Full coverage: Argentina

06.11.2003 At a ceremony held in Colombia, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) announced the winners of the 2003 Betinho Prize - three remarkable information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives from Peru, Mexico and Argentina that are improving the lives of people and communities in Latin America. Two Brazilian networks received honourable mentions.

09.06.2003 APC member TAU is setting up six more community telecentres in the Argentinean city of Rosario. Among other things, the effort also involves arranging for donated hardware and training of managers and volunteers.

30.03.2003 Two South American community radios - the Radio Huanacache network set up by the Maestro Pablo Pizzuno School in Argentina and the Peruvian radio station Quispillaccta - have received the IPDC-Unesco Prize for Rural Communication.

16.03.2003 As part of a nascent "non-aligned" movement in technology in the developing world, countries like Brazil, China, Argentina, Chile and India have expressed interest in joining in a collective effort to come up with a digital TV system better suited to their realities.

02.12.2002 Despite the ongoing economic crisis, Argentina is continuing to see in an increase in the number of users getting online, and there is optimism about the many ICT entrepreneurial opportunities available. The country has seen an increase of more than 14 percent of citizens online compared to last year.

25.11.2002 Despite the ongoing economic crisis, Argentina is continuing to see in an increase in the number of users getting online and there is optimism about the many entrepreneurial opportunities available.

24.11.2002 Non-profits and solidarity groups in Argentina's Rosario city have launched an alternative information portal for civil society groups fighting poverty and corruption in Argentina's former industrial heartland.

02.07.2002 In the middle of one of the most serious crises ever faced by Argentina, TAU, an NGO operating from one of the worst hit cities, finds it difficult to set up self-sustaining community computer centres in poor neighbourhoods.

03.05.2002 Two Latin American radio projects have been awarded by the International Programme for the Development of Communication of UNESCO for facilitating rural communication.

20.04.1999 Hundreds of thousands of farmers in Argentina are on a three-day strike called by the country's four rural associations.