policy initiatives in ICT

17.01.2006 Approved in principle by the Prime Minister, the Finance Ministry has created a list of information and communication technology (ICT) products of Vietnam and a roadmap to abolish tariffs on these products in the 2008-2010 period, according to the International Co-operation Department under the Finance Ministry.

16.01.2006 Next month, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will once again revive an initiative which has eluded policy makers for nearly five years.

13.01.2006 Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in the Nigerien capital of Niameyon Thursday to discuss development and security in the region.

13.01.2006 THE UTTAR Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) today demanded that the transcripts and the CDs of Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh’s tapped telephonic conversation be made public or else the Congress would use the provisions of Right to Information Act to make them public.

10.01.2006 Following the rapid expansion of information and communication technologies, the United Nations called for a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to establish the foundations for an Information Society for all, reflecting all the different interests at stake.

09.01.2006 Thanks to the sustained grassroots campaign and political will on the part of the Government, the long awaited Right to Information Act, 2005 that got the ratification of both the Houses of Parliament on May 12, has become effective from October 12 this year.

05.01.2006 The department of telecom (DoT) has rejected the
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai's) suggestion to
introduce spectrum trading. DoT secretary JS Sarma told FE that no such proposal was under the department's consideration.

05.01.2006 The egov Asia 2006, the Asian government conference is being held at Bangkok, Thailand in April 2006. The conference would provide a knowledge-sharing platform and a forum for policymakers, practitioners, industry leaders and academicians of Asia-Pacific nations to carry forward the e-Government vision of the region and consolidate them into actionable program, through collaborative learning and partnerships.

04.01.2006 The Ugandan Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry (MTTI) and its affiliated institutions met in a roundtable workshop at Jinja from 1 to 3 December 2005. The affiliated institutions are: namely Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Uganda Export Promotion Board (UEPB), Management Training & Advisory Centre (MTAC), Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI), Uganda Commodity Exchange (UCE), Uganda Wild Life Education Centre (UWEC) and Uganda Wild Life Authority (UWA).

04.01.2006 The Ministry of Communications (Ghana) on Tuesday said it had begun releasing published Ministerial Policy Statements to help guide the implementation of a National Information Communication and Technology (ICT) policy.

02.01.2006 The proposal to set up 24 new IT companies with a potential to create an additional 20,000 jobs, at a cost of Rs. 1,000 crores, may have brought Mysore to the threshold of a boom in the IT sector, but the cascading effect of an influx of employees and their families on the fragile infrastructure of the city has already raised concerns.