Full coverage: Capacity building

27.04.2006 The Software Division of Computer Society of India in association with CICC, Singapore, National Resource Centre for Free and Open Source Software of CDAC Chennai and RMK Engineering College is organizing a five days southern regional training programme from 22nd May to 26th May 2006 at Chennai on Open Source Software.

25.04.2006 Country's largest software exporter the Tata Consultancy Services would further strengthen its domestic headcount by adding up 30,000 more professionals in the current year.

25.04.2006 The first private community radio for fisherfolk is all set to go on air in the coastal belt of the city. Named Radio Alakal, the channel is expected to commence experimental broadcast on May 1.

25.04.2006 You will be responsible for ICT capacity development of our local partners in one or two developing countries. To start with this will be Tanzania.

25.04.2006 The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) has joined forces with The Indian Express Group to honor local journalists that demonstrate excellence in HIV/AIDS reporting.

20.04.2006 Even though the Indian government plans to introduce reservations in the private sector for the dalits - the historically oppressed sections in the Indian society - the dalits themselves are not very enthused. Most dalit leaders feel that Indian politicians pay lip service to the cause of dalit upliftment and it is high time that the corporates contributed to the social well being of the deprived communities.

18.04.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) and Vanavil Trust launched the Tamil Community Radio on Tamil New Year’s Day, Friday 14, April 2006 with a view to building the capacity of Tamil minorities in Delhi by producing and exchanging information of local importance in the Tamil language.

18.04.2006 Change Initiatives organized a workshop on the scope for ICT-based Enterprises for Women on 2nd and 3rd March 2006 in Kolkata. Dr G.D. Gautam, Special Secretary, Department of IT, Government of West Bengal inaugurated this workshop. Also present at the occasion were President of Change Initiatives Mr Sibaji Roy, Vice President Dr Mukul Mukherjee & Workshop Convener Ms. Alokananda Rao. The entire session was presided by Director of Change Initiatives, Ms Jhumpa Ghosh Ray.

18.04.2006 Participants from various African countries, who gathered here, 11-12 April 2006, formed a NEPAD e-Africa Youth Programme, whose main objective is to build a cadre of young people who will raise awareness on issues of the Information Society and serve as active participants in building an inclusive Information Society in their countries and on the African continent.

17.04.2006 Video Volunteers is a media for empowerment organization based in New York, with Drishti Media Collective in Ahmedabad as its partner in India. We set up Community Video Units, in which 4-8 community members produce Monthly Video News Magazines to screen in their communities to accelerate social change.

12.04.2006 Rwanda Development Gateway Group- a Government of Rwanda ICT for Development Project last Friday launched a countrywide program aimed at training secondary school teachers in information technology.

12.04.2006 There is an extraordinarily large financial outlay for bringing in electronically-enabled systems into governance processes.

12.04.2006 Union Ministry of Urban Development Jaipal Reddy, on 30 December, inaugurated the website of the Global Network on Local Governance (GNLG) at a function organized by the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.

10.04.2006 As the member nations of the UN discuss reforms at the United Nations, there is a strong demand to create a separate agency to deal with women's issues. Currently these issues are dispersed among several UN bodies - UNIFEM, UNFPA, DAW and many others.