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16.09.2002 That ICT is not just the prerogative of the rich or the urban people is proved by the Gyandoot programme in the district of Dhar in central Madhya Pradesh, India. Dhar has a population of 1.7 million, with 54% population being tribal and 60% population living below poverty line -- not really the promising territory for an ICT revolution. Yet, this is where ICT has really caught on, thanks to Gyandoot.

09.09.2002 Botswana is "one of the first countries in the African region to establish an independent and effective regulatory body," said Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union, at the opening of the new BTA office in Gaborone. He added that the telecom agency's "level of independence and effectiveness may develop as a world model."