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31.05.2005 The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is inviting public comments to its draft consultation paper “Electronic Thesis Online (India) UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005”.

31.05.2005 The Second Annual Meeting of National Alliance on Mission 2007, ‘Every Village a Knowledge Partner,’ is scheduled for July 12 and 13, 2005 in New Delhi. For details of the event, contact Mission 2007 Secretariat, One World South Asia, or write to geeta.sharma@oneworld.net

31.05.2005 The National Alliance on ICTs for Basic Human Needs is the nodal agency for Mission 2007 and has released its report Steps Forward on how to take ICTs to all Indian villages for empowering the people and bringing about development in the villages.

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr K K Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio in the OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 In Lakhimpur Khare, a small village in the heart of Uttar Pradesh, a resident enquired about the prices of LG washing machines and TVs displayed on a website.

30.05.2005 C-DOT's latest partnership with the French telecom giant Alcatel is aiming towards reaping the seeds of innovation to revolutionise India's rural telephony through setting up a state-of-the-art telecom R&D centre.

27.05.2005 Though Indian government has passed the Right to Information Bill long back, it is yet to to publish the legislation for the public.

26.05.2005 New Delhi based development organisation Datamation Foundation will host the “Indian Gender Consultations: Road to Tunis” in New Delhi on August 24-25-26th, 2005.

26.05.2005 Sify Ltd, a leading internet, network and e-commerce services provider, announced the launch of its broadband content website 'www.SifyMax.com.'

25.05.2005 Commissioner of Police of Mumbai recently announced that maximum time period for processing any application seeking information is 15 days.

25.05.2005 IndiaÂ’s environment and wildlife film festival, Vatavaran 2005 will showcase original documentaries produced by aspiring and brilliant environment and wildlife filmmakers.

24.05.2005 Ekgaon technologies and CEFI are holding a training programme on "ICTs for Communities: Learning Workshop Series" aims at making ICTs to work for communities by enabling development processes. The workshop "MIS for Community Based Financial Institutions: Innovations & Experiences" is part of 'Learning Workshop Series I, 2005' and attempts to enable learning and experiences of practitioners. The workshop invites MFIs, NGOs, other stakeholders such as banks, Government Agencies, development agencies, micro finance professionals etc.

24.05.2005 Ekgaon technologies and CEFI are holding a training programme on "ICTs for Communities: Learning Workshop Series" aims at making ICTs to work for communities by enabling development processes. The workshop "MIS for Community Based Financial Institutions: Innovations & Experiences" is part of 'Learning Workshop Series I, 2005' and attempts to enable learning and experiences of practitioners. The workshop invites MFIs, NGOs, other stakeholders such as banks, Government Agencies, development agencies, micro finance professionals etc.

20.05.2005 Grassroots Caucus is an initiative of OneWorld to moblise people at the grassroots to play a key role in shaping up the WSIS agenda and the final outcome thereof.

20.05.2005 In the new draft National Map Policy approved by the Union Cabinet today, Indian government will provide access to defence maps to the public, helping institutions in better planning using spatial data.

20.05.2005 Jaclyn Kee and Lenka Simerska of APC WNSP (Association for Progressive Communications' Women's Networking Support Programme) have announced an online discussion on 'Cultivating Violence Through Technology?'

20.05.2005 The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), the nodal agency to coordinate the development of Indian languages, is digitising the Dogra Corpora (collection of literary works), making it accessible through the internet.

20.05.2005 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), IndiaÂ’s national secondary education administration, plans to resume the second phase of counselling services to the students from May 23 to June 6.

19.05.2005 The Free Software, Free Society (FSFS) Conference, organized by Government and civil society organizations from Brazil, Italy, Venezuela and India, is scheduled for 28-30 May 2005 in the south Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. The meet is an attempt to initiate a South-South-North dialogue on the use of free software.

18.05.2005 Indu Bala Singh, a lecturer in English at a school in Chandigarh, has captured the story of 'Preetnagar', a township in Punjab in her film 'Remembering Preetnagar.'