13.12.2006
The Nepal Government has prepared e-Government master plan to create effective and productive e-Government through the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The plan will take place in 3 stages of ICT development by 2011.
08.12.2006
Organised gangs are recruiting the next generation of internet criminals by approaching undergraduates on university campuses. In some cases gangs offer to finance undergraduates' studies and plant them as sleepers within target businesses, according to a report on cybercrime which draws on intelligence from the FBI and British and European hi-tech crime units.
08.12.2006
Disabled students attend a computer training course in the newly established UNDP ICT-centre for the motor handicapped in the Barzeh area of Damascus. Ahmad, a 17-year old student on crutches, comes every day from a village 30 km outside of Damascus to attend computer courses at the Computer Training Centre.
08.12.2006
In Douala, Cameroon, last month the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and CEDR (the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution), Europes largest dispute resolution body, delivered a three-day Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution to 32 lawyers and barristers, representing eight African countries from the Telecommunications sector.
In response to the growing incidents of atrocities on dalits, the Stop-Atrocity IT Unit, Pune has come forward with an idea of establishing a helpline to prevent atrocities and safeguarding the basic rights of dalits in India.
06.12.2006
Only three out of 100 leading websites around the world meet the needs of persons with disabilities, British disability expert Simon Norris told the United Nations, adding that businesses are stepping up to the challenge.
06.12.2006
Social Web? What's that? Sometimes Mimi likes to push the envelope, and to encourage her gentle readers to sit back and reflect on the latest advances in technology that are now - or soon will be - affecting African civil society. The social web, also called Web 2.0 by trendsetters, represents a new era of the Internet in which people no longer go on the web expecting to merely access information provided by others. Everyone can now comment on what they read, change it, rate it, and put up information of their own - all using new user-friendly web interfaces. Read more...
