Full Coverage: Communication

20.05.2006

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In March 2006, Zubaan, an Indian feminist publishing house, held an exhibition in New Delhi, of over 1500 posters together depicting the Indian Women's movement since the 1970s. Poster Women is set to open at Bangalore in November 2006. It will then travel to Chennai in December, and from there to Mumbai, Hyderabad and Calcutta.

19.05.2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today established an Advisory Group to assist him in convening the Internet Governance Forum, a new forum for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance.

17.05.2006 Four years back, in 2002, OneWorld launched the Digital Opportunity Channel. The Channel was launched on World Telecommunications Day which is observed globally on 17th of May.

09.05.2006 A serious attempt to make technologies for the masses and by the masses. Attempted by www.abcnewsnetwork.com

09.05.2006 Peacekeeping officials dealing with communications and information technology in a number of hotspots across the globe today completed a five-day meeting at the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), where gender concerns were addressed as part of overall planning.

03.05.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3 (OneWorld) - Though it faces daily intimidation and what some are calling 'confusion' over professional standards, Iraq's burgeoning media has already begun to shape opinions on the street, said a group of senior Iraqi journalists on tour in the United States.

02.05.2006 The draft Protection of Personal Information Bill, which deals with data privacy and information protection, is expected to become law this year — with significant implications for South African business.

02.05.2006 When we talk about TV in Brazil, we mean something big, really big. Television has ultra high penetration and influence in this country -- 98% of the population watches it at least once in the week (anatel). And soon this household electronic unit will be the central icon in the national mobilization of attention to the World Cup games in Germany. As the Brazilian soccer team fights in the German fields in June to maintain global sovereignty most of the population will be glued to the TV. This is the context in which the debate about the digital TV implementation is arriving and the open network is again holding the most productive exchange of ideas and arguments on the issue.

01.05.2006 The World Language Mapping System is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and trusted geographic data set of the locations of the world's nearly 7,000 ethno-linguistic peoples.

01.05.2006 Vanita Sahaya Vani, a helpline set up in 1999, offers support to women in distress. It has so far helped hundreds of women by way of counselling, immediate rescue, family counselling and rehabilitation.