international cooperation

27.02.2008 Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is organising a three-day event called eINDIA2008 in New Delhi in July 2008. The event will bring together representatives of the ICT industry, government, civil society, academia and private sector from across the world to share the best practices and digital opportunities for development.

11.01.2008 The United Nations Secretary-General emphasised the role of international community in overcoming the digital divide at a recent UNGAID meeting at Nevada. The need is to reverse the lack of access to information and communication technology (ICT) that separates poor communities from affluent ones in developing nations.

31.12.2007 In a recently held conference in India, participants from eleven countries deliberated upon the emerging trend in public service delivery system through mobiles. There is an immense potential to make government services more accessible to everyone with mobile networks covering 70% of world’s population.

26.12.2007 The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO has signed an agreement with Inmarsat to further improve and enhance the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System. Once upgraded, there will be minute-by-minute transmission of sea level observation providing more time to sounding alert.

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23.11.2007 A new manual released by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is a handy tool in data collection and analysis and to keep oneself abreast of international trade standards and definitions. The manual provides useful advice on how to tackle statistical challenges and help improve national competitiveness of developing countries in international trade.

20.11.2007 There was a convergence of the needs of developing and developed countries to reduce the digital divide. This was the main success of the recently concluded World Radiocommunication Conference held at Geneva.

13.11.2007 Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.

22.10.2007 Center for Global Development -nimisen aivoriihen tutkimuksen mukaan Ranska on innokkaimmin tukemassa informaatioteknologiaa kehitysyhteistyössä. Maiden sijoitukseen vaikutti myös asenne immateriaalioikeuksista luopumiseen, mikä sijoitti Yhdysvallat vasta sijalle 14.

09.10.2007 Greater decentralisation of ICT programmes with locally relevant, context specific and flexible content can boost literacy, says the 10 point charter of the two day international conference of E-9 countries on ICT for Literacy in Bangalore, India. The E-9 countries are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, China and India.

23.07.2007 UNCTADin uusimman raportin mukaan kehittyvien maiden on panostettava aiempaa enemmän tieteeseen ja teknologiaan. Tietoyhteiskunnasta jälkeenjääminen vaikeuttaa köyhyyden ja työttömyyden kitkemistä. Raportti väittää myös tieteeseen ja teknologiaan liittyvan kehitysavun olevan laadullisesta ja määrällisesti heikkotasoista.

13.04.2007 The Metamorphosis Foundation joined the Association of Progressive Communications (APC) as a full member. In partnership with APC, Metamorphosis will conduct activities related to exchange of knowledge and experience, overcoming the digital gap, inclusion and human rights.

08.02.2007 Following the first-ever gathering of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held in Athens from 30 October to 2 November 2006, a special stock-taking session will take place next Tuesday, 13 February, at Geneva’s Palais des Nations where the participants will assess the achievements of the inaugural meeting and pave the way forward.

06.02.2007 Underscoring its commitment to enabling India to become an innovators nation and bridge the digital divide, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it imparted training on open standards based technologies to more than 80,000 students in over 745 colleges in India during 2006.

26.12.2006 A dozen village information centres functioning in the tsunami-hit coastal villages of Tamil Nadu get Internet connectivity. This facility would provides the fishermen have access to video conferencing, weather reports, local market network on fishing trade in these villages.

20.12.2006 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), IBM and Oracle today announced a joint research initiative to help Asia-Pacific countries share and create strategies, blueprints and policies for adopting the right blend of open standards and technology services. The goal will be for more countries to develop universally compatible applications and networks to make internal and external government services and transactions more automatic, affordable and efficient.

08.12.2006 In Douala, Cameroon, last month the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution), Europe’s largest dispute resolution body, delivered a three-day Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution to 32 lawyers and barristers, representing eight African countries from the Telecommunications sector.

06.12.2006 Scientists have created an online global map of communities that are at high risk of malaria, which could prove a valuable tool for policymakers targeting resources to fight the disease. The map links data collected by population surveys to Google Earth's online map of the world designed using satellite photographs.

29.11.2006 Leaders from Government, the private sector, science and technology, media, entertainment and sports from around the world will gather at the United Nations to convey the message that the global community is one family with common values.

28.11.2006 The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has urged governments to take a new approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs) to reflect the needs, customs and views of indigenous communities in developing nations.