success stories

15.06.2004 A village school in South Africa is using bio-gas energy for powering its computers, thereby overcoming a major infrastructure problem.

13.05.2004 A software developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in India now speeds up registering the land records. Some seven million people are benefitting each year from this digitisation process.

21.04.2004 Despite many challenges - mainly insecurity in the troubled south - Azad Afghan Radio (Afghan Independent Radio) is one 14 independent local radio stations in the country working to promote freedom of expression and providing a voice to the voiceless.

12.01.2004 The residents of one Yorkshire town got so fed up with being passed over for broadband access that they set up Britain's first ISP cooperative.

10.11.2003 A large number of farmers in rural India are breathing a little bit easier these days. For decades, they have been locked into a government-organized trading scheme that nearly ensures they get fleeced by the middlemen when they sell their grains at auction. But now that's changing.

04.11.2003 Angela Stuber and Gabe Gloden of the Ohio Community Computing Network (OCCN) in the United States explore how OCCN volunteers spent a day this October educating Ohio legislators about the importance of local telecentres.