Full coverage: Netherlands

24.02.2006 Residents of the Netherlands, armed with a tax break for computer purchases and some of Europe's lowest broadband fees, lead the world in the use of personal computers and the Internet, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts released Tuesday.

30.01.2006 The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce is organising a two day fact finding mission in February for British firms who want to find out more about selling into the fast-growing Dutch health ICT market.

20.12.2005 THE Netherlands government recently provided 4m Euros (about sh8b) to four public universities for training women in Information and communication Technology (ICT), the Netherlands ambassador has said.

11.10.2005 Elsevier today announced a landmark partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the extensive collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus.

22.09.2005 The Netherlands is creating a unified citizen database to centralise the management of citizen health and welfare issues.
The new database of case histories will be able to track citizens from birth to death.

13.05.2005 DAREnet is formally launched to provide free access to research materials produced by the major Dutch universities.

04.04.2005 Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Laurens Jan Brinkhorst has submitted his plans of introducing commercial digital radio to the House of Representatives. This will help commercial broadcasters to air programmes with a perfect sound quality, using the Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcast (TDAB) technique.

05.11.2004 The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) has joined Partos, an association for Dutch NGOs in the international development cooperation sector. Partos aims to help NGOs influence policy and disseminate knowledge.

14.07.2003 Open Source practitioners from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America recently got together to produce a manifesto on the role of Open Source Software (OSS) in the development cooperation context. Asking all stakeholders to pay more attention to OSS, they argue that it has a special importance when viewed, used and produced in the context of development cooperation and should be employed wherever possible.

10.06.2003 A one-day workshop, focusing on the role of ICT enabled communities in international development will be held later this year in Amsterdam, Holland. Sponsored by the International Institute for Communication and Development, the event will focus on an evidence based analysis of ICT implementation.

24.02.2003 The Dutch Federation of Local Public Broadcasters recently presented its report Eureka! A solution for small-scale digital radio to the government. The report details the results of a research into the options available for small-scale broadcasters to use digital transmission technology.

19.03.2002 New insights and skills, fierce discussions and positive cross-cultural exchanges. These words best describe the experiences of the participants, trainers and organisers of the third Johan Kooij Fellowship meeting. In February, IICD organised a training workshop in the Netherlands for all Global Teenager country-coordinators.

19.03.2002 New insights and skills, fierce discussions and positive cross-cultural exchanges. These words best describe the experiences of the participants, trainers and organisers of the third Johan Kooij Fellowship meeting. In February, IICD organised a training workshop in the Netherlands for all Global Teenager country-coordinators.

05.03.2002 New insights and skills, fierce discussions and positive cross-cultural exchanges. These words best describe the experiences of the participants, trainers and organisers of the third Johan Kooij Fellowship meeting. In February, IICD organised a training workshop in the Netherlands for all Global Teenager country coordinators.

05.03.2002 New insights and skills, fierce discussions and positive cross-cultural exchanges. These words best describe the experiences of the participants, trainers and organisers of the third Johan Kooij Fellowship meeting.

16.08.2001 From May 29 until June 29 2001, 894 people visited an e-debate 'log in to development' hosted on the oneworld.nl website. Forty-seven people actively participated by contributing comments and responses to the issues raised. This note gives a summary in English of the conclusions and recommendations from the main report.

06.07.2001 Hivos has presented a declaration to the Dutch Minister for Development Co-operation and asked her to play an important role in the creation of an international donor alliance that could foster the use of ICT to fight against poverty and to guarantee freedom of communication.

29.05.2001 An e-debate taking place between May 29 and June 29 on the theme of "in what way does ICT contribute to the development of people and communities in developing countries and in the Netherlands?" The outcome of the debate will be used to help develop Dutch national policy regarding ICT and development co-operation. Join now and share your experiences.

17.05.2001 A Hivos symposium on ICT in developing countries: From development co-operation to e-development is being held on 12 June. The symposium offers a platform for Dutch development organisations and other concerned organisations to reflect about effective ICT applications in development co-operation and the conditions required.

10.05.2001 This international conference, to be held in the Netherlands, aims to provide a forum for the presentation of findings from the "Social Construction of Technology in the Indonesian Context" programme and the comparison of these findings with similar studies of other developing countries.