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11.03.2005 GKP seeks contributions from its members to highlight their projects on ICT for development as part of its stock-taking initiative for WSIS. The contributions will be published in a book on "ICTs, MDGs and the Information Society".

11.03.2005 Like Indian films, TV serials in India have became popular in Pakistan as well.

11.03.2005 Some 30,000 people joined the Online Volunteering (OV) service since the United Nations Volunteers launched it in March 2000. The website of OV connects civil society organisations primarily working in the South with the people who are willing to apply their skills for local development through internet.

10.03.2005 Though Uzbekistan has a net enrolment ratio of 99% with a minimal gender disparity, the quality of basic education is often low and less relevance. To improve the situation, Asian Development Bank has initiated a scoping study to integrate an ICT-assisted learning in certain grade levels.

09.03.2005 UN ICT Task Force invites public comments on the proposal of creating a Global Alliance, a collaborative platform to enable all the stakeholders participate in an open and transparent global ICT policy formulation process.

07.03.2005 Union communications and IT minister Dayanidhi Maran has recently inaugurated the ''Tele-Ophthalmology Rural Outreach Services (TOROS)”, an experiment to reach the state-of-the-art ophthalmic care to the rural inhabitants. The remote eye-care facility is piloted by the Chennai-based Eye Research Centre.

07.03.2005 The website of Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), the opposition party in Tunisia, is blocked by the government authorities. PDP’s website is the latest in the long list of websites, including Reporters Sans Frontiers’ (RSF) http://www.radionongrata.org , blocked by the Tunisian government.