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30.07.2004 Tanzanian Internet users, whose Internet Services Providers are peering at the newly launched Tanzania Internet Exchange Point, are enjoying up to 60 times faster access to local content, said Suhail Sheriff, interim chairman of the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association.

29.07.2004 Nigerian education minister Hajia Binta Ibrahim Musa has said the country’s future educators must be computer literate by 2005 to be eligible for teacher training certification. At a meeting in Abuja, she said ICTs and distance education could be an affordable way of expanding and improving the quality of education in Africa.

27.07.2004 What obstacles do developing countries face in establishing e-governance for
business activities? What are the technical or institutional requirements
for e-governance initiatives? These are some of the questions for a web
discussion initiated by the World Bank till 2 August 2004.

27.07.2004 An international conference in Morocco will examine the recommendations on the role of media in information societies made during the first phase of WSIS. Representatives from the media will gather in Marrakech from November 22 to 24, 2004 and discuss how to implement the recommendations especially in the contexts of Africa and the Arab nations.

26.07.2004 As part of a major Information Technology (IT) exercise, the Sri Lankan government has launched a pioneering island wide program to train school principals and teachers in the troubled island nation, and introduce IT in the school curriculum.

26.07.2004 India’s Mission 2007 initiative reflects the confidence in the positive changes that can come from timely and relevant information and communication services in rural communities, writes Professor Emeritus Royal D Colle of Cornell University.

22.07.2004 A workshop for teachers from Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR and Vietnam is to discuss the integration of ICT into science, mathematics and language curricula in schools. The “ICT-based Lesson and Material Development Workshop” in Bangkok will also discuss how to produce these lessons and test them in selected schools.