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13.07.2005 The workshop aimed at highlighting the development needs as seen critical by the participants in their respective areas, as also the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in addressing those needs. In this respect, special emphasis was laid on the role of Village Knowledge Centres.

13.07.2005 An enterprising farmer from a village in Maharashtra's Nashik district has begun exporting drumsticks to far off places in the world via online.

13.07.2005 Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the Government would try to meet the demand of Rs. 6,500 crores to create over 6 lakh village knowledge centres across the country for the Mission 2007.

13.07.2005 Community radio practitioners gather today from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Niger to attend a week-long training that forms the basis of UNESCO’s “Science of HIV and AIDS” media training programme.

09.07.2005 From 10 to 16 July 2005, representatives of nine international institutions, including UNESCO, global media associations, freedom of expression advocates and media development organizations, will be visiting Nepal to discuss freedom of expression and media rights issues.

09.07.2005 George Owusu-Afriyie describes how BG-BASE, a database program designed to manage information on botanical collections, is helping to conserve medicinal plants in Ghana.

08.07.2005 The tithe management system is getting computerised in Brunei as a part of the e-goverenment initiative to assist the ministry of religious affairs.