Full Coverage: ICT

29.03.2005 President Robert Mugabe has pulled out all the stops before elections in Zimbabwe Thursday, spending US$100 million of the state's money on Hewlett Packard laptops that he passes out at schools as he campaigns across the country. Meanwhile, many of the schools receiving the high-tech computers have been without textbooks, electricity, furniture or even roofs for many years.

29.03.2005 All district courts in India would be connected by the Supreme Court, informed the Minister for Law while speaking in a conclave on judicial reforms.

28.03.2005 UNESCO releases two documentary films based on the findings of three of its project in India to address the issue of gender divide through innovative use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

28.03.2005 Existing youth organisations affiliated to Nehru Yuva Kendra would be provided with facilities such as computer, internet, photostat and telephone connections in 145 select districts in India.

24.03.2005 "I think that there is a role for ICT, but have we explored the extent to which that can be harnessed in education? I don’t think that there is enough discussion between education and the ICT sector”, tells Erma Manoncourt in an interview with Anupama Ramakrishnan of OneWorld South Asia.

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23.03.2005 UNESCO and NHK will set up a state-of-the-art digital visual and sound processing technologies for the production of short digital documentaries on heritage.

23.03.2005 A new briefing paper published by Panos institute, describes the issues behind Internet governance that made it a heated subject at the 2003 WSIS meeting in Geneva. It is the first of a series of briefing papers that will cover other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) issues. It also gives important background information on the issues being raised at the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November 2005.

22.03.2005 PrepCom III, leading to the Tunis phase of WSIS, will be held from 19 to 30 September. It will take place in Palais des Nations, Geneva. During the Inter-Sessional period between PrepCom – 2 and PrepCom –3, the Group of Friends of the Chair (GFC) will continue to draft proposals for Chapter one (Implementation Mechanisms) and four (The Way Ahead) of the operational part. All the governments and other stakeholders can contribute to this process during this period.

22.03.2005 The department of consumer affairs, government of India is engaged in enabling consumer courts in various parts of the country to exchange information and data easily and quickly. This will also permit one court to refer to the decisions citied by another court in another part of the country.

22.03.2005 The department of consumer affairs, in India is engaged in enabling consumer courts in various parts of the country to exchange information and data easily and quickly. This will also permit one court to refer to the decisions citied by another court in another part of the country.

21.03.2005 A freely downloadable software package, the Dashboard of Sustainability, provides the complex relationships among social, economic and environmental issues through a graphical interface. The visual interface helps the decision-makers and other stakeholders in sustainable development in making informative decisions.

21.03.2005 There is requirement to conduct concurrent and periodical evaluation of the AIDS Control Programmes throughout the country, so that the real financial achievements could be assessed.

21.03.2005 ICTs are becoming recognised as key elements of the fight against aids in India. The experience of SAATHII, an NGO set up in 2000 to combat HIV/AIDS, has shown that ICTs are vital in disseminating information, and in building grassroots capacity to take measures against the spread of the disease.

21.03.2005 India accounts for 68% of the South Asian HIV epidemic and ranks second only to South Africa in the total number of people living with HIV according to the recent estimates.The crisis has spawned initiatives from a variety of sectors including the central government, state agencies, non-profit organisations, local, regional and national networks of HIV positive people, international agencies and corporations.

21.03.2005 This year's APC Hafkin Prize recognises community initiatives that use the internet and other digital communication networks to access markets, skills and opportunities to derive real economic benefits.

21.03.2005 In a recent meeting in Brussels, national broadcasting regulators have agreed to initiate appropriate measures to stop broadcasts which fuel incitement and hatred among the members of the public. Information exchange and cooperation among the national broadcasters have been identified as the key areas of action to prevent such broadcasts.

21.03.2005 Bellanet Asia is going to hold a two-day event on ICTs for building partnerships in Kathmandu from March 28 to 29, 2005. E-governance, open content and online networking will be the thrust areas of discussion in this meet.

21.03.2005 Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in practice- A toolkit with a collection of resources, checklists and examples on CD Rom

21.03.2005 Combating HIV/AIDS by strategic communication through information technology tools is one fundamental untapped area. It is hoped that efficient and effective use of ICT would be implemented in near future.