28.09.2004
The Azim Premji Foundation, an Indian NGO, has come forward to help the west Indian state of Gujarat improve its quality of school education by providing free-of-cost, specially designed pictorial software.
23.09.2004
With an idea to create job opportunities for educated rural youth, ruralnaukri.com has recently launched a programme with the acronym - REAP (Rural Employment Action Programme).
22.09.2004
Member countries have endorsed the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisations new initiatives in using ICTs to bridge the digital divide. At the second annual CTO Forum held on 20-21 September 2004 in Colombo, delegates said that the organisation was constantly expanding its role to match the changes happening in the ICT sector.
20.09.2004
When I was a boy, my father set up and ran the citys only cinema, says Abdel-Qayum Omari, a businessman from Ghazni, Afghanistan. Omaris contribution to his country goes a step further. For it is his money that has gone into the birth of Afghanistans first privately funded independent radio station. Radio Ghaznawiyan broadcasts 16 hours a day and reaches 250,000 Afghans.
20.09.2004
Senior citizens set up a virtual co-operative, MitraMandal, to open up more oppourtunities for the underprivileged sections of the society in the Indian Capital-New Delhi.
Krishna V. Sane from SITA (Studies in Information Technology Applications) tells us more
16.09.2004
Local people interested in learning computers are turning up at the new community multimedia centre in a neighbourhood in Benin. The UNESCO-supported telecentre does not have its own community radio station yet but has linked up with a nearby FM station for an hours broadcasting every day.
The non-profit organization Virtual Activism and its Center For Knowledge Society have organized a series of training workshops in Cairo, Egypt for non-governmental organizations working on human rights and development issues.
15.09.2004
The draft ICT Empowerment Charter of South Africa is now empowered with inputs from the civil society organisations as they brought out their recommendations on the Charter. The crucial role of the development sector in bridging the digital divide has been raised in this submission.
15.09.2004
The draft ICT Empowerment Charter of South Africa is now empowered with inputs from the civil society organisations as they brought out their recommendations on the Charter. The crucial role of the development sector in bridging the digital divide has been raised in this submission.
13.09.2004
The One World Broadcasting Trust welcomes applications to the 2004 One World-British Council Fellowship scheme. We welcome senior radio and tv broadcasters from developing world countries in the Commonwealth to participate. Fellows will meet with leading figures within the UK media to discuss issues affecting media practitioners. Deadline is Friday 17 September.
09.09.2004
People of Samoa will preserve their local culture and disseminate it by making videos and broadcasting it by a creation of a website. These activities are part of a project funded by UNESCO.
06.09.2004
Rakhi, a vocational training student in a Delhi slum, grabs the computer mouse whenever she forgets her lessons. In a few months, Rakhi will join hundreds of women who have stepped out of homes and taken charge of their lives.
03.09.2004
Applications are invited from Pacific Island countries for 20 grants to develop open source software applications. The USP-IOSN (International Open Source Network) Microgrant Programme for Pacific Island Countries will accept entries till 30 September 2004.
01.09.2004
Twenty doctors from Ethiopian cities and towns recently attended a training session as part of a pilot telemedicine project run by a multi-stakeholder partnership between the government and international organisations.
