civil society & ICT

30.01.2006 The minister of industries in Tamil Nadu, Nainar Nagendran inaugurated the state government’s multimedia campaign to popularize schemes of the state government.

25.01.2006 En el marco del VI Foro Social Mundial se desarrollo en el día de hoy en el Hotel Caracas Hilton, el seminario taller Sociedad civil, información y comunicación en el mundo globalizado. Los nuevos desafíos.

17.01.2006 This paper looks at the conceptual and historical evolution of the role of civil society in demanding, promoting and ensuring Right to Information. It specifically looks at the role played by the civil society organizations in India in ensuring the enactment of Right to Information Act which addresses and reflects the voices of the people.

17.01.2006 The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) is pleased to announce the first ever South African NGO Web Awards.

13.01.2006 Jeevika, a documentary film festival, showcases films which focus on peoples’ struggles in earning a living in a vocation of their choice. Experience 21 documentary films that depict legal and regulatory restrictions as well as social-cultural norms and religious practices that prevent or constrain people from earning an honest living in the vocation of their choice.

13.01.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) organised a participatory knowledge management workshop with the one hundred fourty five newly inducted fellows of the Jamsetji Tata National Virtual Academy (NVA) on Jan 3-4, 2006 at Hyderabad. The workshop was to fecilitate knowledge exchange between grassroots workers and experts.

09.01.2006 The Andhra Pradesh Government seeks to leverage the knowledge resources of the overseas Indian community in State-level projects in the social sector through a proposed Diaspora Knowledge Network.

05.01.2006 The egov Asia 2006, the Asian government conference is being held at Bangkok, Thailand in April 2006. The conference would provide a knowledge-sharing platform and a forum for policymakers, practitioners, industry leaders and academicians of Asia-Pacific nations to carry forward the e-Government vision of the region and consolidate them into actionable program, through collaborative learning and partnerships.

04.01.2006 A website is offering comprehensive details of how much money has poured into Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives, as against the billions of dollars pledged by the international community in response to the unprecedented natural disaster.

02.01.2006 An ambitious pilot project to introduce rural mobile services has lived up to its hyped-up Christmas launch three years ago, thanks to help from unexpected quarters.

02.01.2006 The U.S. intelligence service at the centre of the row over eavesdropping tracked visitors to its website, despite U.S. Government regulations.