media technologies

31.07.2007 UNESCO handed over 82 pieces of equipment, granted under a US$2.5 million project, funded by Italy, to create a new TV studio aimed at developing educational broadcasting in Afghanistan. The project started in 2003, and helped the Ministry of Education to achieve its goal of providing education to Afghans in all parts of the country.

31.07.2007 The fast-growing GeoWeb is helping people across the world by providing simple tools that allow people to draw on digital maps and annotate them with text, images, sound and videos, literally making anyone a mapmaker on the web.

27.07.2007 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is organising a workshop in collaboration with the Ministry of Posts and Telematics, Viet Nam with support from the Government of Australia on Frameworks for Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection on 28-31 August 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

27.07.2007 South Asians in Media and Marketing Association (SAMMA) is the first national platform in the US that brings together South Asians working in the media and marketing sectors together on September 28-29, 2007 at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York City.

26.07.2007 The Community Radio movement in Bangladesh is likely to get a fillip after a high level meeting was organized by the Ministry of
Information to find out ways to launch community radio on a pilot
basis.

25.07.2007 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have agreed on a new approach to make online shopping safer. They have called on national authorities and business to set out clear, simple policies, explaining steps that customers should follow to make a complaint and then have it resolved.

25.07.2007 The International Journalists' Network (IJNet) is an online service for journalists and is the world's premier resource for the media assistance community. IJNet has opened up a discussion forum for the people to add their comments on 'Online Media: Will more voices be heard?'

24.07.2007 The European Commission has awarded an 'excellent' rating to the Open PLC European Research Alliance (OPERA 2) project, which aims to develop an open standard for the next generation of power line technology.

23.07.2007 Pakistan's Mast FM103 radio station has been asked to stop
broadcasting BBC news bulletins which it had started on June 2007 after obtaining permission from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulation Authority (PEMRA). Reporters Without Borders has urged the Sindh High Court to defend the freedom of the radio station.

20.07.2007 BBC World Service Trust’s new radio station in the Eurasian nation of Georgia broadcasts its programmes through loudspeakers at the city centre. The local ethnic residents are learning how to produce their own programmes and gain computer literacy.

20.07.2007 UN organisations and some US universities have decided to enhance access to online research for scientists, policymakers and librarians in the developing world has been extended till 2015, in line with the UN's Millennium Development Goals in a meeting held in Washington.

19.07.2007 Digital technology is changing cinema because of its almost nil distribution costs. Digital films can be shuffled and shown many times over; movie-goers can no longer fear that a film may sell out.

19.07.2007 The Shanghai Information Bureau of China has shut down a literary forum run by poet Lu Yang. Such sites are ‘suspect’ on the grounds that they analyse Chinese society in veiled and ambiguous terms.

17.07.2007 The BBC World Service Trust's Afghan education project (AEP) has won a Bronze World Medal for its children’s radio programme, The Ruined Castle. The prize was awarded at the International Radio Broadcasting Awards, which is part of the New York Festivals.

17.07.2007 Delhi based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is providing an opportunity to participate in a specially-designed short training programme on 'Information Management in the Digital Age' on August 21-24, 2007.

11.07.2007 AFPRO (Action For Food Production) is holding a workshop on Application of GIS and Remote Sensing in Natural Resource Management on 20th July 2007, AFPRO, New Delhi, India.

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10.07.2007

09.07.2007 A new website, www.ShareIdeas.org, an online gathering place for sharing information and ideas on how mobile communication is being used to create positive social change, has been launched. An online community and a wiki, it has been created with support from Nokia and Vodafone.

06.07.2007 Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) is an association of grantmakers committed to media arts and public interest media funding, is holding a day-long conference on Sunday, September 16, 2007 in San Francisco. The conference will showcase the ways of how funding organizations and strategic grantmaking can influence the current media.