civil society & ICT

31.07.2007 The fast-growing GeoWeb is helping people across the world by providing simple tools that allow people to draw on digital maps and annotate them with text, images, sound and videos, literally making anyone a mapmaker on the web.

27.07.2007 Director of Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Asia Pacific Gabe Rijpma tells the ehealth team about Microsoft's investments to NGOs and allocation for healthcare IT. The interview also explores Gabe's candid views about India's e-healthcare scenario.

27.07.2007 Citizen smart cards are a new revolution that provide a unique citizen number which is centralized in a national register of Indian citizens.It can bring the benefits of e-governance as the use of data warehousing and data mining could also help the government monitor its welfare schemes effectively.

27.07.2007 The Caribbean Internet Radio Portal (CIRP) and UNESCO in association with Youth Vibes Radio has launched its new internet radio station which is being currently tested but is already providing audio to millions of listeners around the world.

26.07.2007 The Community Radio movement in Bangladesh is likely to get a fillip after a high level meeting was organized by the Ministry of
Information to find out ways to launch community radio on a pilot
basis.

26.07.2007 WiMAX India 4th International Conference is going to be held on August 24, 2007 in New Delhi, India. The conference in its fourth year will provide a platform for business users and wireless industry suppliers to meet and focus on Innovations' in Wireless Communications.

26.07.2007 India currently produces 150,000 tons of e-waste a year but has been slow to regulate disposal with no proper guidelines and law. Delhi itself has 10,000 people who search for gold, copper, palladium, or anything else in the e-waste to reap profit from it even though it is a hazardous task.

25.07.2007 UNESCO is organising an International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge Parks in Muscat, Oman from September 01-03 2007. The objective of the conference is to review ICT-based knowledge parks in developed countries and how this idea can be implemented successfully in developing countries.

25.07.2007 The staid rituals of US presidential debates met the hurly-burly of the Internet on Monday night, in an event organised by YouTube and CNN, that saw candidates fielding questions which young Americans had uploaded to the video-sharing website.

25.07.2007 The International Journalists' Network (IJNet) is an online service for journalists and is the world's premier resource for the media assistance community. IJNet has opened up a discussion forum for the people to add their comments on 'Online Media: Will more voices be heard?'

24.07.2007 YK:n järjestöjen, yliopistojen ja tieteellisten julkaisijoiden yhteistyön tuloksena kehittyvien maiden tutkijat saavat vapaan pääsyn tiedejulkaisuihin. Jo kauan puhutun ja odotetun kehitysaskeleen arvellaan toteutuvan vuoteen 2015 mennessä. Uudistuksen odotetaan lisäävän maailmanlaajuista tieteellistä yhteistyötä sekä auttavan konkreettisesti syrjäisten seutujen terveys- ja koulutushaasteiden ratkaisemissa.

24.07.2007 Security agencies in India have shown concern over the threat to major installations in the country, including Rashtrapati Bhavan, air force airfields, army installations and nuclear research centres because of the Wikimapia site which combines high resolution satellite and mapping imagery created by Google Maps.

24.07.2007 Egov magazine interviews Kuanishbek Esekeev, the Chairman of Agency for Informatisation and Communications, Republic of Kazakhstan on the development of IT-technologies and the vision of the National e-Government Programme of the country.

24.07.2007 The European Commission has awarded an 'excellent' rating to the Open PLC European Research Alliance (OPERA 2) project, which aims to develop an open standard for the next generation of power line technology.

23.07.2007 A meeting by Bangladeshi NGOs - Strategic Use of ICT for Poverty Reduction - held on July 17, 2007 at in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka focused on using ICTs strategically to empower the poor.

23.07.2007 A new report by the United Nations - Knowledge, Technological Learning and Innovation - focuses on how governments in the least developed countries (LDCs) can promote technological progress in order to achieve economic growth which can reduce poverty.

20.07.2007 The Finance Ministry of India is planning to introduce Iris-based biometric PANs for new applicants which will provide accurate, secured access to information. The Biometric PAN cards will enhance security features like fingerprint or retinal scans to income tax payers in the country.

19.07.2007 The first-ever conference on the use of Web 2.0 tools for rural and agricultural development and natural resource management will be held at Rome, Italy, from 25-27 September, 2007. The meeting will be hosted by FAO and supported by CTA among others.

19.07.2007 Digital technology is changing cinema because of its almost nil distribution costs. Digital films can be shuffled and shown many times over; movie-goers can no longer fear that a film may sell out.

18.07.2007 Centre for Civil Society in association with Youth Parliament is organising Jeevika South Asian Livelihood Documentry Film Festival on July 20-23, 2007 in New Delhi.