communications

31.01.2005 To explore the roles of information and communication technology (ICT) for achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals and for building knowledge societies, the UNESCO and the Club of Rome are co-organizing a three-day ”World Conference on Harnessing the Potential of ICT for Capacity Building”.

30.01.2005 Des jeunes qui ont passé une partie de leur enfance et de leur adolescence dans les centres de jeunesse du Québec prennent la parole dans ce film de Louise Rinfret, «L’horizon emmuré». Ils témoignent de la privation de liberté qu’ils ont subie, de leur souffrance et des répercussions sur leur vie de jeunes adultes. Plusieurs des scènes du film ont été tournées clandestinement dans les institutions.

25.01.2005 The newly launched Local Projects Database (LPD) is a web-based tool for managing information on development assistance activities of development partners. Development Gateway Foundation and World Resources Institute have initiated LPD.

24.01.2005 OneWorld South Asia will hold its fourth Annual Regional Meeting on March 3-4, 2005 in New Delhi, India. About 400 delegates from south
Asia are expected to deliberate on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), the role of ICTs in development and building CoPs for achieving the MDGs.
OWSA announces calls for proposals for papers/presentations from interested candidates.

24.01.2005 Open eNRICH, the free and open source version of eNRICH, a software to enble communities create and exchange locally relevant knowledge through internet, is being developed by a partnership of National Informatics Centre (NIC), Delhi, Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and UNESCO.

20.01.2005 The only women’s radio station in Afghanistan, that focussed on women-related issues, that was forced to close down due to the non-availability of resources has been restarted with the help of an international NGO.

20.01.2005 This year's UN Global E-government Readiness Report 2004 report comprises two parts. Part I presents the UN Global E-Government Readiness Survey 2004 while Part II presents a special focus on what constitutes
disparity in access to ICT.

19.01.2005 India plans to outline a new FM radio policy, perhaps by February, in a bid to lay the ground for hundreds of stations across the country and to end the three-year old uncertainty and delay on policy reforms.

18.01.2005 Another exciting initiative is about to take place with femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a women’s media NGO which in 2004 launched femTALK 89.2FM, its mobile women’s community radio project. This month, the femLINKpacific volunteer team takes to the road with their “radio in a suitcase” in Fiji.

13.01.2005 Community radio enthusiast and campaigner Sajan Venniyoor puts together the history of the community radio movement in India.

07.01.2005 The privately-owned newspaper The Post in Zambia is taking significant steps to make technological advances. The most recent measure towards improvement is not only for the publication itself but for the entire nation. The latest stage in this major project launched two years ago, is to implement a nationwide Internet Service Provider (ISP) project.

06.01.2005 To provide quality education for all, India must take the advantages of universal tele-education, said President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as he was giving the first Prof. M.L. Sondhi Memorial Lecture.

06.01.2005 VSAT service providers can provide broadband internet like an ISP using VSAT as the government has recently amended the licensing conditions. With this new policy in place, VSAT companies can provide instant connectivity to rural areas, helping to bridge digital divide.

05.01.2005 Global telcos including Vodafone, Cable & Wireless and Inmarsat are supporting a new charity Télécoms sans Frontières (TSF) in setting up an emergency communication centre equipped with satellite phone lines and high-speed internet connections in Sri Lanka. Relief organisations have started using this facility in their ongoing rescue operations.

04.01.2005 Bharati Prasad, an amateur ham radio operator, has been successful in providing communication facilities through his radio to the rescue teams when tsunami waves broke all communication lines across India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

03.01.2005 Amateur radio clubs in south India are helping tsunami victims to establish contacts with their relatives after existing communication systems broke down in the devastated areas.

03.01.2005 A women's university in India, Banasthali Vidyapith, plans to launch a radio station from its main campus at Banasthali in Tonk district of Rajasthan to air programmes of relevance to the people.