19.01.2007
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is holding the Open Standards International Symposium (OSIS), scheduled for February 3, 2007, at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. Click here to register yourself.
09.01.2007
With the Pakistan government considering the possibility of implementing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) policy with help from the United Arab Emirates a debate rages whether the UAE would like to buy laptops that may be more than its budget. Fouad Riaz Bajwa in Pakistan analyses the OLPC policy.
08.01.2007
Social Edge, the online community for social entrepreneurs and an initiative of the Skoll Foundation, has given a call for social entrepreneurs to apply for the Global Social Benefit Incubator programme (GSBI). This award provides an intensive two-week residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful technology innovators to scale their endeavors and achieve sustainability.
08.01.2007
UNDP-APDIP releases a study of pro-poor e-governance projects in India Information and Communications Technology for Governance and Poverty Reduction - A Study of Rural Development Projects in India that analyses 18 projects in the country which use ICTs for the benefit of the poor. The idea behind the research was to determine which projects can be scaled up.
