http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/archive/1093 en_GB_uk http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160368/1/1093 Celebrating 15 years of its creation, World Wide Web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes that the technology is still in a nascent stage. However, as a result of various international collaborations, the Web would be of great help in managing the planet. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160016/1/1093 Tom Hadfield famous for selling a soccer website at the age of 17 is now launching a social networking site to help fight malaria that kills a million people a year. The site will not just be a fund raising tool but also connect researchers working on its prevention and treatment. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159972/1/1093 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158144/1/1093 Blogging, internet chat rooms and sites have become the safest ways for gay Africans and Arabs to meet, while keeping their identities secret. Caution is after all crucial as homosexual acts are illegal in most countries in Africa and the Middle East. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158004/1/1093 Even while a US-based body is running tests to see whether it will offer domain names in non-Roman alphabets, in countries such as India mobile companies are wooing rural users by offering services in local scripts to overcome the language barrier. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/157417/1/1093 Large parts of Middle East and India are facing disruption of Internet services due to damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean. It will take at least a week’s time to restore the severed cables. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/157262/1/1093 Google Inc’s YouTube has recently made all its videos available on certain latest generation mobiles. With the service being offered initially in 16 countries besides the United States and 10 languages besides English, it hopes to reach out to even more people. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/156151/1/1093 Dagens Nyheter, the largest circulated daily of Sweden, has launched world’s first newspaper telephone. By signing up for a 199 kronor ($35.21) monthly call plan, one can freely surf the news site by pushing a special "DN" button. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/155443/1/1093 Named Kindle, Amazon’s electronic book device, can hold as many as 200 titles from the list of best-sellers. Not bigger than a paperback novel and lighter, the device is wireless, allowing the books to be downloaded without plugging the reader into a computer. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/155274/1/1093 The undersea broadband link would run from KwaZulu-Natal province’s far north coast to Mumbai in India, via Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya, and Tanzania. Once ready, the Seacom project will provide an enormous 1.28 Terrabytes per second of broadband capacity. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/155152/1/1093 The Winneba Open Digital Village and Rescue Mission Ghana are organising a three day training workshop on Web 2.0 tools for development from December 10-13, 2007. The training will focus on emerging web based social, business and technology developments and define future web trends. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/155107/1/1093 FreeRice, an innovative internet-based vocabulary game is helping mobilise millions of people in the fight against global hunger. For every correct answer, the site donates ten grains of rice to the World Food Programme. One billion grains of rice have been donated in the last one month – enough to feed more than 50,000 people for one day. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/154951/1/1093 The UN-backed online environmental database can now be accessed in more than 100 developing countries. The project called ‘Online Access to Research in the Environment’ goes a long way in bridging the North-South digital divide. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/154907/1/1093 A 500-miilion dollar deal has been signed today between Microsoft and Reliance Communications to launch India’s first Internet Protocol Television. It will be launched early next year in 30 Indian cities. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/154390/1/1093 Rare manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs will all be available online thanks to an agreement signed between UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. The World Digital Library will also aim to build digital library capabilities in developing countries.