Full Coverage: ICT

29.04.2005 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Tunisian government will host parallel events in the Summit premises.

29.04.2005 You might not think that your skills are likely to be in great demand when it comes to changing the world. Think again.

29.04.2005 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is launching a new ICT for Development partnership for preparing concrete strategies towards improving access to ICTs through boosting economic competitiveness of developing nations.

29.04.2005 Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) is organising an e- governance summit titled Conflux 2005 from October 3-5, 2005, at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

28.04.2005 OpenOffice.org e proekt na Softver so otvoren kod. OpenOffice.org ne nudi samo kraen proizvod sloboden za koristenje, tuku vi nudi i moznost da zemete ucestvo vo procesot na preiranje na proizvodot. Najlesen nacin da se vklucite vo ovoj proces, e da se registrirate, i taka da dobitete moznost za ucestvo vo najrazlicni proekti, alatki za obrabotka na dokumenti, razni sigurnosni "zakrpi", ili da prokomentirate za odredeni problemi.

28.04.2005 The OpenOffice.org source code includes the technology which Sun Microsystems has been developing for the future versions of StarOffice(TM) software. This source technology introduces the next-stage architecture, allowing use of the suite as separate applications or as embedded components in other applications. Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file formats and other resources.

28.04.2005 L'Échange international de la liberté d'expression (IFEX) lance aujourd'hui une nouvelle publication qui vise à fournir aux activistes du monde entier qui oeuvrent en faveur des droits de la personne les outils essentiels qui leur permettront de faire campagne plus efficacement, afin de mieux défendre la liberté d'expression et la liberté de la presse.

28.04.2005
Stages outre-mer

Les Programmes jeunesse d’Alternatives offrent des programmes innovateurs et passionnants pour les jeunes (18 à 30 ans) intéressés à l’organisation communautaire, à la solidarité internationale et à la création de liens avec les pays en développement.

28.04.2005 Emergence of the e-governance in India can be traced back to 1970s when National Informatics Centre (NIC), a pioneering institution set up by the Government of India, started networking government departments to exploit their knowledge repository for ensuring good governance.

28.04.2005 On April 26, Microsoft Macedonia officially presented the Macedonian translation of Windows XP operating system. The users of licensed copy of Windows XP in Macedonia can download the Macedonian version, free-of-charge, from the official webiste of Microsoft Macedonia.

28.04.2005 As a part of the former Yugoslavia, Serbia closely followed the global technology trends until the early 1990s. The start of the series of wars has contributed for Serbia to lose several steps, but the contact was not completely lost. Those years were key, in many aspects, to the future development of information technology: the internet appeared, PC technology managed to outweigh the other types of computers for personal use, GNU got the core for its operation system – Linux.

28.04.2005 Edgar Bursic presented a unique project in Croatia – the Monteparadiso Hack Lab in Pula, at the Anarchist Book Fair in Zagreb. The Hack lab uses exclusively free software and offers free internet access to its users.

28.04.2005 Amila Akagic is President of the Linux User Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Akagic talked to OneWorld SEE about the promotion and use of free and open source software in Bosnia, and about the activities of the Linux User Association.

27.04.2005 Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. Click on the linkbelow to find out more about the operating system that is causing a revolution in the world of computers.

27.04.2005 World Intellectual Property Organization's recent meeting in Geneva initiated a new intellectual property development agenda that holds the potential to shift some of its focus to the needs of the developing world.

27.04.2005 A new front in the ever-lasting struggle for social freedom has been opened: it's all about access to knowledge, information and non-material goods. The growth of legislation on monopoly over information (often called Intellectual property Law by some lawyers), threaten to further emphasize the social differences, slow down scientific development, expand monopolization of knowledge and finally concentrate power in the hands of big corporations.

The fact that this non-material segments of production are central to the process of construction of tomorrows “Information society” led to development of legislation which puts the control upon them.

Created once to protect and encourage progressive inventions, in the time of digital information that is not exhausted by its use, they became the obstacle to the development process and steel door of a new networked society.

By creation of rules in the field of economy of knowledge, rich countries assured constant flow of funds from third world countries. Good case of corporate profit being put over public interest are pharmaceutical industries that use this laws to protect their own profits, while one third of the world's population lacks access to essential drugs. READ MORE

26.04.2005 The interactive nature of internet has opened up the possibilities of enabling public participation in global policy-making processes, hitherto confined to few selected government, private and civil society sector representatives.

26.04.2005 The oldest and biggest tradional Linux conference in Croatia, CLUC/DORS 2005, was held from April 20-22 at the School of Electronics and Computer Sciences in Zagreb.

25.04.2005 Le 28 avril à Montréal a lieu un événement visant à approfondir certains enjeux liés au développement d'une démocratie en ligne au Québec et ses impacts sur la population, un dossier qui persiste à retenir l'attention d'une toute petite poignée de féministes québécoises. La société de l'information et de la communication gagnera-t-elle à continuer d'être conçue sans vous?

19.04.2005 The African Civil Society for the Information Society(ACSIS) has clocked a year with proud achievements to its name.