the latest weapons in the war against bird flu.

22.02.2006 Entrevista com Dr. Belisario Santos Jr. A MP e o Decreto recém-promulgados pelo Presidente, diminuindo o prazo de blindagem dos arquivos, representam um avanço significativo na questão do acesso aos documentos de órgãos públicos?

22.02.2006 The sudden spurt of interest that followed the unshackling of local Frequency Modulation (FM) radio from government control and the way these new stations are attracting a new, young and mobile audience, is being seen as a new leap of technology in a medium that will be 100 years old in 2006.

22.02.2006 Seated in his office on the 10th Floor of Teleposta Tower, Nairobi, Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, cuts the image of a confident CEO sitting on the crest of a blue-chip company.

21.02.2006 iNARS is initiating an e-discussion on knowledge management and agriculture, starting 20 February. Upon the suggestion of Koda Traore at CTA, the discussion is going to focus on knowledge management and knowledge sharing. It is expected that this will help in eliciting different perspectives people have on this issue.

17.02.2006 A highlight of the World Telecommunication Development Conference, in Doha, Qatar, 7-15 March 2006, will be a panel discussion among the movers, shakers and thinkers within governments, civil society, the private sector and international organizations to achieve the goal of connecting the world to the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICT).

16.02.2006 The government on Wednesday announced that the proposed Broadcasting Regulatory Act was finally ready and the inter-ministerial process was on before the Bill was placed before Parliament.

15.02.2006 Last thursday, 2 February, the “Civil Society Forum” informal initiative that gathers a number of Croatian NGOs, came out with strong accusations against the activities of the National Foundation for Development of Civil Society in 2005. The Foundation is accused of fostering conflict of interests of its governing body members; the inexistence of supervisory or body that would receive complaints; unclear evaluation procedures; unclear financial operations; lack of programming profiling and unjustified expenditures.

15.02.2006 The only way for Africa to combat bird flu successfully is through an effective communication strategy that enables the public to prepare both for outbreaks in their poultry stocks and for a possible human pandemic, says Tom Egwang.

15.02.2006 Bangladesh NGO, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication, (BNNRC) will organise a training programme on Rural Knowledge Centers: How to Get Started and Keep Going at Sitakund, Chittagong from February 22 to February 24, 2006.