Full coverage: ICT

31.05.2005 The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is inviting public comments to its draft consultation paper “Electronic Thesis Online (India) UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005”.

31.05.2005 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be the perfect vehicle through which poverty alleviation and improvements of the socio-economic structure can be easily accomplished," said Science and ICT Minister Moyeen Khan.

31.05.2005 The Second Annual Meeting of National Alliance on Mission 2007, ‘Every Village a Knowledge Partner,’ is scheduled for July 12 and 13, 2005 in New Delhi. For details of the event, contact Mission 2007 Secretariat, One World South Asia, or write to geeta.sharma@oneworld.net

31.05.2005 The National Alliance on ICTs for Basic Human Needs is the nodal agency for Mission 2007 and has released its report Steps Forward on how to take ICTs to all Indian villages for empowering the people and bringing about development in the villages.

31.05.2005 Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa proposes a strategy for the development of ICT in Sub-Saharan Africa.

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr K K Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio in the OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 A software “toolkit” released today will help governments take inventory of the hazardous chemicals known as PCBs and assess the risks they pose, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

30.05.2005 Despite being a relatively new phenomenon, information and communication technology (ICT) is making its way into the social, cultural, economic, political and governance aspects of Bhutanese society according to the department of information.

30.05.2005 The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative to select and promote the world’s best in e-Content and Creativity, held in the framework of and in cooperation with the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

30.05.2005 More than 250 scribes, mainly radio journlists, went on to streets to protest against the royal crackdown of a community radio programme production centre.

30.05.2005 The BBC, Channel 4, the Open University and the British Film Institute BFI) have launched the Creative Archive, an initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives.

30.05.2005 In Lakhimpur Khare, a small village in the heart of Uttar Pradesh, a resident enquired about the prices of LG washing machines and TVs displayed on a website.

30.05.2005 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), working with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has published its strategy for e-learning.

30.05.2005 C-DOT's latest partnership with the French telecom giant Alcatel is aiming towards reaping the seeds of innovation to revolutionise India's rural telephony through setting up a state-of-the-art telecom R&D centre.

27.05.2005 For young people living in poverty in coastal Kenya, surfing the internet and learning how to use computers make most sense when these skills mean better economic opportunities and work-readiness.

27.05.2005 "The private sector is playing a major role in the financing of ICT infrastructure and development of banking and financial services," said Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu, Chief Executive of the NEPAD Secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria at an African Development Bank seminar recently.

27.05.2005 After long discussions for over the last few years the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) member countries, except for India, endorsed the idea of establishing a flood information network during a two-day meeting held in Thimphu recently.

27.05.2005 The recent collaboration between Project MUSE and Google Inc. will help researchers use the Google web site and its Google Scholar interface to explore the Project MUSE web site for relevant scholarly research information.

27.05.2005 The e-Motoring project of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) will build a comprehensive ICT solution to provide computersied citizen services being provided by DMT and the Provincial Department of Motor Traffic (PDMT).

27.05.2005 Though Indian government has passed the Right to Information Bill long back, it is yet to to publish the legislation for the public.