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25.01.2005 The newly launched Local Projects Database (LPD) is a web-based tool for managing information on development assistance activities of development partners. Development Gateway Foundation and World Resources Institute have initiated LPD.

24.01.2005 Community Content Creation Network (C3Net), an online forum of professionals in ICT for rural development, plans to hold a workshop on knowledge sharing for development. The Information Management and Knowledge Sharing (IM&KS) workshop, being supported by HIVOS, will take place in Kampala, Uganda from April 15 to 19, 2005.

24.01.2005 OneWorld South Asia will hold its fourth Annual Regional Meeting on March 3-4, 2005 in New Delhi, India. About 400 delegates from south
Asia are expected to deliberate on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), the role of ICTs in development and building CoPs for achieving the MDGs.
OWSA announces calls for proposals for papers/presentations from interested candidates.

20.01.2005 This year's UN Global E-government Readiness Report 2004 report comprises two parts. Part I presents the UN Global E-Government Readiness Survey 2004 while Part II presents a special focus on what constitutes
disparity in access to ICT.

18.01.2005 Another exciting initiative is about to take place with femLINKpacific (Media Initiatives for Women), a women’s media NGO which in 2004 launched femTALK 89.2FM, its mobile women’s community radio project. This month, the femLINKpacific volunteer team takes to the road with their “radio in a suitcase” in Fiji.

18.01.2005 The National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Delhi, the Open Knowledge Network (OKN) and UNESCO announce a partnership to develop a new software tool – to be called Open eNRICH - for the creation and exchange of locally relevant knowledge within and between communities in developing countries.

17.01.2005 In an effort to achieve faster Internet access, India’s government run telecom firms launched broadband in six cities on Friday,14th January, 2005. With this, they plan to achieve the target of 500,000 broadband users by December 2005.