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20.12.2005 The programme highlights innovative approaches to knowledge exchange that take advantage of new digital technologies, and that are based on synergies between information management and communication for development.

20.12.2005 Tanzania will be the first country to receive more mobile phone service under a new partnership between UNDP and Ericsson.

20.12.2005 The Pune Municipal Corporation has become the first municipal body in the country offering property tax sops to information technology sector, if they plan to invest on road development.

20.12.2005 India may be the fastest growing telecom market in the world with the lowest tariffs, but latest government data show that the country's record in improving rural tele-density is dismal.

20.12.2005 Preparations are in the final stages for the launch of INSAT-4A, India's heaviest satellite, from Kourou, French Guyana, on December 22.

19.12.2005 Geeta Malhotra talks about the role of community communicators who build the capacity of rural people in converting information into knowledge and how this knowledge could be shared with communities through various media tools - radio, comics, photography, written communication and the Internet.

19.12.2005 Of all the myths that have grown up around open source software, perhaps the most pervasive is Eric Raymond's aphorism that "Many eyes make bugs shallow", suggesting that if lots of people can view a program's source code, they will find and fix its errors more quickly than commercial products whose code is jealously guarded.

16.12.2005 On 17 October 2005, five days after the Right to Information Act came into force, a public hearing in Lakshmangarh village (Surguja District, Chhattisgarh) showed how the Act can empower ordinary people and enable them to fight corruption.

15.12.2005 This essay attempts to provide a description of the global ringtone industry, to determine and assess the numerous cultural consequences of the ringtone's appearance and development, and to situate the ringtone within the context of contemporary capitalism.

15.12.2005 A key part of Europe's strategy for tackling terrorism and organised crime was put in place yesterday when members of the European Parliament voted in favour of a deal to ensure phone and internet records can be retained for up to two years for use in investigations by law enforcement agencies.

15.12.2005 Country's telecom watchdog, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), plans to grant licence to Warid Telecom to enable it to start operation as the sixth mobile phone operator in Bangladesh, informed sources said.

13.12.2005 The work on the new Tempus Project EQIBELT: Education Quality Improvement by E-Learning Technology started last week, coordinated by the University Computer Centre – SRCE, at the University in Zagreb.

11.12.2005 The Media Communications Association – International, New York Chapter (MCA-I NY) and the United Nations Department of Public Information have issued a call for entries as they begin to prepare for the next Stories from the Field, the Second Annual United Nations Documentary Film Festival.

06.12.2005 India's largest cable Internet network, has slashed prepaid broadband prices to as low as Rs 200 a quarter or Rs 450 annually.

06.12.2005 "Over 70 per cent of India's 1 billion-plus population lives in villages and considering that telephones have not yet reached most of the villages, this is where the scene of action is going to be. The challenges are many, but the rewards would also be high," Benhur Mesfin, director (wireless broadband - Asia Pacific, government & enterprise mobility solutions), Motorola, told Business Standard, during his recent visit to India.

02.12.2005 Communication campaigns for HIV/AIDS awareness and control should involve the communities in the decision making process and use the new communication tools, such as ICTs, in combination with community radio and other grass-root experiences. There is also a need to engage communication specialists at a higher level in cooperation agencies, to effectively contribute to the decision-making process. A redistribution of funds is necessary to balance the fabulous expenses in mass media, with the needs of research, training and support of communication initiatives with a sense of ownership by communities.

01.12.2005 Fondacija CURE Sarajevo realizira kampanju 16. dana aktivizma protiv nasilja na osnovu roda/spola u Bosni i Hercegovini. Od početka kampanje, 25. novembra do danas odvijalo se mnoštvo edukativnih i kreativnih akcija koje se realiziraju volonterski i u saradnji sa mnogim civilnim inicijativama koje djeluju u BiH.

01.12.2005 El pasado 4 y 5 de noviembre se llevo a cabo en la ciudad de San Salvador el encuentro “Evaluación y reflexión sobre la defensa de periodistas y de la libertad de expresión". Al encuentro asistieron representantes de la Asociación democrática para la defensa de los derechos humanos (ASDEH) de Colombia, Centro de Reportes informativos sobre Guatemala (CERIGUA) de Guatemala, El comité por la libre expresión C-Libre de Honduras, El Centro nacional de comunicación social (CENCOS) México, Trust por the Americas, Fundación Raíces de El Salvador y Probidad.

01.12.2005 Peace x Peace's Global Network uses the internet to link "circles" of U.S. women with women's circles around the world to inform, collaborate, and serve as mentors to each other. One of the newest circles is drawing on Kenyan women's natural tendency to self-organize and helping them overcome societal taboos to discuss issues like female circumcision and AIDS.