ICT in poverty reduction

21.07.2005 The assistance provided by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) under its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) has been successfully used for the first time to provide infrastructure in the social sector.

20.07.2005 E-grama centres in Karnataka to provide information about the ongoing programmes of the Union and State governments to villagers so that they can avail themselves of the schemes.

15.07.2005 Grameen Phone in Bangladesh has more than 3.5 million subscribers, with more than 115,000 phones in villages across the country.

14.07.2005 The "The Impact of ICT on Rural Development in Solomon Islands: the PFnet (People First Network) Case" research aimed to examine the impact of Internet on lives of poor grass root rural people in the Solomon Islands.

14.07.2005 The number of service jobs outsourced from the industrialised world to low-wage countries is expected to surge to 4.10 million by 2008, according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.

09.07.2005 George Owusu-Afriyie describes how BG-BASE, a database program designed to manage information on botanical collections, is helping to conserve medicinal plants in Ghana.

09.07.2005 Africa faces a difficult challenge in meeting the main target of the first Millennium Development Goal— to halve the number of people suffering from malnutrition and hunger by 2015.

09.07.2005 Having access to relevant, quality agriculture information is critical to farmers' livelihoods, improving their productivity and ability to diversify and compete in modern markets, as well as improving the health of their families.

09.07.2005 A variety of fairly straightforward rural ICT interventions may have greater impact on agricultural production and post-harvest activities then those that are strictly focused on agriculture.

09.07.2005 The information revolution has completely bypassed nearly one billion people. They are the rural poor, who constitute 75 percent of the people in the world who live on less than one dollar a day.

08.07.2005 Hewlett-Packard's Mogalakwena i-community programme aims to develop the Limpopo Province in South Africa into a self-sustaining economy by providing access to ICTs for improving livelihoods opportunities of the population by raising literacy rates, creating income, providing access to government services, education and health care, and opening new markets.

07.07.2005 President A P J Abdul Kalam launched the Amrita-ISRO Village Resource Centre (VRC), an innovative project for rural development utilising satellite technology, at the Amrita University campus at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.

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 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 Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can empower people. They unlock a world of super-fast, globalised communications and decentralised information networks.

06.07.2005 How can resource-poor rural women in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve their agricultural production, food processing and food provision?

05.07.2005 Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) will host the 93rd session of the Indian Science Congress (ISC) 2006 from January 3-7.

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