Full Coverage: Internet

30.05.2006 A group of students from the "Metodi Mitevski Brico" high school from Delcevo, won the prestigious Platinum Prize Award for best web-site at the Doors to Diplomacy 2006 award competition, organized by the US State Department. The students won this years award in a strong competition of 306 projects from 46 states in the world.

28.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (OneWorld) - Executives at Yahoo's annual shareholders meeting Thursday turned down a request from the human rights group Amnesty International, which is demanding the world's most visited Web site stop censoring the Internet and referring dissidents to the Chinese government.

26.05.2006 The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

24.05.2006 Last wednesday, May 17, the Central State Bureau for e-Croatia published, on the occasion of the International Day of Information Society, the results of the Study of Online Availability of Public Services for 2005.

19.05.2006 From on-line banking to the benefits of telemedicine, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Wednesday called on the world community to enhance global security in cyberspace so as to realize the full potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) and accelerate the pace of development.

19.05.2006 Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have collectively made the oppourtunity to some extent in bridging the information gap among the people and communities. Among many other technologies that originated electronic media, radio remains the most powerful media to reach to the poor and the marginalised more so in remote inaccessible geographical terrain. A number of advantages makes this medium peoples' media.

17.05.2006 In May 2006 SBMA launched its first Rural Knowledge Centre (RKC) at Saliayana, Gairsain. This centre uses office computer and has a v-sat connectivity and offers services for the community.

16.05.2006 On Friday, May 12, a meeting was held between the local youth group and the representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Zenica-Doboj Canton (ZDK). The meeting was held under the "Computerization of Secondary Schools in Zenica Region" project, implemented by the Foundation for Creative Development and the Youth Information Agency (OIA).

15.05.2006 In China, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others are aiding repression, censorship, and violation of fundamental freedoms. Amnesty International urge you to take action.

15.05.2006 The new web-portal for elementary and secondary schools in Macedonia, that will enable the teachers, parents and students in all schools in Macedonia to exchange experiences, share sources of information and positive practicies, was officially launched on May 11.

11.05.2006 The Local Democracy Agency Mostar starts its “Democracy and Human Rights” online info-centre, offering possibilities to collect information related to democracy and human rights on the internet, as well as the body of literature on the subject available at the LDA Office.

10.05.2006 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”. For us, the earth, the ground, is something dependable, something fixed, something immutable, said John Naughton in his keynote address to the US Marketing Society.

10.05.2006

President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Justice A.S. Anand

E-governance is strong tool for ensuring corruption-free administration, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said here on Tuesday. He was delivering the inaugural address at a conference on `Effects of Good Governance and Human Rights,' organised by the National Human Rights Commission. He urged that "All courts should follow Supreme Court and make judgments available online"

09.05.2006 A serious attempt to make technologies for the masses and by the masses. Attempted by www.abcnewsnetwork.com

09.05.2006 “DO YOU know how serious a mistake you've made?” Yan Yuanzhang recalls an official asking him not long ago. Mr Yan had been summoned to Beijing's Internet Propaganda Management Office to talk about his websites.

08.05.2006 According to “Vjesnik” daily of Friday, May 5, all 9895 students accommodated in the student dormitories in Osijek, Rijeka, Split, Varazdin, Zadar and Zagreb will have internet access in their dorm rooms, starting at the beginning of new academic year 2006/07.

02.05.2006 The Stanford University School of Medicine has signed on to a deal that will provide consumers and health professionals in China access to leading medical research in the United States.