Internet

22.02.2008 Blogging, internet chat rooms and sites have become the safest ways for gay Africans and Arabs to meet, while keeping their identities secret. Caution is after all crucial as homosexual acts are illegal in most countries in Africa and the Middle East.

20.02.2008 A new service launched by the Romanian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology will enable self-employed and family businesses to register and carry out other procedures online. The service will also improve relations between local administrations and private entrepreneurs across rural areas and small cities.

19.02.2008 Even while a US-based body is running tests to see whether it will offer domain names in non-Roman alphabets, in countries such as India mobile companies are wooing rural users by offering services in local scripts to overcome the language barrier.

17.02.2008 Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika Mohammad Nuh merasa senang karena Indonesia dianggapnya telah berhasil mengejar ketertinggalan di bidang teknologi komunikasi informasi (ICT), khususnya di bidang telekomunikasi.

17.02.2008 The Indonesian government is determined to utilize the information technology effectively to support efforts to increase the national competitiveness. This aspiration is reflected in the Indonesian.

14.02.2008 A dozen auto rickshaws or e-Tuktuks equipped with laptops, printers, telephones, recorders, and the Internet roam the villages in remote Sri Lanka, combining the services of a traditional telecenter and radio station. So ingenious was the concept that it won the Stockhom Challenge GKP Award in Kuala Lumpur last December.

06.02.2008 Lembaga Kampung Halaman membuat program ”Kami Bicara” untuk 10 sekolah dari berbagai daerah. Isinya antara lain mengajak murid-murid memvideokan aktivitas positifnya. Lalu, hasilnya di-upload ke web blog untuk sosialisasi ke masyarakat luas.

05.02.2008 BOGOTA, Feb 5 (OneWorld) - An estimated 2 million Colombians marched here Monday in a show of opposition to the FARC guerrillas. Worldwide, solidarity protests organized through the Facebook online platform spanned 193 cities in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia.

05.02.2008 This year the vote goes to My World and Viet Tech founder Nguyen Minh Tri from Vietnam. The runner-up in the annual competition to find the best entrepreneur age 30 or under in the Asia-Pacific region is Saloni Malhotra, founder and CEO of DesiCrew Solutions, an outsourcing business that taps India’s workforce in small towns and rural areas.

05.02.2008 Teknologi Informasi (TI) yang kini berkembang amat pesat tak bisa dipungkiri memberikan kontribusi yang signifikan terhadap seluruh proses globalisasi ini. Mulai dari wahana TI yang paling sederhana (radio dan televisi), hingga internet dan ponsel, informasi mengalir dengan sangat cepat dan menyeruak ruang kesadaran banyak orang.

01.02.2008 Consumers of Internet services will have to wait much longer for faster and cheaper access that was to come through the National Fibre Optic Backbone. Industry insiders said construction of the terrestrial fibre optic cable that was commissioned last year is running behind schedule as a result of political skirmishes that followed the December 27 presidential election raising the prospect of delayed launch.