Full Coverage: Internet

31.08.2005 Nigerian techies are developing the Solo, a computer that can withstand the dust, heat, and unreliable power supply common in their part of the world, and hoping the tropicalised PCs can connect greatly underserved Nigerians in rural areas with the rest of the country and the world.

29.08.2005 The MOST Ngo invited its partners, colleagues and the general public to take active participation in the preparation of the National Sustainable Development Strategy of Montenegro (NSDS) and to contribute with their ideas, visions, suggestions and criticism, to the improved work on this important document.

29.08.2005 The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.

22.08.2005 Quand, dès l'âge de la maternelle, des enfants s’assoient pour la première fois devant un ordinateur équipé d’un logiciel en kiché, leur langue maternelle maya, les leçons dépassent de loin la maîtrise de connaissances élémentaires en informatique. Les élèves apprennent que leur langue et leur culture autochtones occupent une place essentielle dans leur société.

19.08.2005 Indian telecom expert Sam Pitroda feels that technology can build bridges between the masses and knowledge systems. Broadband, Internet portals, satellites, and so on could help revamp education and thereby allow India to be truly a part of the globalisation sweepstake that is sweeping the world.

17.08.2005 The International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW, warns that a number of rare species may face extinction due to the illegal Internet trade in exotic animals. Within one week the organisation found 146 live mammals for sale on the Internet black market including a two-year-old giraffe, an adult gorilla and baby chimpanzees.

17.08.2005 Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) Internet service, provided through BSNL’s Wi-Fi hotspots, are wireless broadband access points which allows people with laptops and wireless LAN PC cards to send and receive data at broadband speed — as long as they are close to one of these ‘‘hotspots’’.

17.08.2005 Computer Aid International has shipped over 50,000 PCs to more than 90 developing countries. They have gone to educational institutions and community organisations working in HIV/Aids, environment, human rights, and primary healthcare.

16.08.2005 This study investigates the Web Impact Factors (WIFs) for Iranian universities and introduces a new system of measurement. Counts of links to the web sites of Iranian universities were calculated from the output of AltaVista search engine.

16.08.2005 This article reports a survey on the search habits of Internet users at the Medical University of Isfahan (MUI), a governmental university in Isfahan city, Iran. Efforts are on to find the search requirements related to the use of the Internet information.

16.08.2005 The ability to effectively search and locate information on the Internet is an important skill for education and essential for success in the 21st century.

16.08.2005 CNRI has been the home to the D-Lib Magazine since its inception in 1995. However, the Magazine’s evolution can be traced directly to efforts in the early 1990s, when CNRI executed the Computer Science Technical Reports (CSTR) project supported by DARPA leading to the multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI).

15.08.2005 The traditional system of copyright protection is completely inadequate and unsustainable in the era of internet and new digital technology, concluded the seminar on information and communication technology held at the “Dom Omladine” in Belgrade.

15.08.2005 Companies that take the plunge into China's cyber-media market expect big dividends in return, but the price paid by ordinary Chinese is just as high. Wendy Ginsberg looks at the virtual and real-world environments that drive Western business to apply the kind of censorship that would never pass at home.

12.08.2005 The search machine operators inform the users about the way in which the search machine works; particularly the basic criteria of ranking are explained.

12.08.2005 This paper shall give a review of some recently published and some older books, which were published as second or third edition, on Information Ethics and Internet related topics.

12.08.2005 The virtual realm, which is essentially based on ICT, has changed the framework of research activities and practices and is now challenging ethical reflections upon it.

12.08.2005 “Without virtuality there will not exist reality - mere virtuality constructs reality” suggests Goedart Palm at the very beginning of his book Goedart Palm: CyberMedienWirklichkeit. Virtuelle Welterschließungen. München: Verlag Heinz Heise, 2004. 240 Seiten Broschur.

12.08.2005 Search engines play an increasingly pivotal role in the distribution and eventual construction of knowledge, yet they are largely unnoticed, their procedures are opaque, and they are almost completely devoid of independent oversight.

12.08.2005 How is the confluence of women-power and the Internet changing things in the world’s most populous democracy? Patricia Smith Melton recently met with women across all strata of Indian society and says that continuing progress will occur through the IT sector and through women in organized programs at all levels of the culture.