Full Coverage: Knowledge

28.05.2007 India's Information and Technology Department will provide computer training to children belonging to socially deprived and minority groups. The first initiative has been taken by the city of Chandigarh in association with United Progressive Muslim Front to teach a basic course to the students of Manimajra Madarsa.

24.05.2007 Around 400 common service centres will be set up next year in Manipur, India's northeastern state. The CSCs will provide e-government services to people living in villages.

23.05.2007 'Can South Asia End Poverty in a Generation?' This is the theme for a two hour videoconference discussion connecting NGOs and CSOs from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, to be held at the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India on May 30, 2007.

18.05.2007 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) celebrated the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on May 17, 2007 by honouring three laureates and through an announcement of a plan to curb cyber crime, connect Africa and connect the young. The ITU helps communities develop radio communication and ICTs worldwide.

18.05.2007 E-Choupal is a unique internet service that has been made available at the doorstep of farmers in India. Introduced by the retail sector, e-Choupal provides farmers with agricultural information through ICTs. Through the e-Choupal initiative, ITC has increased its competitiveness and empowered farmers through access to technology and the Internet.

17.05.2007 Indian radio broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is broadcasting everyday a programme on women health issues from its 14 stations in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh government, UNICEF and the Department of International Development (DFID).

11.05.2007 Delhi based Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) will host India’s largest – and only one of its kind – ICT for Development forum on 31 July - 03 August at New Delhi. eINDIA 2007 will be a platform to share creative ideas and processes and connect practitioners in the use of ICT4D. Its seven seminal conferences will focus on India’s digital divide and explore opportunities for growth potential.

11.05.2007 Villages in Kerala will soon find a place in the cyber world through a state government project, Akshaya, that provides custom-made web portals for all communities in their local language (Malayalam). Supported by UNESCO, the initiative aims to provide computer literacy to the people and implement the project with their participation.

09.05.2007 May 17 marks the inception of Information and Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency that works to develop telecommunications networks and services to bridge the digital divide. Following the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN has now declared the same date as World Information Society Day.

09.05.2007 May 17 marks the inception of Information and Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency that works to develop telecommunications networks and services to bridge the digital divide. Following the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN has now declared the same date as World Information Society Day.

08.05.2007 ICWE GmbH and Hoffmann & Reif are going to organise a conference 'eLearning Africa 2007' on 28 May at Nairobi, Kenya. The event aims to create a network of stakeholders and focus on building ICT infrastructures for education and training.

08.05.2007 Leading processor-maker Intel will soon introduce 'Classmate', a portable computer for children in India. Its pilot project at Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad, near New Delhi is a joint venture with the state education department to introduce interactive education in the classroom. Intel driven Classmate PCs are already being shipped to other developing countries such as Brazil and Mexico.

07.05.2007 With a humane and empathetic farmer-sensitive approach, eighty Kisan Call Centres (KCC) across the country are addressing issues raised by farmers from fungus on brinjals to kisan credit cards and prices of insecticides. Neeta Lal from the Women's Feature Service, reports on the working of these centres, their problems and potential.

03.05.2007 Members of the UN Committee on Information at New York headquarters have supported the use of a wide menu of media technologies for clear and coherent convey of messages on development, peace and human rights to the people of the world.In fact, UN meetings can now be viewed live as webcasts anywhere in the world.

01.05.2007 Life for people in poverty-stricken rural India has been improved by several hours of reliable solar-powered lighting, made available by a UN-led project to facilitate household financing for solar home systems. The project, launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2003 in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, has facilitated about 18,000 loans for solar panels over three years