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20.07.2005 UNESCO and twelve other organisations including media groups met high government officials,civil society representatives and media proffesionals of Nepal in order to end all censorship and attacks on the journalists and grant them the freedom of press.

18.07.2005 India's Finance Minister, Mr P Chidambaram, announced that the Government of India would support the Mission 2007: Every Village a Knowledge Centre, to the tune of Rs 65,000 million (roughly US $1,500 million).

15.07.2005 The Education Tax Fund (ETF) has allocated N1.2 billion for the provision of information communication technology and capacity building in Nigerian universities.

15.07.2005 Grameen Phone in Bangladesh has more than 3.5 million subscribers, with more than 115,000 phones in villages across the country.

15.07.2005 Chandigarh wins the best e-governance state award award by the computer Society of India.

14.07.2005 Nineteen representatives from Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Portugal, Sri Lanka, and the UK participated in the roundtable workshop "Supporting community through ICT: qualitative research methods," held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK on June 2-3 2005.

14.07.2005 Punjab University (PU) and Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) are soon going to take on the Union Territory Administration’s IT Department to put all the university and Board data on their respective websites.