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17.05.2007 Indian radio broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is broadcasting everyday a programme on women health issues from its 14 stations in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh government, UNICEF and the Department of International Development (DFID).

14.05.2007 The UN Security Council's counter-terrorism directorate has launched an online database to help countries to develop their own counter-terrorism programmes. UN also hopes to help countries in drafting terrorism-related legislation, financial law and practice regulations, training for personnel and enhancing law regulations.

14.05.2007 Turning the health-care model upside down, a small Australian company is working on bluetooth technology that logs and transmits medical observation data to a central network through a mobile phone.

11.05.2007 Villages in Kerala will soon find a place in the cyber world through a state government project, Akshaya, that provides custom-made web portals for all communities in their local language (Malayalam). Supported by UNESCO, the initiative aims to provide computer literacy to the people and implement the project with their participation.

10.05.2007 Teachers from the National Institute for Disabled (NID), Khaling and Drukgyel Higher Secondary School have tied up with Media LT, an NGO spearheading ICT access for the visually impaired in Bhutan. The purpose of the training is to enhance their quality of work through Internet access and computer applications.

09.05.2007 May 17 marks the inception of Information and Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency that works to develop telecommunications networks and services to bridge the digital divide. Following the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN has now declared the same date as World Information Society Day.

09.05.2007 Bharti Tele-Ventures, India’s leading telecom company, is planning to widen its coverage in the southern state of Karnataka, India. Airtel will reach 20,000 towns and villages in 2007-08, Bharti says.