civil society & ICT

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr K K Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio in the OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative to select and promote the world’s best in e-Content and Creativity, held in the framework of and in cooperation with the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

30.05.2005 More than 250 scribes, mainly radio journlists, went on to streets to protest against the royal crackdown of a community radio programme production centre.

27.05.2005 For young people living in poverty in coastal Kenya, surfing the internet and learning how to use computers make most sense when these skills mean better economic opportunities and work-readiness.

26.05.2005 "There has to be an enabling environment, with open and affordable access to electricity, infrastructure, knowledge and technology," said Karen Banks from the Association for Progressive Communications at a Commonwealth Civil Society Consultation at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK, on 23 May 2005.

26.05.2005 A desire to promote equal access to information and communication technology (ICT) has led to a variety of projects bringing computers to the disadvantaged in Africa.

26.05.2005 UNESCO Member States nationals or institutions engaged in fostering the use of media in rural settings are encouraged to submit nominations for US $ 20000 IPDC-UNESCO Prize for Rural Communications.

26.05.2005 The World Wide Web Consortium, an international Web standard-setting body, has recently announced the new reduced fee structure for the organisations from the developing nations.

26.05.2005 To facilitate online surveys, IICD has recently launched an open source tool that helps non-profits in conducting monitoring and evaluation of their programmes.

26.05.2005 The second Latin American and the Caribbean Conference on Free and Open Source Software Development and Usage will be held from 28 September to 1st October 2005 Recife and Olinda, Brazil.

25.05.2005 Alice Wanjira Munyua discusses how multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) processes practised through KICTANet have helped gearing up of the ICT policy process as well as lobbying for legitimisation of genuine stakeholder participation in policy process.

20.05.2005 Grassroots Caucus is an initiative of OneWorld to moblise people at the grassroots to play a key role in shaping up the WSIS agenda and the final outcome thereof.

20.05.2005 In the new draft National Map Policy approved by the Union Cabinet today, Indian government will provide access to defence maps to the public, helping institutions in better planning using spatial data.

16.05.2005 To provide women's empowerment a new dimension, Self
Employed Women's Association (SEWA) have launched Rudi no Radio (Rudi's Radio), a weekly radio programme produced and broadcast entirely by volunteers of SEWA for their rural audience.

11.05.2005 It’s most commonly associated with ultra-slim laptops and VIP airport lounges but wireless technology has been having far more exciting -and profound- effects in places that you can’t take business class seats to reach and amongst people who travel on foot and not by plane.

11.05.2005 FOSSFP is a non-profit, charitable ICT foundation set up for assisting the enhancment of the abilities and capacity of individuals, groups, institutions, organizations, societies, and government in Pakistan by using Free/Open Source Software Solutions (FOSS) for their sustained economic and social development.

11.05.2005 The Free Software, Free Society (FSFS) Conference, organized by Government and civil society organizations from Brazil, Italy, Venezuela and India, is scheduled for 28-30 May 2005 in the Southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of the province of Kerala.

10.05.2005 BRAC and Emergence Energy, Inc. of the USA recently signed an agreement to conduct a pilot research on energy and environment called ‘Project Emergence.’

10.05.2005 The Global Media Award by the Population Institute (PI) was presented to BCCP in December, 2004 in Rabat, Morocco.

04.05.2005 The right to live and lead a healthy life, gain education and information; the right to participation and a secure home - these are some of the most basic rights that each child across the world is entitled to. Reports Jyoti Prakash Gautam, CASP-Plan Project