Full coverage: Communication

22.11.2007 A Global Dialogue Seminar will be held in New Delhi, India on November 29-30, 2007. Organised by the World Bank e-Development Thematic Group/GICT, IT SLC in partnership with eGovWorld, Mobile Government Consortium International, IIS-Russia, eGov Monitor and the Development Gateway, the seminar will discuss a variety of mobile services being developed and deployed around the world.

22.11.2007 A Global Dialogue Seminar will be held in New Delhi, India on November 29-30, 2007. Organised by the World Bank e-Development Thematic Group/GICT, IT SLC in partnership with eGovWorld, Mobile Government Consortium International, IIS-Russia, eGov Monitor and the Development Gateway, the seminar discuss a variety of mobile services being developed and deployed around the world.

20.11.2007 There was a convergence of the needs of developing and developed countries to reduce the digital divide. This was the main success of the recently concluded World Radiocommunication Conference held at Geneva.

17.11.2007 Australia’s mobile networks such as Telstra, Optus, Hutchison and Vodafone, are stifling innovation by restricting access to multimedia content. If you want to watch programme of your choice you need four phones, or at least four SIM cards, which you have to keep swapping.

17.11.2007 World’s remotest island in South Africa can now access advanced medical support from IBM and Beacon Equity Partners led team. Satellite communications will enable clinicians to provide real-time diagnostic advice and suggested treatments to the attending physician.

16.11.2007 The undersea broadband link would run from KwaZulu-Natal province’s far north coast to Mumbai in India, via Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya, and Tanzania. Once ready, the Seacom project will provide an enormous 1.28 Terrabytes per second of broadband capacity.

14.11.2007 Mobile television will soon be a reality in India. It will open up opportunities for government to enhance services to citizens ranging from education to healthcare to safety and security, apart from providing business users with latest information on stock market and entertainment to the masses.

13.11.2007 Delhi based Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) in partnership with GKP will host the second i4d Film Festival at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 9-10, 2007, before the start of the third global knowledge event, GK3.

13.11.2007 Pemutaran dan diskusi film berjudul Menyemai Terang dalam Gelap dan Shadow Play tanggal 12 November 2007 di Gereja Kristen Indonesia dengan menghadirkan pembahas Ilham Aidit, Samsir Mohamad, dan Pendeta Albertus Patty, mendadak batal dilaksanakan. Ada apa?

12.11.2007 Give One Get One (G1G1) campaign starting this week hopes to boost orders by providing an incentive to people in more prosperous countries. For every laptop donated for a child, the donor would get one in return. The campaign is backed by Google, Intel, eBay, News Corp and Advance Micro Devices.

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.

02.11.2007 Facebook, MySpace, YouTube... they're not just for planning your Friday night and sharing your favorite Daily Show clip anymore.

01.11.2007 Small can become even smaller until it can’t be made any smaller. Nanotechnology is precisely that science and engineering that plays around with things at the scale of atoms and molecules. Learn more about engineering at the tiniest scale.

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.