IT training

11.04.2008 An Indian IT giant NIIT and Confederation of Indian Industries will together create information communication technology infrastructure in Africa to foster software talent in the continent. As per an agreement, the former will provide high quality educational resources and the latter will facilitate internship with Indian industry.

19.02.2008 Western Indian state of Goa is embarking on an ambitious project to promote knowledge of information technology. It is going to set up centres to impart training and establish IT parks to address the problem of growing unemployment in the state, especially among the youth.

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.

28.12.2007 GPRS mobiles will soon deliver e-governance services to villagers in Faizabad in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The project will connect rural areas with the district headquarter, while also monitoring government functionaries at work and tracking the progress of various programmes.

20.11.2007 In 2008, the Kenya Information and Communication Technology Board will train some 1,500 entrepreneurs from digital villages incurring a total cost of US$ 2 million. Kenya’s digital village project was launched with the aim to set up ICT centres throughout the country.

13.11.2007 The Winneba Open Digital Village and Rescue Mission Ghana are organising a three day training workshop on Web 2.0 tools for development from December 10-13, 2007. The training will focus on emerging web based social, business and technology developments and define future web trends.

13.11.2007 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide technical assistance, funded by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund, to the state of Assam in India. The objective is to promote innovative ICTs to make e-rural investments financially sustainable.

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.

20.08.2007 A leading African VSAT company and one of the few GVF instructors in Africa are going to organise a training event on VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) on 23 and 24, August 2007in Lagos. Nigeria.

17.08.2007 Samia Melhem, Sr. Operations Officer, Policy Division (CITPO), The World Bank Group shares her views on the participation of women in information and communication technology (ICT).

16.08.2007 The latest (2006-2007) World Economic Forum Global Information Technology report shows that African countries are still lagging behind in terms of using opportunities offered by ICT so needs to enlarge efforts in the development and application of ICT in all the sectors of the economy to compete globally.

16.08.2007 According to findings published in the latest e-skills Bulletin, UK provides considerably more training for IT professionals than most other European countries. The data is drawn from Eurostat research covering the original group of 15 EU member states.

07.08.2007 Jidaw Systems Limited is conducting a free IT Career and Certification seminar at its training centre at Lagos, Nigeria, on 18 August 2007. The seminar will address how to build a successful career in information technology.

03.07.2007 Government employees in the state of Kerala will be computer trained over the next three years under the National e-Governance Plan. Around 2,000 police officers in Malappuram district will undergo the training first.

29.06.2007 African journal of ICT is organising 5 days tutorial and training workshops on VoIP, IPTV, Mobile TV, Softswitch, real-time protocols and IP over Power Line communications at The Bell Rosen Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa from Jul 09, 2007 - Jul 13, 2007. The workshops will impart skills in IP and digital communications based on experienced industry practitioners and cover technologies, strategies, billing, marketing, regulation and implementations.

11.05.2007 Delhi based Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) will host India’s largest – and only one of its kind – ICT for Development forum on 31 July - 03 August at New Delhi. eINDIA 2007 will be a platform to share creative ideas and processes and connect practitioners in the use of ICT4D. Its seven seminal conferences will focus on India’s digital divide and explore opportunities for growth potential.

11.05.2007 Villages in Kerala will soon find a place in the cyber world through a state government project, Akshaya, that provides custom-made web portals for all communities in their local language (Malayalam). Supported by UNESCO, the initiative aims to provide computer literacy to the people and implement the project with their participation.

10.05.2007 Panos South Asia (PSA) is organising a 5-day South Asian regional 'Online Radio Broadcasting Training Workshop' for media and other communication practitioners, from 19-23 June 2007 at its Media Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop aims to leverage the benefits that internet offers to radio and the ways of incorporating it into existing media strategies.

08.05.2007 ICWE GmbH and Hoffmann & Reif are going to organise a conference 'eLearning Africa 2007' on 28 May at Nairobi, Kenya. The event aims to create a network of stakeholders and focus on building ICT infrastructures for education and training.