21.08.2006
Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase information communication technology penetration in Nigeria.
29.12.2005
The South Korean government is encouraging its institutions to move away from their reliance on Windows and Unix and adopt open source software. In a latest development in the country, two state-owned financial institutions planned to launch the country's first Linux-based Internet banking services in December.
16.06.2004
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has strongly advocated the need to build e-governance services to enable knowledge sharing and taking government services to the people.
07.03.2004
South Korea is the most wired country in the world, with broadband connections in nearly 83 percent of households. The emergence of the Internet provides people with a real opportunity to produce and deliver news at a reduced and affordable cost. For this reason, media power, which had been monopolised by capital and authority, is changing. The Internet newspaper is a fine example of how the Internet is changing the concept of media ownership.
21.02.2004
Despite its reputation for being one of the most wired countries in the world, Korea is finding that its disabled and elderly populations are lagging behind the rest of the nation's Internet use.
04.12.2003
South Korea is embarking on a huge project to make its national broadband network even faster, with industry picking up the bill. When the project ends in 2010 the top speed of South Korea's core broadband infrastructure will be 100mbps. The government has said it would link up with the country's wireless networks to create a ubiquitous system that boosts e-health and education initiatives.
08.10.2003
Which online news service recently played an instrumental role in the election of a President? The South Korean on-line news service 'Ohmynews' is probably the only example to date of a Net-based initiative that has made a decisive difference in a presidential election.
25.02.2003
South Korea has staked a claim to be the most advanced online democracy on the planet with the inauguration of a president who styles himself as the first leader fully in tune with the Internet.
30.09.2002
ICTs are helping governments become more transparent and accountable to citizens, UNESCO has said, citing a recently released joint study> conducted with the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development. But the 15-nation study also found new technologies "posing a challenge to traditional decision-making structures", the UN agency added.
27.08.2002
Prepared by the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development (COMNET-IT), the study includes 15 country abstracts providing an initial snapshot for countries chosen to represent different situations in each of UNESCO's region.
27.08.2002
Prepared by the Commonwealth Network of Information Technology for Development (COMNET-IT), the study includes 15 country abstracts providing an initial snapshot for countries chosen to represent different situations in each of UNESCO's region.
