Full coverage: Germany

18.08.2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.

01.08.2005 An international study estimate the relationship between students’ educational achievement and the availability and use of computers at home and at school in the international student-level PISA database.

01.08.2005 Re-engineering online learning and teaching material on-the-fly to meet the individual needs of students and teachers is now possible thanks to a complete set of tools developed under the Information Society Technologies programme-funded Trial-Solution project.

21.06.2005 Cryptographers have found a sneaky way to make a digital signature from one document appear linked to a fraudulent document without invalidating the signature and giving the fraud away.

19.06.2005 Bernd Eisenblätter, Managing Director of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH – German Technical Cooperation – has been awarded the title "Knowledge Manager of the Year 2005" in Berlin.

30.11.2004 Deutsche Bahn (DB), which manages the German railway system, is adopting Linux-based servers as a cost-cutting measure. While the company has already transferred half of its servers to Linux systems, it expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of 2004.

31.08.2004 The seventh UN ICT Taskforce meeting, to be held in Berlin on 19-20 November
2004, will discuss policy issues, financing and the role of stakeholders in
creating an enabling environment for digital development.

25.03.2003 The "decidedly un-trendy" town of Schwaebisch Hall in Germany claims it is becoming the first city in the world to dump Microsoft software in favour of Open Source technology based on the Linux operating system.

12.01.2003 A deliberately sarcastic reply to an angry posting on a German website discussion space on September 11 attacks landed one of the authors in court, where he narrowly escaped a fine or jail for 'endorsement of criminality.'

10.05.2002 In follow up of the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force, of which ZEF is a member, ZEF in cooperation with GTZ prepared a study on ICT for Development in 5 Countries. The report serves to identify practical steps for achieving digital opportunities and bridging digital devides in Peru, Vietnam, Uganda, Tanzania, and Laos.

17.12.2001 Bridging the digital divide would lead to an exponential increase in energy consumption demand, "which does not appear to be ecologically sustainable", the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology has been told in Berlin.