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20.08.2004 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will host an international meeting on spam in Busan, Korea on Septamber 8 - 9, 2004. The recently formed OECD Task Force on Spam will hold this event to strenghten further its effort in this collaborative fight against spam.

20.08.2004 A South African company is offering 10,000 schools in the country a free SMS service that will help teachers and the parents of students stay in touch. While the schools will not pay to share information, the parents will receive up to five promotional messages a week.

20.08.2004 IT experts are more skeptical of electronic-voting than the public, says a survey conducted at a US institute. More than 80 per cent of the people who answered the survey believe that e-voting is as reliable as the traditional paper ballot.

19.08.2004 India’s telecommunications department has invited bids to set up public phones in nearly 0.1 million villages that do not have telecommunication facilities. The cost of the project will come from the Universal Obligation Fund to which all telecom service providers contribute five per cent of their annual revenue.

19.08.2004 Eleven Afghan journalists learnt to make radio programmes more listener-friendly at a month-long course in Kabul. The “My Life is Afghanistan” programme was meant to arm the journalists with radio skills by which they could highlight the lives and experiences of ordinary Afghans.

19.08.2004 Radio professionals can challenge the limits of creativity at a workshop in
Ontario, Canada, in September 2004. The programme organised by the
Association of Independents in Radio will show producers new ways of
capturing and manipulating sound and creating original work.

19.08.2004 If the Harmonised Telecommunications Action Plan recently adopted in Lome by the ministers of the West Africa is enacted, citizens will soon be able to connect through their mobile phones across these 15 countries of Africa.