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30.05.2005 The BBC, Channel 4, the Open University and the British Film Institute BFI) have launched the Creative Archive, an initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives.

30.05.2005 In Lakhimpur Khare, a small village in the heart of Uttar Pradesh, a resident enquired about the prices of LG washing machines and TVs displayed on a website.

30.05.2005 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), working with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has published its strategy for e-learning.

30.05.2005 C-DOT's latest partnership with the French telecom giant Alcatel is aiming towards reaping the seeds of innovation to revolutionise India's rural telephony through setting up a state-of-the-art telecom R&D centre.

27.05.2005 For young people living in poverty in coastal Kenya, surfing the internet and learning how to use computers make most sense when these skills mean better economic opportunities and work-readiness.

27.05.2005 "The private sector is playing a major role in the financing of ICT infrastructure and development of banking and financial services," said Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu, Chief Executive of the NEPAD Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria at an African Development Bank seminar recently.

27.05.2005 The recent collaboration between Project MUSE and Google Inc. will help researchers use the Google web site and its Google Scholar interface to explore the Project MUSE web site for relevant scholarly research information.