Full coverage: ICT

30.12.2005 To ensure women's active participation in the knowledge society, it is essential that they are cosulted and such strategies devised that would integrate them fully into ICT projects and the IT sector.

30.12.2005 RUAF is a global resource centre initiated by the international
Support Group on Urban Agriculture and is funded by: DGIS (The
Netherlands) and IDRC (Canada).

30.12.2005 The e-Dispute© prototype provides fast online arbitration, mediation and conciliation services. Claimants and respondents can be anywhere in the world and select from a range of languages to work in. They can send messages securely and explain their preferences to an arbitrator.

30.12.2005 The ninth national conference on egovernance will be held at
Le Meridien, Kochi, Keralam from 2 to 4 February 2006.

30.12.2005 The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 was one of the greatest natural disasters; it was also the first internet-mediated natural disaster.

30.12.2005 If you needed any further demonstration of Google's contribution to the economy, go to Google Book Search on the Internet, type "Google," and see 34,000 published pages that mention the search-engine company and scores of books that are devoted solely to it.

30.12.2005 US based PeerMe Inc on Thursday launched its Internet voice communication systems in India which the company said would be free and unlimited.

30.12.2005 The Reserve Bank of India is focusing on research and analysis of the productivity trends in India on a continuous basis, Y V Reddy, Reserve Bank of India governor, said.

30.12.2005 The world today is shaped by the advancements in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The relevance of ICT to the development of individual, organisations, nations and the entire world cannot be over emphasised. Nigeria has come to realise the fact that no modern economy can be sustained without integral ICT and has adopted the technology towards the growth of our economy.

30.12.2005 TechnoFuture, an innovative computerized educational tool, was launched last week by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) at a roundtable chaired by President Olusegun Obasanjo. The project is with a view to bridging the digital divide that currently exists between Africa and the developed world.

30.12.2005 The Women in IT(WINIT) team is organising a one day one day international and interdisciplinary conference to discuss the under-representation of women in ICT workplaces at the University of Salford, UK on 21st March, 2006.

30.12.2005 Taking the world wide web to the rural masses, the Haryana government is setting up 'e-Chaupals' (cybercafes) in 150 villages of Sirsa district. The e-chaupals would initially be set up in villages with populations of 5,000 under the Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY) for the eighth lakh people that reside in 323 villages of Sirsa district.

29.12.2005 The Cyber Crime Wing (CCW) of the city police is all set to announce the guidelines for internet centres in the wake of e-mail threat to Parliament and US consulates recently.

29.12.2005 A two-day National Colloquium on RTI witnessed the identification of the judiciary as being foremost in effectively implementing the Right to Information Act.

29.12.2005 The e-Macedonia Foundation will support and fund 10 non-govermental organizations that will design and implement projects for promotion and improvement of information technology in the country.

29.12.2005 The South Korean government is encouraging its institutions to move away from their reliance on Windows and Unix and adopt open source software. In a latest development in the country, two state-owned financial institutions planned to launch the country's first Linux-based Internet banking services in December.

29.12.2005 Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited N.R. Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said corruption has become pervasive in institutions in the country and there is a strong incentive for politicians to keep people ignorant and illiterate.

29.12.2005 The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa in Collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development are organising the Second IDLELO Conference on Free and Open Source Software to be held at the Nairobi Safari Park Hotel in Kenya from the 23rd to 25th February 2006. IDLELO is a Zulu word for a common grazing ground.

29.12.2005 In this article Kady Souley Boncano shares her experience of how radio made her a star in her country in a week's time. She describes the changes Niger has undergone in last few years and the way radio has affected women's life in Niger.

29.12.2005 In an ambitious worldwide 2004-05 research initiative called "The World at Work," Patricia Shafer and her colleague Dr. Barbara Trautlein discovered more similarity than difference across geography, industry and gender based on interviews with multinational managers on five continents and spanning the organisational Value Chain.