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31.05.2005 The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is inviting public comments to its draft consultation paper “Electronic Thesis Online (India) UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005”.

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr K K Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio in the OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 More than 250 scribes, mainly radio journlists, went on to streets to protest against the royal crackdown of a community radio programme production centre.

30.05.2005 The BBC, Channel 4, the Open University and the British Film Institute BFI) have launched the Creative Archive, an initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives.

27.05.2005 For young people living in poverty in coastal Kenya, surfing the internet and learning how to use computers make most sense when these skills mean better economic opportunities and work-readiness.

27.05.2005 Though Indian government has passed the Right to Information Bill long back, it is yet to to publish the legislation for the public.

25.05.2005 After two paper versions of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing (1996 and 2001), the information collected on a large number of endangered languages in all parts of the world will now be available online, starting with the map of the African continent.

25.05.2005 Arriving in Geneva to chair a meeting on disaster mitigation, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator today announced the launch of a "first of its kind" website to track funds pledged to the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, while urging that more attention be given to the world's neglected humanitarian emergencies.

17.05.2005 Svih 460 osnovnih i srednjih skola u Makedoniji ce dobiti internet pristup na pocetku skolske godine 2005/2006. Internet pristup je obezbjeđen kroz grant USAID-a i projekta ''Makedonija se konektuje''.

17.05.2005 The Canadian government has proposed radical changes to our copyright act, including concepts from the highly controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the United States.

16.05.2005 In his message on the occassion of World Telecommunications Day, 17 May 2005, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for creating a “truly global information society.”

16.05.2005 The First IEEE International Conference on Next-Generation Wireless Systems (ICNEWS 2006), to be held in Dhaka , Bangladesh during 2-4 January, 2006, will focus on addressing challenging issues in design, implementation and management of wireless communications, networking, and mobile computing systems.

13.05.2005 The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) has recently launched the Arabic version of the "IFEX Communique" newsletter.

13.05.2005 The potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to train and educate communities that have limited or no access to formal education channels will be the focus of an international conference to be opened by UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura at UNESCO Headquarters, and broadcast live on the internet, from 11 to 13 May.

10.05.2005 Social engineering, cracking, steganography are all terms set to become as common as www, because that is where they emerge from and are used by criminals, as opposed to recreational hackers. The cracker is a criminal hacker.

09.05.2005 When talking about information for development it may be useful to first outline what we are talking about.

09.05.2005 SANGONeT, in collaboration with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), is hosting a Thetha on 24 May 2005 to discuss whether Southern African organisations should use Creative Commons to licence the information that they produce.

04.05.2005 3rd May, 2005 is the World Press Freedom Day. VOICE and Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) organised a seminar entitled "Independent Journalism: Media and Good Governance" at National Press Club to observe the day. Reports AHM Bazlur Rahman, BNNRC.

04.05.2005 The European Commission today announced its policy of preserving and exploiting Europe's written and audiovisual heritage using the internet and the digital technologies.

03.05.2005 Google has filed a patent in the US that will allow the search engine to rank stories to according to their quality, rather than just by relevance. The search engine will weigh up a series of variables, including story length, number of staff employed and amount of traffic to its website to rank the stories.