knowledge & ICT

31.08.2007 Professor at IIT Delhi's computer science and engineering department is designing an information sharing model to integrate the verification process of government departments.

29.08.2007 UNESCO has launched a book titled, ‘Building National Information Policies: Experiences in Latin America’ in Kingston. The book emphasizes the importance for Latin American and Caribbean countries to adopt National Information Policies (NIP) to preserve their people’s right to access information.

21.08.2007 American technology expert Larry Smarr says Australia needs to invest more in its universities and offer high-speed Internet in order to stay away from the risks of being left far behind its international competitors in business, education and the arts.

20.08.2007 According to reports by the World Bank, a number of countries in Africa have a low research and the trend was attributable to the minimal number of scientists and engineers. The reports recommended the attention on the development of scientific and industrial research base in the continent for significant progress in developing high-tech products export industry.

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 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.

14.08.2007 The Budget allocation for higher and technical education in the country is set to treble in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012) with the Planning Commission expected to allocate over Rs 26,000 crore, compared to Rs 8,876 crore in the 10th Five-Year Plan.

13.08.2007 UNESCO’s programme for Creative Content is aimed at boosting the production and dissemination of local content in both the traditional and new media in the most disadvantaged communities of the developing world.

13.08.2007 The Abel T Motshoane School in Mabopane, North of Pretoria in South Africa has become the first in the country to have a wireless network technology by implementing mobile e-Learning infrastructure and teaching skills in the school.

09.08.2007 As part of the new “Knowledge Communities” project, UNESCO Bangkok launched an online ICT-in-Education community: an interactive forum which welcomes educators, teachers, administrators and policy makers and others to share their ideas and opinions on topics relating to the use of ICT in education.

09.08.2007 Intel Corp. ties up with three Indian PC vendors, including HCL Infosystems Ltd., Wipro Ltd., and Zenith Computers Ltd to assemble the Classmate PC. The company will start shipping the product to Indian schools in September, 2007 which will be sold only to schools and not through retail channels to consumers.

08.08.2007 The Indian Minister of Communication and Information Technology has announced that about one lakh broadband enabled service centres will come up in the country by March, 2008. He added that one centre will come up for every six villages with all e-governance services.

08.08.2007 The Shilpa Sayura project, initiated under the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has won an i4d award at the eINDIA 2007 Conference in New Delhi, India.

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.

07.08.2007 The i4d Award 2007 was given to seven deserving ICT-based projects across India at the recently concluded eINDIA 2007 conference, held at New Delhi, India. The awardees earned the award for their contribution in digital literacy, e-governance, etc.

06.08.2007 The Indian state of Rajasthan will now have a live phone-in programme in its community radio channel – Aapno FM Radio Bansthali. The project has been a joint venture of Bansthali Vidhyapeeth and UNICEF.