Full Coverage: ICT

31.10.2005 BANGALORE: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to provide it with technical know-how for establishing tele-education links.

28.10.2005 Under the auspices of the E-Society international conference, a public panel discussion on Freedom of the Media on the Internet took place in the Hotel Aleksandar Palace, Skopje.

27.10.2005 OneWorld South Asia will host a panel discussion with Global Knowledge Partnership on local content in the upcoming Tunis Summit. The panel discussion “Local content: an answer to global problems” provides a knowledge-sharing platform for experts from the South to provide issues around using local content for poverty reduction.

27.10.2005 The Mookambigai College of Engineering, Kalamavur in Pudukottai district, and Anna University in Chennai jointly organised a 12-day programme to train self-help group women to establish information kiosks on college premises.

27.10.2005 National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nepal organised an interaction programme with media persons to find out what was missing in the media relation in controlling human trafficking.

27.10.2005 At least 600 000 schools in Africa will be connected to one another via a satellite network in a bid to help schools produce maths and science whiz kids.

27.10.2005 Workers having problems with their employers will soon be able to complain to Dubai Police any time of the day or night by calling the 24-hour hotline number at Dubai Police Operations Room.

27.10.2005 This theme shall serve as an objective for a seminar uniting a group of experts of the two rivers of the Mediterranean, through French Commission for UNESCO, which is to be held on 27 and 28 October 2005 in Paris.

27.10.2005 The media should help dispel such misconceptions to check the spread of HIV effectively, according to Paladugu Rambabu, head of Sexually-Transmitted Diseases wing of the hospital in Vijayawada.

27.10.2005 Widespread ignorance about basic computer security in UK is putting millions of people at risk from net-savvy criminals, a survey suggests.

26.10.2005 A Farmers Internet Café, established by the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU), through support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the USA’s department of Agriculture, has helped linking the mother body with affiliates at district level, while at the same time providing access to information to individual union members. Through this café not only were the farmers able to access business opportunities, they were also able to know general marketing trends in the agricultural sector, to write letters to their relatives as well as enquire about any other services that the union or any other organisation of interest to them was offering.

26.10.2005 APDIP and the UNDP Asia-Pacific Gender Mainstreaming Programme will be hosting a one-day workshop titled “Mapping Gender in the Information Society: From Reality to Discourse”. The event will be held on 31 October 2005 at the Menam Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

26.10.2005 The Union Government is encouraging e-learning particularly to benefit the people in rural areas, Director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) R. Rajalakshmi said.

26.10.2005 Around 200 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in the country are likely to go online this year, and have e-connectivity with all relevant agri research institutes.

26.10.2005 Research on information literacy in China and Indonesia started in September 2005, conducted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) with funding from UNESCOÂ’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

26.10.2005 Some of the proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act will give women facing abuse on the Internet a raw deal, say representatives of the Cyber Society of India (CSI), a Chennai-based organisation.

26.10.2005 UK charities have joined forces with the Department of Trade and Industry to explore how technology can be made more accessible for excluded groups.

26.10.2005 Fresh doubts have arisen over the progress of an empowerment charter for the ICT industry, since the empowerment charter steering committee, South Africa appears to have no leader.

25.10.2005 National workshop on exploring the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Teaching of English-
Challenges and Opportunities (Sponsored by the University Grants Commission) 24-25 November,2005 at the Mahatma Gandhi College,Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

25.10.2005 A two-day long "National consultation on designing an enabling framework for community radio in Bangladesh" to be held from 19-20 November 2005 at LGED auditorium, Agargoan, Dhaka, Bangladesh.