Full coverage: ICT

31.07.2007 Entinen "sadan dollarin tietokone"-hanke eli nykyinen OLPC:n (One Laptop Per Child) XO-tietokone on siirtymässä tuotantovaiheeseen. Tällä hetkellä koneen hinta on 175 dollaria ja ensimmäisten käyttäjien pitäisi saada kone käyttöön jo lokakuussa. Muun muassa YK:n kehitysohjelman siunauksen saanut XO on nyt saanut tuekseen myös tietokonejätti Intelin. Yhteistyön arvellaan hyödyntävän mahdollisuuksia hankkeen laajenemiselle.

31.07.2007 UNESCO handed over 82 pieces of equipment, granted under a US$2.5 million project, funded by Italy, to create a new TV studio aimed at developing educational broadcasting in Afghanistan. The project started in 2003, and helped the Ministry of Education to achieve its goal of providing education to Afghans in all parts of the country.

31.07.2007 The fast-growing GeoWeb is helping people across the world by providing simple tools that allow people to draw on digital maps and annotate them with text, images, sound and videos, literally making anyone a mapmaker on the web.

27.07.2007 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is organising a workshop in collaboration with the Ministry of Posts and Telematics, Viet Nam with support from the Government of Australia on Frameworks for Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection on 28-31 August 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

27.07.2007 South Asians in Media and Marketing Association (SAMMA) is the first national platform in the US that brings together South Asians working in the media and marketing sectors together on September 28-29, 2007 at the NYU Stern School of Business in New York City.

27.07.2007 Director of Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Asia Pacific Gabe Rijpma tells the ehealth team about Microsoft's investments to NGOs and allocation for healthcare IT. The interview also explores Gabe's candid views about India's e-healthcare scenario.

27.07.2007 Citizen smart cards are a new revolution that provide a unique citizen number which is centralized in a national register of Indian citizens.It can bring the benefits of e-governance as the use of data warehousing and data mining could also help the government monitor its welfare schemes effectively.

27.07.2007 The Caribbean Internet Radio Portal (CIRP) and UNESCO in association with Youth Vibes Radio has launched its new internet radio station which is being currently tested but is already providing audio to millions of listeners around the world.

27.07.2007 Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) legislators have recommended the establishment of a Parliamentary Forum ICT policy and strategy to guide the development and adoption of ICT at the regional level. The development, widely seen as a move to harness and promote effective use of ICT in the legislative assemblies was adopted following a three-day workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa.

26.07.2007 The Community Radio movement in Bangladesh is likely to get a fillip after a high level meeting was organized by the Ministry of
Information to find out ways to launch community radio on a pilot
basis.

26.07.2007 According to a recently released report by the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the world's least developed countries (LDC) are falling behind in technology. The report said foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into LDCs had increased substantially three times in the past 10 years but with little contribution to technological apability accumulation in LDCs.

26.07.2007 WiMAX India 4th International Conference is going to be held on August 24, 2007 in New Delhi, India. The conference in its fourth year will provide a platform for business users and wireless industry suppliers to meet and focus on Innovations' in Wireless Communications.

26.07.2007 India currently produces 150,000 tons of e-waste a year but has been slow to regulate disposal with no proper guidelines and law. Delhi itself has 10,000 people who search for gold, copper, palladium, or anything else in the e-waste to reap profit from it even though it is a hazardous task.

26.07.2007 Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has launched the Global
Young Social Entrepreneurs' Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Global Competition will select 100 winners who will attend the upcoming Young Social Entrepreneurs Forum. The winners will be announced on 1 October 2007, after a review by an independent jury.

25.07.2007 UNESCO is organising an International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge Parks in Muscat, Oman from September 01-03 2007. The objective of the conference is to review ICT-based knowledge parks in developed countries and how this idea can be implemented successfully in developing countries.

25.07.2007 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have agreed on a new approach to make online shopping safer. They have called on national authorities and business to set out clear, simple policies, explaining steps that customers should follow to make a complaint and then have it resolved.

25.07.2007 Intel Pakistan has introduced the Intel-Powered Classmate PC, which will provide affordable, collaborative learning environments for the students of some government schools in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.

25.07.2007 The staid rituals of US presidential debates met the hurly-burly of the Internet on Monday night, in an event organised by YouTube and CNN, that saw candidates fielding questions which young Americans had uploaded to the video-sharing website.

25.07.2007 The International Journalists' Network (IJNet) is an online service for journalists and is the world's premier resource for the media assistance community. IJNet has opened up a discussion forum for the people to add their comments on 'Online Media: Will more voices be heard?'

24.07.2007 YK:n järjestöjen, yliopistojen ja tieteellisten julkaisijoiden yhteistyön tuloksena kehittyvien maiden tutkijat saavat vapaan pääsyn tiedejulkaisuihin. Jo kauan puhutun ja odotetun kehitysaskeleen arvellaan toteutuvan vuoteen 2015 mennessä. Uudistuksen odotetaan lisäävän maailmanlaajuista tieteellistä yhteistyötä sekä auttavan konkreettisesti syrjäisten seutujen terveys- ja koulutushaasteiden ratkaisemissa.