Full coverage: India

26.06.2006 The Unesco has expressed willingness to support Akshaya, the State's IT dissemination project, in the field of women empowerment.

26.06.2006 Technology bellwether, IBM has signed an MoU with the Uttar Pradesh Government to give impetus to e-governance by providing quality training to IT students under an ambitious programme titled Project INVITE.

23.06.2006 ADB today signed an agreement to establish a knowledge hub on clean energy at India's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

21.06.2006 In 1991, the Government of India and the World Bank expanded their collaboration on infectious disease control programs and by 1992 the first National AIDS Control Project was launched with a World Bank credit of US$84 million.

21.06.2006 Speakers at a workshop on "SMB revolution and the new roadmap for technology" stressed the need for the small and medium businesses to invest in Information Technology.

19.06.2006 E-governance enhances the efficacy of citizen and government interaction. This has been made possible by public-private sector partnerships leading to the availability of more affordable and rugged PCs to suit operating conditions in the hinterland and deepening Internet penetration. With the realisation of e-governance projects in India, the time has come to review the role of the public sector as well as private sector to speed up the process of implementation of different projects related to e-governance.

15.06.2006 The trial transmission of programmes for Radio Alakal, the first community radio for fisherfolk, commenced in 15 coastal villages on Monday, through a network of radio kiosks.

15.06.2006 Orissa today unveiled two e-governance roadmaps here to ascertain the present capacity and potential for improvements through information communication technology (ICT) intervention.

15.06.2006 In the first step towards e-Governance, the State government has launched its own indigenous special software called 'Office Procedure Automation Software', developed by the StateÂ’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) cell.

13.06.2006 India hopes to complete digital mapping of around 70 percent of the country in a year, leading to leveraging data assets for multi-functions like traffic management and infrastructure development.

12.06.2006 A large volume of rainfall data from various locations and an Australian Rainman software package enabled scientists at the Department of Agricultural Meteorology at the Directorate of Soil and Crop Management Studies at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University to put together the seasonal rainfall forecast for the South West Monsoon.

08.06.2006 Tejus Crisis and Trauma Foundation, a non-governmental organisation of Bangalore, has launched "Prerana," a disaster management initiative.

08.06.2006 Malaysia today called for more collaborative cooperation between it and India, particularly in construction sector, to further bilateral trade ties.

08.06.2006 A sweet shop owner in Indore has launched a Short Message Service (SMS) campaign to save water, being concerned about scarcity of water in Madhya Pradesh, India. "Sir, kindly save water for a safe future," says the SMS doing the rounds.

08.06.2006 Chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik has called upon public sector undertakings and womenÂ’s self-help groups to take part in malaria eradication programmes, by way of participating in the awareness campaigns.

07.06.2006 President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has called for an integrated approach by the Intelligence Bureau and the police for tackling cross-border terrorism.

07.06.2006 Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based environmental NGO, seeks your help to create a public online database of urban rainwater harvesting systems (URWH) implemented across the country over the past few years.

06.06.2006 Grassroots Options, Northeast IndiaÂ’s first magazine on people, environment & development published since September 1994, is online now. This is an independent media initiative of a group of working journalists based in northeastern region of India.

05.06.2006 In this paper, Gupta and Shriram present the findings of an investigation to understand the vulnerability of the population in Birla Institute and Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS) campus from the vector borne diseases spread through climate, temperature, precipitation, wind and ocean currents, human population movement and physical circulation. A digital map of BITS campus is generated with plotting components like hostels, institute, staff quarters, wells, market places and others.

02.06.2006 OneWorld south Asia is committed to empower the community using ICTs as an effective communication medium.