Full coverage: Asia and the Pacific

30.10.2005 BANGALORE: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to provide it with technical know-how for establishing tele-education links.

27.10.2005 OneWorld South Asia will host a panel discussion with Global Knowledge Partnership on local content in the upcoming Tunis Summit. The panel discussion “Local content: an answer to global problems” provides a knowledge-sharing platform for experts from the South to provide issues around using local content for poverty reduction.

27.10.2005 The Mookambigai College of Engineering, Kalamavur in Pudukottai district, and Anna University in Chennai jointly organised a 12-day programme to train self-help group women to establish information kiosks on college premises.

27.10.2005 National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nepal organised an interaction programme with media persons to find out what was missing in the media relation in controlling human trafficking.

27.10.2005 Workers having problems with their employers will soon be able to complain to Dubai Police any time of the day or night by calling the 24-hour hotline number at Dubai Police Operations Room.

27.10.2005 The media should help dispel such misconceptions to check the spread of HIV effectively, according to Paladugu Rambabu, head of Sexually-Transmitted Diseases wing of the hospital in Vijayawada.

26.10.2005 APDIP and the UNDP Asia-Pacific Gender Mainstreaming Programme will be hosting a one-day workshop titled “Mapping Gender in the Information Society: From Reality to Discourse”. The event will be held on 31 October 2005 at the Menam Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

26.10.2005 The Union Government is encouraging e-learning particularly to benefit the people in rural areas, Director of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) R. Rajalakshmi said.

26.10.2005 Around 200 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in the country are likely to go online this year, and have e-connectivity with all relevant agri research institutes.

26.10.2005 Research on information literacy in China and Indonesia started in September 2005, conducted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) with funding from UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

26.10.2005 Some of the proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act will give women facing abuse on the Internet a raw deal, say representatives of the Cyber Society of India (CSI), a Chennai-based organisation.

25.10.2005 National workshop on exploring the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the Teaching of English-
Challenges and Opportunities (Sponsored by the University Grants Commission) 24-25 November,2005 at the Mahatma Gandhi College,Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

25.10.2005 A two-day long "National consultation on designing an enabling framework for community radio in Bangladesh" to be held from 19-20 November 2005 at LGED auditorium, Agargoan, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

25.10.2005 Foreign experts at a session titled 'Internet Governance and Telecom Regulation' urged the Bangladesh government, civil society and the business community to work together to provide Internet facilities to every person of the country.

25.10.2005 Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan of Australia announced that Australia and India last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Delhi to aid cooperative development of information and communications technology (ICT) industries.

25.10.2005 South Asia’s first high-tech food and vegetable market is to be set up near Makhan Majra village in Chandigarh to cater to the needs of farmers of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

25.10.2005 To provide Internet connectivity for air travellers who carry their laptops while on travel, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Coimbatore, launched Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) facility at the Coimbatore airport.

24.10.2005 The tech market in Bangalore may be racing ahead, but it is a very different story for India's 700 million farmers. Spencer Kelly has been to Northern India to see how plans to bring technology to rural areas are working.In a village meeting, known as a choupal, the adults of Sabalpur are given the weekly news and discuss the pressing issues of the day.Other information such as the school exam results is online.The village is now online, and with the help of Akash, a local who has been trained to use the computer, villagers now have access to a wealth of information.
Just as the choupal is a place to meet and discuss with other villagers, this is a place to talk to other villages, and it is called e-Choupal.

24.10.2005 An information-sharing web portal Pakistan Relief and Information Systems for Earthquakes (RISE) was launched to provide information about the 4,000 earthquake-affected villages in the largely rural North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in Pakistan.

24.10.2005 As part of the UNESCO “Strengthening ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in ASEAN Setting” project, a training session was recently provided for teachers which aimed to assist them in learning to facilitate telecollaboration (sharing knowledge through the internet) with their students, and how this enhances teaching and learning.