Full Coverage: Internet

28.12.2006 from AutoblogGreen:
Now there's a new customized version of Google that focuses on searching 'Green' sites.

26.12.2006 A dozen village information centres functioning in the tsunami-hit coastal villages of Tamil Nadu get Internet connectivity. This facility would provides the fishermen have access to video conferencing, weather reports, local market network on fishing trade in these villages.

21.12.2006 A five-day training programme on computer applications and its effective usage in advocacy and communications at rural level was organised for the field functionaries of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) at New Delhi from 18 – 22 December, 2006.

19.12.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 19 (OneWorld) - A Brussels-based non-profit has launched what it describes as the first ever "global radio show connecting migrant communities worldwide to highlight their concerns and achievements."

19.12.2006 Farmers in Raigad district, in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, use satellite imagery to prove that their lands are fertile, thus thwarting the government's move to acquire their lands for the development of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at cheap rates by claiming it was not productive land.

19.12.2006 With the government’s clearance of support from USO fund for mobile operators, a unique opportunity is emerging to connect rural areas and to help them expand their stake in the emerging knowledge economy says Mahesh Uppal.

19.12.2006 The Digital Divide Report presents the information and communication technology diffusion index (ICTDI) for 2004.
There is an immense information and communication technology (ICT) gap, a “digital divide”, between developed and developing countries. A person in a high-income country is over 22 times more likely to be an Internet user than someone in a low-income country.

15.12.2006 The Citizens’ Pact for SEE launched the Guide to Visas website, dedicated to all people who need information on travel to most European Countries.

15.12.2006 A growing number of journalists are being imprisoned around the world for publishing their work on the Internet, with one in three cases made up of individuals whose work appeared primarily on the web or by e-mail, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found.

13.12.2006 To get an insight of Kosovo telecommunications situation, owpsee interviewed Anton K. Berisha, Chairman of Kosovo’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority.

08.12.2006 Disabled students attend a computer training course in the newly established UNDP ICT-centre for the motor handicapped in the Barzeh area of Damascus. Ahmad, a 17-year old student on crutches, comes every day from a village 30 km outside of Damascus to attend computer courses at the Computer Training Centre.

06.12.2006 Only three out of 100 leading websites around the world meet the needs of persons with disabilities, British disability expert Simon Norris told the United Nations, adding that businesses are stepping up to the challenge.

04.12.2006 On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, that falls on 4 December, the UN will seek to improve accessibility by persons with disabilities to the Internet, cell phones and other information technologies. Speakers and experts will discuss e-accessibility at a panel discussion at the UN office on Monday, December 4, 2006.