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21.08.2006 The Commonwealth Secretariat is assisting the Government of Bangladesh's 20 million taka (£153,000) initiative to develop four rural information and communication technology (ICT) access centres in the South Asian nation to promote the use of ICT for community development and commerce.

21.08.2006 Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase information communication technology penetration in Nigeria.

21.08.2006 Firms that wire up their workers with BlackBerry devices and other equipment that provides always-on connectivity with the office may wind up with liability for encouraging addiction among staff, US researchers warned today.

21.08.2006 The draft national policy for farmers put on the Government website is already under debate and it broadly provided 24 policy prescriptions to ensure the livelihood security of the farmers, said M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman of the National Commission on Farmers.

21.08.2006 Free software is all about freedom – freedom of the users’ to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. I believe there are four kinds of freedom for the software users. I have identified four human rights. These are also rights that would define free software.

21.08.2006 Life Line to Business (LL2B. COM), an organization based in Chennai, was the proud recipient of the Manthan-AIF 2006 Award for "Best e-Content" in India for the category "e-Inclusion and Livelihood".

21.08.2006 UNESCO is organising meetings to review the progress and implementation mechanism of WSIS Plan of Action on communication and information.