civil society & ICT

27.06.2005 Radio pirates are walking the plank into the ocean of federal licensing now that the Federal Communications Commission has sanctioned community radio and opened the airwaves to locals broadcasting.

27.06.2005 The telephony industry has two major players—GSM and CDMA —who are always ready to take to the field like Mohan Baghan and East Bengal are to the soccer on any issue.

24.06.2005 WSIS Thematic meeting on "Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Bridging the Digital Divide", co-organized by the Ministry of Information & Communication of Korea(MIC) and International Telecommunication Union(ITU) is held from June 23rd to June 24th in Seoul, South Korea.

24.06.2005 Madhavi was bathing her two year old son when giant tidal waves swept them both out of their home. As she tried to run away from the foaming waters, her little son was swept away while she found herself dragged down into the sand. The fact that all this happened in a minute has so confused her that she refuses to accept reality, and her current status of a destitute bereft of all kith and kin.

22.06.2005 Six finalists have been chosen from a field of 135 nominations for the Development Gateway Award 2005. The $100,000 award, to be announced in September, will recognize one of the finalists for outstanding achievement in using information technology to improve people’s lives in developing countries.

22.06.2005 By sharing your IT skills to build capacity in developing countries of Africa, Asia you can also develop your management skills.

21.06.2005 Highlighting grass-roots response to the Global Health Epidemic,
broadcast journalists from different parts of the Asia-Pacific region will be creating a series of "HIV/AIDS Reports" in their respective countries for television programming.

21.06.2005 Six finalists have been chosen from a field of 135 nominations for the Development Gateway Award 2005.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia is holding a training programme on local language web hosting and communication in the west Indian city of Pune on July 6-9, 2005. The training is targeted at grassroots and intermediary level civil society organisations and multi-stakeholder partners to expose them to the nuances of web-site creation, web-tools, and Plone content management system.

20.06.2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

20.06.2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), is happy to announce the training programme on “Local Language Web Hosting and Communication with Ek-Duniya” at Pune during 6-9 July 2005.

18.06.2005 eBay India, an online marketplace, recently announced the launch of Charity Fundraising Section.

16.06.2005 TANGO realizuje programe razvoja, ekonomske programe, treninge i pruža pomoć kroz pravno-računovodstveno savetovalište nevladinim organizacijama. Treninzi i konsalting - stručnost, efikasnost, posedovanje savremenih veština i znanja, prilagođavanje potrebama korisnika - osobine su TANGO Trening Tima.

16.06.2005 Kako se organizovati? Kako registrovati NVO? Kako obezbediti sredstva od donatora? Ključna su pitanja na koja TANGO nastoji da pruži odgovore i zadovolji potrebe korisnika.

16.06.2005 A new programme is launched in Bangladesh to promote Information and Communication Technology education and skill building in rural areas.

16.06.2005 Two community multimedia centres in Uganda supported by UNESCO won the best dramatic program and the best participatory programming on the UNICEF Children's Broadcasting Day Awards which had attracted entries from a number of both commercial and community radios.

15.06.2005 The attention of the Ministry of Information and Communications has been drawn towards the press statement of the Independent Radio Protection Movement issued on Tuesday in connection with the problems that have surfaced regarding the operation of radio stations run under frequency modulation (FM).

15.06.2005 Laos National Radio recently hosted a workshop familiarise radio technicians with designing digital radio studio production system in Vientiane, capital of Laos, from 2 to 13 May 2005.

14.06.2005 SANGONeT will host a Thetha forum on 29 June 2005 to provide South African civil society organisations (CSOs) with an opportunity to reflect on the focus and objectives of WSIS and related processes.