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01.09.2005 An international workshop on “Creating the Information Commons for e-Science: Towards Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action” that is organised by Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) opens today at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

31.08.2005 With an aim to popularise rail ticket booking through the Internet, a Parliamentary Committee has asked the Railways to make available more payment options such as cash cards across a well spread out network.

31.08.2005 In a meeting with the Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Motorola demonstrated e-education project at Rashtrapai Bhavan through its wireless broadband solution.

31.08.2005 While US and Japan are preparing to equip the WTO’s Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) Agreement with provisions to safeguard national biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge, developing countries are lagging behind in their entrepreneurship in this regard.

31.08.2005 Dumping of second hand IT devices is in the agenda of the upcoming Indo-EU summit, going to be held on September 7 in New Delhi.

31.08.2005 Over three lakh students of 1,000 government high schools across Karnataka have learnt the basics of computer education under a project called "Mahiti Sindhu."

31.08.2005 A 15 months long “e-Health & Learning” (e-HL) project was deployed in January 2003 by Sustainable Development Networking Programme(SNDP), which was funded by the European Commission under the Asia IT&C programme.