policy initiatives in ICT

30.08.2005 As there is no definitive structure of implementing the information society Plan of Action (PoA) in place, IT for Change has started advocating for creating an implementing mechanism in PrepCom III.

29.08.2005 An International Forum on Local Cultural Expression and Communication, organized by UNESCO, starts today in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).

29.08.2005 Recommendations from the Dhaka ICT consultation organised by OneWorld South Asia (OWSA), Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES) and Association for Progressive Communication (APC) on Jan 5-7, 2005 in Bangladesh on the national ICT policy issues.

25.08.2005 The biggest SANGONeT information communication technology (ICT) discussion forum with Civil Society Organisations of South Africa have started in Cape Town with an opportunity for the general public to learn about the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

03.08.2005 If Ethiopia is to develop, it must make room for the independent voices of the press and media, argues crusading Ethiopian journalist Amare Aregawi.

03.08.2005 India's first low-cost personal computer(PC) has been launched in the Tamil Nadu state capital, Madras.

03.08.2005 Inventions of the mind – ideas – are very special. All culture and society is built upon innumerable layers of accumulated past knowledge and ideas. In the arts, medicine, education, agriculture, and industry – in almost all areas of human endeavour – knowledge and ideas lie at the base of the flowering of human life and its passions.

03.08.2005 The third meeting of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom-3 of the Tunis phase) will take place in Palais des Nations, Geneva (Switzerland) from 19-30 September 2005.