Full Coverage: Internet

30.04.2008 Telecentres can serve as an important source of information by connecting citizens with the government. A growing trend of commercialisation is however treating such entitlements as services and citizens as customers who pay service charges, writes research associate Vivek Vaidyanathan.

24.04.2008 IBM is toying with the idea of providing information to rural users on toll-free numbers. Its pilot project in southern India will provide information on healthcare services, small businesses and micro-finance. Once successful, it will be taken to international markets.

22.04.2008 African universities are crucial to the future development of the Internet on the continent in two ways.The Kenyan Government and Google have both said they want to provide free Internet connectivity to students.

21.04.2008 Long predicted to replace traditional book or newspaper pulp, e-paper is not yet printing money, but tech firms hope its popularity may eventually mimic the real thing. Watch the video report inside.

21.04.2008 A non-profit media project is organising Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 in Budapest, Hungary on June 27-28, 2008. The event will highlight the contribution of diverse voices like bloggers, activists and journalists in global information dissemination.

21.04.2008 Uganda Telecom has started work on a fiber-optic link from the western town of Mbarara in Uganda to the Rwanda border-crossing point at Katuna - essentially giving a major boost to the long-awaited regional fibre project, RNA has learnt.

18.04.2008 Building on the popular culture of blogging, BBC’s ZigZagmag.net has created an interactive online space to enable aspiring Iranian journalists generate high quality content for a variety of BBC platforms. The virtual newsroom encourages learning and communication through discussions and training.

10.04.2008 UNHCR and Google have unveiled the "Google Earth Outreach" programme to help understand the refugee world and the ongoing humanitarian efforts. All you have to do is to sit in front of your computer and it will take you on a virtual reality tour in Chad, Iraq, Columbia and Sudan.

10.04.2008 UNHCR and Google have unveiled the "Google Earth Outreach" programme to help understand the refugee world and ongoing humanitarian efforts. All you have to do is to sit in front of your computer and it will take you on a virtual reality tour in Chad, Iraq, Columbia and Sudan.

07.04.2008 A little-known mobile helpline will now help you find a blood donor in times of crises. All it takes is an SMS. The messages access an online database of 45,000 blood donors in 300 Indian towns and cities.

07.04.2008 Uganda’s Capital Market Authority has expressed optimism that the Central Depositary System which is a computerised system of conducting trading on the stock exchange will be operational before the end of the year

03.04.2008 DENVER/RAYBURN 2123 IN SECOND LIFE, Apr 2 (OneWorld) - U.S. lawmakers held the first-ever hearing simulcast in a 3D virtual world Tuesday, probing experts about the opportunities and dangers posed by new online communities.

01.04.2008 From deployment of telegraph in 1854 to the age of Internet, Blackberries, iPods or Personal Digital Assistants, information and communication technology has traversed a long path. Thomas B. Riley, Executive Director, Commonwealth Centre for e-Governance, discusses the evolution of ICTs and assesses the wider changes in society due to their emergence.

01.04.2008 The walls around McLeod Ganj, the northern Indian town in Himachal Pradesh, home to Dalai Lama, are drawing crowds of exiled Tibetans hungry for news. The community bulletin boards are the latest source of news from home as posters, banners, newspaper cuttings and letters fight the spaces for equal billing.