http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/1982 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160780/1/1982 A live debate in central London on 8 July about whether we are heading for an ‘internet crunch’. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160777/1/1982 You are living in great danger and must flee your country. Will you survive? Test yourself. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160371/1/1982 FREE FM, a community radio meant for prisoners in Jamaica, is now available to anyone interested in listening to it from anywhere in the world. Launched in June 2007 by UNESCO, Canadian International Development Agency and others, it was meant to encourage rehabilitation and education of prisoners. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160368/1/1982 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/160284/1/1982 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/160105/1/1982 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159998/1/1982 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159980/1/1982 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159972/1/1982 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://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159962/1/1982 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159902/1/1982 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. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/159636/1/1982 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. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/159629/1/1982 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. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/159503/1/1982 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159487/1/1982 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