Internet

24.11.2004 Wipro and Intel have jointly launched the i-shiksha, a low-cost solution and technology to meet the needs of education segment in India.

17.11.2004 Andhra Pradesh is in the midst of an agrarian emergency. The tragic farmers’ suicides are, finally, an extreme symptom of a much deeper rural distress. The result of a decade-long onslaught on the livelihoods of millions. The crisis now goes way beyond the families ravaged by the suicides. And beyond the farming community itself. There is an urgent need to end the suicides. But doing so without addressing the larger distress is to try and mop the floor dry with the taps open.

17.11.2004 “So much information can reach villages through broadband, which cannot reach there through any other media. And the villages, which have no roads and other forms of communication, have a huge hunger for information...”, says Pradip Baijal in an interview to Manish Kumar of OneWorld South Asia.

17.11.2004 HP, Intel and TCS have offered to back an initiative by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to link six lakh Indian villages through information and communication technologies.

16.11.2004 Officials of India's first cyber-crime cell headquartered in Bangalore are preparing to implement a law that will keep an eye on internet users. Soon, internet cafes will be keeping a log book with details of visitors, who may have to carry an identity card.

10.11.2004 A website is helping speakers of Inuktitut, a Canadian aboriginal language, interact with their community online in their native language. attavik.net has a content management system that allows Inuit people to write and make online payments in Inuktitut.

09.11.2004 Johannesburg is hosting an online discussion from 24 November to 10 December 2004 that organisers hope will step up the campaign against gender violence and HIV/AIDS. Cyber Dialogues will allow interactions between experts, individuals and policymakers through community multimedia centres.

08.11.2004 Written by leading experts, this document gives the status of internet in Africa. It is aimed to help internet service providers, data carriers, telephone companies, government and regulatory organisations, development agencies, universities and NGOs working to bridge the digital divide in the continent.

02.11.2004 A research department in Canada’s Toronto University has developed a blog that will help employees of NGOs working outside home countries ashare their experiences and resources. Members of Civisphere will receive free one Gb of disk space and can upload pictures, videos and text files.