civil society & ICT

30.01.2005 Des jeunes qui ont passé une partie de leur enfance et de leur adolescence dans les centres de jeunesse du Québec prennent la parole dans ce film de Louise Rinfret, «L’horizon emmuré». Ils témoignent de la privation de liberté qu’ils ont subie, de leur souffrance et des répercussions sur leur vie de jeunes adultes. Plusieurs des scènes du film ont été tournées clandestinement dans les institutions.

24.01.2005 Community Content Creation Network (C3Net), an online forum of professionals in ICT for rural development, plans to hold a workshop on knowledge sharing for development. The Information Management and Knowledge Sharing (IM&KS) workshop, being supported by HIVOS, will take place in Kampala, Uganda from April 15 to 19, 2005.

24.01.2005 OneWorld South Asia will hold its fourth Annual Regional Meeting on March 3-4, 2005 in New Delhi, India. About 400 delegates from south
Asia are expected to deliberate on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), the role of ICTs in development and building CoPs for achieving the MDGs.
OWSA announces calls for proposals for papers/presentations from interested candidates.

24.01.2005 Open eNRICH, the free and open source version of eNRICH, a software to enble communities create and exchange locally relevant knowledge through internet, is being developed by a partnership of National Informatics Centre (NIC), Delhi, Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and UNESCO.

20.01.2005 This year's UN Global E-government Readiness Report 2004 report comprises two parts. Part I presents the UN Global E-Government Readiness Survey 2004 while Part II presents a special focus on what constitutes
disparity in access to ICT.

18.01.2005

18.01.2005 Another exciting initiative is about to take place with femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a women’s media NGO which in 2004 launched femTALK 89.2FM, its mobile women’s community radio project. This month, the femLINKpacific volunteer team takes to the road with their “radio in a suitcase” in Fiji.

18.01.2005 The National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Delhi, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and UNESCO announce a partnership to develop a new software tool – to be called Open eNRICH - for the creation and exchange of locally relevant knowledge within and between communities in developing countries.

17.01.2005 In an effort to achieve faster Internet access, India’s government run telecom firms launched broadband in six cities on Friday,14th January, 2005. With this, they plan to achieve the target of 500,000 broadband users by December 2005.

13.01.2005 The participation of women in the information technology (IT) industry is low in most countries, and in India in 2003 they constituted only 21 per cent of the country’s 650,000 IT workers. Is gender discrimination within the workplace is a major cause of this low participation rate?

13.01.2005 OneWorld South Asia co-organised a three-day Regional ICT Policy and WSIS consultation in Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 5-7, 2005, in collaboration with BFES and APC. Outcome recommendations of this consultation will be sent to the upcoming regional meeting of the heads of South Asian Nations at the SAARC Summit. Read more for these and the action points on South Asia ICT Policy issues.

12.01.2005 The Matara Community Multimedia Centre, in the heart of Sri Lanka’s disaster zone, is broadcasting over 250 missing persons messages a day on its station, the Southern Regional Station of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, while its telecentre has been mobilised by those handling the crisis.

12.01.2005 The department of information technology (DIT) is evolving policy guidelines and a framework to establish ICT-enabled information and service kiosks in villages.