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12.11.2007 FreeRice, an innovative internet-based vocabulary game is helping mobilise millions of people in the fight against global hunger. For every correct answer, the site donates ten grains of rice to the World Food Programme. One billion grains of rice have been donated in the last one month – enough to feed more than 50,000 people for one day.

07.11.2007 Slow internet connections at cafes in Nairobi will shortly speed up, thanks to a deal soon between the Kenyan government and French/US engineering company Alcatel-Lucent, to lay a fibre-optic cable network in the country.

07.11.2007 The UN-backed online environmental database can now be accessed in more than 100 developing countries. The project called ‘Online Access to Research in the Environment’ goes a long way in bridging the North-South digital divide.

06.11.2007 A 500-miilion dollar deal has been signed today between Microsoft and Reliance Communications to launch India’s first Internet Protocol Television. It will be launched early next year in 30 Indian cities.

03.11.2007 After changing the lives of one billion of its customers, Microsoft will reach out to the five billion and more for whom the opportunity to connect, create and succeed has remained elusive. Microsoft's Unlimited Potential program, in partnership with governments, NGOs, partners and academics, will make technologies affordable and accessible for creating new avenues for social and economic empowerment.

02.11.2007 UNCTAD has recently launched a blog to stimulate debate on development issues. Heads of international organisations like UNDP, African Development Bank, WTO, WFP, etc. will actively be participating in the blog to share their ideas.

01.11.2007 Far smaller in diameter than a human hair, world’s smallest radio is 100 billion times smaller than the first commercial radios.