Full Coverage: Internet

28.07.2005 Mpumalanga communities in and around the farming town of Standerton, Africa will for the first time have access to cyber facilities at their doorstep.

27.07.2005 The Electronic Network Centre and the E-Macedonia Foundation presented today the new internet website, Nasa Strana (Our Site), which is a part of the programme implemented under the same name. Zlatko Nikolovski from the Electronic Network Centre and Slave Mladenovski from the E-Macedonia Foundation talked to the media at the presentation.

27.07.2005 Especially when seeking financial support, more and more organizations are turning to the Internet as a critical element of their work. At a recent conference in Berlin, organizations from England, Slovakia, and Morocco shared how they use the flexibility of the Web to address the challenges of their organization.

26.07.2005 African government to introduce reforms and initiatives in the information and communication (ICT) sector. As a part of this strategy Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service sector will get a new policy framework in two weeks time in Africa.

25.07.2005 Twenty-seven jounalists, novelists, and internet writers from 17 countries have been awarded this year's Hellman/Hammett grants, recognizing those who have shown courage in the face of political persecution. The writers honored this year have been harassed, assaulted, indicted, jailed on trumped up charges, or tortured merely for providing information from nongovernmental sources.

25.07.2005 The Youth Initiative for Human Rights launched its Law Initiative legal portal. The aim of the Portal is to provide information to lawyers, law-students, NGO activists and the general public on current domestic and international legal issues.

22.07.2005 The Indian government aims to double tele-density by strengthening the subscriber base to 100 million lines in the next two years, said Union minister of state for communication and information technology Shakeel Ahmed.

22.07.2005 An online survey to elucidate the technical and other related problems faced by African institutions and information professionals in creating digital libraries was recently launched

20.07.2005 Le trafic Internet du continent africain prendra bientôt des itinéraires plus courts et, par conséquent, moins onéreux.

Ce printemps, l’association des associations de fournisseurs d’accès Internet africains, AfrISPA, a fait connaître les deux soumissions gagnantes qui ont été présentées dans le cadre de sa demande de propositions pour fournir des connexions Internet directes entre les pays africains. (L’établissement de ces connexions s’appelle « échange de trafic régional entre homologues »; les sociétés qui assurent ces connexions s’appellent « exploitants régionaux ».)

19.07.2005 Il existe deux faits saisissants au sujet des universités africaines et de la largeur de bande. Le premier est que l’université moyenne en Afrique possède la même largeur de bande globale qu’un simple utilisateur de l’Amérique du Nord ou de l’Europe. Le deuxième est que l’université africaine moyenne paie 50 fois plus pour cette largeur de bande que les universités d’Europe ou d’Amérique du Nord, qui jouissent d’une capacité beaucoup plus grande.

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15.07.2005 International free speech groups have challenged the Tunisian government to end internet blocking in the lead-up to the November 2005 World Summit on the Information Society.

14.07.2005 Punjab University (PU) and Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) are soon going to take on the Union Territory Administration’s IT Department to put all the university and Board data on their respective websites.

14.07.2005 You've got spam! No, wait...that's from the Department of Defense. The U.S. military is increasingly packing the Internet with slick, non-military looking websites lying in wait for curious teens, says journalist Nick Turse in TomPaine.com.

13.07.2005 Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the Government would find "ways and means" to meet the demand for Rs. 6,500 crores to create over 6 lakh village knowledge centres across the country.

13.07.2005 An enterprising farmer from the west Indian state of Maharashtra has begun exporting drumsticks all over the world through the Web. Balasaheb Marale, the drumstick king of Maharashtra, a poor and unknown farmer who supplied to the local markets for years has gone online and international.

07.07.2005 Central and Eastern European Online Library is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 184 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

07.07.2005 The Memorandum of Understanding on the Unified Broadband Initiative for Southeastern Europe (bSEE) has been signed at the Ministerial Conference in Thessalonica. The participants have also agreed about a joint regional input to the second World Summit on Information Society, that will be held in Tunisia in November. Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in a Conference which gathers Communication Ministers from South-eastern Europe in Thessalonica, Greece from 30 June to 1 July.

06.07.2005 UGANDA Telecom (utl) has introduced a high-speed wireless Internet service.

05.07.2005 Despite the increase in computer ownership in Kenya, the efforts to ensure the benefits of ICTs to majority of the Kenyans are handicapped with varioius obstacles.