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28.02.2006 Projekti e-Riders është i dizajnuar që të fuqizojë kapacitetet e organizatave të shoqërisë civile në Maqedoni që të paraqesin porositë e tyre, të promovojnë pjesëmarrjen e qytetarëve në çështje publike, të krijojnë koalicione dhe të shërbejnë komunitetet e tyre më mirë.

28.02.2006 Multimedijalni institut i CARNet - Hrvatska akademska i istraživačka mreža najavljuju da će Richard Stallman, začetnik pokreta za slobodni softver i najveći borac za slobodu u informacijskom dobu 08. i 09.03. gostovati u Zagrebu i održati predavanja u sklopu niza predavanja "Drustvo znanja i slobodna razmjena informacija":

27.02.2006 The e-Riders project is designed to strengthen the capacities of the civil organizations in Macedonia to present their messages, promote citizens participation in public affairs, make coalitions and serve their communities better.

24.02.2006 The Foundation for Development of Information Technology – Youth Information Centre from Skopje, with the support from the e-Macedonia Foundation, started the new project, “Information-Communication Step Towards Global Standards”, aimed to reduce the information gap between Macedonia and the developed world.

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.

24.02.2006 Povodom početka prve faze screeninga pravne stečevine za poglavlje kojim se uređuje zaštita intelektualnog vlasništva i autorskih prava, a koja je u okviru pregovora o članstvu RH u Evropskoj uniji krenula prije dvadesetak dana, ponovno je aktualnom postala tema piratstva.

16.02.2006 Two European Projects are using Grid Computing Systems to discover new drugs for diseases like malaria and dengue. Grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative large-scale science, to discover new drugs and better understand the diseases.

15.02.2006 In a shift that could help firms to recognise more value in IT in the UK, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said it would revise its calculations to reflect the way software investment improves productivity, rather than simply assessing software as a cost.

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15.02.2006 Home computer users are being invited to participate in a mass experiment to predict how the Earth's climate will change.

13.02.2006 The Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Enterprise and Industry, Günter Verheugen, spoke on the need for a Joint Approach to Security Research at the Research and Technology Conference, European Defence Agency in Brussels, last week.

13.02.2006 Government of Macedonia (GOM) successfully launched the Apply Online System for State Employment in early January 2006. Only two weeks after the system was installed, the number of applications had already doubled.

08.02.2006 Prošli tjedan se Genc Pollo, albanski Ministar obrazovanja i znanosti u sklopu svog posjeta Lisabonu susreo s Billom Gatesom, Predsjednikom korporacije Microsoft. Na sastanku je Gates nekoliko puta ponovio kako globalno poboljšanje obrazovanja ostaje jednim od prioriteta njegove kompanije.

08.02.2006 Last week, Genc Pollo, Albanian Minister of Education and Science, met with Bill Gates, the President of Microsoft Corporation, during his visit to Lisbon, Portugal. In the meeting, Gates reiterated that the improvement of quality of education globally remains one of the priorities of his company.

08.02.2006 The company uses a system to block sites carrying indecent images of children, which has been thwarting 35,000 hits a day for four months.

07.02.2006 Twenty eight young journalism professionals from the Balkan region would undergo a training course on human rights reporting at Skopje from May 19-22, 2006. This training course is intended to introduce and train the participants to methods and approaches to human rights reporting.

06.02.2006 Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future.

02.02.2006 In a meeting held on the 1st February in Lisbon, key policy makers of the EU, and representatives of nongovernmental organisations and businesses region-wide congregated to consider ways that information and communication technologies (ICT) can enhance employment opportunities and drive economic growth in the face of global competition.

01.02.2006 According to the current Innovations Minister Stanca, ICT developments and innovation are a top priority for both standing and future governments. Stanca highlighted aims to engender further sector synergies and to define prospective applications, with an emphasis on broadband technology.

01.02.2006 In the last decades, a lot of effort has been put into improving dietary habits through health interventions, however it has not been very effective: in most European countries, actual consumption does not match with basic recommendations for healthy nutrition.