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09.05.2006 With over 1bn Internet users and 2bn mobile-phone users worldwide, and continual progress in most qualitative indicators of technology-related development, the world in early 2006 may be proclaimed ever more “e-ready”.

09.05.2006 “DO YOU know how serious a mistake you've made?” Yan Yuanzhang recalls an official asking him not long ago. Mr Yan had been summoned to Beijing's Internet Propaganda Management Office to talk about his websites.

09.05.2006 The famous digital divide is getting wider. A two-part documentary, "The Code Breakers," to be aired on BBC World starting 10 May 2006 examines whether free/open source software (FOSS) might be the bridge?

09.05.2006 The political class is well aware of the “revolution of rising expectations.” There is increasing empirical evidence that high-growth states are best able to attack poverty and increase employment, that there is no meaningful alternative to policies that focus on high economic growth.

09.05.2006 Ministry of Communications of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan a long with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) organized the first ever National ICT conference in Afghanistan on May 25-26, 2006 at Loya Jirga Hall.

08.05.2006 Most African countries are presently confronted by the challenge to implement the Science and Technology Action Plan championed by the African Union and the National Economic Partnership for African Development.

05.05.2006 Wireless technologies offer developing countries an important low-cost, versatile alternative to wired infrastructure. They enable communities to extend the reach of cabled internet connectivity and to be in control of the planning, implementation and design of their own networks, making the network into a tool that really serves the needs of the community.