communications

29.06.2005 Del 8 al 10 de junio, representantes de los gobiernos latinoamericanos y caribeños se reunieron en Río de Janeiro, Brasil, para discutir y aprobar un plan de acción que permita implementar avances en el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y formular políticas concretas para construir una sociedad de la información que permita superar la enorme brecha digital que existe en América Latina y el Caribe, que sabemos está ligada a otras brechas sociales y económicas que marcan profundas desigualdades en la región.

29.06.2005 The Basic Skills Agency and BBC Worldwide Interactive Learning have collaborated to produce a CD-ROM for adults on citizenship and basic skills.

29.06.2005 UNESCO's Audio-visual e-platform provides a platform for the development communication practioners to exchange their multimedia content.

28.06.2005 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services without any entry and licence fee.

24.06.2005 Valijon and Maydagul were childhood sweethearts. They had finally overcome family pressure to become engaged, but their dreams were dashed when Valijon fell victim to drug addiction.

24.06.2005 Following practical exposure within workshop settings, to procedures for obtaining information from government such as exist under the "Freedom of Information Rules, 2004", Pakistani journalists from the provinces have reportedly sent dozens of requests for information to government departments concerned.

24.06.2005 The recent meeting of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO foresees commissioning the tsunami warning system for the Indian ocean region by July next year.

24.06.2005 Yahoo Inc., the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors.

22.06.2005 Një nga pikat kyçe dhe shumë të rëndësishme të Konventës së Aarhusit, është informimi i publikut, nëse ai kërkon informacion në lidhje me një fushë të caktuar. Aty nuk përmendet nëse marrdhëniet me shoqatat duhet të jenë të mira apo jo më një institucion apo ministri çfarëdo dhe, në bazë të këtyre marrdhënieve një ministri apo institucion të jap informacionin që i kërkohet. Në rastin konkret janë shoqatat mjedisore, individë dhe media, të cilat kërkojnë një informacion mbi fushën e mjedisit dhe, mendja menjëherë iu shkon tek ministria e Mjedisit, si burimi më i shpejtë, i saktë dhe i gjendshëm.

21.06.2005 People around the world followed through the different media the daily developments of the tsunami tragedy and stories of those directly affected.

21.06.2005 Highlighting grass-roots response to the Global Health Epidemic,
broadcast journalists from different parts of the Asia-Pacific region will be creating a series of "HIV/AIDS Reports" in their respective countries for television programming.

21.06.2005 The world's largest school as recognised by the Guinness Book has made its foray into the media world with the launch of an Educational Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio Channel.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), is happy to announce the training programme on “Local Language Web Hosting and Communication with Ek-Duniya” at Pune during 6-9 July 2005.

16.06.2005 Kako se organizovati? Kako registrovati NVO? Kako obezbediti sredstva od donatora? Ključna su pitanja na koja TANGO nastoji da pruži odgovore i zadovolji potrebe korisnika.

16.06.2005 Ericsson has signed a US$250 million managed capacity expansion contract with Indian operator Bharti to provide managed services and expand its GSM/GPRS network into rural India.

16.06.2005
What seems to be an apparent measure to boost the revenue from the mobile phone business, the government of Bangladesh has decided to impose a new duty on Subscribers Identification Module (SIM) effective from July in the proposed new budget.

15.06.2005 The battle for Internet has begun and India is in the thick of it. Over the next three days, Geneva is hosting a meeting of the Working Group on Internet governance (WGIG). At stake: Democracy in the cyber world, says India.

15.06.2005 Giving a boost to the rural telephony, the Minister for Communications and IT, Dayanidhi Maran announced the ministry’s “One India” plan. Under this plan there will be uniform tariff for all calls irrespective of the distance.

14.06.2005 The Commonwealth Foundation is organising an online consultation open to governments, civil society organisations and people across the Commonwealth, in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and Commonwealth People's Forum (CPF) to be held in Malta in November 2005.

14.06.2005 Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States are trying to decipher the hidden communications in private online discussion groups and other similar public forums.