Full Coverage: Knowledge

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.

26.05.2006 Implementation of the Right to Information Act is still facing teething problems in most of the departments due to lack of understanding among the officials and lack of awareness among the information seekers.

19.05.2006 The information technology industry wants the Government to draw lessons from the townships created in the 1950s for the manufacturing sector and replicate the success by establishing integrated knowledge townships for it.

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.

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.

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

05.05.2006 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) have announced a new partnership to create an International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics called "iKNOW Politics."

04.05.2006 The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad crosssection of associations, academic institutions and industry dedicated to solving the problem of improving access and retrieval of electronic government documents, today congratulated the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for its sweeping approval of the OpenDocument Format as an international standard, as well as OASIS which created and submitted the format to ISO.

03.05.2006 Introduction by Lawrence Lessig to a discussion with Jeff Tweedy and Steven Johnson, on the topic of Creative Commons, held at the New York Public Library, on April 7, 2005.

03.05.2006 Under intensive pressure by the EU and the U.S., Serbia and Montenegro fully approximated its body of legislation in the field of copyright and associated rights’ protection with European legislation. It endows the same legal status to the domestic authors with foreign counterparts anywhere in the world, including the length of protection and the rights to which an author is entitled.

03.05.2006 Macedonian Law on Copyright and Associated Rights was adopted by the Sobranie of the Republic of Macedonia (the Parliament) in 1996. After several rounds of changes and amendments, dictated primarily by the demands of the international organizations and, above all, the European acquis communautaire in the field of protection of intellectual property rights, the Law today doesn't differ at all from similar regulations in the other countries of the Balkans or Europe, for that matter.