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29.09.2007 The southern state of Karnataka in India has set up E-Halli centres – an e-governance initiative to provide important information and services in rural areas. The centres will operate from the panchayat premises and will charge a small annual fee.

06.09.2007 The United Nations today launched a web portal to help implement an essential tool in efforts to reduce global warming gases by facilitating a trading mechanism that allows States which cut emissions below treaty targets to sell their surplus allowances to others who overshoot the mark.

03.09.2007 A partnership between MTN Business and State Information Technology Agency of South Africa will offer secure mobile and network solutions to government departments. One of the foremost challenges facing government has been to increase the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the country’s rapidly expanding economy.

31.08.2007 Professor at IIT Delhi's computer science and engineering department is designing an information sharing model to integrate the verification process of government departments.

31.08.2007 The second Internet Governance Forum is taking place in Rio de Janeiro from 12 to 15 November, the participants of the event will gather in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on Monday, 3 September to discuss the details of the agenda and programme of the four-day meeting in Brazil.

31.08.2007 Deutsche Welle, Germany's foreign broadcaster has made its television programs available live on many mobile devices, making it possible to watch DW-TV while away from TV and computer.

31.08.2007 Scientists at IBM said they had moved closer to achieving the feat by learning how to steer single atoms in a way that could create building blocks for ultra-tiny storage devices.