Full Coverage: ICT

31.05.2006 Throughout 2005, partnerships continued to play a central role in all of IICDÂ’s activities. Indeed, IICD could not have carried out its work without the commitment and support of its partners; from its local partners on the ground, to likeminded organisations in the development sector, to its private and public sector partners.

31.05.2006 A new cheap laptop trademark produced by an alliance of some local computer hardware companies in Viet Nam has been introduced to public.

31.05.2006 Northern Bac Ninh province has become Viet Nam's first e-government province with the application of electronic monitoring systems at its agencies and organisations.

31.05.2006 UNESCO’s Community Multimedia Centre initiative is contributing “to improving quality of life through access to information” according to an independent evaluation report carried out by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).

31.05.2006 If you're like most parents of teenagers, your kids spend quite a bit of time after school tapping away at the computer. Well, here's a tip: They're probably not doing homework.

31.05.2006 In rural India, where HIV infection is increasingly common, the disease is spreading to a large number of women via their partners. Knowledge is the main, critical step towards stopping the spread of HIV to women.

31.05.2006 Information and communication technology (ICT) is the best means to eliminate poverty. Microsoft Bangladesh Limited Country Manager Feroz Mahmud said this while speaking as the chief guest at the certificate distribution ceremony of the trainees of 'Partners in Learning.'

31.05.2006 The Rift Valley Institute (RVI) and the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) have launched the Sudan Open Archive, an open-access digital library for Sudan, containing documents that until now were largely unavailable in digital form.

30.05.2006 A group of students from the "Metodi Mitevski Brico" high school from Delcevo, won the prestigious Platinum Prize Award for best web-site at the Doors to Diplomacy 2006 award competition, organized by the US State Department. The students won this years award in a strong competition of 306 projects from 46 states in the world.

30.05.2006 The telecom dispute settlement appellate tribunal (TDSAT) has rejected VSNLÂ’s petition against Trai and DoT and held that long distance calling cards sold by the company was illegal.

30.05.2006 After the Department of Telecom volleyed the issue of allocation and pricing of spectrum for 3G mobile services to its court, regulator TRAI is all set to release a paper next week to gauge stakeholders' views.

30.05.2006 If equity, justice, redressal are not built into our ICT strategies, all we will have accomplished is to upgrade our worlds, not change them. A person form Andhra spoke to Samuha members of how a person with a disability had accessed financial assistance through the government's ICT kiosks, and how, immediately after, a Panchayat official had come up to this person, and had asked him to ‘deposit' the funds with him.

29.05.2006 The MCA-21 Initiative of the Ministry of Company Affairs facilitating e-filing of documents under Indian Company Law is commendable in many ways.

29.05.2006 Bihar, where former chief minister Lalu Prasad once rubbished IT as an elitist tool, is all set to take a big leap towards e-governance with the government formally adopting it as a state policy on the advice of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

29.05.2006 Right to Information (RTI) and e-governance must go hand in hand. E-governance is a key vehicle to make people at the grass root levels aware of their rights, says Wajahad Habibullah, chief information commissioner of the government of India.

29.05.2006 For many African governments, moves towards embracing e-governance have gone little beyond the opening of websites for state ministries and departments.

29.05.2006 Bharathidasan University is set to launch an FM radio station to bridge the gap between literate and illiterate people.

26.05.2006 Passengers travelling light on Jet Airways will not have to wait in long queues to check in, with the airline planning to set up kiosks that will automate the process.

25.05.2006 ICT have started to make their presence felt in Rural India. The farmers and farm-families are browsing the net and getting general, technical and marketing information from the Information kiosks in over 26000 villages across the country.

24.05.2006 The HREA invites all interested to apply for its new Distance Learning Course 3E06: Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Human Rights Work. The course will be lead by Frank Elbers.