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17.04.2008 Bulgaria has received a grant of 300 million euros from the European Union for the development of its information and communication technologies. Although the country has a very high number of mobile and Internet users, there is still a scope for more ICT penetration in small towns and rural areas.

28.12.2007 You can now get a return on your investment and also help fight global poverty. Online auction giant eBay’s new micro lending website lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world to help them build better lives for themselves while also earning modest returns.

13.12.2007 The “Menu for Hope” is an on-line lottery conceived as a fund-raising campaign. The World Food Programme has welcomed the initiative, saying that it makes a unique connection between impoverished African farmers and people with fascination for food in the developed world.

30.10.2007 IT company Hewlett Packard has donated US$ 5 million to NGOs to support small businesses in the developing world.

29.10.2007 The Indian government’s department of science and technology (DST) will fund IT companies to help adopt innovative ideas as value addition to their products. The proposal will encourage IT companies to brand their services and retain their competitiveness in the international market despite the instability in the currency market.

14.08.2007 The Budget allocation for higher and technical education in the country is set to treble in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012) with the Planning Commission expected to allocate over Rs 26,000 crore, compared to Rs 8,876 crore in the 10th Five-Year Plan.

09.08.2007 The managing director of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Mark Scott, has said that the commercial advertising on ABC websites has been ruled out as long as government funding is maintained.

01.06.2007 The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad, Karnataka, has launched the first community radio for Indian farmers with the financial assistance of the Union Government. The catchline of the channel, which deals with agricultural issues is ' by the farmers, for the farmers'.

15.12.2006 The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 is a new prize, launched by Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Stockholm Challenge. It is designed as an integral part of the Stockholm Challenge 2008 and will open in four of the ordinary six ICT4D categories: Culture, Economic Development, Education and Public Administration. The Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 opens on 1 January 2007 and will be accessible both from the Stockholm Challenge website and from the GKP portal.

25.02.2006 A US$1 million technical assistance (TA) grant will support the use of innovative information and communications technology (ICT) in education in developing countries.

18.01.2006 Mighty names from the worlds of art and documentary photography have donated 100 prints for a charity auction to be held on ebay.fr between 19th and 29th January 2006.

16.01.2006 Have you ever heard of Rongpur radio station? For 8 Million people in the North of Bangladesh this is their only local radio station. Or of Lakxao Radio, which serves more than 200,000 thousand people in a remote area of Laos?

10.01.2006 Sanctioning an additional Rs 49 crore to Kerala under Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana, Union Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh promised "every help" in implementing rural development schemes in the state.

10.01.2006 The Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) has announced a unique initiative designed to help independent news media in emerging democracies. The program will allow investors to help foster press freedom and viability abroad by loaning money at low interest rates.

04.01.2006 With an aim to increase the H1B cap and special visa provisions for a multiple one-year entry in US, the Nasscom (National Association of Software and Service Companies) on Tuesday signed an MoU with US India Business Alliance (USIBA) for joint cooperation in the IT sector.

04.01.2006 Tobacco major ITC Ltd plans to invest $1 billion over a period of seven to ten years in its ongoing e-Choupal business.

04.01.2006 A wide range of technologies are available to help microfinance providers improve efficiency, track operations more accurately, increase transparency, and reach new customers.

30.12.2005 The ninth national conference on egovernance will be held at
Le Meridien, Kochi, Keralam from 2 to 4 February 2006.

04.10.2005 The BBC's grassroots campaign website, Action Network, has been honoured as the top politics and internet "world changer" of 2005, for the third year in a row.

26.09.2005 The government of bangladesh is set to seek around $25 million soft loan to South Korea to improve its internet
infrastructure with a view to providing high speed
internet service across the country.