Full Coverage: Internet

28.04.2006 The Metamorphosis Foundation for Sustainable ICT Solutions signed, on April 26, 2006, a Memorandum of Understanding with Creative Commons Corporation, for legal porting of CC licenses in Macedonia.

28.04.2006 Media organisations and internet service providers (ISPs) in Zimbabwe are up in arms about the government's planned introduction of a bill to regulate cyber-communication in the "interests of national security".

27.04.2006 The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) adopted, at the end of 2005, the “one percent digital solidarity” principle.

27.04.2006 Macedonia won the 2005 WITSA Global IT Excellence award for computerization and wireless internet in its schools, informs Minister of Science and Education, Azis Polozani.

25.04.2006 A new study by Uganda's telecommunications regulator has showed that 46% of Ugandans in the capital, Kampala and three major towns use the Internet.

18.04.2006 Farmers in a remote village in Honavar, 600 km away from Bangalore, are using ATM machines to open a bank account. Believe us - it's true.

17.04.2006 Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies contains lessons from both developed and developing countries. It examines the roles of the public and private sectors, identifying the challenges and the benefits of adopting and expanding ICT use. The report assesses topics essential to building an information society, including investment, access, diffusion, and country policies and strategies.

17.04.2006 Last weekend, April 15-16, 2006, the third Install Fest was organized by Free Software Macedonia, at the facilities of “Narodna Tehnika” in Skopje. This year’s edition, in addition to installation of free software for the visitors, indluded several other activities: workshops, lectures, debates...

17.04.2006 MySpace, US’s most popular social network site for teenagers, will soon have an Indian American online safety czar to deal with a growing menace of porn and sexual predators that has alarmed parents and law enforcement officials.

14.04.2006 China has begun publishing government tenders on dgMarket.com, the leading independent website aggregating government procurement information from 150 countries. dgMarket, created by the Development Gateway Foundation, aims to increase access to government contracting and bring down government procurement costs through greater competition.

13.04.2006 Internet literally means an inter connected world. But imagine a world where you have all the information of the Internet, your favourite websites and more without even connecting to the net.

13.04.2006 From the Internet to Al Qaeda, the teetering electricity grid to old school ties, we live in a world of networks. A profoundly disruptive shift has occurred in our societies, making networks the most important organisational form of our time and reshaping the activities of families, governments and businesses. The collection of essays is edited by Helen McCarthy,Paul Miller and Paul Skidmore.

12.04.2006 Concerns about a worsening “digital divide” between rich and poor countries parallel the hope that information and computing technologies (ICTs) could increase economic growth in developing countries. Little research, however, has explored ICT growth beyond noting that it is correlated with standard development indicators, and no empirical research has explored the role
of regulation.

10.04.2006 Internet governance issues usually attract the attention of a relatively small number of net users. However, concerns associated with the current system have begun to grow, writes internet law professor Michael Geist.

07.04.2006 Plans are on the anvil to give boost to the IT related infrastructure, especially Internet connectivity, in the Hitech city of Hyderabad. According to the State Government sources talks are on with several big companies to extend the Wi-Fi network to the entire Hitech City area.

07.04.2006 Forty six percent of Ugandans, in a survey by the Uganda Communications Commission last year, said they use the Internet on a daily basis.

05.04.2006 There’s a lovely Latin phrase – terra firma. It means “solid
earth”. It’s the basis for a metaphor we use a lot. We talk
approvingly about someone who has “his feet on the ground”, and disparagingly about people who are “not properly earthed”.