Full Coverage: ICT

31.01.2007 Between November 22 and December 15, 2006, the Youth Information Agency (OIA) and the Creative Development Foundation (FKR) organized a campaign for collection of support letters for establishment of computerization budget for B&H system of education.

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30.01.2007 Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged Albanian parliamentarians today to ensure that media regulation takes into account the abundance of channels that digital television transmission enables as they prepare licencing regulations.

23.01.2007 This analysis, prepared in late 2005, immediately after the adoption of the current National Information Society Strategy (NISP), attempt to identify the gender issues, obtain information and raise awareness on the gender dimension of Information and Communication Technologies.

23.01.2007 In this article, Lamija Kosovic examines the current ICTs situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, paying particular attention to the development of a National ICT Policy Strategy, and the responses towards the need to integrate gender concerns by both the women's national machinery and civil society organisations.

19.01.2007 A five days training programme on computer applications and its effective usage in advocacy and communications at rural level was organised for the filed functionaries of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) on 13 – 17 January 2007 at Jehangirabad in Barabanki district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

19.01.2007 The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is holding the Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS), scheduled for February 3, 2007, at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. Click here to register yourself.

18.01.2007 Metamorphosis Foundation organises OpenOffice.org training for representatives of local self-government units in Republic of Macedonia. The training is held in Riviera Hotel in Ohrid, from 15 to 20 January, 2007. About 100 employees in 25 Macedonian municipalities will be trained during the six day training.

17.01.2007 Metamorphosis and Free Software non-governmental organizations demand from the Government to enable the citizens to choose, if they want, to be trained in the use of free and open source software, for which there is great interest in the public. According to the two organizations, the FOSS alternatives, such as Open Office, in addition to providing the same services as the proprietary software used by the Government, offer other benefits, important in the current economic situation in the country.

17.01.2007 Rekha Devi is a reporter for Aangan Ke Paar, a BBC World Service Trust-produced weekly radio programme broadcast from 22 AIR stations and BBC Hindi dealing with issues concerning women, especially HIV/AIDS. But unlike other such shows which rely on interviews with experts, this programme has its ears to the ground. Literally.

10.01.2007 In its last session prior to the start of the Holiday Season, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia elected Ivo Ivanovski for the position of a minister without portfolio in charge of information society.

09.01.2007 With the Pakistan government considering the possibility of implementing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) policy with help from the United Arab Emirates a debate rages whether the UAE would like to buy laptops that may be more than its budget. Fouad Riaz Bajwa in Pakistan analyses the OLPC policy.

09.01.2007 Washington, D.C., December 11, 2006 – Tumaini Letu (Our Hope), a film about three women caring for children orphaned by AIDS, was named Best Short Documentary at the 2006 New York AIDS Film Festival. Produced by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), the festival aims to utilize visual media to prompt social action in the fight against AIDS.

09.01.2007 Silicon Valley technologist Srikanth Nathamuni, who along with Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani runs the IT social start-up, eGovernments Foundation, was at the Chennai Corporation headquarters to make a pitch for municipal e-governance systems.

09.01.2007 It is widely believed that,if used appropriately, information and communications technology (ICT) are effective tools in the fight against poverty. As India's poverty is deepening and its ICT industry booming, there are many projects underway that are using ICT to reduce poverty and promote good governance.

08.01.2007 OneWorld South Asia held a five-day training programme for young people on computer applications and its effective usage in advocacy and communications at the rural level. The capacity building programme was held for the field functionaries of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), which is a body of Indian youth, at New Delhi from 18 – 22 December 2006.

08.01.2007 Social Edge, the online community for social entrepreneurs and an initiative of the Skoll Foundation, has given a call for social entrepreneurs to apply for the Global Social Benefit Incubator programme (GSBI). This award provides an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.

08.01.2007 UNDP-APDIP releases a study of pro-poor e-governance projects in India Information and Communications Technology for Governance and Poverty Reduction - A Study of Rural Development Projects in India that analyses 18 projects in the country which use ICTs for the benefit of the poor. The idea behind the research was to determine which projects can be scaled up.

04.01.2007 The use of ICT in school has the potential not only to improve education, but also to empower people, strengthen governance, open up new market and galvanize the effort to achieve the human development goal for the country. When it comes to computer education in rural primary schools, they still remain the stepchildren of the much-talked-about hi-tech wave that is sweeping the nation.

03.01.2007 Indian NGO, Manav Seva Sansthan has started a 24-hours toll-free help line 1800-180-1000 (India) for victims of trafficking and HIV/AIDS.