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Internet

February 2006

28.02.2006 Projekti e-Riders është i dizajnuar që të fuqizojë kapacitetet e organizatave të shoqërisë civile në Maqedoni që të paraqesin porositë e tyre, të promovojnë pjesëmarrjen e qytetarëve në çështje publike, të krijojnë koalicione dhe të shërbejnë komunitetet e tyre më mirë.
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Related topics/regions: [Macedonia (FYROM)] [civil society & ICT] [communications] [knowledge & ICT]
eHomemakers received the prestigious Gender, Information and Communications Technologies Award last year.
24.02.2006 Homebound and disadvantaged women will be the next to benefit from the eHomemakers Network, which harnesses the power of the Internet to provide women with the business skills and technical training to become economically independent.
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From: Advocacy Project
Related topics/regions: [Malaysia] [capacity building] [economy] [education & ICT] [gender & ICT]
Image: eHomemakers received the prestigious Gender, Information and Communications Technologies Award last year. © Advocacy Project
24.02.2006 Residents of the Netherlands, armed with a tax break for computer purchases and some of Europe's lowest broadband fees, lead the world in the use of personal computers and the Internet, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts released Tuesday.
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Related topics/regions: [Netherlands] [access] [literacy & ICT]
24.02.2006 As the world’s societies and economies depend increasingly on the Internet, after three decades, the Internet and other global networks are approaching a crossroads. Leading Internet architects believe that the premises on which the Internet was built need rethinking, in order to preserve and expand opportunities for innovation and economic growth. The window of opportunity is now, for international cooperation and coherent policies to help shape a global Internet, that meets the needs of as many users as possible, is robust and secure, and that can scale itself to evolving requirements.
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Related topics/regions: [communications]
23.02.2006 FAO has created a new online database and website about invasive species introduced from foreign ecosystems which can negatively impact forests as a tool to help foresters deal with this growing problem.
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23.02.2006 “As African governments begin to implement e-government and e-commerce initiatives, the new terrain will be a haven for malicious hackers, who want bragging rights for bringing these sites down,” cautioned Michael Bitz, a consultant who facilitated discussions among ECA staff at a workshop on the Economics of E-security, held from 6-8 February 2006.
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Related topics/regions: [Africa]
20.02.2006 This report looks at the status of internet in Iran with a primary focus on the issue of filtration. It analyses the current situation of the Internet in Iran, the statutes restricting the freedom of expression including both the public media laws and the laws specific to the Internet, censorship and the methods thereof and the rapid growth of blogging in Iran and the large-scale censorship affecting the weblogs.
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Related topics/regions: [Iran] [Asia and the Pacific] [gender & ICT] [World Wide Web]
20.02.2006 The 7th Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop on Ontology-based knowledge discovery: Using metadata and ontologies for improving access to agricultural information, in collaboration with the AFITA - 2006, will be held in India in November this year.
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Related topics/regions: [World Wide Web]
17.02.2006 GKP is pleased to announce the 2nd GKP International Forum on Cross-Sector Partnerships on "", to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 8-9 May 2006. More than 200 leaders from Business, Civil Society, Government, International Organisations and Academia will convene at the Forum to both share innovations in ICT for development (ICT4D) and explore new innovative partnership-based initiatives using information and communications technologies (ICT) to create prosperity.
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Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka]
16.02.2006 Two village knowledge centers (called Advocacy Centres) which empower the villagers with knowledge on Science and Technology, Health and Environment relevant to the local needs were opened near Pilani in Rajasthan.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [capacity building]
07.02.2006 The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) will be amending licences as of 20 February to enable Internet service providers (classes A and B) to obtain international bandwidth. The Minister of Communications and Information Technology further said that the Information Technology and Development Agency (ITDA) has granted four licences for e-signatures which would help the local community in boosting e-commerce."
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Related topics/regions: [Egypt] [North Africa] [Africa] [access] [policy initiatives in ICT]

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