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09.05.2008 The world’s second-largest social networking website has signed an agreement to incorporate safeguards to protect young users from paedophiles and cyber bullying. The site will send warning messages and remove inappropriate content to shield minors from abuse.

05.05.2008 Celebrating 15 years of its creation, World Wide Web’s inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes that the technology is still in a nascent stage. However, as a result of various international collaborations, the Web would be of great help in managing the planet.

18.04.2008 Partners in Media Asia Pvt. Ltd. is organising India Radio Forum on May 30, 2008 at Mumbai, India. The event aims to inform and update the FM fraternity of the medium’s evolution in the region, and to invite opinions from the industry worldwide about the future of radio in Asia.

18.04.2008 Building on the popular culture of blogging, BBC’s ZigZagmag.net has created an interactive online space to enable aspiring Iranian journalists generate high quality content for a variety of BBC platforms. The virtual newsroom encourages learning and communication through discussions and training.

25.03.2008 Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, was in Mumbai, India to launch his new commercial venture ‘Wikia’. Here he shared his desire to increase local Indian language contributions on the site and the need to challenge spam content.

13.11.2007 Microsoft and Zurich based DAISY, the digital talking books consortium, will work together to develop a free, downloadable plug-in that would translate documents into a digital audio standard for the blind.

29.11.2006 Radio Sagarmatha, the pioneering Kathmandu-based community radio broadcaster, has been awarded the AMARC International Solidarity Prize 2006 in recognition of its outstanding work in defence of human rights and democracy in Nepal.

19.09.2006 Only 2.6 per cent of Africans have access to the Internet, compared with 69 per cent of Americans.

21.08.2006 Life Line to Business (LL2B. COM), an organization based in Chennai, was the proud recipient of the Manthan-AIF 2006 Award for "Best e-Content" in India for the category "e-Inclusion and Livelihood".

04.08.2006 OneWorld South Asia will lead the the first project launched under the Commonwealth Connects programme -- 'Rebuilding After the Tsunami: Using ICTs for Change'. A new Commonwealth initiative to bridge the deepening digital divide across its member countries was unveiled by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, UK, on 3 August 2006.

06.07.2006 The digital divide has a female face. This is very true as evident from women's underrepresentation and lack of willingness in the sphere of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

29.05.2006 Bharathidasan University is set to launch an FM radio station to bridge the gap between literate and illiterate people.

02.05.2006 The draft Protection of Personal Information Bill, which deals with data privacy and information protection, is expected to become law this year — with significant implications for South African business.

01.05.2006 The World Language Mapping System is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and trusted geographic data set of the locations of the world's nearly 7,000 ethno-linguistic peoples.

25.04.2006 The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) has joined forces with The Indian Express Group to honor local journalists that demonstrate excellence in HIV/AIDS reporting.

25.04.2006 The democracy of the Web may soon be a relic of the past, a change that may have costly implications for doing business on the Net.

24.04.2006 China's Ministry of Science and Technology announced Friday the start of on-line applications for national research and development programs and an end to paper applications by 2010.

24.04.2006 Open source software and development can push governments of developing nations ahead in the world, but only if they participate as producers of the technology themselves, United Nations University (UNU) researchers say.

18.04.2006 On the recommendation of an international jury of media professionals, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura designated Lebanese journalist May Chidiac, winner of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2006.

17.04.2006 MySpace, US’s most popular social network site for teenagers, will soon have an Indian American online safety czar to deal with a growing menace of porn and sexual predators that has alarmed parents and law enforcement officials.