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16.12.2004 World Health Organisation has opened an emergency response centre to assist member states to cope with epidemic crises that can become pandemic. Member states can communicate with each other and the WHO headquarters using this facility during outbreaks of epidemic diseases such as bird flu and SARS.

16.12.2004 The Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWS) website provides early warning services of natural disasters from around the world. The first global live website for early warning system, HEWS contains detailed information of virtually all kinds of natural hazards.

14.12.2004 The Bengali edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4.0 comes with popular office applications including a web browser and an email client. A beta version of this open source software was demonstrated recently in an IT event in Kolkata, India.

14.12.2004 The Cabinet Office of the UK government forecasts that 96% of the government services will be available online by 2005 in its Autumn Performance Report. According to the Report, almost 75% of the services is currently available electronically.

13.12.2004 India's Silicon Valley is set to choke under a heap of e-waste generated by obsolete computers and electronic components containing harmful toxic substances, according to industry estimates.

13.12.2004 The World Bank has launched a website for media professionals reporting on national and global issues of HIV/AIDS to broaden journalists' knowledge of HIV/AIDS and improve the depth, quality and impact of their HIV coverage.

10.12.2004 The goal of this partnership is to promote e-Sri Lanka programme's Community Telecentres (VGKs or Vishwa Gnana Kendras) for empowering needy communities living in urban and rural clusters of Sri Lanka. The partnership primarily aims to support OWI's Open Knowledge Network (OKN) programme in South Asia and ICTA's e-Sri Lanka programme in Sri Lanka.