ICT in poverty reduction

30.01.2006 Speakers at the seminar on ‘Access to Information and Development: Role of ICTs’ said that the targets of the MDGs and PRSP should provide more emphasis on mainstreaming ICTs for leveraging the potential of economy and society leading towards a knowledge society.

27.01.2006 A Sri Lankan robotics scientist leads an effort to get technology working for poor communities around the world. Read more on the project from Scidev.net.

25.01.2006 Much of what we are discussing today is based on information disseminated through media. So, we are familiar with the media’s role in setting off deliberations such as this one. How far they succeed in alleviating poverty is another matter.

20.01.2006 The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration said that the rural health centres will be open 24 hours for improved medical services. According to an ICT spokesman, three female doctors and three male doctors have been appointed at Tarlai health centres.

17.01.2006 Kenya plans to position itself as one of the world's leading outsourcing hubs for companies in North America and Europe looking to cut costs in their business processes.

17.01.2006 Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF) is the professional ICT journalist association of Bangladesh which was established in 2002.

16.01.2006 ne of the rarest things witnessed during the RJD regime in Bihar was the senior officials ‘arranging’ combs and scissors, apart from teams of barbers to help ensure success of Mr Lalu Prasad’s Nahao-bal kato abhiyan, a cleanliness-related programme for under privileged children living in slums and remotest villages that eventually turned out to be mere “publicity stunt”.

13.01.2006 Madurai, Jan 12: A Tamil internet browser that would help rural people understand the web pages has been developed by a Dindigul-based youth R Duraipandiyan.

13.01.2006 Jeevika, a documentary film festival, showcases films which focus on peoples’ struggles in earning a living in a vocation of their choice. Experience 21 documentary films that depict legal and regulatory restrictions as well as social-cultural norms and religious practices that prevent or constrain people from earning an honest living in the vocation of their choice.

13.01.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) organised a participatory knowledge management workshop with the one hundred fourty five newly inducted fellows of the Jamsetji Tata National Virtual Academy (NVA) on Jan 3-4, 2006 at Hyderabad. The workshop was to fecilitate knowledge exchange between grassroots workers and experts.

10.01.2006 Chief Minister Arjun Munda has directed the IT department to prepare a profile of all the 32,000 villages in Jharkhand so that a close watch can be kept on their development.

10.01.2006 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today issued a major report to highlight and inform the development community about a unique business model used to solve development challenges.

10.01.2006 The workshop is being organised by Change Initiatives from Kolkata and is supported by the University of Manchester.

06.01.2006 The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, has asked scientists, meteorologists and agricultural universities to guide farmers by alerting them about impending droughts, recommending plants suited for disadvantageous geographies, and pinpointing fish catches using satellite images.

06.01.2006 Setting the agenda for rural development through technological innovations, President APJ Abdul Kalam today used a satellite to speak with farmers from five states in the country listening to their problems and suggesting solutions while urging scientists to do more for the poor.

05.01.2006 Diverse electronic governance models bring more number of people into governance sphere and thereby increase the "public value" of information being supplied to the agrarian community.

05.01.2006 Unlike the pacific tsunami warning system which generates large number of false alarms, the system being developed by Indian scientists would be fool-proof, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday quoting renowned seismologist Harsh K Gupta.

05.01.2006 The World Bank Institute (WBI) has launched an innovative program, “Africa Good Governance Program on the Radio Waves,” to support local government capacity building and community empowerment via radio.

05.01.2006 I-Quench a very recent personal weblog, is a growing participatory, collaborative and informational initiative dedicated to furthering the cause of ICTs for development in India in the areas of health, education, poverty alleviation, agriculture, micro-finance, e-governance , trade of goods and services, market-based information dissemination- all leading to ICTs-supported holistic community development.

04.01.2006 The rapid growth of the country's economy in the recent past notwithstanding, India cannot become a major player in the global economy unless it completed the land reform process, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said here on Tuesday.