28.07.2005
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed of Bangladesh has urged the people put in more efforts to create IT-knowledge based human resources and promote the prospective IT sector.
28.07.2005
The reports of the four conferences that UNESCO organized from February to May 2005 as thematic meetings for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which will hold its second session in Tunis, Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005, are now available online.
28.07.2005
The WSIS Gender Caucus is organising an email-based discussion forum on identifying and integrating gender perspectives into the WSIS deliberations at PrepCom3 in September and the Tunis Summit in November.
The goal of this four-week long email discussion is to raise awareness of critical issues around intellectual property rights (IPR) for Africa, to provide an overview of the existing legal processes and tools, to discuss alternatives to the current situation, and to facilitate exchange and collaboration between individuals and organisations working in this field.
18.07.2005
India's Finance Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, announced that the Government of India would support the Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre, to the tune of Rs 65,000 million (roughly US $1,500 million).
14.07.2005
A sneak preview of the UNs report into internet governance has revealed that ICANN will retain its position as the lead technical body for the Internet. However, the organisations dreams of becoming a quasi-governmental body overseeing the future of the internet have been dealt a heavy blow.
13.07.2005
Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the Government would try to meet the demand of Rs. 6,500 crores to create over 6 lakh village knowledge centres across the country for the Mission 2007.
07.07.2005
Bangladesh Government has already acquired 232 acres of land in Kaliakoir of Gazipur district to set up an IT (Information Technology) Village.
06.07.2005
After years of struggle, the European Parliament finally rejected the software patent directive with 648 of 680 votes: A strong signal against patents on software logic, a sign of lost faith in the European Union and a clear request for the European Patent Office (EPO) to change its policy: the EPO must stop issuing software patents today.
06.07.2005
The prototype Population Geographic Information System (PoPGIS) is a user-friendly data and information management system that is recently launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), through its Demography/Population Programme.
06.07.2005
The WSIS Civil Society Working Group on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships has revived its work out the discussions in the international conference UNESCO between Two Phases of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in 17 19 May 2005 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
06.07.2005
The Internet Governance Project in its policy paper Competition in Ipv6 addressing: A review of the debate discusses proposals for competing sources of Ipv6 addresses.
05.07.2005
A conference in Amsterdam last week brought together many
info-activists and critical intellectuals for reflections on the
"information for development" discourse.
