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16.02.2005 China has closed 12,575 internet cafes to create a “safer environment for young people” in the country. The government has claimed that those centers were operating illegally between October and December last year.

16.02.2005 Bangladesh government has recently approved the draft “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act-2005".

10.02.2005 The inaugural Yeomens Award instituted by the Global Knowledge Partnership and Open Knowledge Network has been conferred to three ICT for development projects in Asia and Latin America and the Carribbean. The Award aims to internationally recognise projects, which bring socio-cultural changes using local content.

09.02.2005 The newly launched website www.keralacm.gov.in brings the people of Kerala, a state in the Southern India, one step closer to the state government. The website will largely complement to the ‘Transparent Kerala’ programme, as new complaints received by the state will be posted here.

07.02.2005 Yahoo!, one of the world’s most visited website, has started a pilot project to integrate a search utility of bibliographic database of the OCLC Online Computer Library Centre, the world’s largest library cooperative, to its toolbar. Yahoo toolbar can be run in a web browser with links to applications like mail, dating, personals, e-commerce and search functionalities.

04.02.2005 Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda, has reiterated the role ICT can play in accelerating the socio-economic development in a recent interview. The recent Accra preparatory regional summit has provided the Rwandan government an opportunity to review its ICT policies.

04.02.2005 Dr K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), called African leaders to allocate budgetary resources to accelerate an ICT-enabled development process in the continent. Dr Amoko was speaking in the second African Conference on the World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) in Accra.